Are We Really Ready to Retire Early?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
My husband wants to retire in a year when he turns 55, but I don't feel comfortable with our numbers. Am I wrong?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Tuesday, March 10th, and we are here trying to help you navigate |
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| 1:51.8 | with Sonia and Michael who are joining us from Denver Colorado hello Sonya and |
| 1:57.5 | Michael what's going on hi thank you for having us. Of course. What's up? |
| 2:02.7 | We would just like to know if we're in our current financial situation, it's an option for us to be |
| 2:08.4 | financially independent, basically be work optional. And I think it would be great to get your |
| 2:15.7 | guys' input on that. And yeah, that's basically... Okay, wait a second. So you want to just... You're done. Are you fried? Are you happy? Are you like, where are you in the life cycle? How old are you? What's going on? So I must say that I'm not sure we're on the same page with my husband, and I think that's |
| 2:35.7 | a main reason why we are calling you also. |
| 2:39.2 | Michael thinks we are ready to retire. |
| 2:41.7 | I'm not 100% confident that we can, and that's the main reason why we're calling you. |
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