Hard to Save
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
4.5 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Your guides to a really great financial future. Tom and Don are talking real money. |
| 0:11.9 | Talking real money is your source for financial information. That's right, five days a week. |
| 0:17.7 | We're here to help you make better decisions about your money, answer your questions, |
| 0:22.9 | and give you that long-term advice that really makes sense, common sense. Nothing crazy here. |
| 0:29.4 | So doing it every day. And every once in a while, we're lucky because one of our advisors, |
| 0:35.4 | Roxy Butner, will drop by and be on the program. And thank you for doing that |
| 0:39.8 | today, because we know you're very busy in your little office there, especially with your |
| 0:43.6 | treadmill going. She answers your call sometimes on the treadmill. I try to recommend against that. |
| 0:48.2 | But all kidding aside, thank you for joining us. Absolutely. Very excited to be back. |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah, it's great. And so here's the thing. |
| 0:54.5 | Roxy gets invited to speak to other groups of people, and recently she did so talking to |
| 0:59.6 | a group that included some entrepreneurs. Now, I've been an entrepreneur my entire life, |
| 1:05.0 | going back to selling Holly at age 10. So I know how this all works. Sometimes you're flush. |
| 1:27.7 | Most of the time, it's kind of close close and sometimes you're just downright broke. And entrepreneurs oftentimes have a hard time saving for the future because they're reinvesting in their business rather than saving for the future. But let's just before even get into that. And so you did a great presentation on that, which I got to see the slideshow, which I loved. But let's just, before we even get into that, and so you did a great presentation on that, |
| 1:32.4 | which I got to see the slideshow, which I loved. But let's just go back to the beginning about how people say, because we know it's still less than half of us save anything. Many people are sort of like, |
| 1:39.7 | well, where do I start? How do I do anything? And if you have any income, there's a couple of ways to kind of get started. |
| 1:47.4 | One would be, these are for if you do not have a plan at work, right? I'm talking about doing it on your own, right? |
| 1:53.9 | You got to get started. So one would be just an individual retirement account, correct? |
| 1:58.4 | Where money just goes from you right into that IRA, that's your |
| 2:02.5 | retirement and that's your future. There's not, the tax benefit there is you can get a deduction |
| 2:07.7 | for it and it grows tax deferred, correct? Yes, exactly. Okay, that's one. Then you could do |
| 2:15.1 | the Roth IRA, where again, money goes in after tax and grows tax-free. |
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