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Jason Parker

Investing and retirement planning to help you achieve clarity, confidence and freedom as you prepare for and transition into and through retirement.

Episodes

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479- Why Bonds Still Matter in Retirement

There's been a lot of talk recently about rising interest rates, inflation, and what all of this means for the bond portion of your investme...

33:21Oct 5, 2026

478 David Booth - The Man Who Changed Investing

Today I had the good fortune to interview David Booth. Let me tell you a little bit about him. His modest upbringing in Kansas from selling...

01:06:20Aug 27, 2026

479 Beyond the Birthday Gift: Smart Ways to Build Generational Wealth

In today's podcast, I invited Tim Tenbrink, CFP®, back onto the show. Many of the people we serve are not only interested in how to make the...

46:31Aug 20, 2026

477 Sound Retirement Score

Take The Assessment: SoundRetirementScore.com In today's podcast, I want to share a brand-new tool we've created to help you evaluate whethe...

16:09Jul 27, 2026

476 – Will Social Security Be There for Me?

I was at a speaking engagement this week, and we received several questions from the audience about Social Security. Questions like: When sh...

37:53Jul 16, 2026

475 Investing In The Next Hot Thing

Everyone wants to invest in the next hot thing. Today, it's SpaceX. Tomorrow, it might be OpenAI or Anthropic. Twenty-five years ago, it was...

15:46Jun 16, 2026

474 Real World Client Concerns

In today's episode, Jason welcomes Tim Tenbrink, CFP®, financial planner at Parker Financial, for a conversation about some of the most comm...

24:35May 26, 2026

473 - 2026 Retirement Challenge: Social Security. What Are We Really Optimizing For?

Social Security is an incredible benefit. It's inflation-adjusted income, it can be tax-efficient, and it includes spousal and survivor bene...

14:22May 12, 2026

472 What a Trip to Maui Taught Me About Money and Life

I just got back from a trip to Maui with my wife and daughter… and it hit me— My wife and I are about to become empty nesters. For the first...

10:29Apr 16, 2026

471 – Is Your Net Worth Lying to You? – 2026 Retirement Challenge Part 4

Today we're going to talk about your net worth, a number that everyone has but very few really know what it is and even fewer people truly u...

15:15Mar 20, 2026

470 War and Stock Market Volatility

I'm going to take a short break from our theme for the year—the 2026 Retirement Challenge—because I want to address a concern I'm hearing fr...

16:38Mar 12, 2026

469 Guaranteed Retirement Income - 2026 Retirement Challenge Part 3

This is the first exercise of the 2026 retirement challenge that most people actually enjoy. The first episode was all about purpose and und...

12:56Feb 26, 2026

468 – Spending- 2026 Retirement Challenge (Part 2)

If there were no spending, there would be no need for investments. No portfolios. No Monte Carlo simulations. No withdrawal strategies. No S...

23:27Feb 13, 2026

467 An Important Announcement About The Retirement Budget Calculator

In this episode, Jason shares an important announcement about the future of the Retirement Budget Calculator. He explains why the tool will...

08:57Feb 2, 2026

#466 The 2026 Retirement Challenge: Start With Why

We are going to start the year off with a podcast series called "The 2026 Retirement Challenge". The idea is that each podcast I am going to...

16:32Jan 14, 2026

465 The Year in Review — and Preparing for the Year Ahead

In today's podcast, I want to take a few minutes to look back on 2025…and then use what we learned to prepare for 2026.

14:48Dec 15, 2025

464 Let's Talk About Gold - Should You Own It?

Gold is up more than 50% year-to-date. Costco has been selling gold bars that fly off the shelves. The Discovery Channel's hit show Gold Rus...

30:26Nov 14, 2025

463 The New Enhanced Senior Deduction

In today's podcast, I want to talk about the new Enhanced Senior Deduction that was passed and signed into law on July 4th, 2025. If you are...

15:47Oct 21, 2025

462 Is A Market Crash Coming?

I'm really excited about today's episode because I want to speak directly to the anxiety that so many of you are feeling — and that you've b...

14:55Oct 8, 2025

461: Four Reasons Good People Fail at Retirement—and How to Avoid Them

So I've met a lot of people over the years who have over prepared for retirement, and I've met others where I had to say, I'm sorry, you nee...

09:27Sep 24, 2025