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Our story

Five voices. One belief.

We spent decades helping people prepare financially for retirement, and kept meeting people who were financially ready and still lost. The Retirement Life exists because the money and the life it pays for deserve one plan, not two strangers.

What we learned along the way shapes everything we do now: your retirement plan already exists inside you. We don’t build it for you. We uncover it with you, and as you discover more of what you want, the plan adjusts to serve it. The discovery never ends. Neither does the plan.

Rc Arseneau seated in the Arseneau Financial office

Where it started

Thirty years across the table.

Hundreds of families, one chair at a time. It was those conversations (the ones that drifted past the numbers into what people actually wanted from the years ahead) that turned a financial planning practice into The Retirement Life.

The founding team

The five voices.

Planning, protection, purpose, and health: retirement touches all of it, so the team does too.

The five founding voices of The Retirement Life, seated together on a green sofa.
Rc Arseneau, Financial Architect and Retirement Guide

Rc Arseneau

Founder · Financial Architect and Retirement Guide

CFP®, ChFC®, CRPS®, CEP®, CPRC

Nearly thirty years of retirement planning, now paired with certified retirement coaching.

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Deana Arseneau, Financial Advisor & Retirement Coach

Deana Arseneau

Founder · Financial Advisor & Retirement Coach

MBA, Certified Professional Life Coach, Series 65

Coaching the identity, connection, and purpose side of the retirement transition.

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Tony Hall, Podcast Host, Community and Purpose Guide

Tony Hall

Co-Founder · Podcast Host, Community and Purpose Guide

More than 30 years as a pastor

Purpose, connection, and the stories we believe about aging (and co-host of The Retirement Life podcast).

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Madison Justus, Physical Wellness Coach

Madison Justus

Co-Founder · Physical Wellness Coach

RN, BSN

Helping people become active participants in their own health, so the years ahead are ones they can enjoy.

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Kelley King, Financial Advisor and Life Insurance Specialist

Kelley King

Co-Founder · Financial Advisor and Life Insurance Specialist

ChFC®, CLU®, CKA®, Series 65 · 43 years of experience

Protection planning and the preparation that creates options: for your money and your health.

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Why a cactus

The arms grow late.

When we chose the cactus as our mark, we were not overthinking it. It just felt right. Warm. Distinctive. Alive. But the more we sat with it the more we realized the instinct knew something we had not fully articulated yet.

A cactus thrives where other plants cannot. It stores what it needs and draws on it when the time is right. It stands rooted and unbothered while everything around it shifts.

And the Saguaro (the tall, iconic desert giant that became our mark) does not even grow its arms until it is 50 to 100 years old. The most recognizable and magnificent version of itself arrives in what most would call old age.

That is not decline. That is arrival. That is exactly what we believe about retirement.

Why teal

Blue is trust. Green is growth. We are both, always.

Most financial firms are all blue. Most life coaching brands are all green. The Retirement Life is teal on purpose: a financial firm that also plans the life.

Dream It . Build It .
Live It & Love It

Retirement isn’t a finish line. It’s a beginning, and beginnings deserve a guide.
The belief behind everything we build

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