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🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Almost every person who wants to retire early is facing the same three things if they want to truly optimize for their early retirement. |
| 0:08.1 | Number one, they're wondering, should I try to massage my income to get like a health care subsidy? |
| 0:13.3 | Number two, should I try to do those Roth conversions where I move money from a 401k to Roth because most of my money is in that pre-tax account. |
| 0:22.7 | And number three, should I do that tax gain harvesting, that paying zero percent in taxes |
| 0:28.8 | potentially if you massage your income well? |
| 0:31.6 | And you have what's called a tax window to be able to do this. |
| 0:35.3 | And this is what I imagine most of your retirements are looking |
| 0:40.4 | like. So here's a visual to see that more clearly. Here's someone who's 55 making a very |
| 0:46.0 | healthy income. They want to retire at 60. That's when their income is going to drop. And then |
| 0:50.5 | what's going to happen here at 75, those RMDs. |
| 0:54.4 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm James Cannell, CEO of Rout financial. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm with R.A. Talibb, Chief Growth Officer of Rout Financial. |
| 0:59.5 | And we are here today to do a collaboration to help you understand what's the right |
| 1:03.4 | tax strategy to implement as you're moving into retirement. |
| 1:06.5 | And R.A., as you mentioned, there's three big ones that we think about, that most people |
| 1:10.0 | think about. |
| 1:11.0 | That's the easy part. |
| 1:12.2 | The harder part is understanding what do you prioritize, and it's very much based on your situation, |
| 1:17.2 | and we're going to walk through a case study to help show people why. |
| 1:20.0 | Let's learn about the couple. |
| 1:21.4 | James, so here is a couple John and Jane. |
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