Navigating Life After Work

I wrote this book for women who are standing at the edge of a new chapter and wondering what comes next.After years of being defined by work, responsibility, achievement, and other people’s needs, this season can feel both freeing and unsettling.This site is here to help you reflect, reorient, and rediscover yourself — so you can listen to what still calls you, reclaim your own authority, and begin shaping life after work on your own terms.

EXPLORE this next step with a free webinar

10 Meaningful Things to Explore Before You Decide What Comes NextRetirement is often treated as an ending — but for many women, it is really the beginning of a deeper question: What do I still want to do, become, create, or contribute?This free webinar helps you explore 10 meaningful possibilities for life after work, from purpose and identity to contribution, income, learning, relationships, and personal freedom.It is designed to help you slow down, listen to yourself again, and begin seeing this next chapter not as a blank space, but as an opening.

Map Your Next Step with the Retirement Compass workshop

For women who are done with the old pressure, but not done with meaningful work.In this two-session workshop (90 minutes each), we map out what your next chapter could look like — whether that means staying connected to your field in a lighter way, exploring adjacent opportunities, trying something new, or creating a more flexible portfolio life.Together, we look at your skills, interests, energy, income needs, and identity so you can move forward with more clarity, confidence, and direction.

build with The Next Chapter Builder: A 12-Week Coaching Program

This program is for accomplished women who are ready to actively build what comes next.You are not starting over, and you are not finished — you are redesigning work, purpose, visibility, and contribution for this stage of life.Through practical strategy, reflection, experimentation, and accountability, we may explore personal brand positioning, CV redevelopment, flexible work options, self-employment ideas, outreach, and the small, focused steps that help you turn possibility into a real next chapter.

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A Personal Approach

about me

👋 Hello! I'm Bernadette Broderick.
I have spent more than three decades working in complex, high-responsibility environments in Canada’s maritime and industrial sectors, where precision, accountability, and steady leadership were part of my daily life.After a long career defined by results and structure, I found herself navigating a transition few women are prepared for: the uncharted space between professional identity and what comes next.Through that experience, I began exploring how creativity, rhythm, and making things by hand could become tools for orientation rather than escape.I too, am in this transiiton period. One of my first loves is rug hooking and I am the founder of Line & Loop/ Studio/Laine & Lignes, where I lead workshops and small gatherings that help women reconnect with creativity, community, and a sustainable pace of living.My work now focuses on helping women approach this life stage with curiosity, dignity, and self-authorship, not as an ending, but as an open passage.Navigating Life After Work is my first book.

Can we find a new word for retirement?

I am committed to helping women redefine life after work with clarity, courage, and self-authority — because retirement is too small a word for the possibility, purpose, and expansion this chapter can hold.

My mission is to is to help women redefine life after work as a season of possibility, self-authority, and renewed contribution — not simply retirement.Through my book, workshops, reflections, and conversations, I help women slow down, listen to themselves again, and explore what still wants to emerge.I believe this chapter is not about becoming less visible, less useful, or less ambitious. It is about choosing, with clarity and courage, what comes next on your own terms.