Retirement Answer Man · Roger Whitney, CFP®, CIMA®, RMA, CPWA®

How to Quality Check Your Retirement Plan

·55 min·5 clips
Roger reveals his worst professional failure: a rookie mistake that cost him a client's trust after 25 years.
Roger Whitney discusses how to quality-check retirement plans to avoid errors, sharing personal stories and introducing concepts like productive paranoia and metacognition. The episode also features a conversation with Scott about embracing travel in retirement, including solo and group experiences.

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A practical audit of retirement math before making a hard-to-reverse decision.

Roger treats retirement planning as something to verify, not simply admire. The piece opens with a familiar situation: a planner or DIY spreadsheet has already tallied goals, assets, and feasibility, and the real task is deciding whether the result deserves trust.

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Before you retire, make the plan prove itself twice.

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