Okay to Retire or Semi-Retire at 55?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
With an early retirement offer likely, am I in good enough shape to call it quits in my mid 50s if necessary?
"Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill On Money Show. |
| 0:05.5 | It's Monday, May 18th, and we are here answering your financial questions. |
| 0:10.4 | If you have one, just go to our website, jillonmoney.com. |
| 0:14.4 | Click the contact us button. |
| 0:16.0 | Write us a note. |
| 0:17.1 | And if you would like to join us live on the air, all you need to do is click that contact us button in that upper right hand corner and write us a note. And if you want to join us live, check the box. It's all so easy right there for you. I would love to point out a couple of things on the website. First of all, things are going to be changing, changing, changing, changing, because we are launching a new show and there's going |
| 0:38.3 | to be a video component to it, which is exciting. Mark, are we allowed to promote this yet? |
| 0:43.1 | Or what do you think? Should I say it or not? Yeah, sure. Why not? I think you already have. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know. Okay. The name of the show is called Money Moves. It's going to be video and audio, |
| 0:53.6 | and you'll be able to enjoy it anywhere, any way you would like. |
| 0:57.4 | And we are supposedly launching it, I think, in the beginning of June. |
| 1:02.0 | But the way you'll get access to, we're going to run it on the same feed. |
| 1:05.0 | So just make sure you subscribe to the Money Watch podcast, which is at the bottom of our website. You'll see. Mark, we have to |
| 1:13.0 | redo the whole website. So exciting. So much work for you. So sorry. And you'll just subscribe to it. |
| 1:19.3 | And then when it gets going, you'll get it. You know what's good is that you will actually know |
| 1:24.6 | exactly what's going on if you subscribe to the free weekly newsletter, |
| 1:27.8 | which comes out Fridays, and I encourage you to do that. So lots of things happening here, |
| 1:33.0 | not even at the midpoint of the year yet, but we are rocking and rolling here at Jill |
| 1:37.2 | on Money. So, and we want you to join us. We want you to be along for the ride. So much fun. Okay, |
| 1:42.9 | so let's get back to you guys. Let's talk to Matt. He joins us from |
| 1:46.9 | the South and you're going to see exactly how far deep in the South he is. So Matt, welcome to the |
| 1:51.7 | program. Tell the folks what they need to know about the South. It's lovely. I enjoy the weather |
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