Justin King
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The transition into retirement isn't purely a financial event, it's so much more. It's one of those life-changing events that requires you to plan and to adapt. Full of information, tips and guidance, The Retirement Café personal finance Podcast helps you address the challenges and opportunities that arise so you can live a fulfilling retirement. Your host is Justin King, a Chartered Financial Planner and Accredited Later Life Adviser. Contact Justin at [email protected] with any comments or questions or get in touch on Twitter @JustinKingCFP.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Justin King makes retirement finance legible by connecting tax, income, care, health, and purpose to the decisions people actually face.
The Retirement Cafe Podcast follows retirement decisions wherever their consequences lead, from estate planning and taxation to care, health, purpose, and work after a primary career.
Probate delays meet retirement dreams; Justin King gives you room to think about both.
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A clear, grounded case for annuities as guaranteed retirement income.
The episode makes a straightforward case for why more people do not buy annuities to secure guaranteed retirement income. Justin King hosts Billy Burrows, and the discussion stays centered on a clean comparison between drawing down a pension pot and converting it into fixed…
Retirement is framed as a life transition, with practical ideas about aligning spending to values and reclaiming time from worry.
Carl Richards and Justin King treat retirement as more than a financial milestone. The episode stays grounded in the practical side of planning, but it keeps circling back to the messier part too: how money fits with what people actually value.
A calm, practical conversation about the questions families postpone.
This conversation treats getting older as a practical, human problem rather than a polite abstraction. Dr. Lucy Pollock and Justin King address the questions families often sidestep: when driving no longer feels safe, what to do when someone can no longer live alone, and how to…
A focused conversation about becoming a more rational investor in retirement, with practical guidance and a steady tone.
The episode stays centered on becoming a more rational investor, with Justin King framing that idea within a broader retirement conversation. Cameron Parsmore comes across as a long-time advocate for evidence-based systematic investing, and the discussion is at its best when it…
A relaxed summer reading conversation that links retirement, books, and investing.
This episode uses summer reading as a frame, but its real interest lies in how books can reshape thinking about retirement. Justin King and Cathy move from his childhood love of reading to recommendations that include a reflective title about making life feel less resistant and…
A grounded retirement conversation that treats freedom as a practice, not a finish line.
George Kinder and Justin King treat retirement as a life change, not just a money problem. The discussion moves from Kinder's The Three Domains of Freedom into what freedom can look like at retirement or at any stage of life, with a steady focus on meaning, choice, and staying…
A practical guide to care planning, costs, and next steps.
Jacqueline Berry returns with a practical guide to care planning, with My Care Hub framed as a straightforward place to start for UK care support.
A calm retirement discussion that looks past the headline number.
Pete Matthews and Justin King keep the focus on retirement after the working years are done, not just on the math that gets people there. The tone is plainspoken and steady, which makes pensions, income, and the question of what comes next feel less abstract than they often do.
Paul Haavardsrud unpacks Canadian money stories, from ski-hill VIP pricing to French butter tariffs.
Real-estate freedom, taught in plain numbers.
Justin King speaks with Financial Times journalist and author Robin Wigglesworth about how the index fund changed investing forever.
Justin King opens by framing retirement as more than money.
Justin King opens by treating retirement as a life change as much as a financial one.
Justin King opens up one of later life’s least comfortable questions: how to talk about getting older.
Justin King brings Kurt Lee back for a grounded conversation about tax planning in retirement.
Justin King frames retirement as a major life transition and welcomes George Kinder back to talk about freedom.
Justin King opens with questions about whether thought can speed healing, affect weight, or even slow ageing.
Justin King welcomes Jacqueline Berry back to the Retirement Cafe podcast to talk about My Care Hub and its aim of supporting unpaid carers.
Justin King welcomes Carl Richards back and frames retirement as more than a financial event.
Justin King opens with the show’s usual aim: helping people plan for and live a successful, meaningful retirement.
Justin King welcomes solicitor Lucy Obrey to unpack how proposed tax changes could affect estate planning.
Retirement is more than a big number.
Nick and Jane Crowhurst moved from Highcliffe, Dorset, to Bishopstoke Park in Eastleigh after starting to look during COVID and deciding to “future proof” themselves.
Justin King sits down with Dr Martin Hyde to talk about why studying ageing is anything but dull.
Justin King frames this Retirement Café preview around The Retirement Café Handbook, Nine Accelerators for a Successful Retirement, and says Rory Sutherland reviewed the book after reading the digital copy following retinal surgery.
Justin King opens The Retirement Café Podcast by framing retirement as a major life transition, then introduces Professor Paul Dolan, the “Professor of Happiness” at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Siobhan Daniels tells Justin King how she retired at 60, sold her home and possessions, and moved into a motorhome she calls Dora the Explorer.
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Justin King interviews Oliver Berkman, the British journalist and author of 4,000 Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, about time, retirement, and living with finitude.
The Retirement Café Podcast episode with Robin Hewings from the Campaign to End Loneliness focuses on the scale of loneliness in the UK, where Robin says over 3 million people are chronically lonely and an extra 10 million or more are sometimes lonely.
Justin King talks with James Elliott, a psychotherapist, ex-Army paratrooper, and resilience coach who spent 14 years in the Airborne Forces.
Justin King and Cathy King use retirement planning to explain three decision-making mental models: inversion, backcasting, and compounding.
Justin King opens by treating retirement as a major life event, not just a financial one.
Justin King’s Retirement Café Podcast episode 179 compares pension income options, with Billy Burrows arguing that annuities have become much more attractive as bond yields and annuity rates have risen.
Host Justin King interviews Lawrence Kramer from Inspired Villages and personal trainers Julie and Lynn about the Pensioner Personal Trainers initiative, inspired by Eddie the Eagle.
Justin King and co-host Cathy explain the recent abolition of the lifetime allowance tax charge on pensions announced in the Chancellor's Budget.
Justin King and guest Cathy debunk 10 common myths about aging, covering topics like mental health, sleep, learning, dementia, exercise, and societal contributions.
Justin King opens with a summer reading list and a clear goal: books that help listeners feel more informed and more confident about retirement.