Preferment: the eight-week live course

The Preferment live course is Rarified Life's structured, eight-week program built on Anne van Leynseele's book Preferment. Each week you meet Anne live, work through a chapter, and complete homework built into the book. It is the second way to work with Rarified Life, after one-on-one retirement coaching, and suits people who like a set curriculum and a fixed weekly rhythm.

Rarified Life describes the starting point this way: you spent decades building a career, a reputation and a way of moving through the world, and now you have more time than you have ever had and no idea what it is for. You do not need a five-year plan. You need a room to start figuring it out in.

Weekly live sessions with Anne

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Modules, from Introduction to Launch

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Copy of the book Preferment, your companion text and workbook

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• Eight weekly live sessions with Anne, working through Preferment chapter by chapter.
• The book itself, which doubles as your workbook.
• Homework built into the book: real exercises, not busywork, done between sessions.
• A structured path in which each week builds on the last.

The Preferment course description states an investment of $3,000 for the eight weekly live sessions with Anne, the book, and the guided homework that turns reading into a plan. The Rarified Life store listing for the same course displays $6,000.00. Because the two figures differ, confirm the current price on the Rarified Life website before enrolling. Prices here are as of November 2026.

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   Introduction

   Where you are right now, and why the old model of retirement was never built for someone like you.

2. 2

   Identity

   Separating who you are from what you did for a living.

3. 3

   Motivation

   Finding what actually moves you, now that a paycheck is not the reason.

4. 4

   Alignment

   Matching your values and strengths to how you will actually spend your days.

5. 5

   Accountability

   Building the structure that turns intention into a lived routine.

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   Launch

   Naming your mission for this next chapter, and stepping into it.

Anne van Leynseele teaches every session. She built and sold a production company in Los Angeles film and television, advised Fortune 100 companies on digital strategy across three continents, served as an Attorney Advisor in the Obama Administration, and helped write the legal framework for recreational cannabis in Washington State. She co-owns an award-winning chocolate farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. Read Anne's full story.

For most people, Rarified Life suggests starting with one-on-one retirement coaching, which adapts the same framework to your own timing. The course is the better fit if you want a fixed eight-week sequence and enjoy working from a book. Compare both on the Rarified Life retirement coach page, or read about retirement coaching in depth.