Retiring Right
We Kinda Messed Up Our Retirement
Joe went back to work, Wendy’s betting on real estate—how one couple is figuring it out.
Illustration: Mia Oberländer for Bloomberg Businessweek
In January 2025, Wendy Ortiz posted a TikTok urging viewers to start saving for retirement, even if they thought it was too late. She’d had a successful career in sales but had never attended to this aspect of planning for the future. “I’ve done nothing to protect everything that we’ve built,” she said.