RETIREMENT REALITY CHECK How to Spend Your Money and Still Leave an Amazing Legacy

After Gabe Wicks’s strong voice delivers the brief forward, Public Radio storyteller and voice pro Jakob Lewis presents this accessible lesson with beguiling charm and comfortable authority. He’s a good fit to perform Josh Jalinski’s seductive writing, which sets up his advice as a contrarian alternative to the guidance people usually hear about retirement planning. As host of a financial radio program, the author writes with a deep well of experience and knowledge. He’s good at distilling the logic of finance into prescriptions that are instantly clear. With strategies that are conservative and not intimidating (life insurance, annuities, tax avoidance), he’s sensitive to the real-life circumstances and tolerances that retired people have. The result is a hands-on personal finance guide that doesn’t overlook the need for people to enjoy their lives while they prepare for the future. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2019]