It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

investing, taxing.

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

Welcome to the money guy show.

I'm your host, Brian Preston.

By day, I am a fee-only wealth manager on the south side of Atlanta.

I am a certified financial planner, a certified public accountant, and I'm a personal financial

specialist, which means I'm a CPA that does financial planning.

We're here to talk about, and it seems like this is a common trend, and I hate to keep

coming back to it, but I think every two or three months, especially in this type of marketplace,

you guys need a reminder, something that will keep your eye on the ball, keep your eye

on the prize that is out there if you can be open-minded to what is the long-term purpose

of your financial dreams.

What you're trying to do?

You're trying to accomplish why you're saving monthly, and that all this noise that

goes on with the 24-hour access to financial information, whether it's the news channels,

whether it's the magazines, the newspapers, it is noise in the grand scheme of where you're

trying to end up.

So that's what we're here to talk about today.

We're talking about fear, the financial markets, and your money, and I'm trying to help

you not to panic, because just because this might be the dreaded R word, the recession,

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