Ben Carlson

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1,555 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

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But I think that mindset can be taken too far.

And I think the big change for me was having kids and realizing like, oh, they're not going to be young forever.

And at some point, they're going to want to leave the house.

They're going to want nothing to do with me probably, right?

Or when they're teenagers.

My wife and I had to make a concerted change of, no, we have to enjoy some of this now.

What's the point of having a big nest egg when you're older and not enjoying it now?

So I think there does have to be some balance.

And working in the wealth management field, I've seen countless stories of people who ran a business their whole life.

Great, we're going to sell the business.

We're going to get a ton of money.

Now we're going to enjoy ourselves because I've worked for 80 hours a week for 30 years.

And we had a client who passed away not long after they sold the business.

We had clients who were going to

retire early and sail around the world.

And one of them got cancer and passed away.

And so I've seen these stories where you do all this planning and then life throws you a curveball, right?

The old saying like, make plans and God laughs, right?

So I do think that there has to be more balance.

And that getting older too, that's been a big thing for me is just seeing this stuff, losing loved ones and dealing with kids and all this stuff.

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