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Episode 479: The Great Unretirement

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November 6, 2026 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Who is clocking back in?
  • What did the study say?
  • What did the recent AARP study with NORC at the University of Chicago reveal?
  • Is this about “those people”?
  • How many people are reaching retirement every single day?
  • What choices are you making?
  • What will your retirement look like?
  • What is the structure of the problem?
  • What are the failures?
  • Did the cost of being alive just go up?
  • Are the vehicles storing your money liquid and accessible?
  • What is the average 401(k) balance?
  • How many workers are carrying a loan against a loan against their 401(k)?
  • What is the consensus “financial advice” on Reddit?
  • Do you get to choose your retirement date?
  • What about job cuts?
  • What is the American context that we find ourself in now?
  • Does the paycheck last?
  • Will the house sale cover what comes next?
  • Will you run out of money?
  • Who has to tell the story when you do?
  • How many years of assisted living care do you have saved up?
  • Is the nursing home the greatest beneficiary of the life’s work?
  • What is the major retirement plan for so many Americans?
  • What is the cost of memory care?
  • What wiped out the money?
  • What happens to the adult children?
  • Who tells the story?
  • How many days of retirement do you have saved?
  • What did the Boston College Center for Retirement research find?
  • What do you imagine will happen?
  • Were the families planning?
  • Were the parents careless?
  • How much does a nine-decade life actually cost?
  • What’s leftover after you pay the bills each month?
  • Is a grown child your backup plan?
  • What are the 40s and 50s actually for?
  • Do you have a layer of money that you control on your own terms?
  • Will you be forced to sell something at the worst possible time?
  • How about a case study?
  • What changed for him?
  • Why do growth assets make terrible shock absorbers?
  • What about the part of the plan that doesn’t move with the market?
  • What has a 160 year track record?
  • What are the guarantees?
  • What about access?
  • Can you know the guaranteed minimum cash value?
  • What does tax law say?
  • Do you have to be 59 1/2?
  • Can you be declined?
  • What accrues interest?
  • Can you borrow the same dollar twice?
  • What about loan repayments?
  • Who sets the terms after a crisis starts?
  • Did his kids have to become his backup plan?
  • Does a 401(k) loan interrupt the growth?
  • What about being double taxed?
  • Would you like to hear Episode 206?
  • How is a Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy loan under your control?
  • Do those dollars have a job to do?
  • What choice will you make?
  • What is the Not Your Average approach?
  • Who gets to write your story?
  • What did AARP say is the reason retirees keep working?
  • Who is easing back into work?
  • Who is being fired from retirement?
  • What is the social proof?
  • Does Warren Buffet’s rule still apply?
  • What are the takeaways?
  • Is retirement a date or a duration?
  • Is that asset a growth asset or another type of asset?
  • Is running out of money a family story or an individual one?
  • Is certainty a feature?
  • What can you control?
  • When does the guaranteed layer start?
  • What are the action steps?

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