The Retirement Blueprint

Grant Dorhout

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Retirement headlines turned into practical income planning.

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The Retirement Blueprint is a practical retirement-planning show built around Grant Dorhout’s financial guidance. Recent episodes move from gold prices, interest rates, Social Security, Medicare, taxes, and inheritance questions back to the same central concern: making savings work as dependable retirement income.

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About The Retirement Blueprint

The Retirement Blueprint is a retirement-planning show with a radio feel and a practical financial-planning core. The recurring emphasis is not stock picking or market drama. It is income, purpose, and the consequences of each decision. A news item about gold prices, a Federal Reserve vote, or an Elon Musk comment becomes a reason to talk about what can threaten savings or distort expectations. That gives the show a grounded rhythm. It starts with something familiar, then brings the conversation back to retirement readiness. Grant Dorhout’s guidance tends to move through examples: someone with savings in employer plans, someone who has not saved enough, a married couple deciding when to claim Social Security, or a family trying to keep bank accounts from being tied up in probate. The show is comfortable repeating its central rules until they land. Income plans matter. Taxes matter. Timing matters. Tools should have a job. The surrounding conversation is relaxed, with Bill Seller often bringing in sports, family, basketball, baseball, golf, or small personal asides before the financial discussion takes over. Those moments keep the program from sounding like a classroom lecture. Still, the tone stays cautious. The advice is framed around planning, probability, risk, and consulting the right professionals, rather than promising certainty. Listeners hear a lot about the practical edges of retirement: Social Security, Medicare, estate planning, tax stress, inheritance, annuities, insurance, spending confidence, and market volatility. The show is best for people nearing retirement, already thinking seriously about income, or trying to understand how separate financial choices fit together. It is slower than a headline podcast and more repetitive than a general money show. For the right listener, that steadiness is the point.

Made for: The show is for listeners approaching retirement, already retired, or starting to worry that savings alone may not answer income, tax, health-care, and estate questions. It especially suits people who prefer patient radio-style explanations over rapid market commentary.

What sets it apart: The show keeps translating broad financial headlines into concrete retirement consequences. Its strength is the repeated return to goals, income needs, time horizon, and the job each financial tool is meant to perform.

In their own words

Grant Dorhout, Founder and Wealth Advisor of Dorhout Retirement Services shares his thoughts on investing and helping secure your retirement in his weekly radio broadcast, The Retirement Blueprint. Grant is a full service advisor and has been helping families live out the retirements they deserve by giving them experienced, common-sense advice. Dorhout Retirement Services 4611 S 96th St, Omaha, NE 68127. (402) 281-0750. Investment advisory services offered through CWM, LLC, an SEC Registered Advisor.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Grant Dorhout and Bill Seller make retirement planning legible by tracing how income, taxes, withdrawals and estate choices affect one another.

The Retirement Blueprint turns retirement from a distant target into a series of decisions that need to work together. Grant Dorhout and Bill Seller use a conversational radio format to connect portfolio withdrawals with income planning, taxes and the practical question of how…

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Grant Dorhout turns "our advisor said so" into the question your retirement plan still needs to answer.

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your withdrawal plan tested against travel, fun money, and a retirement that could last 30-plus years
plainspoken help timing inherited IRA withdrawals without accidentally tipping the IRS

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Gold prices are down. We'll get into what might be behind the slump.Apr 15, 2026

A practical retirement conversation about income planning, purpose, and next steps.

This episode frames retirement in practical terms, with Grant Dorhout and Bill Seller arguing that an income plan sits at the center of a sound retirement plan.

Federal Reserve Committee meeting vote to keep rates steady for the second time in a row.Apr 8, 2026

A steady retirement show that makes income planning and legacy basics feel concrete.

This episode treats retirement as a cash flow problem first. Grant Dorhout and Bill Seller keep circling back to a simple test: does a given investment, insurance policy, or annuity actually belong in the plan, or is it just there because it sounds useful?

Could passive income be the answer to achieving a successful retirement?Dec 16, 2025

A practical look at retirement centered on income planning, spending confidence, and a few alternative ideas to weigh carefully.

