Align Your Retirement

Align Your Retirement is the retirement podcast for women in their 40s and 50s who've done a lot right with their money — and know retirement is too important to wing.

If you're the CFO of your household — whether you're married, single, divorced, or widowed — you already know the voices:

"I'll run the real numbers after Q4."
"My 401(k) is fine — I check it."
"I'll handle Social Security timing when I'm closer."
"The inherited IRA can sit in cash until I figure out the 10-year rule."

Every one of those voices is quietly moving your retirement date. Each episode is a direct, specific conversation about one retirement decision that costs more than it needs to when you carry it alone — Social Security timing, Roth conversion windows, sequence-of-returns risk, tax-efficient drawdowns, pension elections, asset location, the inherited IRA, healthcare before Medicare.

The decisions. The tradeoffs. The numbers. From a fiduciary who runs these with clients every week.

Hosted by Hazel Secco, CFP®, CDFA®, founder of Align Financial Solutions — a fee-only, fiduciary firm built for women in their 40s and 50s. Serving clients virtually across the U.S. from Hoboken, NJ — the mile-square city just across the Hudson from NYC.

Two ways to go deeper:
📋 Retirement Readiness Assessment — free, self-paced, 5 minutes. Link in every show note.
📞 Align Call — 15 minutes with Hazel. One conversation. No pitch. You'll leave knowing where you stand.

Contributors

Host

Hazel Secco, CFP®, CDFA®

I’m Hazel Secco, a CFP®, CDFA®, and the founder of Align Financial Solutions.

I created this space for independent women who have built successful careers and are ready to stop second-guessing their money. My mission is to help more women live a life of abundance and clarity.

Despite becoming a self-made millionaire in my 20s, I realized that true wealth isn’t just about the number in your bank account; it’s about having the options to live your life on your own terms. That realization drove me to pivot away from the "sales-first" culture of large firms and build a boutique, fee-only practice where I can serve as a 7-day-a-week fiduciary.

I believe every woman deserves to feel confident, secure, and unapologetically in control of her financial future.

Let's start the honest conversation.

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