Hey there, welcome to the Retirement Answerman Show.

My name is Roger Whitney.

I am your host.

And this is the show dedicated to helping you not just survive retirement.

Sometimes it feels like that might be all we get. No, we want you to rock retirement.

In this month, we are focused on how to deal with longevity

and make it work for us not against us.

Now before we dive into the show, I want to take a moment

because Nicole shared something with me recently that I didn't realize.

And that is, over the last 12 months, the people hanging out here with you and I every week, the list. The listener has more than doubled.

This shown has grown considerably, which is pretty cool.

More people we have along, the more wisdom we get to share.

So if you are new here, I want to welcome you.

I'm glad you're hanging out with us. If you are not so new, great to have you here. So if you are new,

I thought I would sort of give you the lay of the land because we have a snappy show typically and we don't always pause to

Welcome you in and how you understand what's going on here. So I want to first tell you about what a normal listener is to

to the retirement answer man show.

And this is based off of surveys

we've done over the last five years, conversations I've had with hundreds of people

just like you. And so I want to give you a little profile. Generally, they're over 50, pretty smart, intentional about

decision-making. They're focused more on family and outcomes than they are all the fancy-dancy

gadgets of investing in the world. They want to be good stewards, not just of

...