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I Received This Email From A Married Couple | Shell-Shocked

This looks like an article on Medicare, I assure you that you can call it insurance, portfolio strategy, it will not matter: this example repeats on pretty much every single financial topic.

I received this email [names not revealed, ever], and here was my response. I wasn’t quite sure what to think or how to feel. Sad, mad, speechless: yes, all of it.

Communication is a two-way street, the public underestimates the importance of healthcare cost planning. “People like me” need to do better in clearly explaining topics. Financial topics are too important, for a long list of reasons.

Not on YouTube yet, maybe later. Here on Jae’s Corner first.

Pride is overrated, this is not the time for that. It is far better than you know. On this end, the communicator [not me in this instance, now corrected, I hope], bears at least the equal amount of the responsibility, to make sure that you are comfortable.

Thank goodness the couple had the common sense to realize that they might’ve had an incomplete picture.

This is my article that was published on Kiplinger’s on Thursday, March 28.

I had a 1000 word budget. It wasn’t anywhere near enough. So I made this 30-minute video, unscripted as usual.

While I am not a person that chases hyperbole, I can say that a single fact in the subscriber posts, handled well or handled poorly, can either cost or save you thousands of dollars. Not to mention the reduction of the emotional toll of not precisely knowing.

So when I say that the subscription is worth it? Yep.

And this is for a single topic, and healthcare cost planning is the easy, fundamental, but VITAL beginning of topics.

I am always dissatisfied with my own work, but weirdly, I like this video, 30 min, me talking at breakneck speed, didn’t forget stuff, whew.