Welcome to BW’s Smart Money podcast, where we answer your real-world money questions. In this episode:
Learn how to navigate job changes, maximize retirement benefits, and celebrate personal and financial accomplishments.
How should you navigate job changes when it affects your retirement benefits? What options do military spouses have for saving for retirement? Hosts Sean Pyles and Sara Rathner discuss managing unvested retirement funds to help you understand how to make the most of your employment benefits. They begin with a discussion of the importance of celebrating success after working towards a goal, financial or otherwise. Then Sean talks to Lacey Langford, an accredited financial coach and founder of MILMO, a platform to help the military community better their finances, about tips and tricks for financial planning for military families. Lacey helps Sean answer a listener’s question about changing jobs, discussing how vesting schedules work, how to negotiate benefits with employers, the challenges of frequent relocations, how to maximize retirement savings through IRAs and spousal IRAs, and the importance of tapping into community and government resources to build financial stability.
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