It’s Sunday, which means...it’s recap time here on the Retirement Quick Tips Podcast

This week the theme was: Prepping for emergencies in 2022

In case you missed any episodes, here’s what I covered in each episode this week:

• Prepping For The Zombie Apocalypse
• Your Best Investments: Canned Food, Gold Coins, & A Gun
• Prepping Goals
• 3 Golden Rules Of Prepping
• Become A Prepper…More Resources

The most important takeaway from this week is: Preparing for emergencies is an essential part of your long-term planning and how you approach it is very similar to how you go about planning for retirement. Start where you are and focus on the most important and most impactful things you can do that will make the biggest difference for you in the long-run. 

Since I’ve been talking this week about prepping for the worst, it’s time to lighten things up with a more positive weekly theme, so tomorrow, come on back, because we’re starting a brand new theme: Is a Phased Retirement Right For You? 

I’ve noticed a really strong trend among many of my clients over the last 5 years or so, where many of them continue working in their early retirement years, but at a much reduced pace to the rat race they’ve been in for the previous 30-40 years. Then I recently came across a WSJ article about part-time retirement programs on the rise, saying: “Workers have longed for a way to ease into retirement while keeping some pay and benefits. More companies are giving it a try.”

So next week, we’ll look at this new and exciting opportunity for Americans in their later working years to downshift their schedules, travel more, have more control over their working hours, all while earning enough to hold off on tapping into retirement accounts, paying for expensive healthcare benefits before medicare kicks in, and wait on taking Social security income. 

Thank you so much for listening this week! If this podcast is valuable for you, please share the show with a friend, a neighbor, your brother, or co-worker who is getting close to retirement. Just go to your favorite podcasting app, hit the share icon, then text or email the show link to someone you know who is eyeing retirement. 

Thanks for sharing the love and spreading the word. I hope you have a blessed Sunday. My name is Ashley Micciche, this is the Retirement Quick Tips Podcast.

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