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Featured In Leading Publications

Jim Crider, CFP® and Intentional Living FP have been featured in Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, Fox Business, InvestmentNews, ThinkAdvisor, and 35+ podcast appearances. See all press, media appearances, and speaking engagements.

Based in New Braunfels, Texas, Jim Crider is a fee-only fiduciary financial planner who has been quoted and featured in leading national publications and podcasts on topics including retirement planning, tax strategy, Bitcoin, and intentional financial planning.

Speaking Engagements

4 appearances

Bitcoin Conference Amsterdam — November 2025

Featured Speaker at Bitcoin Conference Amsterdam

Bitcoin for Financial Services Summit — Denver

Speaker, October 2025

Digital Wealth Frontiers — Bitcoin Park, Nashville

Speaker, October 15, 2025 — trust planning for high-net-worth families and family offices

Bitcoin 2025 — Las Vegas

Panelist, “What the FIRE Movement Gets Wrong About Bitcoin,” May 28, 2025, with Trey Sellers, Morgen Rochard, and Brian Harrington

Articles & Publications

31 appearances

Forbes

Planning To Work Longer? Continued Employment May Not Be An Option

October 20, 2026 · By Sheila Callaham, Contributor

“Waiting until 70 is a default, not a commandment.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Social SecurityRetirement Planning

Also appeared on Yahoo Finance

ThinkAdvisor

5 Ways to Help Clients Avoid RMD Confusion

October 19, 2026 · By Rob Burgess

“Once the money arrives like a paycheck, people start spending it like one.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Retirement IncomeRMDs

Barron’s

5 Tips to Help Young Adults Avoid the Dreaded ‘Failure to Launch’

September 25, 2026 · By Cheryl Winokur Munk

Family PlanningYoung Adults

MoneyLion

7 Ways To Rewrite Your Money Plan Before Inflation Rewrites It for You

August 20, 2026 · By Jennifer Taylor

“Working one or two extra years is the single most powerful lever, because it does three things at once.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
InflationRetirement Planning

Also appeared on AOL

U.S. News & World Report

Guaranteed Income Strategies for Retirement

August 19, 2026 · By Kate Stalter, CFP

“Delaying is longevity insurance.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Social SecurityGuaranteed Income

Barron’s

One Year In, How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Has Made Financial Planning Easier

July 13, 2026 · By Kenneth Corbin

“When the QBI deduction might vanish in 18 months, you optimize cautiously. Now that it’s permanent, we solve a business owner’s salary, retirement plan design, and entity structure together and model it over a decade instead of a single tax year.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Tax PlanningOBBBABusiness Owners

The Daily Upside

What’s the Magic Retirement Number? Check Your Clients’ ZIP Code

July 10, 2026 · By Griffin Kelly

“The number also becomes a treadmill. Someone hits it and immediately moves the goalposts because the number was never connected to a life they actually wanted.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Retirement PlanningValues-Based Planning

Also appeared on Yahoo Finance

MarketWatch

Your aging parent has a new romance. Here’s how to protect your inheritance — without looking greedy

June 30, 2026 · By Morey Stettner

Estate PlanningInheritanceFamily Dynamics

Also appeared on MSN

KPVI (syndicated financial commentary)

Half of Americans Think They’ll Live to 100. Their Retirement Plans Say Otherwise

By Liam Gibson

U.S. News & World Report

7 Top Stocks With Recent ‘Buy’ Ratings

June 23, 2026 · By Kate Stalter, CFP

“The bull case is that Uber’s real moat isn’t the cars. It’s the matching technology and a two-sided marketplace that’s brutally hard to rebuild city by city.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
InvestingStock Analysis

The Daily Upside

Clients Have Money. They’re Just Not Sure What to Do with It in Retirement

June 19, 2026 · By Griffin Kelly

“Before we talk withdrawal rates, we build a Statement of Financial Purpose, one sentence that captures what the money is actually for. The questions matter more than the math here.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Retirement IncomeStatement of Financial Purpose

Also appeared on Yahoo Finance

Wealthtender

How Financial Advice Can Be Right, Yet Dangerously Wrong for You

June 9, 2026 · By Opher Ganel

“The question isn’t always ‘Is this information right?’ but rather ‘Is this information right for me?’”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Financial AdvicePersonalized Planning

Medium — Financial Strategy

Avoid a Recession Trap? It’s Not About the Markets

June 1, 2026 · By Opher Ganel

“Most recession worry is misdirected. The W-2 employee fretting about the S&P 500 is usually overexposed to their employer’s industry, not the overall market.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Recession PreparationFinancial ResilienceConcentration RiskSequence-of-Returns Risk

ThinkAdvisor

How to Help Grown Children and Aging Parents With Tough Talks

May 13, 2026 · By Dinah Wisenberg Brin

“A neutral third party can move a conversation in 30 minutes that a family has avoided for 30 years, and for advisors, facilitating that meeting is one of the most valuable things we do.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Estate PlanningFamily Planning

Financial Advisor Magazine

Parents Ditch 529 Plans and Embrace Bitcoin for College Savings

February 3, 2025

BitcoinCollege Savings

CBS News

What’s the minimum you should deposit in a CD?

