533: By the Numbers: The Case for "Good Enough" — Why Simplicity Often Beats Perfection in Retirement Planning
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Could striving for the "perfect" portfolio be holding you back from the fulfilling, financially confident life you've worked so hard for? Join us as we explore why embracing a "good enough" mindset can lead to greater happiness, balance, and confidence in retirement.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The myth of the "perfect" portfolio
- Satisficers vs. Maximizers
- The Boglehead Paradox
- Your life's "cups" of energy
Today's article is from the Morningstar titled, The Case for a 'Good Enough' Portfolio. Listen in as Founder and CEO of Howard Bailey Financial, Casey Weade, breaks down the article and provides thoughtful insights and advice on how it applies to your unique financial situation.
Show Notes: HowardBailey.com/533
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| 0:00.0 | Many investors spend their entire lives chasing the perfect portfolio, tweaking, rebalancing, |
| 0:05.7 | second guessing, but what if the secret to long-term success isn't perfection at all, but settling for |
| 0:11.4 | good enough? Today, we explore why simplicity often outperforms complexity and how a good enough |
| 0:17.4 | portfolio might be the smartest move you ever make. |
| 0:32.2 | Hey, this is Casey Weed and welcome to the podcast, |
| 0:36.3 | where does my mission, deliver clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life? |
| 0:38.2 | We do that, bringing you both financial and non-financial conversations. You can find those Friday releases around the non-financial |
| 0:43.2 | side titled Freedom After 50. And then these episodes you're joining us for here today |
| 0:49.5 | are by the numbers episodes. We're going to talk more about the financial side of your retirement |
| 0:55.3 | life or your post work life. And I am joined today by a good friend Marshall Johnson. |
| 1:00.3 | Hey, hey, hey. We're going to be sharing a couple of different articles that showed up our |
| 1:03.8 | weekend reading for retirees email this past Friday, taking a deeper dive, giving you our |
| 1:08.6 | take on these. We have an article from Morningstar, |
| 1:11.7 | titled The Case for a Good Enough portfolio, and another one from Derek Thompson at Substack. |
| 1:16.5 | Whose Cup are you filling? You can get signed up to receive your weekly email with four articles. |
| 1:22.7 | So we're going to share a couple of them here with you today and get links in the show notes |
| 1:25.6 | or the description as well. |
| 1:30.7 | But if you want to receive this weekly email with summaries for these articles, |
| 1:36.3 | takeaways from myself, then I encourage you to just shoot us a text and we'll send you a link to get signed up. We'll also throw in a free digital copy of my Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:40.0 | bestselling book, Job Optional. Just text us WR to 888 599 4491 marshal we're talking good enough today |
| 1:49.7 | baby we're talking good enough from christine ben's former podcast guests she joined us on episode |
| 1:56.6 | 488 from accumulating to spending 20 lessons for happiness she's actually been on a couple |
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