My guest on the RetirementRevised podcast this week is Jill Schlesinger. You probably know Jill from her reports on business for CBS News, or her national weekly radio program on personal finance, Jill on Money.
Jill has just published her first book, The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money. I don’t read many personal finance books or write about them very often - too often, they seem like homework and use simplistic formulas. Or, they’re selling a get rich quick formula (Bitcoin in your retirement account comes to mind). But Jill has a knack for boiling things down, and her great sense of humor makes it all go down easy. So do the funny stories she tells about her own financial mistakes along the way.
Before getting into journalism, Jill got her start on Wall Street, and she also is a certified financial planner. In her book, she runs through 13 of the most costly blunders people make with money; we focused our conversation on four of those mistakes that can do real damage to a retirement plan.
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The first edition of the podcast a few weeks ago featured Nancy Altman, who heads up Social Security Works, one of the key grassroots group pushing for expansion of Social Security and an admired historian of the program. Last week, I spoke with Dan Prescher of International Living magazine about retirement abroad. And next week, my guest will be Elizabeth White - author of 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal, just out from Simon and Schuster. Elizabeth’s book is an intimate account of the loss of employment and career at midlife - both her own, and hundreds of people who she has spoken with since she first started speaking out on the topic in 2016. Don’t miss it!
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The podcast: Jill Schlesinger on four ways smart people wreck their retirement plans