Take Pride in Retirement

About Take Pride in Retirement

Welcome to Take Pride in Retirement! A podcast dedicated to retirement planning solutions for the LGBTQ community. Hosted by Matt McClure, RSSA®, CAS® | During uncertain economic times, safety of your principal is key to planning a successful retirement. Our goal is to help educate you about ways to protect your hard-earned money while experiencing market-like growth at the same time. | LGBTQ people face unique challenges when planning for our retirement future. From legal barriers to a potential lack of family support, everyone’s situation is different. Tune in each week as we explore these obstacles and give you tips on how to overcome them so you can get on the road to success.

Publisher

Matt McClure

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jun 2023

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

171 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Prices Go Up, Markets Go Down: Is Your Retirement Paycheck Ready?

   Prices go up, your investments go down—and your bills still need to be paid. How can your retirement plan account for both rising costs and market losses? In this episode of Take Pride in Retirement, my husband and co-host, Josh Rhett Noble, joins me to discuss why growth and protection both deserve a place in your retirement plan. We explore how inflation can erode purchasing power, why market declines become especially challenging when you’re withdrawing money, and why having enough to retire today is only the starting point. I explain how giving your money different jobs can help connect the pieces: growth for future expenses, dependable income for ongoing bills, accessible reserves for surprises, and protection to help manage risk. We also discuss why having several accounts doesn’t automatically mean you’re diversified, where annuities may fit, and why costs, restrictions, and tradeoffs matter. For LGBTQ+ retirees and couples, the plan also needs to account for the people and experiences that make retirement worthwhile—and how household finances might change after a partner’s death. Josh and I share questions to bring to your next planning meeting so you can better understand how your income, savings, and investments work together. -- Request your free RSSA Roadmap for Social Security optimizationWatch full episodes on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TakePrideinRetirementShowFollow on BlueSky, Threads, Facebook, Instagram — just search Take Pride in Retirement -- About Take Pride in Retirement:Take Pride in Retirement is a podcast dedicated to retirement planning solutions for the LGBTQ community. Host Matt McClure, a licensed fiduciary financial advisor, shares strategies to protect your hard-earned money while pursuing market-like growth. Matt holds the RSSA® credential as a Registered Social Security Analyst®, helping clients optimize their Social Security filing strategies to potentially increase lifetime income. He’s also a Certified Annuity Specialist® (CAS®), a designation earned through a 135+ hour graduate-level program in fixed-rate and variable annuities from the Institute of Business & Finance. Based in Georgia with his husband and two dogs, Matt spent over a decade in New York City, working with The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, NY1, and WCBS Newsradio 880. A career highlight includes reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   You’ve Planned Your Retirement Paycheck—But Who’s Coming to Brunch?

   You’ve figured out your retirement paycheck—but who are you having brunch with? Leaving work changes more than your income. It can also change your routine, your friendships, and your sense of purpose. In this episode of Take Pride in Retirement, my husband and co-host, Josh Rhett Noble, joins me to talk about planning a social life you can take pride in. We explore why the everyday connections we make at work can be harder to replace than we expect, and why it helps to start building your retirement routine before your last day on the job. We discuss maintaining friendships, finding welcoming LGBTQ+ groups, staying connected with chosen family, and balancing shared activities with individual interests in a relationship. We also connect those goals to the financial plan, including budgeting for meals with friends, classes, memberships, transportation, and visits to loved ones who live elsewhere. Whether you’re single, partnered, already retired, or still looking ahead, we share a simple place to start: one recurring activity, one relationship to maintain, and one new experience to try. Your retirement plan should support the people and experiences that make your days meaningful. -- Request your free RSSA Roadmap for Social Security optimizationWatch full episodes on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TakePrideinRetirementShowFollow on BlueSky, Threads, Facebook, Instagram — just search Take Pride in Retirement -- About Take Pride in Retirement:Take Pride in Retirement is a podcast dedicated to retirement planning solutions for the LGBTQ community. Host Matt McClure, a licensed fiduciary financial advisor, shares strategies to protect your hard-earned money while pursuing market-like growth. Matt holds the RSSA® credential as a Registered Social Security Analyst®, helping clients optimize their Social Security filing strategies to potentially increase lifetime income. He’s also a Certified Annuity Specialist® (CAS®), a designation earned through a 135+ hour graduate-level program in fixed-rate and variable annuities from the Institute of Business & Finance. Based in Georgia with his husband and two dogs, Matt spent over a decade in New York City, working with The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, NY1, and WCBS Newsradio 880. A career highlight includes reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Pensions, Partners and Planning: A Federal Retirement Conversation

   Federal employees may have access to valuable retirement benefits—but those benefits come with rules, elections, and deadlines that can shape the rest of their lives. In this episode of Take Pride in Retirement, Josh joins me as I talk with my friend and colleague Rayna Reyes, a federal retirement specialist and co-founder of American Federal Benefits Consultants. Rayna explains what makes federal retirement planning so complex, some of the biggest mistakes she sees employees make, and why a collection of benefits is not the same as a coordinated retirement plan. We discuss pensions, survivor elections, health and life insurance, the Thrift Savings Plan, Social Security, and the importance of coordinating benefits between spouses or partners. We also focus on issues that can be especially important for LGBTQ+ couples—including beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, trusts, and what can happen when a longtime partner is not legally recognized as a spouse. Whether you work for the federal government, the private sector, or yourself, the larger lesson applies: Know what you have, make sure the pieces work together, and ensure the people you love know what to do if something happens to you. Learn more about Rayna and American Federal Benefits Consultants: https://americanfederal.org -- Request your free RSSA Roadmap for Social Security optimizationWatch full episodes on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TakePrideinRetirementShowFollow on BlueSky, Threads, Facebook, Instagram — just search Take Pride in Retirement -- About Take Pride in Retirement:Take Pride in Retirement is a podcast dedicated to retirement planning solutions for the LGBTQ community. Host Matt McClure, a licensed fiduciary financial advisor, shares strategies to protect your hard-earned money while pursuing market-like growth. Matt holds the RSSA® credential as a Registered Social Security Analyst®, helping clients optimize their Social Security filing strategies to potentially increase lifetime income. He’s also a Certified Annuity Specialist® (CAS®), a designation earned through a 135+ hour graduate-level program in fixed-rate and variable annuities from the Institute of Business & Finance. Based in Georgia with his husband and two dogs, Matt spent over a decade in New York City, working with The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, NY1, and WCBS Newsradio 880. A career highlight includes reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

35,542

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

87

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

71

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