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  • Welcome to Coach Listens with Coach Pete

    Welcome to Coach Listens with Coach Pete
    2026/10/15

    Meet Coach Pete and hear why he shares these conversations. This short introduction features archive highlights from retirement author Tom Hegna, Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis, and bestselling author Jen Sincero—on income for life, consistency, and taking action.

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    Hear the full conversations:

    • Tom Hegna: Don't Worry, Retire Happy and Income for Life
    • Terrell Davis: The Four-Yard Run, Football, and Financial Discipline
    • Jen Sincero: Making Money and the Mindset of Wealth (Full Interview)

    Produced October 15, 2026, from finished Coach Listens interview audio.

    Transcript

    Automatically transcribed from this episode; timestamps are approximate.

    00:00 I talk to very interesting people, and the most important part is that I shouldn't be the only one hearing it.

    00:05 I really feel that if these people make sense to me, that everyone out there needs to hear it.

    00:10 A successful retirement really has two key components.

    00:14 Number one is increasing income for the rest of your life, and number two is risk management.

    00:20 So my coach, when I got to the NFL, said, hey, man, we're not trying to have the long runs.

    00:26 If you break a long run, that's great.

    00:28 But what we want is consistency.

    00:29 We want to be able to say, what is repeatable?

    00:33 Absolutely, and it's because your mindset is what propels you to take action.

    00:38 So if your mindset is focused on, I can't, it's impossible, it's going to be hard and no fun, your actions are going to reflect that, and you're going to get very, very much nowhere.

    00:52 And very, very quickly.

    00:54 800-661-7383 is the number to call.

    00:56 800-661-7383.

    00:59 You can also text keyword plan to 600-700.

    01:02 Keyword plan to 600-700.

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  • Mike Milligan: QLACs, Annuity Choices, and the Total Retirement Picture (Part 4)

    Mike Milligan: QLACs, Annuity Choices, and the Total Retirement Picture (Part 4)
    2026/09/04
    Coach Pete D’Arruda and Mike Milligan discuss qualified longevity annuity contracts, retirement-account withdrawal requirements, and the differences among annuity products. They consider why evaluating a financial product requires more than a blanket endorsement or rejection, and why income, access to money, growth, and personal goals need to work together. Part four of their Financial Safari conversation.Call 800-661-7383 or text PLAN to 600-700.TranscriptAutomatically transcribed from this episode; timestamps are approximate.00:00 Welcome back into the Financial Safari. Loving the conversation today. I'm Thomas Lipscomb in studio with bestselling author Coach Pete D’Arruda, also joining us today, host of the One of a Kind Financial Show. He's an author. Mike Milligan, catch up on the show by heading over to FinancialSafari.com. Hey, Mike, do you do any QLACs? Yeah, I've been doing QLACs for like the last 11 years. Oh, okay, yeah. A lot of people don't understand them, so we don't talk about them too many times on the show. QLAC stands for Qualified Longevity Annuity Contract. Yep. You know, you've lived in a world for so long where you've deferred, deferred, deferred, and then all of a sudden you hit an age, and the IRS and the government says it's time to take a required minimum deposit. And you notice I say deposit there, right? Yep. Not distribution. Correct.00:45 Because it's a required minimum deposit back to their company, right, to the IRS first, right, in taxes, and then you get what's left over. The required minimum deposit that goes to the IRS in the form of taxes is because they're your business owner. So what a QLAC allows you to do is take a little bit of your IRAs, a little bit of your 401k money, and defer it out a little bit longer so those RMDs don't begin, you know, to as late as 85. Yeah. And most find it. You know, the interesting thing about QLACs, Pete, is most firms don't even know they exist. They, they, and then, and then when they hear the word that it's QLAC and they hear annuity, they're like, oh, that's bad. It's got to be bad. It's not bad, folks.01:31 Right? It's, it's longevity insurance. Right? It's a promise. Yeah. But Pete, did you find the name of the book? Yeah, Quiet Place. Quiet Place. And it's, it's a book about the QLAC, but it's also about how to, how to make sure you have the lifetime income. Now, here, here's one of the misconceptions about QLACs. It's a funny name. It sounds like Aflac a little bit. Yes, it does. That's what I thought. A duck. But a lot of people thought, Mike, and this is a misconception, and I think it's been fertilized by some people who, who don't want you to put money in a QLAC, fertilized, in other words, growing the rumor, the bad rumor, is that you could not touch the money once you put it in until age 85. But the, that's the exact opposite. You have to start taking the money by age 85. You could put it in today at age 65 and take it, start taking it out at age 66.02:18 Correct? Yeah. It is. Yeah. You know, the technical, I mean, what a QLAC really technically is, is a deferred income annuity. That's really all it is. Zadia. Right? It just has contract language from the IRS code that allows you to avoid RMD on that for a long period of time. It's a good way to pay less RMDs if you're not needing the money. Then put it in a long-term contract where the government can't touch it. Makes sense. And guess what you could do if you, and guess what you could do if you don't need the RMDs? You could use it for something like maybe a Roth conversion. A lot of people do that. Or, you know, you could lower, yeah, I mean, you could lower your tax bracket. The other thing that most people don't realize, too, about, like, later in life is your medical expenses are going to be a whole lot higher. They're just going to be higher when you're that age. And that's going to be for most people, not for everybody, but they're going to be higher.03:04 The good news is if your medical expenses are over 7.5% of your total income, guess what? You get to itemize that. Right? So there's a potential for even that QLAC income when it starts at 85 to be tax-free if you're using it for medical. QLAC, to me, is also, like, it's just another way to, like, protect long-term care without necessarily having to pay the premiums of long-term care insurance. It's a great strategy to use. You can self-protect yourself or self-fund yourself if you put enough money away. Self-fund. That's exactly right. That's a good way. And you're not paying tax every year on it while you're deferring, which is a very big part. That's right. Compared to anywhere else people have money, you're going to get taxed every year on that. So this way you're not. Exactly. I want to jump in and ask, what happens to a spouse or beneficiary when the person who owns the QLAC passes?03:54 It goes to the beneficiary. It's still an IRA, right? So it hasn't mysteriously gone to some new world of ...
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  • Mike Milligan: A Retirement Plan That Fits Your Life (Part 3)

