If anyone were to come to me and say, look, I'm just not worried about retirement.

I'm sure it's going to be fine.

I have a plan for purpose, fulfillment, financially. I've never worried about anything at all. I'd be like, kudos to you. You are the anomaly. Because most people, they're not worried like, am I going to be okay? I mean, there is an extent of that to everyone. But most people are like, look, I want to make sure I don't miss something or look back with regret of why didn't I spend more time with family or friends or how do I make sure I don't die with like 20 million because I don't need 20 million, but I also don't want to run out of money and I feel like that's a hard line to kind of understand. And so the point here of today's episode is really going to be about like why it's

natural to be worried and how to plan around that in a way that decreases your anxiety. And that is

my goal of this episode. So if you're like, hey, I am that anomaly. I just don't worry because I

just, I don't know what to tell you. I feel like I have a good plan. I'm not worried

about anything. Nothing. Great. This like might not be the episode for you. I never want to waste

someone's time. If you're like, no, I just want to kind of hear your thoughts on it anyways,

even if I'm not worried, I'll try to make it entertaining for you. So thank you as always to

listening to the early retirement podcast. Bad transition right there, but you're

getting the raw transparency here, as always. My name is Ari Talblieb. I'm a certified financial

planner, and I'm the host of the early retirement podcast. Finally, I am the chief growth officer

at root. What the heck does that mean? Well, my job is to help as many people as

possible retire with confidence. And sometimes that means I have to institute a minimum,

meaning how many people my advisors can take on in a single month. Sometimes it's regarding an

asset minimum. Sometimes it's me going, how do I expand what services look like as an industry?

So it's one of the reasons I created

this root collective, this community that's free, that anyone can go join to go see new ideas

about retirement planning, which I'd encourage all of you to join if you're not already in it.

And you can see that in the description. That's my job. So today's episode, why it's natural

to be worried and how do you plan around that

was prompted by something someone said in the community. So I'm going to read it aloud.

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