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The Financial Answer with Nathan O’Bryant — 301 episodes

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Main Character Energy for Your Retirement Plan

2

A New Proposal Might Cap Your Social Security Payments

3

The Surprisingly Hard Part of Retirement Nobody Warns You About

4

The White House Wants to Give You $1,000 for Retirement

5

Tax Mistakes New Retirees Make

6

Don't Get Scammed: 2025 Data Is Shocking

7

Market Monday Magic: Tech Takes the Wheel

8

Famous Financial Advice…What’s Worth Following?

9

So, Markets Brushed Aside White House Drama Today...

10

2025 Year In Review: What Actually Mattered for Your Money

11

Your First Christmas in Retirement

12

How To Give With Purpose

13

How Gratitude Shapes Your Financial Life

14

What Your Halloween Costume Says About Your Money Habits

15

October is Financial Planning Month: Here’s Your Checklist

16

The Gas Station Sushi Equivalent Of Retirement Planning

17

The Hidden Medicare Penalty You Might Be Paying

18

Inflation Is Still Wrecking Retirement Confidence

19

5 Signs You’re Richer Than You Think

20

What’s Missing From Dave Ramsey’s 9-Step Retirement Plan?

21

Gen X, It’s Your Turn: It’s Time to Think About Retirement

22

Is Your Retirement Plan Built for the Long Haul?

23

What Retirement Means… and Why It’s Different for Everyone

24

Type A Investors: Why Doing Less Might Be Your Best Move

25

Why The Psychology of Money Says Your Emotions Matter More Than Math

26

Talking To Your Spouse About Market Crash Fears

27

What Should You Actually Do When the Market Drops?

28

April Fool’s: Beliefs That Fool Retirement Savers The Most

29

Inside the Advisor’s Office: What People Are Actually Concerned About

30

The Money Questions Every Couple Needs To Discuss This Valentine’s Season

31

What Do Proposed Tariffs Mean For Your Portfolio?

32

Inflation-Proof Your Retirement In 2025

33

The Snowbird Retirement: Is a Seasonal Move Right for You?

34

The Art of Rebalancing: WHEN to Adjust Your Portfolio and WHY

35

Most Americans Are Forced to Retire Early- Are You Ready?

36

Financial Forecasting: A Post-Election Conversation

37

Don’t Blow Your Bonus! Smart Ways to Use a Lump Sum Payout

38

Is Dividend Investing Dead?

39

How Current Economic Shifts Could Affect Your Retirement

40

For Couples, Retirement Planning Is A Team Sport

41

Unlock Your Potential During National Financial Planning Month

42

IRS Rules for RMDs

43

August 2024 Market Update

44

What is Blackrock's 100% Stock ETF Hedge?

45

3 Things to Consider if there’s a “Recession” in 2024

46

Cryptocurrency and Your Financial Plan

47

Financial Lessons from Dad

48

All In One Basket: Financial Diversification

49

Explaining Penalty Relief for Inherited Withdrawals

50

Retirement Expectations vs. Reality

51

Winning the Financial Triple Crown: Strategies from the Kentucky Derby

52

Retirement Questions That Every Generation Is Asking, Part 1

53

How Is Technology Redefining Retirement Planning?

54

Is Retirement Planning Harder Than It Used to Be? Part 2

55

Is Retirement Planning Harder Than It Used to Be? Part 1

56

The Power of Delayed Gratification

57

Inheritance FAQ

58

Financial Stocking Stuffers

59

Financial Planning with Classic Christmas Songs

60

How To Successfully Climb The Retirement Mountain

61

The Financial Cereal Bowl

62

How to Avoid Money Mistakes You’ll Regret

63

Retirement Planning’s “Hidden” Questions

64

Discussing Dave Ramsey’s Advice

65

The Future of Retirement in America

66

Bashing the Roth?

67

Financial Lessons From Ron Swanson

68

Till Debt Do Us Part: Resolving Financial Tension Between Couples (Part 2)

69

Till Debt Do Us Part: Resolving Financial Tension Between Couples (Part 1)

70

Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Invest in a 401(k)

71

Bad Money Habits That Can Spoil The Retirement Party

72

What Weddings and Retirement Planning Have in Common

73

Breaking Down The Commentary After Recent Bank Collapses

74

How Age and Wisdom Impact Your Financial Planning

75

The Psychology of Investing In The Wake Of Historic Market Crashes

76

Should An Advisor Tailor A Plan To Fit Your Personality? (Part 2)

77

Should Your Advisor Tailor A Plan To Fit Your Personality? (Part 1)

78

What’s Your Biggest Financial Fear?

