Discover the tips and strategies that will help you achieve your retirement goals.

I'm your host, James Canole, and this is the podcast dedicated to helping you retire well.

It all starts right here on Ready for Retirement. for retirement.

Hey, everyone, and welcome to the initial episode of the Ready for Retirement podcast.

I'm your host, James Cannell, and I'm really excited to begin this new podcast.

Before I go into an overview of who this show is for and what you can expect from it, I want to start by just saying thank you. Thank you for taking a few

minutes out of your day for being here. I think that this is going to be a very valuable

podcast and I thank you for being here and for listening in to this first episode. So I appreciate

you taking that time and I want to briefly go over what is this show about,

who's it for, a little bit about who am I, so you have an understanding of what we're going

to be talking about on this podcast. So to start, let's talk about who this show is for.

This show is specifically designed for people who are a few years out from retirement or already

retired. Other podcasts, including another one that I host, they're very broad

in their scope. That's great. There's a lot that you can talk about, but it limits your ability

to go very deep on any one specific issue. This podcast is designed to go deep. It's designed to

look at many different topics, but it's designed to explore them in depth to give you real practical, tangible things that

you can do as you prepare for retirement or if you're already in retirement to maybe improve

what you're already doing. So it's specifically designed for those of you who are, as I mentioned,

a few years out or already in retirement and wanting to make sure that you're doing everything

you can to either prepare for that next season in your life or to improve your retirement as it stands today. So we'll talk about investments,

we'll talk about taxes, we'll talk about Social Security, Medicare, insurance, estate planning,

income planning, you name it. All of that, those are all topics we're going to cover. But we're

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