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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Dan Lefkowitz, strategist for Morningstar indexes.

And I'm Amy Arna, portfolio strategist for Morningstar.

We're doing something a little different this week, flipping the microphone around and

interviewing the anchor host of this podcast, Christine Benton, about her new book, How to Retire,

20 lessons for a happy, successful, and wealthy retirement.

Christine is director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar.

She's been with the company since 1993.

She served as director of the fund research team, editor of Morningstar Mutual Funds, and co-founder of this podcast in 2019.

Christine has written several books about investing.

She's also the president of the John C. Bogle

Center for Financial Literacy. Christine is a proud graduate of the University of Illinois.

Christine, thanks so much for joining us on the Longview as a guest. It's my pleasure. This is very

weird, but let's go ahead. It's funny to be in the interviewee seat for a change.

Well, absolutely.

Maybe you could start off by talking about how the book came about.

I'm also curious about the subtitle and if there's any logic to the order of the descriptors

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