The episode keeps retirement anchored in a basic question: how the income plan works. Grant Dorhout and Bill Seller return to the point that, without a defined income stream, spending in retirement can feel harder than it should.

Avoiding retirement disenchantment.Dec 9, 2025

A practical look at retirement rules that can still make planning feel a little tense.

Retirement planning is pulled out of abstraction and back into household life here, with holiday spending, credit cards, year end withdrawals, and the tax bill that can follow.

Still working with a 401K. Stay tuned for an important update on a significant change that could be just a signature away.Aug 12, 2025

A plainspoken retirement conversation centered on income planning, scenario testing, and a timely Social Security policy discussion.

This conversation returns to a familiar retirement question: how to turn accumulated assets into income that supports steady spending with confidence.

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A cultural historian says retirement as we know it is over. Is he right?

What might be more shocking to football fans than Tom Brady's 2017 big game comeback against the Atlanta Falcons

Some changes from Social Security in 2027

What Costco has cooking up for your retirement, and it's not something you've already tasted as an in-store sample

The national debt just crossed $40 trillion -- what it could mean for mortgage rates, taxes, and retirement paychecks down the road

Retirement's sneaky expenses--and how to make savings last with smart withdrawal strategies

Millennials say they'll skip caregiving for aging parents

What it means for anyone trying to protect a nest egg

A new analysis breaks down exactly how much a couple needs to retire in every state.

Why 80% of retirees leave their nest eggs untouched too long — and a shrinking tax break that rewards early withdrawals.

Medicare is about to start covering weight-loss drugs.

Testing your knowledge of Social Security

Social Security just hit a historic milestone — and it directly affects your retirement date

Imagine working into your 90's because a clerical error denied you a pension.

When retirement is not your choice.

Testing your knowledge of Social Security.

Best of episode.

Is the retirement you want, the one you'll get?

The Great Wealth Transfer is underway.

What does comfortable really mean to most Americans and do we still believe we can live that way in retirement?

What would you say has been the worst year to retire in the last century?

It's costing more to fill the tank and not only for our cars.

What has America's retirement more vulnerable that it was in the past?

Gold prices are down. We'll get into what might be behind the slump.

Federal Reserve Committee meeting vote to keep rates steady for the second time in a row.

Six years and counting for the Social Security Trust Fund.

How a tax plan could help stop you from blowing up your savings.

Is Medicare funding in more trouble than we thought?

Does the 4% rule still hold up in 2026?

How much do you need for a comfortable retirement?

Elon Musk has some unconventional advice about saving for retirement.

Everything old is new again, so this time around are you going to play?

Move aside 60-40 and make way for TPA.

Do you know where all your 401K accounts are?

Income or wealth? Would you favor one or the other in retirement?

Overview of thematic ETF's.

What you don't know can hurt you.

Americans are living longer. Are you financially prepared to celebrate your 100th birthday?

Which would make you the happiest? Saving money or spending money?

Could passive income be the answer to achieving a successful retirement?

Avoiding retirement disenchantment.

Discussing the national debt

When the great wealth transfer involves the family business.

Why one laid off government worker says he's living the dream.

The Social Security COLA for next year. It's a bit higher than expected but is that good news?

Social Security and taxes.

How much have we saved for retirement?

Travel tips for retirees.

Estate planning.

How a government shutdown could affect your investments.

Why so many seniors choose to work in retirement.

The top city to retire in 2025!

If the Fed cuts interest rates, can we expect mortgage lenders to do the same?

An interest rate cut could be on the way!

The latest estimate on how much healthcare could cost you in retirement.

Social Security turns 90.

Still working with a 401K. Stay tuned for an important update on a significant change that could be just a signature away.

Could 90 be the new 60?

Latest estimate cuts 9 months off Social Security solvency and what to do.

Forced into retirement

Putting retirement in jeopardy...divorce after 50

We will spend some time investing in gold

Some options for re-investing your RMD's.

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What the One Big Beautiful bill could do for you.

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Knowing when its time to find a more personal financial relationship.

If you own a small business, what's your exit plan?

A new take on tariffts.

When retirement isn't a choice.

How comfy is your cash cushion?