A practical guide for the part of retirement no one plans for.
Chris Soll is the co-founder of Mindspo, a global meditation education brand built from lived experience. Before building Mindspo, he spent his twenties in corporate project management, including work for the Australian Department of Education, where he saw how easily capable people can become fused with structure, responsibility, and the next thing to solve.
Before this work
Chris brought structure, strategy, and operational discipline to Mindspo. With 15 years of online business experience and multiple ventures behind him, he helped turn a deeply personal practice into courses, retreats, app experiences, podcasts, and teacher training used by people around the world.
His background matters here because Now Off Duty is built for people who know how to achieve, lead, solve, and carry responsibility. It does not assume the reader is fragile. It assumes they may have spent decades being competent, and that retirement can ask for a different kind of readiness than the one work rewarded.
What happened
Mindspo began after Chris and Rochelle Fox went through a difficult period in their early twenties that forced them to look closely at attention, daily practice, and the way a person's inner life shapes the way they move through the world. They tried conventional support, routines, and every late-night answer they could find. Chris was often the one holding things together while also wondering what would actually help.
Meditation became the practical doorway. Not as magic, and not as a substitute for care, but as a way to build presence, steadiness, and a different relationship with the mind. Within weeks, they had enough lived evidence to make the work impossible to ignore. What started in a tiny studio apartment in Sydney became a decade of teaching, retreats, courses, and community.
What he learned
Chris learned that people can look fine from the outside while their inner life is louder than they would ever say out loud. He learned that practical, secular tools can help people notice what is happening inside them without turning the work into a performance or a personality project.
Now Off Duty brings that same lens to retirement. A person can have enough money, a good plan, and a life they worked hard to create, while still wondering how to spend, structure the week, relate to their old role, or enjoy open time without turning it into another project.
Credentials and training
The source material for this build identifies Chris as co-founder of Mindspo, co-host of the Mindspo podcast, the operational and strategic force behind the brand, and the lead for the Business Fundamentals track of the Mindspo Teacher Certification.
Chris's formal meditation teaching certifications and relevant training: xxx.
What this is, and what it is not
This is
- Coaching and education for the retirement transition.
- A practical way to understand patterns like spending hesitation, work-mode momentum, identity change, and lack of ease.
- A grounded program for capable adults who want to feel more settled in the chapter they worked hard to reach.
This is not
- Therapy, diagnosis, medical treatment, or a substitute for mental health care.
- Financial advice, investment advice, or a replacement for your financial planner.
- A crisis service or emergency mental health resource.
Who the program is designed for
Designed for
- People who are within five years of retirement or already in the early years of it.
- People who planned the financial side and still feel cautious, restless, over-responsible, or unsure how the next chapter should work.
- People who want practical tools without being talked down to.
Not designed for
- People seeking clinical treatment, diagnosis, or crisis care.
- People seeking financial planning, investment advice, or retirement income strategy.
- People who want a miracle claim instead of steady practice.