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The Personal Finance Podcast

How Much Money You Need to Retire (and Why it May be Less Than You Think)

The Personal Finance Podcast

Andrew Giancola

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 7 October 2020

ā±ļø 25 minutes

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Summary

Episode 22: How Much Money You Need to Retire (and Why it May be Less Than You Think) In this episode we cover:Ā  How much you need to retire How to Retire Early (FIRE) The safe withdrawal rateĀ  The 4% RuleĀ  How to make sure you have a bulletproof retirementĀ  RESOURCES: M1 Finance Best Place to InvestĀ  Personal Capital Free Wealth Management and Budget AppĀ  CIT BANK (Best Savings Account) **Ā Some links may be an affiliate link and we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend products we truly believe in.Ā  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast, we're going to talk about how much money you need to retire

0:06.6

and why it may be less than you actually think. Oh, What's up everybody and welcome to the personal finance podcast I'm your host

0:30.4

Andrew founder of Dollar after Dollar.

0:33.1

And today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about how much money

0:37.9

you actually need to retire.

0:40.4

And why it may be a lot less than you actually think.

0:43.0

And I'm going to show you how to run the numbers

0:45.0

so you can figure out how much you need to retire.

0:48.0

And this will give you your exact goal of what you need

0:51.0

so that you can start pursuing financial independence.

0:54.0

Because this number is extremely important.

0:56.0

We just talked about why your savings rate can change your life,

0:59.0

and it truly can, because your savings rate is going to allow you to get to this number, whatever your retirement

1:05.4

number is, to be able to pursue financial freedom, and you can retire a lot earlier than you think.

1:11.0

You don't have to work your entire life and what I'm going to show you

1:14.6

is how much money that you can draw down each year once you hit your number and

1:19.4

how to figure that out as well and we're going to go through the process of, well, what if everything

1:24.3

crashes and the market crashes? What do I do with my money then? Can I still stay retired? And I'm

1:29.0

going to show you exactly how to go through this process. And this is another life-changing episode because understanding

1:34.6

this simple math is going to allow you to truly retire. And a lot of people are doing

1:40.1

this same process and retiring by the age of 30, by the age of 45, and then retiring much earlier than everyone else.

1:48.0

And this is truly a life hack.

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