Coasting In Retirement with Josh Null

Michelle is back with Josh on this week's episode to compare some real-life returns of annuities vs advisory investment accounts.

Josh and Jay revisit their "B.O.S.S. Series", an acronym that stood for "Business Owner Strategies & Solutions", where they discuss key topics that mature business owners can use to potentially reduce taxes, plan for the future of their business and how to reward and retain key employees.

Michelle is back with Josh Null to attempt to answer the question: should investor's hold
individual stocks in their retirement accounts?

On this weeks show, Josh discusses what we learned this past year, that is, things we learned about investing, or financial planning, or risk management, or basically anything that pertains to our audience, then later we ask Jay for his thoughts on what financial decisions and activities we recommend for folks to start the new year.

For today's show, we are going to attempt to answer the question: Is my generation and any other generations old enough to have adult children, are we raising a generation of gamblers?

With all of this concerning news floating around regarding an AI bubble, mass layoffs, and high inflation, Josh brings on John Luke Tyner to dicuss why investors should remain bullish heading into 2026.

Today we are going to explain why your broker is a dinosaur, and why, if your financial advisor isn't leading with financial planning, and only handling your investments, they are go the way of the do-do bird in our business.

This week, Josh has a CPA on the show to discuss taxes! We asked this CPA, Sam to come up with 3 tax topics that seem to be top of mind for you mature business owners.

Josh is joined by Jay Stubbs to cover everything health insurance related and Cigna's group solutions on this week's episode of Coasting in Retirement!

On this week's episode, we will cover specific action items Josh derived from paying attention to his happiest retired clients combined with his own personal opinions on choices he's made that have made him happier. No, Josh is not retired, not by a long shot, but he's lived a broad and expansive life and has made a ton of mistakes and learned incredibly valuable lessons from them.

While we've done past episodes where we discussed what we do at Gulf Coast Financial Advisors, what we've haven't done to date is produce a show that spells out the type of client we are looking for, our ideal client so to speak, and that is exactly what we are going to do today.

Do I need life insurance in retirement? Most of us carry some type of life insurance during our working years to replace the catastrophic loss of income to our surviving dependents if we prematurely pass away. But what if the kids are grown, the debt is paid, and our surviving spouse has plenty of assets and income to financially survive the passing of a loved one?

On this week's episode, we discuss 2 questions with John Luke.

1. Are we in a stock market bubble? And 2. If we are in a bubble, does it matter?

There are many commentators and market analysts claiming that we are in the middle of another stock market bubble, this one fueled by sky-high market valuations of tech companies that are heavily investing in artificial intelligence, or AI for short. There's a saying that history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme, so over the next 2 episodes were going to do a deep dive on the current state of the stock market and if investors should be worried about a market crash similar to the dot.com crash of 25 years ago.

For our listeners that love to travel like Michelle and I do, our topic for today's episode is "How to travel affordably in retirement" and it was inspired by a recent trip that you and I took. How about we fill in the listeners in about our trip?

One of the most common questions we get from clients is what should they do with their 401k, specifically the question "What should I do with my 401k when I retire?". And more often than not the 401k accounts are probably the largest retirement assets a client has. So what I want to do today is answer this question, and probably just as important, answer what NOT to do.

Josh interviews David Stidham of IL Group and Crye-Leike Vacations in the first episode of Coasting in Retirement Shorts!

The title of today's episode is "How to Avoid Financial Advisor Fraud". And we are going to expand that to include investment managers and hedge fund managers – basically anyone that manages other people's money. In this episode we are going to detail some of the boxes you want to check with anyone with which you wish to invest, and discuss the red flags to look for, some obvious, some not so obvious, unless you know the business well. 

Josh Null and John Luke are here to discuss the silent killer of your money: purchasing power. The purchasing power of your dollars has been going down steadily over the years, what can you do about it? We are here to explain all of the details of why your purchasing power is decreasing and how you can solve the issue.

Our role is to use math, our various financial planning tools and our experience to help clients put all of the pieces of the puzzle together to figure out if they can retire, and if so, what retirement looks like financially. So listeners today Jay and I are going to discuss this very important question that many of you probably have asked: How Do I Know When I Am Financially Ready to Retire?

I wanted to take the opportunity of having someone so young on this show, of such a different generation than me and most of our listeners, and get your opinion on some of the various topics that we discuss often on the show. I'm calling this episode, "The Future of Everything" and we are getting first hand knowledge of what a Gen Z individual thinks of all the recent technological and financial developments.

Today Josh is going to translate our different financial investment roller coaster approaches to how investors view the stock market. He is also going to explain a concept for those of you, that are like him and don't care for roller coasters, especially those of you that don't think you can stomach the extreme ups and downs of recent stock market volatility. There is a concept in the investing world called "Fear of Missing Out", commonly known as FOMO. The Oxford dictionary defines FOMO as "anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere", with the...

I want to discuss what is called an "evergreen" topic with Jay Stubbs on our show – Long Term Care. I've been getting a lot of questions about long-term care recently, and as Jay is considered an expert in this field, I wanted to spend 15 to 20 minutes with Jay discussing everything a person should know about long-term care insurance and how to financially navigate an extended health care event. Let's start with this because many listeners have probably never had this type of protection explained in detail to them – Jay, how do you define long term care insurance?

Regular listeners know that I tend to be skeptical of a lot of things related to my own industry, financial services, including a lot financial advertisements and glossy marketing content masquerading as responsible financial advice, as Michelle knows firsthand, I get very, very irritated when I hear someone in my line of work espouse a bunch of info that is nothing more than lies. And in times of market turbulence, this type of misinformation gets shouted from the roof tops. So with that in mind, we're going to play a little game of "Just Stop It", kind of like...

