Retirement is a difficult transition. Retirement readiness is the key to making it easier.

What would you rate yourself on the retirement readiness scale?

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You can text us to 8 letters, W.R to 888-599-44-91. Well, let's get into the business. I'm here with my good friend, Marshall. Marshall, welcome to the episode of the week. Yes, I love it. This great topic, great conversation we're going to have here around retirement readiness.

You know, case we've seen people come to visit with us from all different levels here, from the very basic to the very advanced.

And it's a great conversation from Fritz Gilbert and his retirement manifesto blog that helps us really kind of gauge where we're at, where we need to be, and what's going to make a smooth transition into retirement. Yeah, I really feel like we need to get Fritz back on the podcast. He's a good. Ben, we've just approached in three years from the last time we invited Fritz out, and that was one of our biggest podcasts that we had released. Fritz covers a wide variety of different things. What I love about Fritz and what he

puts out is if you definitely, if you've been following the retirement manifesto for some time,

it actually just kind of follows his entire journey to retirement from prior to retirement, leading up to

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