What 75 Year Old Retirees Regret Most
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Big Picture Retirement Show does not provide tax, legal, or financial advice. |
| 0:04.3 | Listeners are encouraged to seek out their own advisors in these areas. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, everyone, welcome to The Big Picture Retirement Show. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm your host, Devin. |
| 0:14.5 | We're joined today by my co-host, John Ross. |
| 0:17.6 | Howdy? |
| 0:18.5 | John, you and I get to talk to a lot of people. |
| 0:21.3 | You talk to a little older demographic than I typically do on a daily basis. |
| 0:28.6 | Maybe I bet on if you just averaged it out, it probably, that's probably, no, I think it's probably, it probably goes up a bit. |
| 0:37.8 | But I certainly, we certainly have a lot of mutuals. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Well, you know, after doing this now, this is my 23rd year of being a financial advisor. It seems crazy. I should not be that old, but I am. And as a result, I have a lot of clients who are older now, right? I may have started talking to them when they were in their late 50s, early 60s, but now they're in their 70s, and even 80s. And then I get to talk to a fair number of people who are in their 70s who are wanting to talk about planning maybe because they didn't do something earlier. And I get to have a lot of |
| 1:10.9 | conversations with these people. And, you know, I don't know, if you measured it, I'm sure it's in the |
| 1:16.8 | hundreds, maybe even thousands, I'm not sure. But, you know, when we're in these conversations |
| 1:23.0 | with people, we try to have some real conversations, too. I don't talk to these people and have a |
| 1:29.2 | checklist that I've tried to go through, some rigid format. I do try to make it a real conversation. |
| 1:35.1 | And in the course of having a real conversation, you get to talking about all kinds of stuff. |
| 1:40.4 | I mean, some really interesting stuff. No, that's absolutely right. And one of the things that I hear from a lot of these people who are in that age range, |
| 1:50.4 | I started thinking about this the other day, you know, I'd start to hear them expressing some regrets. |
| 1:56.1 | And, you know, not all of these are these lifelong regrets that are bringing them immense sadness now, |
| 2:04.4 | but it's like, yeah, man, I wish I'd have done this a little different. |
| 2:07.0 | Right. |
| 2:07.4 | Right. |
| 2:08.0 | And I'm sure if we got really deep with them, there's, you know, we'd hear all sorts of regrets. |
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