79

Four Ways The SECURE Act 2.0 Might Impact You

80

Helpful Financial Checklist For 2023

81

2022 in Review

82

Naughty or Nice: Financial Advisors

83

Examining Your Own Investor Bias

84

Financial Things That Are Underrated

85

Financial Things That Are Overrated

86

Your Biggest Financial Assets

87

What We Can Learn from Seinfeld

88

Can’t Get No Satisfaction... Or Can You?

89

How Money Ads Catch Your Attention

90

Financial Diseases That Plague Retirees

91

Clearing Up Financial Myths

92

Financial Jeopardy

93

Financial Fortune Cookie Wisdom

94

Sensational Financial Headlines

95

Is Conventional Wisdom Always Best?

96

Things We Don’t Consider in Retirement Planning

97

Sorting Through the Financial Junk Drawer

98

Playing the Financial Game Show

99

I Didn’t Know You Did That

100

Financial Hot Topics

101

Financial Wisdom with Albert Einstein

102

Retirement Planning with Shaq

103

What To Do During Market Volatility

104

How Do You Say It?

105

A Financial Checklist for the New Year

106

Retirement Planning First Steps

107

Financial Wisdom from Walt Disney

108

Dealing with Stress in Retirement

109

Financial Truths and Lies

110

Retirement Income Planning Essentials

111

Avoiding Financial Temptations

112

Investing Like a Genius

113

5 Questions You Didn’t Know To Ask

114

What Kind of Retirement Are You Living For?

115

5 Things You Must Know About Decumulation To Retire Successfully

116

Retirement Blind Spots

117

SECURE Act 2.0

118

Are You Avoiding These 401K Mistakes?

119

Understanding Your Financial Statements

120

Reading the Financial Fine Print

121

Baseball and Retirement Planning

122

Avoiding Financial Mistakes During A Divorce

123

Unhealthy Foods and Financial Health

124

Financial Lessons Learned from Calvin and Hobbes

125

Last Ten Working Years Before Retirement

126

What You Should Know About Biden’s Executive Orders

127

Understanding Values-Based Planning

128

2021: This Is The Year (No Matter What)

129

Christmas Songs and Financial Planning

130

End of Year Financial Planning

131

Unreasonable Requests to Financial Advisors

132

An Election Conversation

133

Statistics on Saving and Investing

134

Mom’s Favorite Phrases And Financial Planning

135

Financial Planning By Profession

136

Don’t Assume When It Comes to Retirement

137

Dirty Little Secrets in the Financial World

138

Top 5 Types of Financial Risk

139

Industry Insights Amidst Coronavirus

140

Finding the Right Financial Advisor

141

Answering the Most Common IRA Questions

142

Are You Following Outdated Financial Rules?

143

Is the Customer Always Right?

144

How To Set Financial and Retirement Goals

145

Ben Franklin and Partial Freedom from COVID-19

146

Cleaning Your Financial Closet – Lockdown Edition

147

Coronavirus Aid - What You Need to Know About the CARES Act

148

Coronavirus Market Update + What’s Next

149

Coronavirus: What Pandemics Often Do To The Market

150

Inheritance 101: Everything You Need to Know

151

How Often Does a Financial Advisor Answer These Questions?

152

Understanding The SECURE Act

153

5 Biggest Storylines of 2020: Will They Matter Financially?

154

New Year Financial Checklist for 2020

155

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Retirement With These Mistakes?

156

Catching Up As A Late Bloomer In Retirement

157

Critical Estate Planning Mistakes You Need to Avoid

158

Turkey Day Special with Listener Questions

159

What Mistakes Do Bad Investors Make?

160

Welcome to Retirement, Now Don’t Screw It Up

161

The Final Decade Before Retirement

162

Trying To Find The Exception To The Rule When Investing

163

Retirement Planning and Halloween

164

Scary Facts About Retirement

165

Halloween Spending and Retirement

166

4 Types of Spenders

167

Planning The Ultimate Road Trip: Your Retirement

168

Reading Between the Lines Of Financial Fake News

169

Decision-Making Roadblocks in Financial Planning

170

Discussing the Laws of Investing, Part 3

171

Discussing the Laws Of Investing, Part 2

172

Discussing the Laws Of Investing, Part 1

173

Understanding The SECURE Act, Part 3

174

How to Handle Stock Market Declines

175

Will Your Beneficiaries Be Able To Access Your Accounts After You Die?

