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In their own words:

Hi! We’re Shannon & Diana, both from Vancouver BC Canada, but you could at anytime find us anywhere in the world traveling with our young families and working on our businesses. We are living an exciting new lifestyle called Pretirement that embraces parenthood and entrepreneurship as we strive to find fulfillment for both roles. We started this site to share our experiences, tips and insights along the way.

We are determined to ensure that other entrepreneurs are building businesses that support their ideal lifestyle and that, more importantly, they are not building their lives to accommodate their business. We strive to use our business to build “Pretirement Wealth”, which includes the three F’s: Financial wealth, freedom and fulfillment.

We have worked hard, fallen hard, and risen from the ashes to tell the story of how we went from our “dream” business with $1m in revenue to fulfilling lifelong personal dreams while succeeding with a new business model based on a very different definition of success.

Quick facts about us and our Pretired lifestyle:

- We don’t put off living out our dreams until retirement and we’re living life to the fullest NOW!
- Having children has inspired us to go after our dreams, rather than created an excuse to let go of our dreams (ex. Shannon went skydiving for the first time after her first child was born)
- We’ve spent 13 months living in tropical destinations over the past three years
- Our offices have included coffee shops, boat decks, beachfront decks, and even mountain tops. In fact, Shannon’s current commute is via gondola to the top of Whistler Mountain (site of the 2010 Winter Olympics) and Diana’s office is in a cartoon boat at an amusement park.
- We’ve introduced our kids to 6 new countries and cultures in the past 3 years
- Shannon found a passion in surfing at age 34
- We spend an average of 8 months a year in flip flops
- We have contributed an estimated $18K to 35 charities in our communities in the past year, and we also give as much of our time as possible!
- We will never accept hearing “I want to, but…” from ourselves, each other, or anybody else!

PretirementLiving.com exists to help empower entrepreneurs to rewrite the “rules” of entrepreneurship and parenthood by showing them how to build businesses that create financial gain, freedom and fulfillment!

To living life now,

Shannon & Diana

Interview with Shannon Ward and Diana Stirling