11: Out Front in Long-Term Care Planning - Mickey Batsell
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Mickey Batsell is a leading authority on long-term care planning and related issues, with 40+ years professional experience in helping individuals and families navigate the path of preparing for the devastating cost of a long-term care event. While working with traditional insurance policies in the mid-1970s, his employer introduced a new product called long-term care insurance. Around that time, he began to be faced with aging relatives who would likely need this kind of help. He set about learning everything I could in this relatively new field.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm creator and host, |
| 0:16.8 | Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents |
| 0:22.8 | to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today I'm delighted |
| 0:29.9 | to bring you our featured guest, Mickey Batsall. Mickey, are you using your talents and doing |
| 0:36.2 | work that you love? |
| 0:38.6 | Absolutely. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, it's great to be with you today. |
| 0:42.3 | Look forward to chatting. |
| 0:49.3 | Mickey Bassel is a leading authority on long-term care planning and related issues. |
| 0:56.0 | He has over 40 years of professional and family experience in helping individuals and families navigate the path of preparing for the possible impact of the devastating cost of a long-term care event. |
| 1:03.0 | Mickey, that's a quick overview. |
| 1:05.0 | Take a few minutes and tell our listeners around the world what you're doing now that has you fired up and enthusiastic about your career. |
| 1:13.3 | Well, I'll tell you, Don, I've always enjoyed helping people. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm at the stage right now that I truly get more enjoyment out of helping people than I do out of anything else related to whatever that relationship might bring. |
| 1:27.0 | It's rewarding. It's nice to see |
| 1:29.5 | the light bulbs go off in people's eyes when they understand that you do have a solution for |
| 1:34.6 | one of their problems. It's not really worked for me. My colleagues from college and high school |
| 1:40.2 | who retired 10, 15, 20 years ago, they keep after me saying, well, Mickey, when are you |
| 1:44.8 | going to retire? My response is retire from what? I mean, I love what I do. It's not work for me. |
| 1:53.5 | I love that. What are the driving issues in long-term care? Just take a minute or so and let |
| 2:00.1 | listeners know what's happening in the field |
| 2:03.3 | that you've been a pioneer in for so long? Well, there are a couple of perspectives to look at. |
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