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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

And I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Our guests on the podcast today are Eric Weigel and Fritz Gilbert.

Fritz is a repeat guest on the Longview. He writes the popular retirement manifesto blog,

and he also wrote a book about retirement

called Keys to a Successful Retirement, Staying Happy, Active and Productive in Your Retired

Years. Eric Weigel is the founder of a retirement coaching firm called Retire with Possibilities,

and he's also the author of a book on retirement called Reimagining Retirement, Nine Keys to True

Wealth. Together they collaborated on a recent survey of retirees and pre-retirees to gauge their

attitudes about retirement and to help flag potential blind spots about retirement planning. Fritz

and Eric, welcome to the Longview. Hey, thanks, Christine and Jeff.

Love being on the show again and excited about today's topic. Thanks for the invitation to this

wonderful show. Looking forward to our discussion. Well, great. We're happy to have you here.

We want to start with a little bit of stage setting. You came together on a project, a survey, and we

want to talk about what you were hoping to achieve when you set about doing this survey about

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