Once You Have Saved This Much For Retirement, Start Spending | Early Retirement Hotline

Sometimes the question is not whether you can retire. It is whether you are willing to be honest about what retiring early can look like. In this episode, Ari responds to a voicemail from a couple with a target retirement date, a month picked out, and a plan that looks solid on the surface. Two homes, multiple account types, a pension on the horizon, and a spending goal that seems reasonable. But the more interesting question is not whether the math works. It is whether the life they are bui...