We're about to do another retirement planner chat where this week I'm joined by my friend Bradley Hilton from Sonoff's financial planning in this the 195th 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 Pankham.

Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Today is a retirement planner chat episode. I haven't done one of

these in a while. I do have on every month another fellow planner friend,

but recently we've been doing the hot topics thing.

This time, I'm going back to sort of the original format

I did with these retirement planner chats,

where it's almost sort of like an interview style

of me asking the other person questions and them, you know,

digging into how they think about things, do things, approach things within their mind and

their business and practice. So today is my friend Bradley Hilton from Sonas Financial Planning

based out of hotlanta, Georgia. I met him, as you'll hear us say, I met him a few years

ago in person at a conference. Prior to that, we did meet virtually on LinkedIn. That's where I meet

and come across most folks and advisors in this industry, at least initially, is through the virtual

world. It's incredibly powerful, LinkedIn. If you, in social media in

general, if you use it for good, there's obviously a lot of bad and downsides in ways to just

completely burn through hours every day unproductively on social media. But I try to make the most

of it as productive as possible, especially on LinkedIn. So, you know, I won't get too much more

into that. Bradley and I had a really good chat. I will save that you can hear for yourselves. I just want to share with you that I had a quiet game of tennis today. There was no racket. And my big, goofy smile moment is just recently found out a couple days ago that my oldest daughter, who's 18 and currently a senior in high school, it's official where she's going to college, she will be going, I won't say it now, just in case anything falls through, but it's basically a done deal now.

She did get accepted into a few

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