It's time to have another retirement planner chat episode where special guest host, Mike Powers,

will be chatting with me, Andy Panko, in this, the 114th episode of the Retirement Planning Education Podcast.

Welcome to the Retirement Planning Education Podcast, where you can learn all about IRAs and Roth IRAs,

employer retirement plans, taxes, Social Security, Medicare, portfolio withdrawal strategies,

annuities, estate planning, and much more. And now here's your host, Andy Panko.

Hello again, my friends. Welcome back. I'm glad you're here. Today we have an interesting one.

So this is the fifth Thursday of this month of August. And as you maybe know by now,

each month, well, you definitely know, each month normally has, you know, four Thursdays.

A couple months, we'll have two Thursdays. And so what I do is, since this podcast come out on

Thursdays, there's a schedule. There's, you know, the first Thursday the month is a deep dive where I'm

talking about a specific topic. The second Thursday of the month is where I have on another

fellow retirement planner that I chat with. Third Thursday is I have any real person to talk

with them about their retirement planning. the fourth Thursday of the month is a

Q&A. But for the months that have a fifth Thursday, such as August, I do some sort of special

something or other kind of figured it out when it comes. My friend Mike Powers, he was on the show

last month, I think it was, yeah, as a retirement planner from Manuka Financial.

Great guy, good friends with him, and we flowed well in the chat in our recording.

And Mike had the idea of, hey, for this month's extra episode, how about turn the tables,

flip the script, how about I come on as the retirement planner to uh sit in the hot seat

if you will and have him host it and ask me the question so people listening can can get to know

sort of my story and background and what's not so i was like man that's a brilliant idea good job mike

i know there's a reason I keep you around.

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