BIOGRAPHY
Andi Last brings over 30 years of broadcasting, media, and marketing experience to Pure Financial Advisors. Serving as Media Manager remotely, Andi is based in South Australia. She is Executive Producer of the Your Money, Your Wealth® podcast, manages the firm’s YouTube channels, and is involved in the production and distribution of the Your Money, Your Wealth® TV show.
Andi grew up in San Diego. Before joining Pure, she was Media Operations Manager for a San Diego-based financial services firm with a long-running, nationally syndicated financial advice TV and radio show.
Andi gratefully serves on the all-volunteer board of directors of Living LFS, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization supporting those with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), a rare genetic predisposition to developing cancer.
Andi enjoys still photography, and her photos have appeared in national publications and on a Grammy-nominated record.
Andi and her husband Jay have been together since 2010. Sharing a passion for music, they produced and recorded a house concert series featuring live performances by professional touring musicians. The Lasts also play music themselves: their band has played ’60s garage rock for audiences of three in their living room, and tens of people have watched their music videos on YouTube.
Andi's Latest Contributions
Are Roth conversions worth it? We’ll find out, today on Your Money, Your Wealth® podcast number 576. TJ in PA is gonna have huge capital gains. Joe and Big Al spitball on whether it’s worth it for him to convert. Rebels Without a Gauze in New England are over 70. Is it too late for them to convert? How much should Biking Barnsey convert from his tax-deferred accounts to Roth each year, and are there any single ladies in the YMYW audience that would like to help him spend his retirement money? Finally, the fellas spitball on whether Zisi and his wife are being too aggressive with their conversion strategy.
“Lloyd and Diane” in Montgomery County are 50 with $8.4 million. Can they retire early and still be generous with their kids? E and T in Missouri are 34 and 31 with $255K, and hopefully some big inheritances in the future. Can they fund the kids’ college, and help them buy their first homes, AND retire early? Kent in Kansas City is 73 with 12 million bucks and $2 million in life insurance. Do Joe and Big Al back up his plan to buy an annuity, gift money to his kids now, and still spend freely in retirement, Die With Zero style? Finally, should John in the San Francisco Bay Area sell the family home and move to Nevada, or hold the house for his autistic daughters to inherit later?
Joe and Big Al focus on Social Security claiming strategies as part of the retirement spitballs, today on Your Money, Your Wealth® podcast number 574. Bijou Plutus and her husband in Massachusetts are 62 and 64 with about a million dollars. Can she retire at 65, and should he claim Social Security early? Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde in the Twin Cities have about the same at 51 and 49, plus big pensions and high spending. Can they afford to retire early, and when should they claim Social Security? Diggler and Roller Girl in Tennessee are 57 and 58 with about $600K, and Diggler estimates his Social Security break-even is at age 77. Can he collect Social Security early and simply work recreationally?
