Ask HTM - Running the Financial Gamut From Squirreling Away an Emergency Fund to Real Estate Investing #1132
How to Money
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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We’re kicking off the week by answering your listener questions! And if you have a question that you’d like for us to answer on the show, we’d love for you to submit your own via HowToMoney.com/ask , send us your voice memo. Regardless of how random or bizarre you might think it is, we want to hear it!
1 - Torn: We’re behind when it comes to investing but it seems silly when we don’t have enough liquid savings… what do we do?!
2 - Pension: How aggressively should I invest my Roth IRA dollars when I have a safe pension to fall back on?
3 - Mortgage recast: What’s a good rule of thumb when I’m considering recasting my mortgage to shrink my monthly payment?
4 - Social Security: Why do y’all always say to delay and wait to draw on Social Security?
5 - Work-provided insurance: Should I pay extra for accidental death and dismemberment insurance or stick with the free option?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:07.3 | Today, we're answering your listener questions. |
| 0:10.5 | Okay. |
| 0:10.8 | Okay. You know it, buddy, we are hearing directly from listeners today. |
| 0:31.2 | We, like, we're ranging from listeners who are pretty early on in their financial journey, |
| 0:36.3 | all the way to folks who are talking about |
| 0:37.6 | pensions and Social Security. We're into the gamut today when it comes to the types of |
| 0:42.7 | personal finance, money, topics that we're going to cover. So I'm looking forward to it. |
| 0:47.5 | You know what I love about these episodes is because... The variety? Well, the variety, |
| 0:51.4 | and just like there's a never-ending individuality to the questions that people have. |
| 0:56.0 | Like you can hear principles extracted and that's something that we talk about, let's say on an interview episode or headlines. |
| 1:02.0 | We try to draw principles from the headlines on Friday episodes. |
| 1:04.4 | But there's no end right to the number of people listening who have a question that pertains specifically |
| 1:11.6 | their lifestyle and they're like, I think I need something a little more targeted. |
| 1:15.1 | So we love hearing your questions. |
| 1:17.3 | Please do. |
| 1:18.1 | If you've got one, record it, send it our way. |
| 1:19.8 | We love to take your questions. |
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