This woman cashed out a $1 million dog-walking business. Here’s what she’s doing now “” in paradise

This woman cashed out a $1 million dog-walking business. Here’s what she’s doing now “” in paradise

Kristin Morrison is my new retirement hero.

The former business owner, age 52, quit the rat race in her mid-40s, and moved to a second, semiretirement career that gives her more freedom, less work and less stress.

And when I checked in on her recently she told me she's spent most of the crisis at a new base of operations on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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This is how we should all be living and working in our 50s. No office politics. No team meetings. No worries about layoffs. She spends an hour on 'Zoom,'

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somebody has to pay her.

Apparently the internet is just fine in paradise.

"We're at the edge of the Earth here,“ she tells me. "It's so lush and green and peaceful. I felt I really needed this after being in the Bay Area.“She adds, "I don't get bored at all. I think my husband does, a little. I think he really misses his boat.“

Morrison's new semiretirement gigs: Advising small-business owners who are trying to run businesses like