What every chapter comes with
- Recordings
- Short, engaging lessons for each chapter.
- Booklets
- Summarize the key points and concepts.
- Worksheets
- Help you organize your paperwork, questions, and priorities.
The class
Gina VS Retirement
The 12-Part Class
This program takes the same story that anchors the Gina VS Retirement documentary and turns it into something a woman can actually use — a chapter-by-chapter education series built around Gina’s own retirement journey, from the day she realized the rules had changed to the day she finally had a plan she understood.
Where the film builds the emotional case for the story, the class is where that story becomes usable: each of the twelve chapters pairs a short recording with a booklet that summarizes the key ideas and a worksheet that helps a woman get her own paperwork, questions, and priorities in order. Nothing requires a chapter before it — a woman can start wherever her situation points her and still walk away with something complete, which matters for an audience that’s often coming in mid-crisis rather than at a tidy starting point.
The class is aimed squarely at women planning for retirement, and it’s designed to feel like a conversation rather than a do-it-yourself lecture — plain language, no jargon. It helps to see the film first and understand the difficulty Gina faced in planning her own retirement. The Financial First Aid Kit sits alongside you as a free companion resource for anyone who wants a next step.
The twelve chapters
The class is divided into twelve short chapters, each with its own recording, booklet, and worksheet. You can take them in order or jump to the topic that’s most relevant to your situation — each chapter stands on its own.
Chapter 1
The Day I Realized Retirement Had Changed
A rainy Tuesday, a stack of papers she had been meaning to sort for months, and coffee gone cold an hour earlier. The moment Gina...
Open the chapterChapter 2
Why Women Worry More About Retirement
A library luncheon, a retired professor, and one statistic that stopped the room cold. Women live three to five years longer than...
Open the chapterChapter 3
Searching for Safety in an Uncertain World
Eighteen thousand dollars gone in four days, and a neighbour two doors down who slept fine through it. The safety bucket: sorting...
Open the chapterChapter 4
Building a Retirement Paycheck
Two numbers on a notepad: $4,200 of monthly expenses, $1,850 of guaranteed income. The gap between them is the number that defines...
Open the chapterChapter 5
Inflation — The Silent Threat
Her mother bought groceries for ten dollars in 1965 and came home with bags left over. At three percent, the cost of living double...
Open the chapterChapter 6
Healthcare Changes Everything
A neighbour's stroke at 74, four thousand dollars a month out of pocket after Medicare, and a wife who was certain they were prepa...
Open the chapterChapter 7
The Widow's Financial Journey
Three friends widowed in four years, and every one of them described the first ninety days the same way: a financial fog. The Fina...
Open the chapterChapter 8
Leaving a Legacy
A nine-year-old asked what happens to Grandma's stuff, and started the best conversation of Gina's life. Legacy has two halves — t...
Open the chapterChapter 9
Finding the Right Retirement Guide
Four professionals, four disappointments — one talked products, one talked jargon, one wrote nothing down, one never asked a quest...
Open the chapterChapter 10
Living Retirement with Confidence
A Thursday morning in late March when nothing happened — and that is the whole point of the story. Confidence in retirement is not...
Open the chapterChapter 11
I Help a Friend
A Sunday phone call from a friend who could not sleep, and the discovery that Gina finally had something useful to offer — not pro...
Open the chapterChapter 12
Gina vs. Retirement — Winning the Journey
One blue folder on the same kitchen table, a year later, where the stack of papers used to be. The five principles that turned con...
Open the chapterThe class is free. Opening your first chapter takes one text message — no password, no card, and it only happens once.
The class is designed to be interactive and conversational, encouraging questions and real-time answers — a way to get your paperwork, questions, and priorities in order before retirement begins.
Better still in a room with others asking the same questions — and an advisor there to answer them
Live screenings
Join in person at libraries, churches, clubs, or community spaces.
Remote viewing
Watch the full 12-minute film or the 2-minute trailer online, then follow up with the class or the Financial First Aid Kit.
Bring the class to your group
Request a viewing or presentation for your community.