5 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe $3 million right now, would you be upset? |
| 0:02.5 | Or not. |
| 0:03.0 | Do you think many people would be upset? |
| 0:06.1 | I hope not. |
| 0:07.1 | I would hope not as well. |
| 0:09.5 | But one thing that happened is I asked a woman, hey, tell me about your retirement. |
| 0:14.1 | She said she's really upset. |
| 0:15.6 | She had $3 million. |
| 0:17.1 | I said, well, that's interesting because there's a lot of people I know who would love to |
| 0:20.2 | have $3 million. |
| 0:22.0 | And I just want to learn more about that. She said, you just don't get it. I said, that's correct. Do you mind sharing? And she said, well, I no longer have the ability to travel to the degree I want because my health isn't in a great position. I said, okay. so why don't i'm thinking thinking in my head, why don't you fly first class then? |
| 0:38.3 | You have saved well. She goes, yeah, you're missing the point. If I had two million dollars, |
| 0:44.1 | I could have done everything I wanted in retirement. And so I'm trying to connect the dots. I'm a |
| 0:48.9 | younger advisor at this point, still going, okay, well, she has three million. I know she says two |
| 0:53.7 | million's okay. What am I |
| 0:54.9 | missing? And she said, I just worked the last five years and markets did well. So my two million |
| 1:01.0 | became three million. And I was sitting the entire time and I want to be able to hike and travel. |
| 1:07.2 | And I remember her telling me about her big goals and how now she's just not able to do |
| 1:11.4 | them and it really struck me as here's someone who saved and invested well arguably too well |
| 1:16.6 | who now cannot do all the things she wanted to do even though financially she's in a good |
| 1:21.7 | position so what we're talking about today is how do we switch that mindset from being a saver to a spender and how do we |
| 1:29.6 | think about maybe the efficient time to do so yeah there's nothing that's i shouldn't say there's |
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