Generation Gaps, A Tale of Four Retirements: Elaine Sarsynski at TEDxSpringfieldWomen

Elaine Sarsynski's personal and professional mission is to help to address the retirement crisis in America by helping to allow Americans to retire on their own terms, with dignity. Her family is rich with stories of reaching for the American dream and the retirements that come with making the right choices. Elaine shares her family's stories, and within them, you see both how the American retirement system has changed over the last century and what the future holds.

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TEDxSpringfieldWomen hosted Dec. 1st, 2012, in conjunction with the TEDxWomen 2012, focused on "From Questions to Knowledge". Sponsored by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, this event explored the space between unplanned beginnings and planned futures. Our own women speakers shared their passion for helping combat veterans, educating adult women, healthcare's moment, planning for retirement, letting your kids play, and finding your passion in a nonprofit.

TEDxWomen is a TEDx event organized by the Paley Center for Media that focuses on women and women's issues. TEDxWomen type events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDxWomen, and also feature local speakers. Our event was called TEDxSpringfieldWomen and was one of many TEDx events happening around the globe between November 30th and December 1st that expanded on the ideas brought up at TEDxWomen.

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