In this Episode of the Secure Your Retirement Podcast, Radon discusses what really happens inside a personalized retirement financial plan, walking through the exact process our Director of Financial Planning and Tax Strategy, Taylor Wolverton, uses with every new client. This episode is built for anyone thinking seriously about financial planning for retirement, whether you're still working, already retired, or somewhere in the middle trying to figure out how to retire without losing sleep over the numbers. Retirement planning strategies only work if they're built on your real accounts and your real goals, not a rough guess, and that's exactly what this conversation breaks down step by step.

Listen in to learn about how a real retirement financial plan gets built from the ground up: mapping every account into a single clear picture, laying out retirement income planning around Social Security and required minimum distributions, and using a retirement spending plan to test what you can actually afford, including the big goals you've been putting off. If you're doing financial planning after 60 and wondering whether your retirement investment strategy and retirement cash flow can support the life you actually want, this episode shows you how that question gets answered with real numbers instead of guesswork.

In this episode, find out:

• How a "blueprint" of your accounts reveals your true net worth, often higher than you'd guess in your head
• Why retirement income planning has to map every source, Social Security, pensions, salary, and required minimum distributions, on its own timeline
• How a retirement spending plan and goals section let you test big one-time expenses, like travel or a kitchen renovation, against your long-term numbers
• Why a retirement financial plan gets projected all the way to age 90, and what a rising or falling balance actually tells you
• How conservative assumptions on returns and inflation give your retirement checklist room to work even if the market underperforms

Tweetable Quotes:

"I don't care how much money people have. They think they're going to run out." - Radon Stancil

"It is hard for people to go from saving, saving, saving to spending, spending, spending, and it can be a scary transition." - Radon Stancil

Resources:

If you are in or nearing retirement and you want to gain clarity on what questions you should be asking, learn what the biggest retirement myths are, and identify what you can do to achieve peace of mind for your retirement, get started today by requesting our complimentary video course, Four Steps to Secure Your Retirement!

To access the course, simply visit POMWealth.net/podcast.