Greg Dillon - Retiring Right

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, our guest is Greg Dillon, founding partner of OneTeam Financial, LLC. As someone in the business industry for a long time, Greg is exemplary when it comes to retirement decisions to maximize your savings. Today, Greg will share to us how to plan your retirement and the ways of utilizing your savings and get the most out of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:43]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We work for people who are preparing themselves to retire or people that are already in retirement. We have seen the good, bad and the ugly and it helps to craft our unique perspective of what a retirement looks like.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:12]</span> <strong>How did you get into this industry?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have always been interested to stock market. When I was young, I was a math nerd and started my career on Wall Street working with big clients, asset managers and institutions. I decided to work with individuals on 2012 where I found my passion in helping people. I wanted to establish close interpersonal relationships and be less transactional prior to my career.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[05:34]</span> <strong>Education & Preparation for Retirement</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Personal finance is not taught in our school systems and in my eyes, it’s precious than other subjects you learn that you never end up using. It’s never too young to start learning saving and you should start reinforcing the habits early, for your kids.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[07:10] Parents should open a Roth IRA account for their kids and utilize the money their kids earned during their summer jobs. They should explain how powerful compound interest is and how it’s going to have a huge impact on their life. Have them buy shares of stock at a company kids are interested in like Disney or Netflix