Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast this is season 16 episode 2.

This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order.

My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share with you everything you need to know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future. I'm here to help you make sense of money.

Here we are once again great to have you with me. Thank you so much for joining me.

Before we get to retirement, it helps to have some kind of a vision of what it's going to look like.

Now in this season we're going to be dealing with the things that you need to think about

as retirement looms over the horizon. No longer is it a hazy one day possibility. It's coming up pretty fast and so we need to get serious about what we want it to look like so that we can be ready

So we're going to look about refining the vision today.

Not going to help you, you know, dream or anything like that.

That's your business.

What we're going to do is get practical on.

Talk a little bit more about that in a minute. But the main body of the show I'll read a review that's been left out

and that's what we're going to be talking about next week but of course you know the drill by now

this podcast continues to be brought to you with the help of my friends at 7 investment management.

They've been helping me out here on meaningful money for absolutely ages and I'm really grateful to them for their long term and very generous support.

So please do check out what they're up to there at 7.I.m.

dot-cote UK. Go check them out and say thanks. Right. Retirement, yes, it's hoving interview getting much clearer and you will be getting a much clearer picture of what it's going to look like.

So today I want to go over some things to think about and then really the practicalities of making sure that the money meets the vision.

Now remember notes, links all from today's show they're at the show notes which is the only link you need to remember. Meaningful Money. TV slash HS2. That's for The

Home Straight episode 2. The home straight is what we're calling this season

the sort of run into retirement. show notes meaningful money dot TV slash HS2

Let's have a look at everything you need to know first

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