Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast this is season 16 episode 1.

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 brand new season of the Meaningful Money Podcast really

excited to get going with this and this season is going to be all about

the running to retirement after a life of building wealth.

So today I want to ask an important question right at the start of this new season,

what is retirement? So that's what we're going to be asking and hopefully answering a little bit today after the main body of the show as usual I'll look at the recent review that's been left

And now that's what we're going to be talking about next week. Before any of that, remember this podcast continues to be brought to you with the very kind

help of my friend's seven investment management.

They've been helping me out here for ages.

I'm so grateful to them for their

continued to support for their continued support. So please do check out what

they're up to. They're at 7.m. dot code at UK that's the number 7 I.m. dot code at UK. That's the number 7 I.m. dot code at UK. Right. The title of this season is going to be The Home Straight. I think I said last

week actually I battled a little bit about what to call it. I was going to call it the final approach and I thought that sounded a bit more bit somehow. So the Home Straight, you know, if you've ever done an athletics race of more than 100 meters then you'll know the feeling of

sort of rounding the last corner and seeing the finish line ahead of you the home

straight. The end is in sight all the effort that you've put in has come to this and now you're going to make a final push to finish the race well.

Now, if you're nowhere near this point in your financial journey yet, I'd urge you not to switch off, okay, the stack

loads of content on meaningfulmoney.tv on the YouTube channel and stuff that will help you,

but actually there's quite a lot to be applied to your current efforts by learning about the end game. Indeed, knowing how things

need to end can help you get into the best position to get there and even get them

perhaps earlier than you might think so that's got to be worth

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