Let's have a special guest host episode where this week Mike Powers and Kirsten Ashbaugh,

Manuka Financial, will be talking more about data and cybersecurity in this the 153rd 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, everybody. Welcome back. Thank you, as always, for listening. So today is the fifth,

well, at least the day this is

initially released is the fifth Thursday of May. And as you know, for months I do have a fifth Thursday.

That is a kind of special whatever goes type episode that breaks from the normal routine of the

first Thursday is just me talking in deep dive about something. The second

Thursday is another advisor on the show with me. Third Thursday is some sort of real person chat.

Fourth Thursday is Q&A. And the fifth Thursday, again, if we have one, is sort of whatever,

figured out at the time. So we have a good one today. It's a guest hosted by my buddy Mike Powers.

You know him, you love him. You've heard him on the show multiple times before. He's done a full guest host episode. But he recently had another advisor start at his firm, Manuka Financial, Kirsten Ashba. And so both of them are going deeper into data and cybersecurity. So as you recall, the first episode of

this month was my sort of, I'm not an expert on this, but my tips and info and best practices

about how best to try to maintain security around your data, your ID, your financial information,

cybersecurity, et cetera. So Kirsten actually, she works with Mike now as an advisor. She

was an advisor prior, but in her life before the advisory world, she was actually a cybersecurity

expert, worked in the cybersecurity field, I believe including some government-related work around

cybersecurity, if I recall correctly. So she really knows her stuff. So Mike thought

it would be a really good idea. And I agreed to have her on where she's kind of running the show.

Mike's kind of hosting her, like whatever. You know, Mike's kind of plain host. Kirsten's really the one

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