My Bucket List Workbook
A practical exercise for designing the life you still have time to build. Sixteen pages, three steps, and a real list that belongs to you.
The Reinvention Roadmap
A 90-day starter plan. Three phases, one checkpoint, no business plan required. For sorting through what comes next without needing all the answers first.
Give Like You Mean It
A practical guide to vetting nonprofits, finding your cause, and giving with both your heart and your head. Written by a nonprofit founder who has sat on both sides of the desk.
What I Want You to Know
A structured guide for capturing the things that do not go in a will. Who you are, what you believe, and what you hope the people you love will carry forward.
An Honest Guide to the First Year After Full-Time Work Ends
What actually happens in the first year, and a framework called The Three Columns for navigating it with your sanity and your sense of self intact.
Eat Off the Good China — Companion Workbook
The working companion to the book. Nine tools for the decisions it describes, from the Intended Use Test to the Legacy Letter Writing Guide.
Catherine McDowell is a clinician, nonprofit founder, grant writer, and financial educator who has navigated more than one major transition. After the Rush is where she writes about the chapter no one quite prepared you for.