Category: Retirement
Retirement can be the best time of your life
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Security Risks Retirees Need to Watch out for
Travel Security Risks Retirees Should Know Before Hitting the Road Whenever I talk to fellow retirees about travel, the first thing I hear is how excited they are to finally see the world without having to sprint through airports on a business trip or worry about Monday morning meetings. Believe me, I get it. I Read more
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Retiree’s Guide to Affordable Travel Planning
I’ll be honest with you, once I retired, I thought I’d be sipping iced tea on a beach every other week (we live in Florida already) like some carefree travel influencer who only owns sandals and linen shirts. Then I priced out a seven-day vacation in the Bahamas and realized that unless I planned smarter, Read more
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The Mindset of the Happiest Retirees Finally Revealed
I’ve spent a lot of time talking with retirees over the years, not just the ones who white-knuckle their way through market volatility or stress over stretching their savings, but the ones who seem to glide through retirement with a ridiculous amount of ease. You know the type. They smile more than average, they complain Read more
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What Retirees Need to Know About This ‘Broken Money’ Warning
A First-Person Reflection on Lyn Alden’s book Broken Money. Every now and then, a financial book lands in my lap that makes me sit up a little straighter in my recliner and mumble something classy like, “Well, that explains a lot.” Lyn Alden’s Broken Money is one of those rare books. It pulls the curtain Read more
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Survive Any Financial Crisis: The Hidden Power of Community and Family
When most people think of surviving a financial crisis in retirement, they picture spreadsheets, calculators, and mild chest tightness. What they don’t picture is the real, practical power of other people. Yet again and again, the retirees who get through the hardest financial storms aren’t the ones with the biggest portfolios… but the ones with Read more
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The Most Common Health Issues in Retirement
I still remember the first time a doctor looked over his glasses at me the way a mechanic looks at a car that’s been driven cross-country with the parking brake on. It was right around the time I retired, that odd season of life where your schedule suddenly frees up, yet your body begins filing Read more
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How to Spot a Market Crash Before It Happens
I’ve been through enough market ups and downs to know that the stock market rarely rings a doorbell before it drops. It just sort of barges in, knocks over the houseplants, and leaves you staring at your retirement accounts as if they’ve personally betrayed you. And while no one, not even the loudest financial “guru” Read more
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Learn the truth about healthcare costs in retirement
When I retired, one of the first surprise line items in my budget turned out not to be golf or travel, it was exactly how much I might spend on medical care before I die. If you’re like me, you want more certainty (or at least a smart guess) about what health care will cost Read more
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When Money is the Obsession in Retirement
When I first retired, I thought money would be the star of the show. After all, it’s what we all spend decades chasing, saving, and worrying about. It’s easy to think that retirement is just a long financial balancing act between making your nest egg last and keeping inflation from eating it alive. But somewhere Read more
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What Scott Galloway Can Teach Us About True Financial Security in Retirement
Every so often, a book comes along that doesn’t just give financial advice, it redefines the way we think about money, time, and security. Scott Galloway’s The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security is one of those books. It’s not a typical “get-rich-quick” manual, and it doesn’t try to sell you the Read more