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Author  Bio

Akaisha Kaderli purchased Luther’s, a 46 seat restaurant located in Santa Cruz, California in 1979, and ran the restaurant for 10 years. She was active in the local school work programs and spoke at the local schools on Career Day about employment in the service industry. She also freelanced for the local newspapers The Santa Cruz Sentinel, and The Good Times.

Akaisha retired at the age of 38 to travel the world, journaling her experiences on the popular website her husband created, RetireEarlyLifestyle.com.

While administering End of Life Care to her mother, she gave interviews to the media of Santa Cruz and PBS in San Francisco, California on a collaborative photo essay chronicling her mother’s death. The piece won the Perlman Journalism Award Winner, Final Choice: America Struggles with the Right to Die, KQED-TV, San Francisco.

After significant volunteer work in Chapala, Mexico from 1996-2002, she co-authored The Adventurer's Guide to Early Retirement, A Common Sense Approach in 2005 which is now in its 3^rd edition and has sold in 40 countries worldwide. Her latest book, The Adventurer’s Guide to Chapala Living, is also available on her website.

Akaisha speaks for International Living, a travel magazine and is a regular contributor to The Motley Fool Rule Your Retirement Newsletter. She has been featured in Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, SmartMoney, and interviewed on Newsradio 620 KTAR, in Phoenix, Arizona, on Clark Howard's, nationally syndicated consumer advocate program The Clark Howard Show, and her retirement story was featured in an interview by Nicole McGregor on 12 News Today, KPNX/NBC, Phoenix, Arizona. Akaisha has been published or interviewed in various newspapers and digital media around the country and the globe, such as Good Morning Chiangmai NEWS, and Laos Aviation in-flight magazine, Asset Builder, The Arizona Tribune, Bankrate.com, FOXBusiness, and BoomersTV, Redefining Life After Fifty!

Her personal retirement story was also featured in Bob Clyatt's book, Work Less, Live More as an example of retirees on the move and The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio by Alexander Green.

Her hobbies include: world travel, fine cuisine, textile art, photography, playing tennis, being in nature and outdoor activities, writing, reading and studying world religions.