    Mike Milligan: A Retirement Plan That Fits Your Life (Part 3)
    2026/09/12

    Mike Milligan continues his conversation with Coach Pete D’Arruda about matching a retirement strategy to the person who will live with it. They discuss risk, the tendency to rely on familiar products, and lessons from past planning conversations. Hear why the group favors reviewing the full picture rather than treating every retirement decision as a separate transaction. Part three of their September 12 Financial Safari conversation.

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  • Mike Milligan: Income Riders and Questions to Ask Before Retirement (Part 2)

    Mike Milligan: Income Riders and Questions to Ask Before Retirement (Part 2)
    2026/09/12

    Coach Pete D’Arruda and Mike Milligan discuss dedicating part of a retirement plan to income and understanding how an income rider works. They examine why a saver’s priorities can change near retirement, the importance of asking how a strategy is structured, and the difference between product recommendations and a plan built around a client’s needs. Part two of their September 12 Financial Safari conversation.

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  • Mike Milligan: The Retirement Asset Beyond Your Account Balance (Part 1)

    Mike Milligan: The Retirement Asset Beyond Your Account Balance (Part 1)
    2026/09/04
    Mike Milligan of One Oak Financial joins Coach Pete D’Arruda and Thomas Lipscomb to discuss retirement income as an asset. They explore the difference between an account balance and a plan for monthly spending, the uncertainty of market returns, and the role income can play in supporting a retirement lifestyle. Part one of their Financial Safari conversation.Call 800-661-7383 or text PLAN to 600-700.TranscriptAutomatically transcribed from this episode; timestamps are approximate.00:00 Welcome into the Financial Safari. Excited for our show today. I'm Thomas Lipscomb in studio alongside bestselling author Coach Pete D’Arruda. And joining us, we have on the line Mike Milligan, founder of One Oak Financial, host of One of a Kind Financial Show, and a friend of the show as well, a friend of Coach Pete's for a very long time. Hey, Mike, how you doing? I'm good, Pete. How are you? Good. Hey, Thomas, tell everybody where Mike is joining us from. So Mike is joining us from the beautiful land of Puerto Rico. Oh, Michael would say beautiful, right? Is it beautiful down here today? Oh, my gosh. It's 84. It's 84, 85 every day. It's absolutely gorgeous down here. And it's a little bit of a breeze. We haven't had that heat that you guys have had back in North Carolina, right? That has just kind of been stifling over the last month or so.00:46 It's been crazy. Same every day. Same every day. Watching the U.S. Open on TV the other day. And the players who aren't used to humidity, like even in the first set, they were like, they look like we're getting ready to die. We're used to this, Mike. I mean, I worked in the watermelon fields one year when I was in high school. And remember, I'd been working in the fields back in the day. I don't know if you ever did that. But you're a Scotland County guy, too, by the way, aren't you? Yeah, yeah, that's right. That's right. Coach Willard. Yeah, Coach Willard. Willard's watermelon. So a little history, folks. Mike Milligan there. My mom taught him seventh grade, and we found that out a couple years ago when we met. I didn't know who he was because I'm a little older. But my mom taught you, and that's pretty funny. That's funny, yes. That's right. Small world. Ten years different in age. We ran the same streets. As a matter of fact, we were talking, you know, before the show today,01:33 we were talking about just some things, you know, that happened back in Scotland County. Good old LBG. You had to make your own fun back in the day. Yes, you did. The good thing there was no social media to tell everyone about the fun you were making. Yeah. Nowadays, kids are getting into trouble. They post everything. Thomas, we always talk about, like, Pete and I, when we went through elementary, middle school, and high school in Scotland County in North Carolina, North Carolina was the 50th ranked school in education in the nation. