Most people expect life to feel more settled after retirement, not more uncertain. Yet for many,

the second half of life raises deeper questions that spreadsheets and forecasts can't come.

Hey, this is Casey Weed. Welcome to the podcast. If you're new to the show, I want you to know what to expect. If you've been here for years, then go ahead and jump forward 30, 45 seconds and get right into the meat of the conversation. My goal here on the podcast, my mission is deliver clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life. And you might be wondering, well, what about the number stuff? Well, if you're interested

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planner practitioner, Marshall Johnson.

And then we have these episodes in between every other Friday with our very own certified retirement coach and financial advisor, Les McDaniel, who is here with me today, where we focus on the non-financial aspects of retirement.

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Today, in our Freedom After 50 episode, we are focusing our conversation around an article that Les wrote titled Approaching Uncertainty with Yada, a wise wealth reflection on navigating the unknown with deeper knowing. And Les, let's get into it.

All right. Let's do it. We're not going to do a lot of yada, yada, yada. Oh, wait. We are. We're going to do a lot of yada, yada. We're going to do a little bit of that, but it's going to be meaningful. And guess what? Yada actually is meaningful. You start this article with a sentence saying, uncertainty is not the exception to life after 50. It becomes the texture of it.

And I wanted to kick it off by just asking what you mean by that. I'm trying to reflect on my

own life and figure out how much uncertainty that I feel like I face on a day-to-day basis.

And yeah, I never know what's going to happen in any given day or next week or this year. There's always

uncertainty. However, I'm very confident in the future. I've got a plan. I've got a framework for it.

I am confident that I'm heading in the right direction. What's going to change for me when I get to

retirement? How will uncertainty be the texture of this next phase my life, which makes me go,

why would I want to retire if all of a sudden the texture of my reality is uncertainty?

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