Small Habits, Big Impact: Preparing Your Finances for 2026

Is your financial checklist ready for the end of the year? In this episode of Guard Your Savings, Dolph Janis shares practical tips for wrapping up 2025—from maximizing retirement contributions and RMDs to making charitable gifts and updating beneficiaries. Discover why small habits, monthly review…

Widowed Before 60: The Financial Wake-Up Call No One Expects

Nearly 80% of women will become the sole financial decision-maker in their household—often decades sooner than expected. In this episode of Guard Your Savings, Dolph Janis shares eye-opening statistics and practical advice for women facing widowhood and financial independence. Discover why long-ter…

Go-Go Years or No-Go Fears? How to Retire Without Regret

What if the biggest fear in retirement isn’t running out of money—but spending it? In this episode of Guard Your Savings, host and insurance professional Dolph Janis unpacks the emotional weight of “plutophobia”—the fear of money—and how it shows up when the paychecks stop. From go-go years to no-g…

The Label Maker Legacy: What Seinfeld Got Right About Gifting

What do Super Bowl tickets, a label maker, and a $6.5 million surprise have in common? They all reveal how gifting—done right or wrong—can shape a legacy. In this episode of Guard Your Savings, host and insurance professional Dolph Janis unpacks the emotional and financial layers of legacy planning…

Good Fees, Bad Fees, And How to Find Them in a Portfolio

Dolph Janis of Clear Income Strategies Group gets all over fees and how costly they can be. He compares ordering Doordash and the baked in fees to the extra fees some credit cards or asset accounts have. Dolph explains how important people knowing what they get for the fees is and how one of the fi…

Determining And Bridging the Retirement Income Gap

Dolph Janis of Clear Income Strategies Group discusses the retirement income gap. Dolph talks about Tom Cruise’s comments on acting into his 100s if he could – because Cruise wants to - and how people should not have a retirement plan based on working past then they want to. So Dolph talks about ca…

The Three Savings Buckets That Give Your Money A Job

Dolph Janis of Clear Income Strategies Group digs into savings and uses a vacation discussion to get there. Dolph discusses three savings buckets – today, tomorrow, and never – and the importance of giving that saved money its jobs. Dolph then describes how this all fits into legacy planning and em…

What To Know About Social Security and the Mistakes People Make

Dolph Janis of Clear Income Strategies Group gives the low-down on Social Security and explains how the system can be very complicated and also is not intended to fully replace someone’s income. Dolph also explains the two biggest mistakes or assumptions people make about Social Security and how he…

Being Proactive and Dealing with The Fear of Running Out of Money

Dolph Janis discusses a survey that reveals that two-thirds of Americans fear going broke over death. Dolph gives a couple of reasons why he thinks people are afraid and talks about three types of money and the type that a lot of people do not account for. He also explains a 15-minute exercise that…

Time Passes Faster Than We Realize, So Start Preparing

Dolph Janis talks about 29-year-old NASCAR driver Erik Jones and how quickly he reached 300 starts in the Cup Series. He compares that to how quickly retirement approaches for some people and notes how time never actually slows down or speeds up – it just seems like it does. Dolph talks about how t…