
Soon after author Michael Kay sold his New Jersey financial advisory business in 2020, he created Chapter X, a blog and monthly Zoom sessions for professional men like him transitioning into retirement. "They were talking about feeling lost, challenged, frightened and disconnected," says Kay. (His initiative is men-only because Kay doesn’t think he has the standing to speak to women about their retirement transitions.)
About five months after launching Chapter X, however, something strange happened.