Hello from Boise. I normally on the first Friday of every month do a monthly economic update

but right now I'm at a conference and I want to be able to give the monthly economic update the

time and the care that it deserves.

So today's episode is going to be a Q&A episode with former financial advisor Joe Saul C. High and next week on the second

Friday of the month we'll do our normal Friday monthly economic update.

Enjoy!

Joe when you are a financial planner, did you ever have a client who blew up their budget,

maybe even blew up their retirement through a couple of big unexpected bills? I can think of one who really... of because of your work in real estate when you tear down that wall you have no idea what's behind it right right exactly it quickly doubles triples

Yeah, and then of costing to your point three times what she thought that it was going to

cost and it was really tough because she barely had enough and

she didn't want to go back to work. Well we are going to answer a call from

someone who is wondering about how to prevent a situation like that, someone who's going

into retirement but wants to be proactive about making sure that big unexpected bills don't

completely throw off her retirement budget.

But before we get to that, we've got a few others as well.

Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast, the show that understands you can afford anything,

but not everything, every choice is a trade-off and that applies to

your time your money your focus your energy to any limited resource that you need to

manage this is a show all about how to allocate those limited

resources in a way that leads to an optimal life. My name is Paula Pant. I

trained in Economic Reporting at Columbia and I am the host of the show.

Every other episode I answer questions that come from you and the former financial planner

...