How Do I Help My Dad Plan for Retirement?

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by SmartVester.
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0:13.9	Next we have, I think it's G in Los Angeles.
0:17.2	Is it G?
0:18.2	Yeah, it's G.
0:19.1	Thank you so much for taking my call.
0:20.7	Yeah, absolutely. How can we
0:22.0	help today? Well, I did want some advice speaking on behalf of my father. I wanted to know
0:28.5	what it takes to start that conversation of retirement for him. I'm 31 years old, and he's, I'm 65, 67 years old now.
0:39.3	And he's been a long haul truck driver for almost 40 years now.
0:43.3	Ooh, it's hard work.
0:45.2	Yeah, he's been working very, very hard.
0:47.3	I think maybe three or four days out of the month, I've seen him my whole entire life.
0:52.9	Oh, my gosh.
0:53.8	Wow.
0:56.5	Yeah, he's worked very hard for what he's done. But as a long-haul truck driver, a lot of it is paycheck to paycheck
1:02.2	work. But what he's done very well for himself is live life a little bit frugally and
1:07.9	understand what it took for him. And what we did was buy some farms in Central California that have all been paid off now and stuff.
1:17.8	And I'm just kind of looking for a way to start that conversation with him.
1:21.7	Wow. Does he want to retire?
1:23.6	That's one of the bigger caveats about this.
1:25.9	He is a workhorse.
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