Most retirees want to spend more in the early years of retirement when you have the health,

freedom, and the energy to truly enjoy it. But most financial plans are designed for the opposite,

spending more later as costs rise. So how do you balance the desire to live fully now

with the risk of running out of money later?

Yeah. with the risk of running out of money later. Hey, this is Casey Weed.

Welcome to the podcast, where does my mission to deliver clarity and purpose and elevate

meaning in your life.

If you're new to the show, I want you to know what we mean by that.

We're having both financial and non-financial conversations here on the podcast with world-class guests.

We bring you week in and week out, as well as these Friday conversations. We release every single Friday.

And we alternate between the financial and the non-financial. If you're looking for those

conversations that are more on arguably the softer side of retirement, if you will, those non-financial

topics, look out for those episodes titled Freedom After 50. This is going to be a by the

numbers podcast where I am joined by my good friend Marshall Johnson, a fellow certified

financial planner practitioner. And we talk about

the arguably harder side sometimes people will say, which is the numbers and the finances and the

income and the investments, the long-term care. We talk about those technical aspects. We're going to be

getting into income planning as a subject today, spending in retirement, different spending strategies and

trends that we're seeing today. And these conversations come from articles that we drop in your

inbox every single Friday in an email called Weekend Reading for Retirees. We deliver to you

four articles or blog posts that we've hand-selected and curated for yourself and summaries,

takeaways for myself on those articles along with a litany of other resources. If you sign up,

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