Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It is Tuesday, July 18th, and we are here talking about you, your lives, your money, the aspirations, the dreams, and also kind of the annoying details as well. I know you got a few of those.

If you've got a financial question, if you're making a big change in your life, if you just

need another pair of ears and eyes on a situation, Mark and I are both certified financial

planners, and we would love to hear from you.

Go to our website, Jill onmoney.com, click the contact us button, and let us know if you would be willing to come on the

air and chat with us. You can also buy my book. It's called The Great Money Reset, inspired by my

conversations with you guys. And this is really a wonderful book, because I wrote it. I mean,

it sounds terrible that I say that. But it is a wonderful book if you're contemplating something different in your life. Maybe you're starting a business, you're closing a business,

maybe you would like to do something different in your work life. What I've tried to do is use

the conversations that I've had with all of you to help guide everyone else about making

those choices and decisions without blowing up your financial

life. So check it out. It's called the Great Money Reset. Okay, today we are talking to Emily. She's on

the line from Colorado. Hello, Emily. How are you? Oh, hi, Jill. Thanks for having me on.

Happy to do so. Tell us what brings you to us.

Well, I'm 63 years old. I'm a self-employed paralegal. And, you know, most days I love my job and I'm fine working. But there are some days I just wish I had, you know, the freedom to go camping, do whatever I want to do. And I think about being retired. And also being

63, some of my friends, you know, are starting to leave their jobs behind. And it's just, I start

to think about it more and more. So I love your show. And I thought I'd check in with you and

see if you think I could retire sometime between now and when I'm 65.

Sometime between now and infinity.

Okay, let's true with that.

You know, I know that feeling, Emily, because I'm in my late 50s and I have that same

situation where people are just, you notice like in your social group, people are talking

...