Today on Radical Personal Finance, we're going to talk about tough times and some disaster scenarios,

and we're going to talk about how, hopefully, proper prior planning with your money can lead to better results for you and your loved ones

when disaster strikes. And the Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host.

Thank you for being with me. This is the show where we work hard to provide you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement that you need to live a rich and meaningful life now

while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

A lot of difficult things going on around the world. I don't know that money is

going to improve them, but let's do some planning in case it can for you.

I've been wanting to do a show here about disaster planning.

There have been a number of things that are kind of

coalesced. I wanted to do it at the beginning of June. You know, June 1 is the start of

hurricane season here in South Florida. That's our, some of you guys have to live with

earthquakes and forest fires and tornadoes.

Those all have unique characteristics.

But in general, the only natural disasters

that we have to plan for here in Florida.

Well, not the only, but earthquakes are not a major factor. Winter

blizzards and ice storms are not a major factor. The big one for us is

hurricanes. And then hurricanes sometimes can be associated with tornadoes but we don't have

anything like the tornado activity that those of you in the Midwest the United States

have. So this time of year I always turn my head to hurricane season. I

consider you know, am I prepared to go through some hurricanes with my family?

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