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Year-End Planning Checklist for Retirees

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The Perfect Portfolio with Peter Lazaroff

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Your Social Security Playbook: Building Your Strategy- Married Filers

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Your Social Security Playbook: Building Your Strategy- Single Filers

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Your Social Security Playbook: The Levers You Control

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Your Social Security Playbook: How Your Benefit is Calculated

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Your Social Security Playbook: How the System Works

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Summer Reruns: Learn What to Ignore with Dr. Daniel Crosby

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Summer Reruns: Gabbing with Gretchen Rubin- Your Personality and How it Plays into Your Retirement Planning

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Summer Reruns: Keep Investments Simple with Peter Lazaroff

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Summer Reruns: Retiring Single with Tanya Nichols

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Retirement Toolkit: Never Worry About Money Again with Jesse Mecham

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Retirement Toolkit: How do you Balance Optimization with Simplification

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Retirement Toolkit: How to Rebalance a Retirement Portfolio

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Retirement Toolkit: How Does Step Up in Cost Basis Work

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Retirement Toolkit: How Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) Work

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IRMAA: The Medicare Premium Surprise and How to Avoid It

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Mutual Funds vs. ETFs- Which is Better for Retirement?

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Know What You Pay: A Guide to Investment & Advice Costs

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Take the Retirement Leap of Faith with Jordan Grumet

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Decluttering for Retirement: Your Step-by-Step Plan

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Decluttering for Retirement: Why It's So Hard and How to Push Through

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Decluttering for Retirement: How a Simpler Life Helps You Rock Retirement

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Decluttering for Retirement: It's More Than Cleaning Out Your Closet

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How Long Will You Live After Retirement?

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Listener Questions: How Do I Create a Diversified Portfolio?

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Listener Questions: What Should I Be Doing When I'm Two Years from Retirement?

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Listener Questions: Should I Take Social Security Early and Invest It?

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Listener Questions: Should I Move My 401K into an IRA When I Retire?

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Why Even the Best Retirement Calculator is Wrong

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Retirement Talk with Dr. Wade Pfau

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Healthcare Before Medicare: Retiree Feedback

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How to Feel Loved with Dr. Harry Reis

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Healthcare Before Medicare: Creating Your Own Action Plan

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Healthcare Before Medicare: How to Lower Your Costs

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Healthcare Before Medicare: Your Options

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Healthcare Before Medicare: What Happens When You Retire Before 65?

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Retire on FIRE: Rocking an Early Retirement- The Challenges of Retiring Early

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Retire on FIRE: Rocking an Early Retirement- Henry and Lucy's Resources

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Retire on Fire- Rocking an Early Retirement: Henry and Lucy's FIRE Goals

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Retire on FIRE- Rocking an Early Retirement: Meet Henry and Lucy

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Year-End Planning: Estimated Tax Payments

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Year-End Planning: The Basics of Charitable Giving

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Year End Planning: RMD Rules for IRAs & Inherited IRAs

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Year-End Planning: Annual Gifting Rules

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Year-End Planning: Tax-Loss Harvesting

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Should I Use My Traditional IRA to Fund My Life or Do Roth Conversions?

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My Advisor Recommended an Annuity. Should I Buy It?

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How Do I Build My Initial Cash Cushion for Retirement?

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The 10 R's for a Joyful Retirement with Cesar Aguirre

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Retirement Goal Case Study

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How to Navigate Goals as Life Unfolds

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Building Agile Retirement Goals

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Setting Retirement Goals: The Paradox of Knowing What You Want

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Simple Isn't Easy: Carl Richards on Life and Retirement

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The Difference Between an IRS Late Payment Penalty and Interest

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How to Read Your Social Security Statement

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Don't Get Cute with Your Retirement Investments

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Navigating Medicare in 2025

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Should I Do a "Free" Retirement Analysis?

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Direct Indexing vs. Mutual Fund or ETFs

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Elder Care Options for Singles

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How to Choose a Retirement Coach

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Replay: How to Manage Your Scarcity Brain

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Replay: Overcoming Frugality in Retirement with Dr. Dan Crosby

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Replay: My Experience Moving to a Retirement Community

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Replay: The State of Retirement Planning with Michael Kitces

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Replay: How to Retire with Christine Benz

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I Just Lost My Job. Can I Retire Now?

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How to Quality Check Your Retirement Plan

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How to Rebalance Your Portfolio in Retirement

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How to Improve Your Retirement Travel

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Process Over Panic: What You Should Pay Attention To

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Process Over Panic: Investing with Charles Ellis

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Process Over Panic: Building a Great Life with Dr. Meir Statman

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Process Over Panic: Social Security

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Process Over Panic: Why to Resist the Urge to Think It's Different This Time

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Retirement Basics: Fixed Annuities (aka MYGAs)

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Retirement Basics: Building Energy

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Retirement Basics: Asset Allocation

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Retirement Basics: What Every Spouse Should Know

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Is My Retirement Safe? Navigating Financial Security in Uncertain Times

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Curiosity: The Key to a Happy Retirement

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How to Set Up Your Paycheck in Retirement

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What Life Expectancy Should I Use in My Retirement Plan?

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Should I Have Private Equity in My Portfolio?

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Retirement Plan Live Debrief with Tanya Nichols

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Take Action Now for a Resilient Retirement

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Don't Fly by Feeling in Retirement

90

Rocking a Solo Retirement: Nick's Views/Laura's Views

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Rocking a Solo Retirement: Nick's Resources/Laura's Resources

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Rocking a Solo Retirement: Nick's Goals/ Laura's Goals

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Rocking a Solo Retirement: Meet Nick/Meet Laura

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Retiring Single with Tanya Nichols, CFP

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Close Out the Year with Intention

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Learn What to Ignore with Dr. Daniel Crosby

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Gear vs. Stuff with Michael Easter

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How to Retire with Christine Benz

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Year-End Planning: Charitable and Family Giving

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Retirement Year End Planning: Withdrawing from Assets