Financial planning 101. 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.

Brian, I am super excited about today's show because this allows us to do a little bit of flexing.

One of the things that we have to do when we go to financial planner school, right, when you

become a financial advisor, when you study for the exams, is you have to learn about some

basics of financial planning, right?

We learned it in the context of the financial

planning pyramid, right? Like how the different parts of financial planning stack on one another.

Well, as you and I were talking, we said, you know, it's sort of different how you approach

the pyramid and the basics and the thought process around each of those subject matters

at each age and stage. So why don't we

kind of run through what we dubbed financial planning 101 at each age and stage and range of life?

By the way, I don't know why when you said financial planning school, I had visions of the North Pole

with Tim Allen as the Santa Claus and we're running around. Maybe it was a Buddy the Elf moment with Tim Allen.

I've brought every Christmas movie out there together for its own mashup.

I think what I like about this show is that there's so much of financial Twitter,

because that's the spaces I'm hanging out where they will give really good simple information,

like spend less than you make,

control debt, automate your investments.

You know, every bit of that is foundational knowledge.

But I think it ought to, we're financial mutants.

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