Dying to Retire is straight talk for men who already did the time — Boomers, early Gen X, former federal employees — and are done pretending retirement is a vision board. Doug came up in a small town, did a Marine Corps hitch in the 1980s, then worked blue-collar, white-collar, and finally a federal career. Over 40 years in. He walked away on his own terms. No HR-speak. No toxic positivity. No polish. Now he’s on the ground at Casa Douglas, the retirement house outside Antigua, Guatemala, that he planned while he was still on the clock. Mini-fridge weeks, techs who walk off the job, FERS cliffs, residency paperwork, marriage math, and why some countries are starting to protect men while the West writes new ways to bill them. Firepit, cigar, beer. The money, the identity shift, and the unfiltered reality of leaving. Questions or comments: dyingtoretirepodcast@gmail.com X: https://x.com/Dying2Retire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dyingtoretirepodcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DyingToRetirePodcast