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I'm going to go ahead and play the interview now. Guys, enjoy.

A friend from college called me four or five years ago, and we remained friendly, but it was

sort of a cold call in a sense that she's a financial advisor. And she had remained friendly, but it was sort of a cold call in the sense that

she's a financial advisor. And she had said, hey, are you, do you have a need any interest in

working together? And I was pretty instantly like, yeah, let's do that. And so she then helped

me understand my risk tolerance. And we had to adjust some things based investments based on my

tolerance, whether it was too high or too low. She kind of helped me have a little bit better

vision of where exactly I stood relative to cost some living and all of that. And also to say,

oh wait, I think I probably can do this.

Once I hit the appropriate amount of time as defined by the employer, I could be ready to do so,

which again was maybe four and a half, four and a half years prior to that time when I hit

enough years to retire.

What I'm doing in this new show,

retirement reality, is having heartfelt, candid conversations with people who have already

retired so you can hear from them. What worked well, what didn't, and everything in between.

I hope you enjoy. And if you're retired and you want to personally come share your story

on a future episode, There's a link right below

this in the description of this episode where you can apply to be a guest. Now go enjoy the episode.

My guest today retired at 51 years old and what's so incredible about her is she was honest going,

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