Nobody wants to be surprised in retirement.

Today, we discuss one of our past podcast guests, Fritz Gilbert's biggest retirement surprise.

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W.R. to 888-59-4491. Now, let's get in to the brass tax of things. We're talking about a blog

post that was written here June 12th of 2025 by Fritz Gilbert, one of our favorite past podcast guest. It is titled My Biggest Surprise in

Retirement. The reason that I loved having Fritz on is because he's uniquely chronicled his

retirement experience from pre-retirement and through. He's enjoyed seven years of retirement, and he says it's been

the best time of his entire life, which I love hearing, and I think it is because he's done so

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