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Wow. There are 100 counties in North Carolina. Scotland County was 100th. So we literally got the worst education in America. The lowest below. Wow. Hey, you're talking junk about my mom? And yet, here we are. The college goes back in the road.02:20 You cannot be serious. Be serious. I said U.S. Open. So might as well play a little macro there. No, I mean, it is. My mom took it serious. My dad was a college professor. But, yeah, unfortunately, they don't put in. Well, back in the day, we had the mobile home classrooms, and we had the cinder block schools. Look at these Taj Mahals they're building now. I think they're putting money into the wrong places these days. Instead of building big buildings, they should build big mines. That's good. I like that. And the problem was is, like, when your mom had us in her class, right, there were 28 middle school kids in there, right? And we were more worried about, like, man, that girl looks good now because hormones were kicking off. Right? We weren't worried about, like, you know, Pythagorean's theorem or, you know, the atomic symbol of hydrogen. Right? We just weren't interested in it.03:06 We were interested in what we're going to do in the field later today and what we're going to do in the break. Unless you're going to be a chemist in the future, it really doesn't matter what the atomic symbol of hydrogen is. It's more important to worry about life. And what the most important thing is is to establish a plan in your life, even if you're not the kind of person that likes to write things down, at least have it in your mind. And when we do a plan, Mike, we like to call it Plan Once, Plan for Life. And it's how to give every dollar you own a color and a job and put a check back in your mailbox every single month for as long as you live when you retire. And stop the quiet leaks that have been eating your money alive while you weren't looking. Those are called financial termites. We put a plan together. We eliminate those financial termites, which could save you 2% to 3% to even 4% hidden fees a ...
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  • Phil Graham: Medicare Premiums, Social Security Taxes, and Quiet Costs (Part 4)

    Phil Graham: Medicare Premiums, Social Security Taxes, and Quiet Costs (Part 4)
    2026/09/05

    Coach Pete D’Arruda and Phil Graham examine costs that can quietly reduce a retirement paycheck. Topics include Medicare’s income-related premium adjustments, taxes on Social Security benefits, Roth conversion considerations, and the cumulative effect of investment fees. They discuss why understanding these rules before making withdrawals can help frame a more useful conversation with your financial and tax professionals. Part four of the September 5 Financial Safari interview.

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  • Phil Graham: Plan Once, Plan for Life—Income and Legacy (Part 3)

    Phil Graham: Plan Once, Plan for Life—Income and Legacy (Part 3)
    2026/09/05

    Phil Graham and Coach Pete D’Arruda connect retirement income with the broader work of estate and legacy planning. They discuss the shift away from employer pensions, the stress of repeatedly second-guessing investments, and why a written strategy should explain how monthly income supports the rest of a plan. The conversation returns to beneficiary forms, financial blind spots, and reviewing costs before they erode savings. Part three of the September 5 Financial Safari interview.

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    12 分
  • Phil Graham: The Beneficiary Forms Your Will May Not Control (Part 2)

    Phil Graham: The Beneficiary Forms Your Will May Not Control (Part 2)
    2026/09/05

    Coach Pete D’Arruda and Phil Graham discuss why a will does not necessarily decide who receives every account. They explore beneficiary designations, payable-on-death and transfer-on-death arrangements, life insurance, and the problems that can follow outdated paperwork. Hear the questions they suggest asking when reviewing who is named on your accounts and how those choices fit your family’s legacy plan. Part two of the September 5 Financial Safari interview.

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    12 分