176

What Does Financial Security Look Like For You?

177

Crazy Financial Facts From The Past And What They Mean Today

178

Does it Benefit You to Have Multiple Financial Advisors

179

Understanding The SECURE Act, Part 2

180

Understanding The SECURE Act, Part 1

181

Presidential Financial Planning

182

Stuff That Doesn’t Work

183

Never Assume In Retirement Planning

184

Traveling Through the Retirement Airport

185

Different Ways You Might Respond To A Down Market

186

Understanding The 4 Percent Rule

187

Vacation Planning And Retirement

188

Lessons From Fly Fishing

189

Financial Planning and Future Generations

190

A Curious Email Teaches Us About Dividend-Paying Stocks

191

Unlikely Wisdom When It Comes to Your Finances

192

How to Manage the Stress of Retirement

193

Five Things That Could Ruin Your Retirement Savings

194

Lazy Money

195

Questions You Should Be Asking Part 02

196

Questions You Should Be Asking Part 01

197

Financial Therapy

198

Retirement: It Ain't What It Used To Be

199

Common Complaints About Finances

200

Bouncing Back

201

New Year's Resolutions

202

Stock Market Update: Holiday Hijinx

203

Common Money Mistakes

204

Financial Stocking Stuffers

205

Client Personalities

206

Moving The Goalposts

207

Retirement: It Ain't What It Used To Be

208

End Of Year To-Do List

209

The Retirement Checklist

210

Stock Market Update: October Slump

211

Financial Therapy

212

Robo-Advisors

213

Score A Touchdown In Retirement

214

Unhealthy Financial Foods

215

Irreversible Decisions

216

The Financial Hurricane

217

Between Jobs

218

Retirement Planning: It Ain't What It Used To Be

219

Agree Or Disagree?

220

Don't Get In Your Own Way

221

Unhealthy Financial Foods

222

It's Anyone's Guess

223

Unanswerable Questions

224

Fill In The Blanks

225

What Is A Fiduciary?

226

Better Late Than Never

227

Unreasonable Requests

228

The Retirement Pyramid

229

Unique Challenges In Retirement

230

Mind The Gap

231

Just What The Doctor Ordered

232

The Right Fit For You

233

Music Lessons

234

Not Your Parents' Retirement

235

Mother Knows Best

236

Financial Codebreaking

237

The Market Crash Hall Of Fame

238

Flirting With Disaster

239

Nathan's Take On Taxes

240

Music Lessons

241

Your Financial Philosophy

242

Risks And Statistics

243

The Market Crash Hall Of Fame

244

Invest Like A Genius

245

401(k) FAQs

246

Financial Commandments

247

Hindsight Is 20/20

248

Stock Market Update: Pullbacks, Obsolete Strategies, and The Olympics

249

Don't Ruin Your Retirement

250

The Market Crash Survival Guide

251

Silver Linings

252

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

253

Common Portfolio Mistakes

254

Defense Mechanisms

255

Awkward Conversations

256

The Financial Puzzle

257

Staying On Course

258

The Desire To Retire

259

Retirement Variables And Constants

260

The Retirement Farm

261

All About The Benjamins

262

Defense Mechanisms

263

Silver Linings

264

Awkward Conversations

265

Retirement Variables And Constants

266

Flying Through Retirement

267

Financial Mythbusters

268

Planning For The Fourth Quarter

269

Financial Security

270

Unique Financial Challenges

271

Retirement: It's Harder Than It Looks

272

Conventional Wisdom And Your Portfolio

273

Facing Financial Reality

274

Organizing Your Financial Junk Drawer

275

Dangerous Mindsets

276

50 Shades Of Gray Area

277

The Big Distractions

278

A Client's Life For Me

279

Financial Debates

280

Hidden Costs of Retirement Planning

281

Myths Versus Truths

282

Fuzzy Math 101

283

Unique Challenges You'll Face In Retirement

284

First Steps

285

Retirement Planning Myths

286

What We Wish You Knew

287

It's Just Not That Complicated

288

Little White Lies

289

No Excuses!

290

Are You An Optimist Or A Pessimist?

291

Reality Check

292

Retirement Ready

293

Improve Your Approach To Retirement

294

What Questions Should You Be Asking?

295

Being Ready To Retire

296

Common Complaints

297

Bouncing Back From Financial Mistakes

298

Financial Chores

299

Why Your Retirement Is Not A Game Show

300

Decluttering Your Finances

301

The "Greatest Generation"