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WHAT IS RETIRING TODAY?
Retiring Today with Loren Merkle is an award-winning TV show hosted by Loren Merkle and Molly Nelson. They’ve been bringing viewers entertaining, engaging, and easy-to-understand retirement strategies and resources for almost ten years.
From heartwarming stories to compelling visuals – they make complicated strategies simple – and fun.
They once set fire to a 401(k) prospectus, hopped in a Delorean for a Back to the Future-themed look at retirement, and played Retirement Ghostbusters armed with proton packs.
It takes an experienced team to bring you up-to-date retirement information. Guests include members of our retirement planning team and community partners that specialize in estate planning, taxes, senior living communities, and more.
Tune in for the retirement information – stay for the eye-opening strategies that increase the amount of money you can spend in retirement!
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MEET YOUR HOSTS
Loren Merkle
Loren Merkle is the founder of Merkle Retirement Planning and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, a Certified Financial Fiduciary®, who holds life, health, and accident Iowa insurance licenses. He has been voted Best Financial Planner and recognized at the CityView Magazine Best of Des Moines awards for four consecutive years: 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. He authored the book, Retire Your Way and hosts Retiring Today with Loren Merkle, which has been awarded two Iowa Motion Picture Awards. Loren is on a mission to help you build a retirement plan to enjoy your ideal lifestyle in retirement.
Molly Nelson
Molly Nelson hosts Retiring Today with Loren Merkle. Her mission is to take retirement concepts and make them easy to understand. She’s spent the last ten years asking questions that cut through the financial jargon to answer, “How will this impact your retirement?” Her decade as a TV journalist was an excellent training ground. She’s interviewed presidential candidates, local and national lawmakers, law enforcement officials and attorneys – seeking answers to the questions that matter most to viewers.
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