Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, insight, skills, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

Today on the show we tackle a thorny financial

planning problem. This week I was working with a consulting client of mine,

someone that I have worked with here and there over the years.

And this particular client is a very young man.

He is financially competent, and he was unexpectedly diagnosed with a very sincere, very significant and serious form of cancer in his middle 20s.

He originally wrote to me after his initial diagnosis

and said that he wished he had taken my advice

to buy more disability income insurance,

but that he thought it really would never relate to him.

So he had chosen not to. But after so I tell that to you if you have heard

me give advice or if there's something in your personal financial plan that you know you should

do as in by disability insurance, by life insurance, get it done because this

particular young man was diagnosed with this serious and aggressive form of cancer in his

early 20s.

For the last few years he has battled the cancer and at present the prognosis is good.

The cancer has gone into remission and he has recently married his gong time girlfriend who was

with him through the medical trial, they have

recently married, and are now building their life together as a married couple.

But of course, this particular type of health diagnosis and this particular type of health history changes the

normal tone of a relationship a little bit. It brings mortality much more

quickly into view, causes a more intense seriousness, and much more

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