MY BOOKS

Book cover titled "Retired and Underfoot: A Bloke's Guide to Not Wrecking Your Marriage" featuring a colorful clock illustration divided into sections labeled Hobby, Mates, Jobs, Do Not Hover, Couch, Time Together, Exercise, and a central compass. The cover suggests finding purpose, hobbies, and giving space in marriage. Author is Ness J Heckscer.
Book cover titled 'The Event Consultant's Playbook' with a subtitle about monetizing expertise and building an advisory business, featuring illustrations of a person on a red puzzle piece with a lightbulb icon, a yellow dollar sign puzzle piece, a blue puzzle piece with a growth chart, and a target with an arrow, with a woman on a ladder shaking hands with a man, all on a blue background.

Midlife doesn’t come with a manual.

So I wrote a few…with more to come.

Practical guides for the over-40s navigating what's next. No-nonsense guides for over-40s ready to design their second act by navigating major life shifts and building profitable new income streams.

Find the blueprint you need to tackle:

  • 💼 Career Transitions & Entrepreneurship: Escape the corporate grind and launch a profitable consulting business.

  • 💰 Monetising Your Skills: Discover how to package your existing expertise into entirely new revenue streams.

  • 🗺️ Lifestyle Design: Build location-independent income to support a flexible, freedom-first lifestyle.

  • 🏡 The Next Chapter: Navigate retirement and major life changes without driving your family mad. Plus all the stuff no one warns you about.

The Event Consultant's Playbook

For corporate event professionals ready to go independent. Everything I learned building a consulting career after 20+ years in the industry.

Retired and Underfoot

A bloke’s guide to not wrecking your marriage. For men approaching retirement with no plan, and the partners who live with them.

ABOUT

A woman with blonde curly hair, wearing a black dress, standing outside on a city street, smiling at the camera.

Sydney-based author and consultant with 25 years of corporate experience in event management, marketing, and consulting. Ness writes straight-talking, practical guides for the over-40s tackling major career transitions, entrepreneurship, new income streams and retirement.

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Midlife Starter Kit

Your practical toolkit for mapping out major career transitions, building new income streams, and planning your next chapter.

Am I driving her crazy?

.The honest, no-fluff retirement readiness checklist for blokes navigating the transition out of work.