Life Stages: Retirement

Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The prospect of retirement -- of leaving the work force, aging, confronting a new body and a new way of life -- is peppered with concepts and requirements so unwieldy they can make your brain turn off. So how do we make retirement prep easier? Shed the dread and face the future armed with a plan? Our guides to the next stage of life are Bart Astor, Tom Margenau and Cristina Martin Firvida. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:05.0	I have to confess something.
0:07.0	A podcast with thousands of listeners is as good a place as any Hannah.
0:11.0	Whenever I see an ad for retirement investing, money is like life.
0:18.0	You have to decide how to get the most from it.
0:21.0	Which means you can retire without retiring from life.
0:24.0	With retirement planning and advice for what you need today,
0:28.0	and tomorrow.
0:30.0	I get this creeping anxiety.
0:33.0	I have retirement accounts.
0:35.0	Whenever I look at them, I just try to find something else to do.
0:38.0	Yeah, and I think to myself, well, you know what, Hannah, you're not afraid of the future.
0:43.0	You've been paying into social security since you were probably 16.
0:47.0	You're actually pretty lucky.
0:49.0	You've got a full-time job and a retirement savings account.
0:52.0	And I have even used one of those retirement calculator things online.
0:57.0	And yet.
1:00.0	We ask people a question.
1:02.0	How much money do you think you'll need when you retire?
1:05.0	500,000.
1:06.0	Maybe half a million?
1:08.0	Full on stomachache.
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