This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert.

Broke is a joke, Broke ham. Hey, bro. How you doing?

Just great, Alison. How are you?

Oh, good. You're not really broke. That would kind of undermine your authority as a money expert on this show.

As far as anyone knows, yes, what you said is true. Well, it's the June

mailbag, and this month we're joined by Jen Thomas, one of the newest additions to the Motley

Fool Wealth Management's team of financial planners. She's going to help answer your questions

on how to put the Motley Fool stock recommendations to work in your portfolio, paying down your

mortgage versus saving for retirement, and whether

you have enough FI, financial independence, so you can, RE, retire early. It spells fire. You already

knew that. All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Full Answers. So, Jen, welcome to the show.

This is your first time joining us. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you. It is. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

So you, I say that you're like one of the most recent additions to the Motley Fool's wealth management, to the planners team.

But I guess you've actually been with the team for about six months now. So it's not so new.

Exactly. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to be here at the Motley Fool?

Yeah. I like to joke and say it was a little bit of stalking. So two years before I joined the team,

I actually went on a full tour. I got the opportunity to see the landscape and be in the office and learn more about the company culture and I felt absolutely in love. But even before that,

I was a client of the fool as a stock advisor subscriber. So I early on had a jester cap, I like to say, before I actually officially got my jester

cap.

So, yeah, just always been a big fan of The Fool and follower.

And now I'm so fortunate to be a part of the family.

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