June 27, 2024

“I would look at the after tax return with interest plus principal that you would like to have on the back end.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Savings & CDsInterest Rates

CNBC

Want to retire early? Answer 1 question first, says financial planner

September 8, 2022

“If you can be articulate about what’s important to you, your vision is clear.”

— Jim Crider, CFP®
Early RetirementValues-Based Planning

More from CNBC:

Forbes

Alternative Ways to Invest Your Health Savings Account (HSA)

Fortune

How to Stay on Budget When Prices Increase

Money.com

Parents Buy Homes in College Towns

InvestmentNews

Advisers: Billionaires Tax Proposal Could Expand to Other Income Levels

InvestmentNews

Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship Not a Concern for Advisers

ThinkAdvisor

How to Protect Portfolios When Inflation Hits: Advisors’ Advice

ThinkAdvisor

What to Tell Young Clients on FIRE to Retire: Advisors’ Advice

ThinkAdvisor

No Client Exodus From Crypto After FTX Collapse, Advisors Say

Financial Planning Magazine

SEC Fights ‘Dangerous’ Gamification of Retail Investing

Financial Planning Magazine

Millennials and Gen Z Investors Jolted by Market Downturn

ETF.com

Are Financial Advisors Behind the Crypto Curve?

Investor’s Business Daily

Target-Date Fund Risk: Putting Your Retirement on Autopilot May Cost You

The Crypto Radio

Bitcoin or Bust: Advisors Risk Losing Clients

NerdWallet (syndicated via MarketWatch)

It’s Not Free Money: Know the Costs and Risks Before You Tap Your Home Equity

March 10, 2022 · By Barbara Marquand

Podcast Appearances

36 appearances

Schelling Point

Bitcoin Is a Tool, Not a Plan (October 2026)

WTF Divorce

#Divorce 202: Investment Planning for Life After Divorce (December 2024)

Let’s Talk Business (Ep. 274)

Perspectives on Cryptocurrency and the Role of Bitcoin (March 2025)

TFTC

How to Make Everyone You Know Understand Bitcoin (November 2024)

Hosting Bitcoin

Why You Need Bitcoin in Your Financial Plan (December 2024)

Bitcoin Fundamentals (Preston Pysh)

Bitcoin Allocation in a Changing Monetary Standard (2025)

Bitcoin Fundamentals (Preston Pysh)

Bitcoin and Traditional Finance in 2024

Millennial Investing (The Investor’s Podcast)

What Is Money?

Millennial Investing (The Investor’s Podcast)

Bitcoin & Financial Independence

Redeemed Legion Podcast (Ep. 21)

Faith, Finance, and Bitcoin with Jim Crider

Bitcoin Reformation Podcast (Ep. 023)

More Than Wealth & Bitcoin: A Conversation with Jim Crider

Money and Mortgages Podcast (Adam Coleman)

The Evolution of Money: Insights on Bitcoin

The Couple-preneurs Show

What Is Real Financial Planning?

The Block Reward Podcast

Bitcoin is Money that Makes Sense

Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast

The Black Sheep of Financial Planning

Good Egg Investments

What Financial Planners Can Do for Your Life

Elements Financial Planning

The Disciplined Approach to Rapid Firm Growth

Amateur Investors Podcast

Jim Crider: 800% Returns in One Year

BTC Sessions

Why Are We Bullish? Denver Bitcoin Conference

Steve Sanduski — Between Now & Success

DMA BNAS with Jim Crider

Mark Struczewski Podcast

Interview with Jim Crider

Famvestor

Financial Planning for Young Families

Appeal to Reason

Optionality in Financial Planning

AJ Osborne Podcast

How to Align Your Goals

Empowered & Unapologetic

Episode 75 with Jim Crider

Faith Positive Radio

Increase Your Faith with Greater Joy at Work

Audible — Find What Is Most Important to You

Episode 255 with Jim Crider

Beyond the Rut

Hiring a Financial Planner — BtR 278

Eternal Entrepreneur

Interview with Jim Crider

Military Veteran Dad

Why Not Me Mindset with Jim Crider

LifeBlood Podcast

Intentional Living with Jim Crider

Business Podcast

What Is Real? with Jim Crider

Business Podcast

Interview with Jim Crider

Bitcoin Made Simple

Financial Independence with Jim Crider

Bitcoin Financial Advisors Network

BTC Financial Advisor Roundtable

Bitcoin Financial Advisors Network

Bitcoin Is Not a Financial Plan — But It Should Be Part of It

Media Inquiry?

Jim Crider is available for interviews, podcast appearances, and expert commentary on financial planning, retirement strategy, and values-based wealth management.