Roy Matlock Jr.'s Money and Business Hour
Jun 22, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
In this episode of **The Roy Matlock, Jr. Money and Business Hour**, Roy focuses on what he calls the **retirement red zone**: the period roughly 10 years before retirement through the early years of…
And so what I'm gonna do today, last our last show, if you're kind of following along, I called it the magic of $500 a month.
And that magic of $500 a month, uh, uh really had to do with if you just get started and you automate something you know what i mean by automating you know the um it's like a bill pay you know if you if you've got your electric bill i always tell people if you want to avoid late charges just put everything on bill pay you know where it automatically pays you don't have to worry about it then you just put your money in Make sure the money goes in your checking account and the money goes out.
It's automatically deducted, you know, or it's drafted automatically by the company.
And the way you do that is you set your 401K up and it just takes – Setting it up and then you deduct it every week and now you've automated the outcome.
I always tell people if I'm working with somebody getting started, I say, look, we've got to protect your income and we've got to grow your money.
Once you have an income protected, then at that point, all it amounts to is automating the investments.
And so what I'm gonna do today, last our last show, if you're kind of following along, I called it the magic of $500 a month.
And that magic of $500 a month, uh, uh really had to do with if you just get started and you automate something you know what i mean by automating you know the um it's like a bill pay you know if you if you've got your electric bill i always tell people if you want to avoid late charges just put everything on bill pay you know where it automatically pays you don't have to worry about it then you just put your money in Make sure the money goes in your checking account and the money goes out.
It's automatically deducted, you know, or it's drafted automatically by the company.
And the way you do that is you set your 401K up and it just takes – Setting it up and then you deduct it every week and now you've automated the outcome.
I always tell people if I'm working with somebody getting started, I say, look, we've got to protect your income and we've got to grow your money.
Once you have an income protected, then at that point, all it amounts to is automating the investments.
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