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123Easy Studios

The Work We Make

Daily podcasts. Long-form shows. Research you can share. Content your clients will actually read. A look at what we are building at 123Easy Studios.

Human Intelligence, Amplified
50+
Podcast Episodes
Daily
Publishing Cadence
5
Research Guides
8
Data Infographics
3
Media Brands Live
The Centerpiece

The American Retirement Advisor Podcast

A daily podcast covering income planning, Medicare, taxes, and legacy for people who have worked hard and want to make sure retirement reflects it. Fifty-plus episodes and still daily. Real topics, real stakes, no filler.

Featured Series

Both Ends of the Table Passing It On Daily Episodes

Both Ends of the Table

Anonymized stories from real high-net-worth planning conversations. The advisor's perspective and the client's perspective on the same situation. What gets said, what gets left unsaid, and what actually changes the outcome.

Passing It On

A series for people thinking beyond their own retirement. Estate conversations, family dynamics, legacy structures, and the things a will cannot capture. More than a will has to be the plan.

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Our Channels

Shorts and Full Episodes

Four channels. One combined feed, newest first. Short-form clips on Medicare, retirement income, legacy planning, and tax strategy. Full Fiscal Fridays episodes with live callers.

Shorts — newest first across all channels

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Long-Form

Fiscal Fridays

A live studio show. Real callers. Real math on a whiteboard. Bi-weekly from the studio in Arizona. This is what happens when a financial advisory firm decides that education is the best sales tool they have.

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For Women 55+
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BettySaidSo

A media brand built for women navigating retirement on their own terms. Health, money, relationships, purpose. Written in a voice that does not talk down and does not talk around. Ninety-plus posts and growing.

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94+
Published posts covering Medicare, money confidence, social connections, and what no one tells you about life after work.
55+
The audience this was built for. Women in or approaching retirement who want real talk, not a sales pitch.
GA4
Fully tracked. Analytics live. Content performance measured. Building toward sustainable readership the right way.
Research You Can Share

Fiscal Footnotes Guideposts

Deep-research PDFs built for advisors to hand to clients. Not brochures. Not sales sheets. Actual historical data, presented cleanly, with context that helps people make decisions.

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Medicare Advantage or Supplement?
The side-by-side breakdown most agents will not give you.
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CD Alternatives in 2026
What to do with maturing CDs when rates start falling.
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The RMD History You Were Never Taught
Why required distributions keep changing and what it means for your plan.
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Social Security Tax History
When they started taxing your benefits and how far we have come.
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What Changed About Retirement
The structural shifts that made your parents' retirement plan obsolete.
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Visual Data Series

Retirement Timeline
How retirement changed over 60 years
Pension to 401(k) Shift
The great benefits handoff, visualized
The CD Tax Trap
Why CDs cost more than the interest you earn
Inflation: Then vs. Now
What your dollar is actually worth in retirement
Healthcare Timeline
Medicare enrollment windows most people miss
Retirement Tax Surprises
The taxes nobody warns you about until it is too late
The Identity Shift
Who are you when the job title is gone?
First 60-90 Days
The retirement calendar every new retiree needs
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