Declare Your Financial Independence!

In this occurrence of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool status adept Robert Brokamp and Motley Fool worker Stephanie Marini sermon however to find the answers to questions specified as:

• How bash you cognize if your status program is connected track?

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• Age-based status savings benchmarks from financial-services firms.

• Free and premium calculators.

• Getting a nonrecreational 2nd sentiment from an experienced fiscal planner who charges by the hr oregon task — and wherever to find specified a planner.

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This podcast was recorded connected July 4, 2026.

Robert Brokamp: It's July 4th, the time America celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the authoritative day of our nation. Nothing much American than fiscal independence. After all, status is the money-related extremity shared by conscionable astir everyone. We thought it fitting that successful this installment of our 2026 Financial Planning Challenge, airing connected America's Independence Day, that we absorption connected retirement. How bash you cognize if your status program is connected track? And however volition you cognize that you're financially acceptable to bid adieu to the moving world? Here to sermon however to find the answers to those questions? Is my Foolish workfellow certified fiscal planner Stephanie Marini. Welcome backmost to the show, Stephanie.