One bad year rarely stays one bad year. Dave lays out how a market loss knocks over the next decision, and the one after that — and how covering the essentials first takes the first domino out of the line.

In this episode

• How retirement timing, income needs, and market losses lean on each other.
• Why a plan becomes fragile when every assumption depends on uninterrupted growth.
• Accumulation thinking versus retirement-income thinking, in plain language.
• The question that stops the chain: where does next month’s essential spending come from, no matter what the market did?

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