Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: Money and End-of-Life Care with Cameron Huddleston
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Award winning author and personal finance journalist Cameron Huddleston joins the show to discuss the uncomfortable realities of managing parents' finances through end of life care and after their death. From wills, power of attorney documents, to simply knowing where your parents have all their bank accounts, Cameron offers some practical advice on what things you need to look out for when helping your older family members manage their finances.
Of course, personal finance is a, well, personal thing for many people, and parents may be reluctant to share the details of their money. Cameron offers some tips for breaking the ice on money conversations, and how to approach parents and loved ones respectfully.
You can find more about Cameron Huddleston and her book, Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk, at her website:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Meakum, and this is podcast number 516 for YNAB, where we teach |
| 0:09.7 | you four rules to help you stop paying attention to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more |
| 0:13.7 | money today. |
| 0:14.7 | I am very happy to have with me on the show Cameron Huddleston. |
| 0:17.5 | She is the author of Mom and Dad. |
| 0:19.5 | We need to talk. |
| 0:20.5 | How to have essential conversations with your parents about their finances. |
| 0:25.0 | She is also an award winning journalist with 20 years of experience writing about personal |
| 0:29.1 | finance. |
| 0:30.1 | Her work appears in Forbes, Kiplingers, Chicago Tribune, MSN Yahoo, and many, many, many |
| 0:35.7 | more. |
| 0:36.7 | Cameron has a master's degree in economic journalism from American University, and |
| 0:40.3 | a BA in journalism, and Russian studies from Washington and Lee University. |
| 0:44.8 | So one thing that is interesting is Cameron has been or was a caregiver of her mother who |
| 0:51.1 | suffered from Alzheimer's for 12 years. |
| 0:53.8 | And we talk about how you can make something that is going to be hard no matter what, not |
| 0:59.7 | as hard, essentially. |
| 1:01.9 | And this topic of becoming a financial caregiver, willingly or reluctantly, perhaps. |
| 1:07.1 | We don't talk about it a lot in the personal finance space. |
| 1:09.7 | It's just not terribly popular, perhaps because it's hard. |
| 1:14.9 | So Cameron now works for an app called Careful, and it's the first service where they've |
| 1:21.5 | designed, they've designed it all around being the financial caregiver for a loved one. |
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