Are the Numbers Too Good to Be True?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
Audacy
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
After playing with a bunch of retirement calculators, and seeing really positive results, are the numbers too good to be true?
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| 0:23.6 | hello vet. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 0:31.4 | It's Friday, December 5th, and we are here answering your financial questions. |
| 0:36.2 | If you've got one, just go to the website, |
| 0:38.3 | jillonmoney.com, click the contact us button, write us a note. And if you want to join us live, |
| 0:43.5 | you know the deal, check that box. Mark will chase you down and arrange to bring you on the air |
| 0:48.9 | with us. And we do love having you on the air with us because it allows us to ask nosy follow-up questions. |
| 0:55.7 | Sometimes you think something is important, but you've left out something else that we think |
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| 1:04.9 | anonymous. It's fine. But join us. It's so much more fun. Right now, we're going to talk to Brian, who joins us from Tucson. |
| 1:13.2 | Hi, Joe. Hi, Mark. It's great talking with you guys. I have a question regarding basically some |
| 1:19.1 | retirement calculators I've been looking at. I'm in my early 50s and I'm thinking about not necessarily |
| 1:25.6 | retiring, but I'm thinking about changing careers and working less and basically going on to maybe like my next endeavor. |
| 1:35.6 | So I've been running, you know, the numbers through various financial calculators. |
| 1:40.4 | And they all are basically telling me that I can retire right now if I wanted to. |
| 1:45.2 | And with the money I've saved up in retirement accounts and outside of retirement accounts, |
| 1:51.1 | with how much I need to spend, you know, at least as of today, you know, on an annual basis, |
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