Dawn Marcotte

Dawn Marcotte is a Certified Professional Retirement Coach, author, entrepreneur, and lifelong athlete who works with people at one of life’s most quietly destabilizing thresholds: the moment when structure, usefulness, and long-held roles fall away. Rather than focusing on finances or logistics, her work centers on the inner transition of retirement, including identity, meaning, desire, and the emotional terrain that emerges when life slows down and time opens up.

Through her coaching, writing, and speaking, Dawn supports people in meeting freedom not as a reward, but as an initiation. She helps clients navigate the mix of grief, curiosity, fear, and aliveness that often surfaces when productivity no longer defines the day. Her approach is grounded, compassionate, and honest, inviting people to reconnect with what still wants to be lived.

A marathon runner and dedicated learner, Dawn brings both discipline and depth to her work. She guides people in creating lives that feel meaningful, embodied, and self-authored beyond roles, beyond productivity, and beyond the identities they once relied on.