Why You Need Life Insurance
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
Audacy
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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At what point should you consider purchasing life insurance? And what kind? Term, whole life, etc? That's what we're discussing today with Gabriel from D.C. Have a money question? Email me here. “Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment. We love feedback so please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Better Off" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money https://apple.co/2pmVi50
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Better Off Bonus Call of the Week. |
| 0:06.0 | We're sponsored by Betterment, the largest independent online financial advisor. |
| 0:11.0 | You know the drill by now, but just in case you're new, you've got two chances |
| 0:15.1 | every week to get on the air with me, Jill. And why is that important? Because I actually was |
| 0:20.3 | trained to do this. I'm a certified financial planner. In fact, I am the Senior |
| 0:24.4 | CFP Board Ambassador and so I would love to be able to answer your financial |
| 0:29.4 | questions. So Tuesdays we do this better off bonus Call of the Week and then after our longer show on Thursdays |
| 0:36.1 | we have a listener question of the week. All you have to do is send us an email. |
| 0:40.0 | Ask Jill at better Off Podcast.com. |
| 0:44.0 | That's it, very easy. |
| 0:45.3 | And today we are talking to Gabriel from Washington, DC. |
| 0:50.2 | Hello Gabriel, welcome to the program. |
| 0:52.1 | What can we do for you? |
| 0:53.0 | Hi Jill, thanks for having you on. |
| 0:55.0 | Sure. So I am turning 30 this year and I'm switching careers after teaching for seven years and I'm starting law school in the fall. in planning to start a family in about another year and I know I should be getting life |
| 1:16.2 | insurance. |
| 1:17.2 | You sure it, wait again, let me, let's go back for a second. |
| 1:19.8 | You know you should be getting life insurance because why because if something were to happen to you |
| 1:25.8 | your wife wouldn't be able to pay the bills or like tell me the situation is she working |
| 1:30.8 | She's working she is also a teacher. Actually in DC we get paid pretty well especially if you're |
| 1:37.7 | high performing so she makes about 120,000 a year. Awesome. |
| 1:43.4 | And so, I mean, my question is really, I know we're going to start a family, I'm taking |
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