everyone has their own unique views and needs when it comes to financial success if you'd like to leave your financial woes behind and live a life of Financial Freedom you've come to the right place welcome to the saving with Steve show hosted by Steve Sexton the show will help you with the ins and outs of money we talked about financial issues that could be costing you thousands of dollars and keeping you up at night we talked about money tax reduction saving more spending less 401K risk management retirement and everything under the sun that relates to you having a healthier happy relationship with money now here is your host of saving with Steve Steve Sexton we talked about the ins-and-outs of money pretty much everything that's said in a release to you having a happier or healthier relationship with money I want to thank you for joining us today I want to thank everybody for joining us around the United States were over 600,000 listeners we're expanding overseas so thanks again for sharing this with your<br> family today it's a very interesting topic according to the Federal Reserve American household debt has hit 16.9 trillion dollars at the end of 2022 that's up almost 3 trillion dollars from 2019 being financially illiterate can lead to never pitfalls which is being more likely to accumulate unsustainable debt burdens either through poor decision-making lack of long-term preparation this in turn can lead to poor credit bankruptcy house for closing other negative consequences the big question here is a we all heard a I can it help well we have visual Morrison he's the founder of eyeball Financial LLC which is the fintech application now Mitchell has more than 40 years of experience in the financial world so he's an expert he work for companies such as EF Hutton Travelers Smith Barney and he's been part of the charitable Alliance Foundation he's the current<br> executive director and founder of the financial literacy project Morrison has appeared on numerous national television stations for his role with the World Trade Center Miracles foundation and America's rides open Mitchell you got a great background I would have welcomed you to the show thanks for being here on saving with Steve I'm very happy to be here Steve thanks for having me on let's just get started debt is a gigantic thing whether it's soon dead whether it's just creating can a credit card debt could you just talk a little bit about the challenges faced by people with Dad and then let's start talking about you know some of the consequences and went a itools could actually do for helping getting people organized while AI not withstanding I would say budgeting and staying on track or the real time-tested formulas for not only accumulating wealth but being able to<br> you may light enough well to where you can live comfortably you're not always paycheck-to-paycheck and you're not always struggling and have an emergency comes up and you can't afford to pay for that amount that's where people get in real trouble and we're beginning to see that more and more with the increase is inflation cost of credit and so on and so forth specially with interest rates Rising so it's very very important that people get organized with the show let's start talking about how a itools can help people get organized<br> will AI tools can be helpful but one of the tools that they're talking about and relying on his financial advice and let me address that right off the bat say I can't predict the future so if you can't predict the future how do you know what's going to go up what's going to go down what kind of circumstances I'll just give you an example let's say say I says essexshire a section that's very let's say what are the five best investments in the world and three of the five come up as oil and gas companies will all of a sudden a earthquake hits Saudi Arabia<br> and or comment or whatever and wipes out all their production well you would think oh I should get out of those stocks know the answer is oils going to go to $200 a barrel but today I know that that was coming so not predicting the future we've got to look at AI as where we're at and what it can do to help us with discipline so yes it can tell you where you're at they can hopefully keep you on track of course a financial advisor is really pretty much doing that one of the things that we built into our platform we have a full financial literacy platform so another words if you are confused about what a 1031 exchanges or 10:35 it's all on the eyeballs phone app<br> and then of course you can talk to the app and get all your answers regarding your brokerage statement so that's been very helpful because customer statements haven't really improved at 80 years you get them either quarterly or monthly or your financial advisor or your account give you access to a screenshot but sometimes people don't understand that so we try to make it very simple we said you talked to this phone it will answer all your questions about your Investments and it'll do it automatically so we thought that was a big help for most people and I would like to add for the smaller investor or what I called the regular<br> family you know right now lot of the firms that have advisory advice they won't even take you on with less than 500,000<br> under management so you don't even get a live advisor you get an assistant and that's why we built the phone app to answer all the questions for anyone no matter how much money they have one of my questions I have in this is called the eyeball app I know that you've also featured in tailoring it to meet the needs of seniors so could you help us understand how that's done well one of the reasons why we called it eyeballs was to make sure