The 2023 federal budget defect surged this year by 23%. In dollars and cents that’s 1.7 trillion dollars! Our debt is now over 33 trillion and continuing to grow. What are we going to do to address this? Brad unveils it to us.

We come across articles all the time and there’s an article in Financial Planning Magazine and people always want to know how in the world do people get paid especially when it’s related to “I’m going to give you my money to help manage it. I understand that I owe you something for that, but what is too much, how do you get paid all those kinds of things” and we talk through this article with Brad on todays show.

Knowing yourself, you need to know who you are and what do you need, and if you’re married what your spouse needs. This is something we need to know heading into retirement. What do we need? What do we want to do and where do we want to go. We spend a lot of time in our work life saying, “I’ll do that in retirement.” Well, you get to retirement and are you going to do that? Is it something you need? Is it a want or a desire? Brad helps us spell all of those out.

For the better part of a decade from 2011 to 2020, we weren’t worried about this thing called inflation. But since the end of 2021 moving forward, inflation has been a part of our lives and we’ve noticed it at the grocery store and different things that we do in life and in times like these, well you need to probably step back and take an overview and that’s what Brad wants to do with us on todays show.

Knowing yourself, you need to know who you are and what do you need, and if you’re married what your spouse needs. This is something we need to know heading into retirement. What do we need? What do we want to do and where do we want to go. We spend a lot of time in our work life saying, “I’ll do that in retirement.” Well, you get to retirement and are you going to do that? Is it something you need? Is it a want or a desire? Brad helps us spell all of those out.

Knowing yourself, you need to know who you are and what do you need, and if you’re married what your spouse needs. This is something we need to know heading into retirement. What do we need? What do we want to do and where do we want to go. We spend a lot of time in our work life saying, “I’ll do that in retirement.” Well, you get to retirement and are you going to do that? Is it something you need? Is it a want or a desire? Brad helps us spell all of those out.

There was a recent survey with a headline that read, “70% of Millionaires Work With Advisors,” and that’s according to Northwestern Mutual. They surveyed over 2,700 adults that have one million or more in assets and 70% said they’re working with a financial planner. Brad details some things to watch out for when working with a financial advisor.