It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

investing, taxes.

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

All right, so this first one's from Simple Sounds.

This is what Simple Sounds said.

Should I always max retirement accounts first before contributing to my brokerage account?

My taxable bucket is completely empty, so not sure if I should divert some retirement

savings to taxable accounts.

So basically, hey, I'm following the food, and the food says max out retirement.

Is there a circumstance where maybe I should it max out my 401K, and I should start working

on the taxable bucket?

You know, this is a great question.

We get this all out.

Yeah, the free, deliverable resource for financial order of operations, money guy, dot

com slash resources.

Here's how well thought out this is, guys, and just thinking through this, and I want to

talk it through structure wise in this ridiculous costume, is that we've taught about the first

thing, you're going to have access to liquid capital through your emergency reserves, but

your deductibles covered, emergency reserves.

And then remember, don't forget in step three, we're going to have you, you go have, you're

going to be able to focus on actually step five, the Roth and Health savings accounts.

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