you could keep your eye on the financial ball so actually here you're not requiring your eyes hear you're talking to it so if you can listen you can get all your answers and when the answers come through they also come through in a text so for older people they get both worlds they get a text then they get a voice<br> and they can ask the same question over and over again of course now you can stare at a statement but what typically happens with a customer statement a lot of times is they still don't understand everything on those customers statement they have been basically categorized or described as they're confusing and people don't like them too much so when we take a look at that eyeball lab can you Taylor investment strategy is their ability to streamline a portfolio especially for people who don't necessarily know how to do that how can that help somebody<br> so eyeballs very directly does not give Financial advice eyeballs also says if you're asking a buying or selling question should I get rid of this stock should I buy the stock what should I do it'll always default to Imo's does not give Financial advice your financial advisor has just been sent this message so all those questions we capture and we call them our IQs cuz we will remote in career questions and so the riq goes right to the advisor and the advisor knows what you thinking without even having a live conversation and again they can follow up immediately by just pushing a button a message will go back through to the app and say when's a good time for us to talk about this<br> so is in terms of financial advice<br> our app is not it it just tells you exactly where you're at 24/7 and the transparency is very helpful for both sides the advisor side and the client site so what you're saying is somebody could be walking down the road and see if a news report and decide hey that doesn't look good for my stocks I should probably ask a question it and if the apps not going to answer it's going to forward it on to the adviser correct and that happens a lot so and the advisors please to take that question you know in some instances where you fill out of an investment questionnaire form at a at a brokerage firm you might put down your category which is conservative income only growth in income speculative well now all of a sudden someone's using the phone and asking about stocks<br> and their investment profile that they filled out since their conservative that advisor calls them up and says hey you can't buy stocks for me your category is conservative well I buy stocks from another person so that way they say I will did you know you could buy them for me so you know it it brings everything back around but you know to your your question about a I I think that AI does not have the gut feeling component to it so if you're relying on it for financial advice you're only going to be able to produce the data that's available to a i<br> and I don't know if that is enough<br> to be accurate all the food<br> my personal opinion I believe a I could make mistakes<br> more expert advice for having a happier relationship with money still to come on the saving with Steve show<br> don't let your financial woes keep you up at 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Us that's saving with Steve. Us saving with Steve. Us will see you soon<br> welcome back to the show that is here to help you achieve your financial goals it's the saving with Steve show now here's your host Steve Sexton<br> hey welcome back to the same thing with Steve show where we talked about the ins-and-outs of money they I want to thank you all for tuning in preciate you sharing this with your friends and family all the replays are available at saving with Steve. Us if you're joined the stories of helpful information inside on saving to see then I encourage you to go to our YouTube channel or apple play iTunes I encourage you to subscribe to that channel but also check out a few of her a few leads that UK Health radio BBS radio talk radio in New York City Las Vegas TV network all these networks are dedicated to empower you to solve problems uplift your spirit and live a life of personal and Financial Freedom and if you'd like to go see the replay she can go to saving with Steve. Us check out the Insiders Club cuz you get guest gifts behind-the-scenes information the holeshot so with that I want to welcome back to her show Mitchell thanks again for being here with us today<br> pleasure is all mine Steve we've been talking about how a I can help people keep on track when it comes to getting out of debt we've been talking about how a I can help somebody become more educated not really make financial decisions cuz that's why you have a broker or financial adviser for but to help you when you have that question you could put it in the oven in for seniors you know what if you're in one of those situations you can talk into the app that'll give you a response but also send you a text is that right Mitch yes absolutely the app that we have is interactive between advisor and a client for a nest door and its ongoing it's 24/7 so you can use it at any time during the day or night and you can ask it any question the interesting thing about our dashboard that goes back to the adviser is there's no real filter so you can say<br> should I go to a movie tonight or you know who is Batman is Elvis still in the building you know whatever so it's been kind of funny from time to time there is a shut off valve you can disengage from what we call those are IQs and say okay I don't want to talk to my advisor anymore I just want to get answers on the phone or vice versa if someone's being a little abusive and saying like using a cuss word that we we don't