In this episode of the Women’s Retirement Radio podcast, I cover the recently passed SECURE Act and its major retirement planning-related changes. This includes: Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs), and Elimination of the Stretch IRA. I cover the basics as well as provide some examples of the changes and how they may apply to your retirement… [Read More]

I’m excited to tell you about my new Women’s Retirement Radio podcast. But first, thank you to each and every one of you who sent warm Birthday wishes to my Me-ma after last week’s blog post. After a great Birthday lunch at Cracker Barrel last Sunday, she celebrated her 100th Birthday this past Monday. She’s an amazing lady…… [Read More]

Can you afford to live to 100? I’d like to introduce you to Vonseal Thornton (pictured above). She’s my grandmother on my Dad’s side. I’ve always called her “Me-ma.” This past Monday, February 3rd, she turned 100. So this past Sunday, about 20 or so of us got together and busted her out of her… [Read More]

This week, I wanted to share a couple of stories and articles that have recently caught my attention in the hope that one or more of them may be of interest to you too… Consider this your retirement reading roundup. Retirement Reading: Medicare First up, there are changes afoot with Medicare. More specifically, among Medicare’s “alphabet… [Read More]

I’m asked, either directly or more often – indirectly, about when it’s best to retire. Or some version of “what is the best retirement age?” And as you might suspect, as with many personal finance matters, it’s more personal and less of a purely financial decision. In other words, it depends. In fact, according to… [Read More]