Don’t Mortgage Your Retirement for Your Kids’ College | EP 85

Make It Personal Podcast · Aug 20, 2026 · 12m

From the outside, this family looked like they had everything together: strong careers, a nice home, and three kids in college. But behind the scenes, credit card debt, college expenses, retirement pressure, and quiet money stress were starting to take over their lives.

In this episode of Make It Personal, we share a real financial planning story about a family in their early 50s who wondered if they had fallen too far behind. They were high earners, loving parents, and doing many things right, but the cost of helping their kids through college left them asking a painful question: Are we…