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In this episode, we ask:
- Would you like to join us live for the Bank on Yourself® Rescue Your Retirement Bootcamp on May 6th, 2025, 1PM-5PM ET?
- Will you run out of money if you live to 120?
- What are we going to do make sure your money doesn’t run out before you do?
- What about market volatility? Do you remember 2008?
- What replaced the pension plans?
- What about inflation risk?
- Is the answer investing in the market?
- What does the economist William Sharpe say?
- What percentage can one take out of a 401(k) without running out of money?
- What percentage of 65 year-olds will live beyond age 90?
- Who is underspending?
- What about annuities?
- What about inflation-protected payouts?
- What is the only true form of retirement security?
- What are endowments?
- What is the history of the annuity?
- What happened to Babe Ruth?
- What about Ben Bernanke?
- What is a fixed indexed annuity?
- What about immediate pay annuities?
- What about letting your money grow before turning on income in an annuity?
- Why do so many financial infotainers bash annuities?
- Are there quality annuities?
- What about special benefits?
- What about increasing income?
- How about some case studies?
- What about guaranteed lifetime income?

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Ben Berry is a financial strategist dedicated to empowering individuals and businesses to achieve financial control and stability. Recognizing the limitations and volatility of traditional investment and retirement planning, Ben and his wife, Erica, embarked on a decade-long exploration of more ethical, rational, and reliable wealth-building methods. This pursuit led him to develop strategies focused on predictable, long-term growth, independent of market fluctuations.
Bryan Powers has been an entrepreneur since 2000, owning a recording studio, a live music venue and a couple of restaurant franchises to include Lenny’s Sub Shops and McDonald’s. In 2013, Bryan started Family Home Solutions, a Real Estate Investment Company that expanded into a Local Property Management Company, Realty Brokerage and a Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions company. Powers currently shares ownership in over 200 single family rental units and AirBnb properties in 3 states as well as a 356-bed student housing apartment syndication. In 2018, Powers co-created the Angler Aid Brand, a fishing first aid and safety company that is now widely distributed online and through Bass Pro Shops.




Jon Thiele is a W-2 employee, who is passionate about the company he works for, not just for their mission, but for the opportunities that the company has allowed for his career to expand to include fields outside of what he went to school for (which was Architecture). Although he is an Architect, licensed in California and Florida where he and his wife and two kids currently live, he has spent the last couple of years in the Financial Planning & Analysis side of business and has most recently taken on the role of Chief of Staff to one of the Finance VPs. Jon met Mark just before the COVID pandemic began in 2020, and started his journey with Bank on Yourself®. He 