really articulate through Rai but we want that one go out and get the app but more importantly how do they get it connected their financial adviser or their broker<br> so on the website there's a QR code could you tell us the name of that website yes eyeballs financial.com and the first thing you can do if your little hesitant is you can ask for a demo I recommend everybody watch there's three videos on there they're very helpful then there's a tutorial but it's very easy you can go to the App Store and download or the Google play and download eyeballs financial.com and if the QR code isn't up there it was supposed to be up by the time we had this broadcast but Dennis a message and the QR code is the fastest way to do it because it literally only takes seconds the other thing though is you got to check with your advisory firm<br> I see if they are on board with us so not all advisory firms are and that would be the second step and if you're in advisor and you want to know more about it there's the advisor website and that's eyeballs advisors.com eyeballs I source.com advisors.com okay perfect is there a cost to the app<br> the cost is determined by the broker-dealer and not invite us it's averaging around $9 a month per household I can't quote an exact price cuz it could bury a little bit but that's been the average of the usage of the eyeballs at so it's I balls financial.com okay perfect I just want to make sure everybody heard it he Mitchell I want to thank you for being here and sharing this with us an app like that can help people who are dad you can help seniors better understand what's going on without having to have their glasses on cuz it will interact with him but more importantly in label somebody to when they have a thought and they're thinking about their finances they want to talk to their adviser or have a question over there Weiser they can just type it in there speaking in there and their advisers will get that question be able to respond it's better than<br> they can hang out I got to remember what I was thinking about and talk to my financial advisor and and then you forget about it and it's important so I think is wonderful thank you yeah cuts down on phone tag to quite a bit nobody likes phone tag today I wish you well we'd like to possibly have you been down the road if there's any updates to the eyeball app you got it yeah we're always you know I'm proving it so thank you thank you Mitchell baby with Steve<br> more expert advice for having a happier relationship with money still to come on the saving with Steve show<br> don't let your financial woes keep you up at night and prevent you from living a life of Financial and personal freedom hi I'm Steve Sexton post of the saving with Steve show where to be talking about the in an ounce of money does Financial issues it could be costing me thousands of dollars causing stress keeping you up at night we're going to talk about money tax reduction saving more spending your investment risk management retirement and everything is so sweet with you having a healthier happy relationship with money soon as you've ever dreamed of living a life of Financial and personal freedom you owe it to yourself and your family to tune in to the saving with Steve show join me Steve sex and out of saving with Steve show as we talked about everything under the sun when it comes to money to learn more about the show visit saving with Steve. 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Yes you can get all the replays exclusive access to<br> shows videos guest gifts the holeshot I do want to thank Mitchell Morrison for being on the show it now I want to talk about a topic that is becoming very very very significant in this day and age were we've been seeing over the last three years inflation<br> what's the flat Market has created some issues for a lot of people that are retired<br> there never people been reaching out to her so and and they're in their 62 63 64 they started Social Security and now only found out because inflation is up almost 20% the cost of living for almost 20% in the last 3 years<br> credit card debt payments bills are up to all those things are going up on them they're going to eat I'm going to have to go back to work and they're trying to figure out how does it affect meat if I'm taking social security well let's talk about that first of all if you're past the full retirement age which is either 66 in a number of months or 67 depend on when you're born you don't have anything to worry about keep her social security and keep make as much money as you like go to town okay but if you're 62 63 64 65 66 in your eye more than a year away from your full retirement age<br> you can have some issues so if you're more than a full year wave your full retirement age and you make more than $21,240 on a side job self-employed jobs side gig W-4 for every $2 you got in for every $2 you go over that Social Security threats all the $21,240 you're going to lose $1 and Social Security<br> next if you're within one year<br> I'm taking your Social Security 360 days okay<br> can you make more than $56,250<br> for every $3 you make over you're going to lose $1 and Social Security<br> hey that's $1 in Social Security for every $3 or over so think about that if you're getting $20,000 a year in Social Security and you make $20,000 over that threshold you're given half your Social Security back to the government okay so it's very important you understand that and back now there's a caveat<br> if you started taking social security and it's only been 12 months or less<br> you have the ability to withdraw your Social Security in your ear with raw your request for benefits for the Social Security okay and if you do