Economy worries are real — but panicking won't help. In this episode Chris Drew lays out clear, operational steps to protect your retirement from inflation, higher rates, and recession risk: prioritize a written income plan (don't let products be sold to you), chip away at debt, maximize employer match and catch-ups, and use HSAs and Roth conversions as tax-efficient levers.
Chris also walks through practical tools you can actually implement now: partial 401(k) rollovers for flexibility, overlap/cost-and-risk reports to expose hidden fees and duplicated exposures, fixed-index and income annuities as principal-preserving building blocks, and laddered CDs/treasuries or money-market placements when you want liquidity and yield. The show closes with listener Q&A on rebalancing, when to sell winners, how to put large cash balances to work, and when it's time to fire an absent advisor. Tactical, plainspoken, and focused on turning uncertainty into a checklist you can execute this week so your plan survives the next downturn.
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