Robert Brokamp

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4,411 appearances 40 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 4d ago

Robert Brokamp’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing · Purpose, People, and Core Pursuits: Key Ingredients to a Happy Retirement · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

But I like how you in your book you compared it to basically investing, right? voice-verified

And you wrote that you wouldn't expect your retirement accounts to grow without regular contributions and attention. voice-verified

So similarly, you have to do that with your relationships as well. voice-verified

You have to keep making investments in these relationships, ideally before you retire, so that once you do retire, you have that community to fill the time, maybe the time you spent with colleagues, with clients. voice-verified

Now voice-verified

you don't have that, but you have spent time building up this other community that you can rely on. voice-verified

Let's go back to the financial side of it and you talk in the book about how to turn your voice-verified

portfolio into a paycheck through the five pillars of income investing. voice-verified

Before we get into maybe a couple of those. voice-verified

When do you think people should start making that transition? voice-verified

I know in the book you mentioned that you're not a huge fan of target date funds because they get conservative pretty quickly. voice-verified

When do you think the average person with, say, a moderate risk tolerance should start being like, okay, now's the time to begin? voice-verified

Preparing my portfolio, maybe doing some de risking as I get closer to retirement. voice-verified

Uh, I'll just add one of the terms you use in the book for cash and and some of the safer money is swan money, which stands for sleep well at night, which I liked. voice-verified

I think it came from your predecessor on your radio show, but I thought that was rather catchy. voice-verified

And you do talk a lot in the book about income investing, in fact, multi-asset income investing, which can come from all kinds of things, bonds, stocks, REITs, maybe even some. voice-verified

Energy investments. voice-verified

What do you think are the most important things that people need to know when it comes to creating this? voice-verified

Collection really of multiple income sources. voice-verified

Well, let's conclude here with touching on a topic you talked about, and that is having the written plan. voice-verified

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