Retirement Starts Today

Before you retire you'll need to think about how to turn your assets into retirement income. Today I'll share with you my 2 favorite ways to turn your assets into retirement income. You'll hear about the pros and cons of the 4% rule. I'll also teach you about the guardrail strategy. After listening, you'll be […]

I promise I did not crash the market just to give you guys an example of a bear market for this episode! But I guess this episode is releasing at the right time. As of this recording, we are not in a bear market yet, but it looks like we're heading there. It doesn't really […]

Now you know what your spending in retirement will be, but how do you know where and when to withdraw money? Welcome back to the second episode in the Living Off Your Savings series. Last week we established how much you needed to retire and you learned how to create a retirement budget. Today we'll […]

Have you created a retirement budget? That's what we're going to cover this week on Retirement Starts Today. The month of March brings a change in format for us. We are going to try a monthly series format. The theme of this month's series is Living Off of Your savings. For the entire 5 week […]

Last year 14 million Americans paid for tax prep that they could have had for free. Are you one of those people? Today, we'll take a look at why people are spending money they don't need to and how to rectify that. I'll also answer some insightful listener questions concerning legal documents for retirees, the […]

I'm sure you've seen Tesla all over the news lately, today we'll think about what we can learn from its parabolic trajectory. We'll also cover additional questions about the SECURE Act and I make a correction about something I said about the SECURE Act as it pertains to minor beneficiaries. Then we'll cap off the […]

Do you know how to avoid penalties on early retirement withdrawals? Is the 4% rule confusing to you? On this episode of Retirement Starts Today 2 astute listeners have some fantastic questions for me to answer today. You'll want to listen in to hear 3 tips on how to take early retirement without the early […]

Welcome back to another episode of Retirement Starts Today. On this episode, I review the questions that were asked in both sessions of the SECURE Act webinar. You'll want to listen even if you attended a webinar session since you didn't hear the questions that were asked in the other session. I really enjoyed teaching […]

Now that the SECURE Act is the law, we need to rethink our estate planning strategies since it has effectively killed the stretch IRA. With the death of the stretch IRA, many people are scrambling to figure out what the best way is to leave their heirs their IRA's. Fortunately, estate attorney and host of […]

You know that you need to have a diversified portfolio with both stocks and bonds, but do you know how bonds work? On this episode of Retirement Starts Today we have 2 fantastic listener questions that deserve detailed responses. John wants to know how bonds work before he begins investing in them and George has […]