Welcome to the State Welfy Podcast. I'm your host Taylor Schulte, and today I'm sharing 11

surprising facts that you probably don't know about tax planning, investing, and retirement.

For example, if you retired in the year 2000 with $1 million, you invested it all in the U.S. stock market and withdrew $50,000 per year

adjusted for inflation.

You would have been out of money by 2018.

So if you want to learn how that could be and have some educational fun with retirement and

investing statistics, today's episode is for you.

For all the links and resources

mentioned, head over to you stay wealthy.com forward slash 134. First things first, I just want to say

that I hope everyone tuning in this week has a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving. I also want to say

that I am incredibly grateful for each and every one of you

and thankful that you've supported this podcast, left extremely kind reviews, reached out with your

great questions, and just continue to follow along and share it with people in your life.

It means more than you might know. In fact, I'm going to share a bit of a personal fun fact

here before we get into today's show. And that is, in early 2019, I'm going to share a bit of a personal fun fact here before we get into today's show.

And that is, in early 2019, I told a few close friends and colleagues that I was going to shut this podcast down.

I just couldn't seem to find my groove.

Listenership was at a standstill.

And I was just beginning to dread recording the episodes every single week.

Ultimately, as you guys know, I'm still here. I decided to ditch with the episodes every single week. Ultimately, as you guys know,

I'm still here. I decided to ditch what the so-called podcast consultants and experts were telling me

to do, and I just made one final attempt to find my authentic voice and find a format that I would

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