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by James Conole, CFP
Ready For Retirement is the podcast dedicated to helping you learn the tips and strategies that will help you achieve your retirement goals. When it comes to retirement planning, it can quickly become overwhelming and easy to not take action. I designed this podcast because I want you to have the knowledge and confidence to create your secure retirement. My ultimate goal for all of my clients (and listeners) is to create peace of mind and that starts with having a strategy. I want you to spend more time thinking about what matters most to you in retirement. Everything from investing tips, tax planning, withdrawal strategies, insurance planning, Social Security, and that's just the start! Let's help you maximize your return on life. We use your money and the strategies I share in this podcast to do just that!
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Free retirement training for people within 10 years of retirement and $1M+ saved. Watch “The Sequoia System Training” here: https://youtu.be/7lpp3XXiDyQ ======================= Two people retire on the same day. Same savings, same investments, same effort over 30 years of working. A few years later, one of them has a lot more money than the other. It's not because of a better stock pick or a lucky year in the market. It comes down to five strategies almost nobody knows exist, and none...
$1,440,000 sounds like the finish line. For a lot of people it's actually where a brand new problem starts, one nobody warns you about before you get there. I've sat across the table from hundreds of people getting ready to retire, and the same mistake keeps showing up right after they hit their number. It has nothing to do with how much they saved. This video is where that number actually comes from, and the one shift almost nobody makes once they cross it. We're going to cover: - how a $1...
I've sat with 100 retirees, and the biggest regret almost never has anything to do with a bad investment. It's something I call the momentum trap. At 62, every single signal tells you to keep going, and almost nobody sees it coming until it's too late to get those years back. This video is what I tell every client who walks in at 62, the trap, the blind spots, and how to actually manage what comes next. We're going to cover: - the momentum trap that convinces smart...
You can hit your number, be fully financially ready, hand in your notice, and still end up miserable. Or worse, running out of money. In 15 years as a retirement advisor, I've watched it happen again and again, and it almost always comes down to one of five warning signs. Most of them have nothing to do with how much you've saved. If even one of these is you, it's not a no. It's a not yet, and I'll show you exactly how to fix it. We're going to cover: - the story o...
You'd assume retiring with $10 million is a hundred times better than retiring with $100,000. It isn't. And the reason is stranger than you'd think. Because the size of your portfolio barely tells you what your life actually looks like. What changes from one level to the next isn't your lifestyle. It's the entire problem you're left trying to solve. This video runs the real numbers on all three, and the one thing every retiree has in common no matter which one they are. W...
There are 10 things sitting in your life right now that are quietly draining your retirement. Most people never notice them. This isn't the usual save more, buy more advice. After 15 years of helping people retire, the happiest ones I've seen didn't get there by adding. They got there by letting go of the right things at the right time. This video is all 10, ranked, with the biggest one saved for last. We're going to cover: - why the very first thing on this list i...
Most retirement advice isn't wrong. It's incomplete. And following incomplete advice for 30 years is how people end up financially ready for retirement but completely unprepared to live it. I've seen it hundreds of times. Someone hits their number and feels nothing. So they keep working, keep deferring, keep waiting. By the time they stop, the years they actually wanted are already gone. This is the podcast I wish I could send to everyone in their 50s before those decisions get made. We're...
"Just one more year, to be safe." I've heard that sentence more times than almost any other in my career. One year becomes two, two becomes five. By the time they finally retire, something has shifted and retirement looks very different. This is the math of working one more year. Both sides of it. We're going to cover: - why Mark and Carol (example case) had $2.5 million saved and still couldn't say yes - the $600 a month question that changed everything in the room - what Carol said when ...
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Ready For Retirement is the podcast dedicated to helping you learn the tips and strategies that will help you achieve your retirement goals. When it comes to retirement planning, it can quickly become overwhelming and easy to not take action. I designed this podcast because I want you to have the knowledge and confidence to create your secure retirement. My ultimate goal for all of my clients (and listeners) is to create peace of mind and that starts with having a strategy. I want you to spend more time thinking about what matters most to you in retirement. Everything from investing tips, tax planning, withdrawal strategies, insurance planning, Social Security, and that's just the start! Let's help you maximize your return on life. We use your money and the strategies I share in this podcast to do just that!
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