91: Securing Your Retirement: Key Insights and Strategies
Release Date: 05/30/2024
104: How to Invest When the World Feels Dangerous
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Volatility and recession and crashes! Oh, my! Today, our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines give their best strategies for successful investing when the world’s feeling dangerous. They kick things off with some pointers on riding out market ups and downs. It all comes down to sticking to a long-term investment plan, no matter what’s happening around you. Remember the 2008 financial crisis? Stephanie and Kevin talk about how markets always bounce back and why it’s best not to fret over the dramatic headlines. They also discuss ways to manage your wealth during...
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103: Essential Internal Money Healing with Meghan Dwyer
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Our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines discuss the emotional side of money management with Meghan Dwyer, a Certified Financial Planner and the host of the "Money Isn't Scary" Podcast. Meghan's vision-mission is all about challenging societal norms and empowering women to take charge of their finances with confidence. She helps us uncover the hidden emotional influences that shape our financial decisions and shares her insights on moving from a mindset of fear to one of abundance. “How we earn our money is emotional,” says Meghan. “How we spend our money is...
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102: What Women Need to Know about Avoiding IRA Nightmare Stories with Denise Appleby
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“Prevention is better than cure. Don't feel overwhelmed by all this. Would you remove your own kidney? You would go to a professional to get it done.” -Denise Appleby Renowned IRA and retirement plans expert Denise Appleby joins our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines for a crucial conversation on managing your retirement accounts effectively, especially as 2024 comes to a close. Having trained thousands of financial, tax, and legal professionals, Denise shares her invaluable insights on year-end retirement planning strategies, covering the complexities of Required...
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101: What Women Need to Know (and Do) About Estate Planning with Your Friend the Lawyer, Pam Starsia
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Our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines sit down with Pam Starsia, who swapped her corporate lawyer gig for the world of estate planning, and now runs a firm alongside her husband. Once a pro in high-stakes mergers and acquisitions, Pam’s now all about creating personalized, relationship-focused estate plans. Listen in as she takes us through the sometimes-tricky and always-emotional landscape of family legacy planning. “If you have the resources to pay for help, do so. You deserve it.” Pam unpacks the Personal Family Lawyer model she follows, which emphasizes the...
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100: What GenX Women Need to Know About Retirement
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“We’re nothing if not resourceful. That’s our generation’s superpower.” -Kevin In celebration of the 100th episode of Take Back Retirement, our hosts Stephanie and Kevin Gaines reflect on the defining characteristics of their very own generation–Gen X–and key lessons that women in this age bracket can put into practice today in preparing for retirement. From the seismic shift from pensions to 401(k) plans, to navigating the rollercoaster of financial events like the 1987 Black Monday and the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century, today’s conversation explores...
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99: The Challenges and Opportunities of Defining Your Identity in Retirement with Elizabeth Parsons
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“Suddenly you've got to create the content of your life, and that's a completely new enterprise for most people we work with, and it's scary until you can get your hands in the clay and feel confident about having a process.” -Elizabeth Parsons How do you deal with the massive shift that comes with stepping away from a high-powered career and into retirement? Our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines chat with Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons, founder of Encoraco, who has dedicated her life to guiding high achievers through the emotional and psychological challenges of...
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98: Conquering Internalized Ageism and Living Your Best Life after 65 with Ande Lyons
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“Age is just another journey that we need to learn to love and embrace, and see as the gift it is!” Our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines are joined by Ande Lyons, host of the Don't Be Caged by Your Age podcast. She’s redefining what it means to thrive after 65, and teaches us how to combat ageism at every level—whether it's institutional, societal, or internalized. Finding and maintaining confidence and a sense of purpose in retirement is seldom easy. Ande gives us tips to stay engaged in later life, as well as essential steps for financial and mental wellness,...
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97: Why Do We Avoid Retirement Planning?
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“Most pre-retirees and retirees need and want help with the critical retirement decisions they face, but they’re not always certain where to find it.” Is your retirement plan only scratching the surface? Our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines uncover the common pitfalls that have kept retirees unprepared for the realities of their post-work years. Drawing from the groundbreaking Stanford Center on Longevity study entitled Disconnected: Reality Versus Perception in Retirement Planning, Stephanie and Kevin talk about why it’s imperative to envision and plan for all...
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96: Surviving Financial Infidelity with Jess Bost
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"Financial infidelity is in the category of infidelity and the root of it is a hiding and a lying about the truth." Join our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines as they chat with Jess Bost, CFP at Lake Avenue Financial. She’s spent over 15 years coaching people to get from where they are to where they want to be. It’s a passion that finds its roots in her inspiring journey to overcome her own financial struggles. For Jess, those struggles revolved around one of the toughest periods in her life: dealing with financial infidelity. Listen in as she opens up about the...
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95: Ready to Retire? Here are Five Crucial Questions to Ask Yourself
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“We believe that a simpler financial life, a less fraught financial life is one where you align your dollars with what's most important to you, with the life you want to lead, with your values.” - Stephanie Have you ever found yourself asking if the perfect moment to retire will ever come? Or whether you’ll even have enough to live on when that moment arrives? These are tough questions that countless people grapple with. Our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines talk ‘purposeful retirement’ and how you can set goals and navigate your post-work life with flexibility and a...
info_outline“If the average life expectancy for a woman is around 86, 87, fully 50% of women live longer than that. So, you can't plan just to age 87.”
Can a simple quiz change the way you think about retirement? Our hosts Stephanie McCullough and Kevin Gaines uncover the hidden gems (and not-so-shiny stones) within retirement planning quizzes and surveys, especially a revealing retirement income literacy quiz from the American College of Financial Services. Our hosts dismantle common myths, like the idea that Medicaid will seamlessly cover long-term care costs, and arm you with the knowledge to navigate these complex waters.
Have you ever considered how rising long-term care costs and inflation might impact your golden years? This discussion, inspired by findings from the National Institute for Retirement Security, paints a vivid picture of these pressing issues. From Medicare and Social Security to life insurance, 401k plans, and annuities, Stephanie and Kevin dissect the tools at your disposal. By highlighting the importance of basic investing principles and the balance of risks, they aim to help you safeguard your savings against inflation and elongate your nest egg for a potentially longer retirement.
In a climate where up to 80% of women sense a looming retirement crisis, how can you alleviate your retirement anxiety? Our hosts explore the shift from employer-provided pension plans to self-funded retirements, and why Social Security remains a lifeline for many. Rising living, healthcare, and long-term care costs are at the forefront of concerns, making financial planning more crucial than ever.
Key Topics:
- Why Did Stephanie and Kevin Take a Retirement Income “Literacy” Quiz? (02:11)
- Long-term Care, Medicare vs Medicaid, and More (04:10)
- What Women Think about Retirement (07:49)
- Life Expectancy Beyond 65 and its Impact on Retirement Finances (14:37)
- Looking Beyond Investments in Retirement Planning (19:08)
- Women's Outlook on Retirement (Crisis) (21:40)
- Longevity “Literacy” (27:32)
- Wrap-Up (32:26)
Resources:
Take Back Retirement Episodes:
- 82: Getting the Most from Social Security: Smart Strategies for Women with Heather Schreiber
- 15: What Women Need to Know About Social Security
- 21: Simplifying Medicare: What’s Important For You To Know with Susan Sloan
- 60: What Women Need to Know About Annuities
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