Get Your S*** Together: End of Life Planning with Chanel Reynolds
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Jesse chats with Chanel Reynolds, author of What Matters Most and founder of the Get Your Shit Together website, dedicated to helping people navigate the confusing, difficult, and emotional aspects of end-of-life planning. In 2009 Chanel's husband was killed in a road cycling accident, and she found herself, very suddenly, a widow, a single parent, and overwhelmed dealing with the many medical, legal, and family issues that death brings with it.
Today Chanel helps others plan for the what-ifs and eventualities of life, and encourages people to start having conversations with their spouses, parents, and other loved ones about what they want when it comes to their end-of-life. Although these can be difficult conversations -- and people often avoid them for that reason -- she recommends to start by focusing on the love, and how you want your loved ones to feel, and what quality of life means to them. From there, you can visualize what end of life might look like and start the basic planning steps: having an emergency fund, documenting your digital accounts and passwords, preparing a will, and power of attorney for medical decisions.
You can learn more about Chanel, her book, and her work here:
https://getyourshittogether.org
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 497 for YNAB, where we teach |
| 0:09.6 | you four rules to help you stop the paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money. |
| 0:15.3 | Today we welcome Chanel Reynolds, founder of Get You A Shit Together, dot org, and author |
| 0:19.6 | of What Matters Most. |
| 0:21.4 | This is an interesting conversation because we talk about a subject that is really important, |
| 0:25.2 | but also can be, well, kind of sad, and something a lot of us tend to not want to worry or |
| 0:31.7 | even talk about. |
| 0:33.2 | That subject is end of life planning. |
| 0:36.4 | We touch on everything from trust, to wills, life insurance, and what we can do to prepare |
| 0:40.8 | for what Chanel calls the worst possible scenarios. |
| 0:45.0 | During this interview, we talked about Chanel's story. |
| 0:47.1 | She founded Get You A Shit Together after her worst thing possible happened to her. |
| 0:51.3 | Her husband was killed in an accident, and after a week in a coma with unrecoverable injuries, |
| 0:56.5 | she had no choice but to remove his medical support, and in her words, found herself extremely |
| 1:01.3 | overwhelmed, underprepared, and a massively grieving widow, and single parent to a five-year-old |
| 1:08.2 | son and middle school-aged stepdaughter. |
| 1:11.5 | This is Chanel's story of how she navigated this season of life, and she is now helping |
| 1:16.5 | others do the same. |
| 1:17.8 | Now, let's get this episode started. |
| 1:19.8 | Please welcome Chanel Reynolds. |
| 1:24.8 | I do have a little bit of a problem, though, because I never swear, and I grew up never |
| 1:31.1 | swearing, my dad didn't swear, and so when we had someone at YNAB, one of the team members |
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