Retirement planning
Subject in Investing
Retirement planning has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Habits and Hustle, The Mel Robbins Podcast. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jean ChatzkyFinancial journalist, founder of HerMoney, former Today Show financial editor and author of The Forever Paycheck; this label also carries a brief Tony Robbins show-intro clip
Chatzky advises prioritizing retirement savings over a college fund.
“Because there's financial aid for college and there's no financial aid for retirement”
Habits and Hustle: Episode 593: Jean Chatzky: Personal Finance Strategies for Building Wealth Without Overcomplicating Money (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 57:55
Chatzky says women reach retirement with balances about 40% smaller that must last longer.
“When we get to retirement, the balances in our retirement accounts are 40% smaller, and then we have to make them last a longer number of years”
Habits and Hustle: Episode 593: Jean Chatzky: Personal Finance Strategies for Building Wealth Without Overcomplicating Money (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 39:29
Chatzky argues that working an extra six months has a large effect on retirement security, partly because it allows people to delay Social Security.
“the equivalent of working just an extra six months is like putting 1% into your retirement over 30 years”
Habits and Hustle: Episode 593: Jean Chatzky: Personal Finance Strategies for Building Wealth Without Overcomplicating Money (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 26:29
Chatzky says saving at least 15% for retirement, combined with Social Security, replaces about 80% of pre-retirement income.
“And it's what it takes to replace about 80% of your pre-retirement income when you combine it with Social Security once you get to retirement”
Habits and Hustle: Episode 593: Jean Chatzky: Personal Finance Strategies for Building Wealth Without Overcomplicating Money (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 21:01
Vivian TuPersonal finance educator known as Your Rich BFF, former J.P. Morgan trader and bestselling author
Tu advises calculating a retirement 'FU number' by dividing the cost of an ideal year by 0.04.
“We are going to take this number and we are going to divide it by 0.04”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: How to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck & Finally Get Ahead (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 38:34
Podcasts
- Habits and Hustle · 1 episode
- The Mel Robbins Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
Episode 593: Jean Chatzky: Personal Finance Strategies for Building Wealth Without Overcomplicating MoneyHabits and Hustle · Sep 29, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Jen Cohen talks with financial journalist Jean Chatzky about simple wealth-building habits, credit cards, retirement income, teaching kids about money and financial autonomy in relationships.
How to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck & Finally Get AheadThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Sep 28, 2026 · 1 h 9 min
Mel Robbins talks with personal finance educator Vivian Tu about escaping paycheck-to-paycheck living through saving systems, earning more, debt payoff, investing, housing and money in relationships.