If you're like many people today, you're struggling with all of the things that are being pushed

towards you by social media, the financial media. You're trying to figure out what's real, what is it,

what's a myth, what's truth. You want to understand, well, how much do I need to retire? Is social

security still going to be there? Or our tax is going to go up in the future?

How much do I actually have to save in order to create X amount of income? How much my pre-retirement income do I have to have when I actually step into retirement? You hear these rules of thumb. You hear these weird things that people say from time to time. And you want to know what's real, what's true. Well, that's what we're here to help you with today. We're going to do some myth busting today.

Woo. from time to time. And you want to know what's real, what's true. Well, that's what we're here to help you with today. We're going to do some myth busting today, to bust through some myths,

and help you create a more solid and stable idea of what retirement is going to look like for you

and help you make better financial planning decisions.

Yeah. and help you make better financial planning decisions. Today's topic, nine retirement myths.

And this is Casey Weed here, hosts the Retire with Purpose podcast.

And I am here with my good friend and co-host for

these Friday editions of the podcast. I have Marshall Johnson joining me today.

Hey, hey, hey. So what is that? So every Friday we do this. Every Friday, if you're new to the

podcast, we do a short form podcast. We're going to talk about a trending topic that comes typically from our weekend reading for retirees email series.

So every Friday, we're going to have a conversation like this, keeping you up to date, the latest trends in retirement.

And then every other week we get to do another one of my favorite things where we release a long form interview that we've conducted with one of our world-class guests.

So we're going to be talking about a weekend reading article here today, and you have to get

this email. Every single Friday, our team throughout the week has sifted through hundreds of

articles, and then we've distilled all those trending articles down to four

articles that we want to put in your inbox so that you know that you're paying attention to the

most important things in that given week, investment planning, estate planning, tax planning,

the non-financial side of financial planning and retirement planning as well, along with

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