Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 420: The Hidden Power of Protection: How Avoiding Market Losses Can Supercharge Your Retirement

September 19, 2025

In this episode, we ask:

  • Have you ever been on a roller coaster that dropped so steeply that your stomach flipped, and just when you think it’s over…?
  • What if there was a way to enjoy the upward momentum of the market without all of the terrifying drops?
  • Are market events and crashes black swan events?
  • If someone was stealing 20% of your cash out of your bank every couple of years, what would you do?
  • Who would move the money to another bank?
  • When are you ever not going to need money?
  • Is your strategy vital, over the long term?
  • Do you have a sense of the major events in recent market history?
  • Who is losing money?
  • How often is the market really dropping? What are the implications of this?
  • What about the sequence of returns risk?
  • How might one tame volatility?
  • What about loss aversion?
  • Is your retirement vaporizing because of someone’s whims on Wall St.?
  • What about panic during market downturns?
  • How does one live on reduced retirement income?
  • If you lose 50%, do you need 50% or 100% to rebound just to get back to even?
  • What are the major market crashes of recent history?
  • Could anybody hold on throughout all of that madness?
  • What about beginners? What about the advanced?
  • What is the key insight to all of this?
  • What about preserving your principal?
  • What about compound growth?
  • What about having a financial fortress?
  • What are some one things to try?
  • What do these insights mean for you and for your long-term financial life?
  • Are you confident in having a guarantee in your portfolio?
  • What is the shield against the storm?
  • What is the ease of a fixed indexed annuity?
  • Am I doing what I need to do with my money?
  • Would you like to read and review our new book, The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business?
  • What are some next steps and takeaways?

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