
#086 – Retirement planning chat with a "real" person, Bill Stevenson
02/15/24 • 61 min
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Andy chats with a real person (not an advisor) doing their own retirement planning. In this episode, Andy talks with Bill Stevenson, a married military retiree currently living in Hawaii. They talk about a wide array of retirement planning topics such as when Bill started getting serious about retirement planning, what he wishes he would have known earlier, how he planned for the non-financial aspects of retirement, and a variety of financial topics such as Social Security, investing, portfolio distributions, how the GI Bill helped pay for Bill's daughters' colleges and more!
Links in this episode:
- Bill's favorite retirement planning resources:
- Jane Bryant Quinn books and other resources - here
- Wade Pfau's book, Retirement Planning Guidebook
- The podcast, The Retirement & IRA Show
- Tenon Financial monthly e-newsletter - Retirement Planning Insights
- Facebook group - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Taxes in Retirement)
- YouTube channel - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Retirement Planning Demystified)
- Retirement Planning Education website - www.RetirementPlanningEducation.com
Andy chats with a real person (not an advisor) doing their own retirement planning. In this episode, Andy talks with Bill Stevenson, a married military retiree currently living in Hawaii. They talk about a wide array of retirement planning topics such as when Bill started getting serious about retirement planning, what he wishes he would have known earlier, how he planned for the non-financial aspects of retirement, and a variety of financial topics such as Social Security, investing, portfolio distributions, how the GI Bill helped pay for Bill's daughters' colleges and more!
Links in this episode:
- Bill's favorite retirement planning resources:
- Jane Bryant Quinn books and other resources - here
- Wade Pfau's book, Retirement Planning Guidebook
- The podcast, The Retirement & IRA Show
- Tenon Financial monthly e-newsletter - Retirement Planning Insights
- Facebook group - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Taxes in Retirement)
- YouTube channel - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Retirement Planning Demystified)
- Retirement Planning Education website - www.RetirementPlanningEducation.com
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#085 – Retirement planner chat, with Brian Tegtmeyer from Truly Prosper Financial Planning
Andy chats with fellow retirement planner Brian Tegtmeyer, CFP®, from Truly Prosper Financial Planning. In this episode they talk about a wide array of retirement planning topics such as tax planning, distribution strategies, investing, annuities, long-term care insurance, how to know when someone has "enough" to retire, what consumers often overlook in retirement planning and much more!
Links in this episode:
- Brian's company's website - Truly Prosper Financial Planning
- The Michael Kitces website/blog - here
- Ed Slott website/blog - here
- Natalie Choate's book - Life and Death Planning for Retirement Benefits
- Money Quotient life planning tools - here
- George Kinder financial life planning resources - here
- Mitch Anthony financial life planning resources - here
- Reid Stone's non-financial and life planning solutions - here
- Fritz Gilbert's blog - The Retirement Manifesto
- Roger Whitney's podcast - The Retirement Answer Man
- Mitch Anthony's book - The New Retirementality
- Tenon Financial monthly e-newsletter - Retirement Planning Insights
- Facebook group - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Taxes in Retirement)
- YouTube channel - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Retirement Planning Demystified)
- Retirement Planning Education website - www.RetirementPlanningEducation.com
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#087 - Q&A edition...tax return filing statuses, advisor succession plans and MORE!
Listener Q&A where Andy talks about:
- The summary of the five different tax return filing statuses
- Whether a particular listener could file as Head of Household for his 22 year-old son in college
- How to get the 1099-INT form if you sold any I Bonds last year
- Whether you can still do a 2023 Roth conversion now, in February 2024
- What to look for and ask regarding an advisor's succession plan
Links in this episode:
- My YouTube video - Overview of Federal Income Taxation
- IRS's Instructions to Form 1040
- IRS's website for What is My Filing Status?
- IRS's website for Whom May I Claim as a Dependent?
- My company newsletter - Retirement Planning Insights
- Facebook group - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Taxes in Retirement)
- YouTube channel - Retirement Planning Education (formerly Retirement Planning Demystified)
- Retirement Planning Education website - www.RetirementPlanningEducation.com
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