Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

Today we tackle the topic of Social Security.

My guest is Devon Carroll from the website Social Security Intelligence.com.

Devon, we're going to start with how on earth did you get focused on this particular area of

financial planning?

Well, it's a good question, Joshwin.

First, thanks for having me.

I've become a big fan of the Radical Personal Finance Podcast

and have listened to a number of those episodes

while I'm out mowing my grass or doing something else like that.

But you know, I realized back in 2011 through a conversation with a friend that after at that point nearly a decade of being

a professional financial planner, I knew nothing about Social Security and that was not a good place to be but I suppose

I took some comfort in the fact that none of my peers knew some of these things either.

So, you know, I felt a little better,

but at the same time I realized that maybe along that 10-year period

I'd given some advice that wasn't the best it could be.

So I stopped what I was doing in my practice at that time.

Any marketing efforts I was doing, anything like that, and I slowed my entire practice down to a maintenance level and I

went back and I re-learned everything that I thought I already knew about Social

Security. So I took this material with me on a family vacation.

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