Hello everyone and welcome back to the early retirement podcast. Today's announcement is special,

and it's special because I was recently on a podcast known as the Ready for Retirement Podcast.

It is one of the top retirement podcasts in the country with tens of thousands of downloads every

single month, and it is hosted by my partner James Cannell.

James Cannell and I work very closely together.

He is a mentor of mine and someone I look up to more than the world when it comes to

retirement planning and also just life.

And so I feel very lucky to have met James, and I was recently on his podcast.

We've been working together for years, and I was recently on his podcast. We've been working together for

years, and we help people build retirement plans. And so what I wanted to highlight is that

episode, and I just wanted to bring it to light. And I know oftentimes I'll go into a topic

about taxes or investments. And on my recent episode with James Connell, which in the

description below, you can actually find that. You will see that we didn't talk specifically about

investments or specifically about taxes. What we talked about is what are the four steps so that you

can achieve an early retirement? Because there are additional

considerations if you're not going the traditional retirement route. At age 65, if you wanted to

retire then, you might not even know when you want to retire. But assume you do want to retire at

age 65. Well, if that's when Medicare hits, what if you want to retire earlier? Okay, where is health

insurance going to come from? How should you best go about getting that? What if you want to

retire before age 59 and a half? That's when traditionally people want to retire. They want to

retire after that age because you can start to withdraw from retirement accounts

and live off of that income without paying any excess taxes or penalties.

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