that<br> you'll have to pay back whatever you receive so far but then you can start earning again you can keep running it won't impact your Social Security in fact your Social Security go up because you're putting more money into Social Security and all that kind of good stuff too if you're at full retirement age or possible retirement age but not at the age of 70 yet<br> you have the ability<br> to suspend your Social Security benefits you don't have to pay anything back<br> but you won't receive your social security benefits the other thing if you were wife is receiving spousal benefits she won't receive the spousal benefits if your kids are receiving benefits based off yours they receive the benefits if you suspend those benefits but you'll get delayed retirement credits which means for every month you delay those benefits your Social Security will increase all the way up until the age of 70<br> so it's really very important that you understand what's going on there now one of the biggest failures our retirement is not knowing or taking on too much risk in retirement especially from portfolios that are designed to create interest or income you know what your total return should be comprised of interest and dividends<br> as well as growth options<br> maintain your lifestyle with the ones that are designing trade income for you but you also want to be able to get the measure broke cuz you got to remember that growth is going to go lay could be a loss or give me a game so if you're maintaining your income so for example<br> we just spoke with somebody and she needs an extra let's say for example she need an extra $10,000 a year okay and she has $400,000 worth of income and she's worried about the market cuz most people expect me to go down in the next 6 months okay because the rising interest rates at all those bubbles that are going on in, Glee<br> so what we've done is we've created a guaranteed income on a portion of her assets to support that income and it's Percy principally protected as significant downside protection so if something happens there going to be okay but on the other side we just got it and got it setup for Chrome so portion of it set up to create lifestyle and a portion of it set up to create growth down sometimes our growth go down a little bit sometimes it goes up but they're always going to have a lifestyle too many people nowadays I only focus on that groped the one who said Total return equals income which is interest and dividends plus Grove brother cap and rotor lost its two components that big issue his most of you were listening to me today you know what do the last 30 years you've been totally focused on growth and here's why you had a job to support your lifestyle so things could just grow and when<br> put money in that 401k if the market was down you bought more of the market was up you by Les okay and you focus on growth because that's what you should be but when you get 5 years from retirement or get into retirement you've now got to make that transition to make sure you don't put your income at risk but is still getting that growth component so that way you could support your income and the girls from Corona to more importantly you can maintain your lifestyle and maintain the asset that you have<br> so think about that if you were just invested in the S&P 500 between 2000 and 2022 you wouldn't had $1000000 and took out $40,000 a year ball that 4% rule<br> you would lose you would have less than you would only have about a third of it less that's just a little over twenty years later and that's because the sequence of returns when you you got a million dollars that just lost 20% $840,000 out of it now it's 760 in the market doesn't go anywhere the next year so you're now at 7:20 and it goes into any of the next year and now you're at 680 now the market goes up but you have to earn a lot more and think he's almost double what you lost to get back where your team and especially even more if you're taking out income so for example think of this everybody on this call to Mark its fan base is gone sideways since November of 2021 so if you withdraw money anytime in the last two-and-a-half years<br> your value is likely to be the same but then reduced by the amount you had to withdraw weather be required minimum distribution or I just read her with Rob to support your lifestyle and I think it's very important you understand how Social Security bits in there because you want to make sure you get the most out of your Social Security there's there's some people we talked about that made significant social security decisions that impacted their lifetime over the lights on 2000 200,000 dollars<br> you know what<br> just by understanding how to do spousal benefit divorce benefits Widow benefits<br> just how understanding helmet and how those work and how they impact you could be the difference of 20 30 40 50 a hundred thousand dollars of your lifetime so you really want to pay attention all that I want to thank you for joining us today we had Mitchell Morris and talking about the eyeballs at you really want to check that out for your education transparency the holeshot and then I work with has a seat and communicate better with your adviser secondly if you're considering looking at Social Security and you're already taking social security looking at going back to work I think about that as well I want to thank you for joining us today and saving with Steve pulled out right there were going to take a quick break and be right back with some more shaving with Steve but look forward to seeing you at next week's stay safe stay of helping will see you then bye bye thank you for joining us for 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