6 Questions to Ask Before You Retire | Steve Dybwad

Steve Dybwad has been licensed for more than 50 years, starting as a teenager. He spent years as a stockbroker before he moved his focus to preserving and distributing money for people near retirement. Today, he works out of Nineveh, Indiana, and he is the original voice of Safe Money Radio out of Muncie.

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In this episode of Safe Money Radio, Steve sits down with host Brett Blake to walk through six questions worth sitting with before you retire. What does your current lifestyle actually cost every month? What is the least amount of money it takes to fund that lifestyle for life? Does your plan depend on the market cooperating every year? Who is really paying the fee, you or the insurance company? Are you rearranging the money you already own, or being sold something new? And is it truly too late to build a better plan, or have you just not looked at the numbers yet?

Steve answers each one with the plain-spoken calm of someone who has helped clients through these decisions for decades. He explains the difference between a mountain of money that sits still and rivers of money that pay you every month, and why guaranteed lifetime income rarely shows up in TV ads.

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Annuity.com, Inc. is a licensed insurance agency. National Producer Number (NPN): 21086345. Doing business in Florida and California as Annuity.com Insurance Marketing, CA License No. 6013124. In New York, licensed as Annuity.com Insurance Solutions, License No. LA-1860109.

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Steve Dybwad is a podcast guest appearing in his individual professional capacity. Views expressed on this episode are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Safe Money Radio, Brett A. Blake, or Annuity.com, Inc.

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