Emily Guy Birken: What to Do in the Five Years Before You Retire
The Long View
Morningstar
4.6 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Please stay tuned for important disclosure information at the conclusion of this episode. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi and welcome to the Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morning Star. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Amy Arnaut, portfolio strategist for Morning Star. |
| 0:16.0 | Our guest on the podcast today is Emily Guy Burkin. Emily's the author of The Five Years Before |
| 0:22.1 | You Retire. She also co-authored Stacked, Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management, |
| 0:28.4 | with Joe Saul Seahy. Other books include End Financial Stress Now, Making Social Security |
| 0:35.0 | Work for You, and Choose Your Ret retirement. Find the right path to your new |
| 0:39.6 | adventure. Emily received her master's degree in education from the Ohio State University and her |
| 0:45.5 | undergraduate degree in English from Kenyon College. Emily, welcome to the Longview. Thank you for |
| 0:51.6 | having me. Well, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:54.4 | We've wanted to talk to you for a while. |
| 0:56.1 | I know your book, The Five Years Before You Retire, has been such a success. |
| 1:00.9 | It seems to really tap into people's desire to figure out this time in their lives. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm wondering if you can talk about what got you interested in retirement planning in the first |
| 1:11.4 | place. |
| 1:12.4 | It's funny. |
| 1:13.4 | It's not something I ever thought of as my career path. |
| 1:20.5 | I like to tell people that I tripped and fell backwards into writing about money. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm an English teacher by training. |
| 1:26.5 | I ended up writing about money because I'm an English teacher by training. I ended up writing about money because I'm |
| 1:29.4 | very bad at timing. My husband and I moved after my fourth year of teaching high school English |
| 1:35.8 | when we were expecting our first child who was due at the beginning of the next school year. |
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