We are recording this episode on Thursday, April 10th, less than 24 hours removed from the largest single day rise in the stock market valuation, right smack dab back into another 2-3% trading dip. The word "historical" gets way overused, but in the case, it's not hyperbole to say that we are experiencing truly historical levels of volatility, eclipsing even the crazy ups and downs we saw at the beginning of the Covid crisis. And for a radio show based on top-of-mind topics for investors in or near retirement, or any investor of any age I would say, I think...

Special guest John Luke Tyner of Aptus Capital Advisors joins Josh Null for an EMERGENCY broadcast to discuss the recent tariffs announced by President Trump and their immediate effects on the stock market.

Lest time JD and I were together in studio, the stock market was on a tear, we both agreed it was reacting very positively to the then recent election of Donald Trump, and all indications were that investors were headed for blue skies after experiencing so much volatility. But…a lot has changed since then! Instead of smooth sailing, we've had increased volatility as the markets react to President's Trump's various tariff pronouncements, along with stubborn inflation numbers and uncertain geopolitical situations. So what I want to discuss today with you is a little deeper dive into why the ma...

The question we're going to tackle today is both a timely one and a timeless one: how concerned should investors be with investing their money into tax-deferred accounts or products, versus what are the pros and cons of investing in after tax accounts? Should investors be leaning fully into what is technically called qualified retirement accounts, or is this a good time to look at beefing up their after-tax accounts, or, maybe even considering a Roth conversion? Our financial services industry has historical operated under the assumption that tax rates are going to go up in the future, but...

Most workers get paid in a couple of basic ways, maybe salary as a W2 employee like Michelle, maybe hourly or on commission as a 1099 subcontractor. Now, you would think my profession, financial planning and financial advising, would be the same, right? Well listeners, I'm here to tell you that it's not, that the various advisors and agents and reps and planners in my line of work get paid in all kinds of ways, and knowing how your financial advisor is getting compensated is way more important than you probably realized. In fact, you can almost pre-determine the type...

I think that most small business owners would agree that the idea of passing on their business to the next generation or selling it to a trusted partner can be both exciting and daunting. A well-thought-out succession plan ensures that your business continues to thrive without you at the helm, and it's something you should start thinking about sooner rather than later. So Jay, I am going to lay out some of the most common ways to pass on business to the next generation, and discuss much more on this week's episode of Coasting in Retirement.

On this week's episode of Coasting In Retirement, Josh discusses how, unfortunately, fear selling is used in his line of work. And more often than not, it's fear-based selling intended to invoke a certain apprehension about the stock market in order to sell an insurance product. This episode is going to answer the question of how would selling the fear of the stock market help someone sell an insurance product. And in the process hopefully help you overcome your fear of stock market investing so that you aren't leaving thousands of dollars of potential gains on the table and...

Today each of your hosts – Josh, Jay and Pedro, are going to talk about what we each learned in 2024, what we each think 2025 has in store for us. We intend to lean into with yet another opportunity ahead of us to intentionally shape our lives and the lives of those close to us. Do we have any regrets from this past year? Of course, and with this being an open and honest show, we'll share some of them. Do we have concerns about the state of the world? I mean, as we record this, parts of California are literally on...

As part of the comprehensive financial planning services we offer at Gulf Coast Financial Advisors, one of the most important segments of our client's life we want to help get buttoned up is their estate planning needs. Now given that we are not attorneys ourselves, just financial advisors, to accomplish this we reach out to our preferred attorney partners, with Jennifer King's firm being at the top of the list. While Jennifer and her husband Dusty handle a multitude of legal services, what I wanted to focus on today were the 3-4 most common questions I often get from...

Michelle and I recently went on our delayed honeymoon, to a place that Michelle always wanted to visit: Costa Rica! So were going to begin the show by talking about our trip, then, because this is a show about enjoying your best life in retirement, we will pivot to travel tips and tricks for those of you looking forward to enjoying seeing new places when you have more time in retirement, especially around those of you that travel on a budget like Michelle and I do.

Alright, let's get to our main topic today. Jay and I are going to break down the science behind how life insurance, disability income and long term care insurance work, the differences between individual and group coverages, and probably most importantly, the steps you need to take to get these different types of coverages, if you are interested.

As of this recording, the stock market is on a tear, apparently reacting very positively to the election of Donald Trump for president, with indexes like the S&P 500 posting all times highs recently. For many investors, this recent market run-up has provided quite a bit of reassurance with their portfolios, but for some, there's a fear that they be missing out on these gains, some investors fear that the market is overvalued, some investors have fear of an ever-looming stock market correction, and finally, for some of you all, there's just a general fear of the stock market...

As many enter the retirement red zone, five years prior to your targeted retirement age, many have to consider if your employee benefits are enough. Some people may choose never to retire, but there is a moment in time where you do need to make some decisions specific to our world. You may have to make Social Security decisions, Medicare and health insurance decisions during your retirement years, or your quasi retirement years, and then some other decisions you need to make with respect to your group benefits that might be a part of your full time benefit package...

Our topic today is what most, if not all, insurance carriers that offer annuities view as their product of the day. Really, the product of the past 2 decades - that is, Fixed Index Annuities, or FIAs for short. Regular listeners will recognize that term and for today's show we are going to concentrate on the dominant player in the annuity space right now, and that is FIA's - by a mile. 

So Jay and I thought we would test each other's insurance knowledge and hopefully shed some light on common questions, sometimes common misconceptions, about insurance. Specifically, life insurance, disability income insurance, and long term care insurance. We are also going to delve into the news of the week and our predictions for the future. We may even get into the effects of the election on financial investors.

Michelle and Josh are here today to discusses financial topics relevant to those of you in or near retirement living your best life along our part of the gulf coast.

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