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Clear Skies Retirement — 86 episodes

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The Inheritance Trap: Why Your Backup Plan Isn't a Plan

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Flying Through the Storm: Navigating Inflation and Market Volatility

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The GPS Method: Navigating Market Traffic and 401k Potholes

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The Oprah Method: Why Knowing Your "Cost of Being You" Is Non-Negotiable

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The Retirement Spend-Down: Why Having a Plan is Better Than Having a Number

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The 50% Disappearing Act: When to Stop the Bleeding

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The Everest Effect: Why More Retirees Fail on the Way Down

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The $30,000 Secret: Can You Buy Retirement Security?

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The $5 Million Anxiety: Why Your "Magic Number" Isn't Enough

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The Income Strategy: Reverse Engineering Your 401k

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Beyond the Mag 7: Navigating the 2026 Market Shift

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The Downsizing Dilemma: When Your Smaller House Costs More Than the Original

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The Retirement Tax Trap: Why Being a "Good Saver" Could Cost You

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Social Security Roulette: Don’t Let One Decision Ruin Your Future

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Will 2026 Be a Better or Harder Year to Retire Than 2025? | Watch Out for “Bad Actors” in the Financial Industry

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Vanguard Says Many People Are Making This Retirement Mistake | Traditional vs Roth: How Much Should You Have in Each? | 4 Things People Want from Their Retirement Plan

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What Are the Chances the Stock Market Will Be Up a 4th Year in a Row? | The Temptation of Going Debt Free in Retirement | The “Tiny Dings” That Can Derail Retirement

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There are Two Different Kinds of Investors Right Now. Which One are You?

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A Warren Buffett Market Warning | Will You Say “Uncle” to Uncle Sam? | Why Has the Wall Street Crowd Changed Their Tune?

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5 Golden Rules of Retirement Planning | Dividend Stocks Are on the Rise | Confidence About Retirement Is Up for a Strange Reason

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Retirement Help for the DIYer | Inflation Is Different in Retirement | Figuring Out Your REAL Retirement Savings Number

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The Rules Are Changing on Your 401(k) Next Year | How Can You Be a “Smart Rabbit” in Retirement?

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Retirement Advice You’ve Heard—And Why It Might Be Wrong

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Is it Time for a Year-End Retirement Meeting Already? | Warren Buffett and Tony Robbins Agree on This Regarding Your Investing | A Retirement Lesson from Nate Bargatze

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Are You Missing the Obvious in Your Retirement Planning? | Watch Your 401(k) Target Date Fund for Changes

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Retirement Rules Are Changing—Are You Still Playing by the Old Ones?

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New Data on How Much a Retired Couple Spends Each Month | A Retirement Lesson From George Carlin | Beware the New Offerings in Your 401(k)

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7 Assumptions About Retirement That Might Be Wrong

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Four Retirement Issues to Focus On Other Than the Stock Market | What to Do If You Went to Cash in April and Now the Market Is Roaring Again | Financial Concepts That Have Stood the Test of Time

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Overcoming Your Worries About Money and Retirement | There’s No Reason to Overpay Taxes | Retirement Planning for the Self-Employed | We Need a Bigger Boat

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What Do You Need to Know About the Big Beautiful Bill? | Are You Confident About Retirement? You May Be Looking at the Wrong Number | When Is the Right Time to Hire a Financial Advisor?

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How is This Stock Market Like Rocky? | How Much of a Cash Cushion Should You Have in Retirement? | Where You Live Is a Factor on How Long Your Money Will Last

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The Magic Number You Need for Retirement Has Dropped! | Don’t Fall for Uncle Sam’s Plan for Your IRA | Do You Have a “Newark” Retirement Portfolio?

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How Wall Street Uses “Fuzzy Math” | Does Everything in Your Financial Life Have a Purpose? | The #1 Retirement Fear Has Caused a New Retirement Problem

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Keeping Your Financial Cool Through All the Tariffs | People Who Have Pension-Like Income Spend WAY More in Retirement | An Example of Why You Should Consider an IRA-to-Roth Conversion

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How Many “Buckets” of Money Do You Need in Retirement? | What to Look Out for When Doing an IRA-to-Roth Conversion | Is the Fear of Running Out of Money Overblown?

