My guest today is Benjamin Brandt, all the way from Bismark in North Dakota. He's the host of the popular podcast Retirement Starts Today Radio podcast and blog.

Benjamin is a Certified Financial Planner and Founder/President of Capital City Wealth Management. He's also an Iraqi combat veteran having served in the North Dakota Army National Guard for 8 years, including a 15 month deployment to Iraq in 2003.

As a retirement planning expert, he's featured in The Huffington Post, CNBC.com, Forbes, Business Insider, ClarkHoward.com, and many others.

In this episode, we talk about Benjamin's Retirement-Ready Blueprint, how to choose a suitable retirement age, how to prioritise different goals in later life, and extreme levels of checking with choosing your own financial planner.

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