You've tracked your money. You've managed your schedule. You've read the books, follow the plans, maybe even retired already, but something still feels off. What if four overlooked numbers could reveal exactly where you're misaligned? Today, we break down the ratios that matter. Hey, this is Casey and welcome to the podcast.

This is a Freedom After 50 episode.

If you're going, what is that?

What's this Freedom After 50 episode?

Well, I want you to know what to expect when you're

listening to the podcast and what to look out for. On our podcast, we have both financial and

non-financially related conversations. We want to lead into everything that's important at this

phase of your life. If you're looking for those non-financial conversations, well, you have

found yourself a home here. We are having a

freedom after 50 episode, and you can find many of those if you look through our past episodes.

Now, this one will have a bit of a financial angle to it as well, so I think it will appeal to both

of those that are looking for financial or non-financial related conversations. If you're looking for more of those

financially related conversations every other week in between these Freedom After 50 episodes,

every Friday I get together with my good friend and fellow certified financial planner,

Marshall Johnson, as we discuss some more financially related matters. But today I am here

with my good friend and our very own

certified retirement coach here at Howard Bailey Financial. I've got Les McDaniel with me today.

Good to be with you as always. Sir, I can't wait to have this wonderful discussion that you think

is going to be about money. I love it. I love how you think it's going to just be that simple.

Well, I'm going to do my best to keep it on track while you pull us off track. But no how you think it's going to just be that simple. Well, I'm going to do my best to

keep it on track while you pull us off track. But no, I think it's going to be fantastic. And that's why I wanted to have this conversation, because we don't often get to do this with less, is talk about really how the financial, how the money, how the ratios that show up in your life. How do all these things tie in to meaning and purpose in life?

That's what we're going to be focusing on today. And we're actually going to be kind of getting a lot of this material from an article that was written by Mr. Stingier on the Mr. Stingy blog, written by Aaron over there titled The Rations That Matter. This was an article that we sent out as part of our weekend reading series.

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