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Is Now a Time to Up Your Cash Reserves? | How Fees Can Eat Away at Your Retirement Accounts | 70% of People in a Survey Say THIS Gives Them Confidence in Retirement

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When Should You Dial Back Risk Before Retirement? | Are You Pushing Off Retirement Longer Than You Should? | Are You Maximizing Your 401(k)? | DOGE and Your Retirement Portfolio: Where is the waste?

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Will Tariffs Continue to Affect Our Markets? How Do You Position Your Money? | What Has Better Odds: Vegas or the Stock Market? | How Long Before Retirement Should You Be Locking in Income?

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Have We Found the Bottom in this Market Craziness? | What is the MVP of Your Retirement Plan? | Death By 1000 Financial Cuts

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Do You Have an Exit Strategy for a Market Downturn? | Over Half of Retirees Don't Have This | Applying DOGE to Your Retirement Plan

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Is a Recession Coming? | Determining How Much Money You Want in the Stock Market | Now Might Be a Great Time for an IRA-to-Roth Conversion

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Retirement Strategies in Uncertain Times: What Should You Do?

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Are Federal Layoffs Changing Retirement Plans? | Are Boomers Moving Away from Passing Down an Inheritance? | Are You Pushing Off Retirement Longer Than You Should?

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What are the main causes a market correction? | Planning for when Social Security gets in trouble | Tony Robbins has a problem with your 401(k)

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How your 401(k) comes up short | Where are you getting your retirement advice? | With all the politics moving markets, is it time to reallocate your investments?

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What’s going on in the stock market? | What age should you take Social security? | The new retirement sickness: One more year syndrome

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Will the Fed be as active in 2025? | If Congress extends the Trump Tax Cuts, how does it affect you? | The Shank Tank Team weighs in on retirement

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Does Your Retirement Account Have Too Much Risk?

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The Biggest Retirement Question

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Financial News Networks. How Much Can You Believe? | When an Inheritance Causes Family Strife

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Taking Advantage of Todays Low Tax Rates | When Things Don’t Go Perfectly in Retirement | The Unanswerable Question We All Have to Tackle in Retirement

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What’s next for your CD money? | Bitcoin is blowing up. Should you consider it? | Why 2025 may be a great year to retire?

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How do you know if an advisor is the right fit? | Why the 4% Rule Doesn't Work | Things to Know About IRA-to-Roth Conversions | How many people have actually saved $1 million for retirement?

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What Gift Cards Can Teach Us About Retirement Planning

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What Return on Your Money Should You Shoot for in Retirement?

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How do you choose your financial advisor?

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How do you balance the need for growth and the necessity of protection?

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New 401(k) Rules for 2025

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Don’t walk out of your financial advisor’s office without this…

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Planning for Future Changes in Social Security

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How Your 401(k) Compares to Airline Fees

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The Complexities of Social Security and Medicare

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Suze Orman says you need $2 MILLION to retire. Is she right?

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How End of the Year Tax Planning Can Be Beneficial for Your Retirement

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Lynyrd Skynyrd Interview

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What do the recent interest rate cuts mean for your retirement?

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Can you put too much in your 401(k)?

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Unmasking Hidden Financial Fees

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Social Security: Myths and Realities

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Why Early Retirement Planning is Crucial

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Should politics or a recession effect your financial decisions?

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The Fallacy of Market Timing

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The Number One Fear of Retirees

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The Market took at hit! What does that mean for you and your retirement?

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What should you do with your 401(k) once you retire?

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A retiree wants $1 million before retiring. Is it worth it?

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Are you truly ready for retirement?

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Do you have too much junk in your retirement accounts?

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Is Your Retirement Plan Flying on Autopilot?

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When is the Right Age to Take Social Security

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The 5 Biggest Risks to Plan Around in Retirement

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Developing the Income You Need for Retirement

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Retirement Planning: A Flight to Your Destination

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What does the retirement planning process look like?

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