Get Ready: Before Life Happens Podcast
Get Ready: Before Life Happens brings together diverse voices, guides, and changemakers from around the world who are helping people and professionals navigate life’s what-ifs with clarity, integrity and confidence. Hosted by Financial Readiness Advocate Tony Steuer, the show explores the insights, stories, and tools that strengthen financial readiness and reshape how we think about money, life, aging, caregiving, resilience, and purpose. Want more? Join The Get Ready Movement at www.tonysteuer.com [CLAIM:D51LCAQS]
Episodes
The best financial plans start with who you are and the life you want to live.
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Mike Milligan, CFP and author of The One of a Kind Financial Plan Book about how to build a personalized financial plan and retirement strategy that aligns your money, values, and relationships with the life you want to live.
Takeaways
🔹 One-of-a-kind lives deserve one-of-a-kind f...
What if the next chapter of your career is an opportunity to design a life filled with meaning, contribution, and new possibilities?
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Maria Dastur, Founder of Second Half Community about rethinking retirement and designing a portfolio life that blends purpose, contribution, and financial security.
Key Takeaways:
🔹 A portfolio life diversifies multiple s...
Are you trading your health for money?
On this episode, I speak with Stevyn Guinnip, author of Grow Wellthy, about the idea of “health net worth,” the compounding effect of daily habits, and why retirement planning should focus on health span, not just life span.
Key Takeaways:
🔹 Your health is an asset that directly impacts your financial life.
🔹 Retirement planning should consider health spa...
Are you making financial decisions consciously, or being nudged by forces you do not see?
On this episode, I speak with Ceres Chua, Money Psychologist and Financial Coach about the hidden psychology shaping our financial decisions. We explore how unconscious biases, money scripts, and marketing language influence the way we think about spending, saving, and sufficiency.
Key Takeaways
🔹 Much of our financial deci...
With the right financial plan and clear intention, your goals become achievable, not abstract.
On this episode, I speak with Dr. Severine Bryan, Accredited Financial Counselor and host of The Dr. Sev Talks Money Podcast about how our money story shapes our decisions, how to process financial setbacks without shame, and why community, clarity, and a plan can help turn goals into reality.
Key Takeaways:
🔹 Financial succ...
When control shapes financial decisions, listening becomes the most important tool we have.
In Part 2, I spoke with Joy Slabaugh, CFP, about how advisors and advocates can thoughtfully respond when they suspect a power imbalance is shaping financial decisions.
🔹 Financial abuse is controlling someone’s ability to acquire, use, or maintain economic resources.
🔹 Advisors should be curious and let client...
Financial abuse often begins quietly, with small patterns of control that slowly reshape someone’s financial agency.
In part one of this two-part episode, Joy Slabaugh, CFP® and I explore what financial abuse is, how it shows up in relationships, and what advisors and families should be listening for.
Key Takeaways
🔹 Financial abuse is about control, using money to limit another person’s autonomy.
🔹 It oft...
AI is moving fast. The real question isn’t whether it will replace jobs. It’s which skills will still matter.
In this episode, Chris Heye and I explore how AI may reshape financial planning, why communication and coaching are rising in importance, and what advisors must develop to stay relevant in the next 3–5 years.
🔑 Key Takeaways
🔹Most technologies create more jobs than they destroy, but AI&rsquo...
Long-term care will impact most families, the question is whether you plan for it or react to it.
In this episode, Nathan Sanow breaks down what long-term care really means, how insurance works as a leverage tool, and why planning early protects both dignity and relationships.
Key Takeaways
🔹Everyone needs a long-term care plan whether or not it includes insurance.
🔹Medicare and traditional health insurance do not cov...
Philanthropy is more than writing a check, it’s an opportunity to shape the world you want to live in.
In this episode, Deborah Goldstein, Philanthropic Advisor and Founder of Enlightened Philanthropy, shares how philanthropy becomes a reflection of your values, your legacy, and your vision for the future.
Key Takeaways
🔹Philanthropy is an opportunity to create the world you want to live in.
🔹Giving starts with ...
Investing confidence begins with asking better questions and taking consistent action.
In this conversation, Diana Perkins shares how curiosity, emotional regulation, and asking better questions can shift you from reactive to confident, especially for women who’ve been conditioned to stay on the sidelines.
Key Takeaways
🔹Curiosity builds investing confidence by shifting you from reacting to responding.
🔹Wo...
Money decisions are rarely just about numbers. They’re shaped by identity, lived experience, values, and psychology, especially for people who are highly sensitive or hold marginalized identities.
In this conversation, Diana Yanez, Certified Financial Planner and host of the Highly Sensitive Money Podcast explores how understanding who you are and what you care about can help you build a healthier, more values-...
Retirement today looks nothing like it did a generation ago. With fewer pensions, longer lifespans, and more personal responsibility, the real question isn’t when you retire, it’s who you become next.
In this conversation, Joy Levin, Certified Professional Retirement Coach reframes retirement as an encore chapter; one rooted in values, meaning, community, and intentional experimentation.
Key Takeaways
🔹 Re...
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Rahkim Sabree, financial therapist and author of Overcoming Financial Trauma, about how our earliest experiences with money shape our behavior, stress responses, and sense of safety, often long before we have the language to understand what’s happening.
Rahkim explains that financial trauma isn’t a personal failure or a lack of knowledge. It&rsq...
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Els Lagrou, author and financial literacy expert, about why financial literacy alone isn’t enough and how financial resilience, inclusion, and wellbeing must be part of the conversation.
Els explains that even people with strong financial knowledge can experience stress and insecurity if they lack resilience. We explore what it means to absorb financi...
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Julie Pinkerton, CEO and founder of Evozen and creator of the ClientFirst platform, about why human connection, not algorithms, drives meaningful professional relationships.
Julie shares why the most effective way to grow your business often comes through peer relationships, how understanding behavioral styles improves communication, and why authenticity ma...
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Eric Blake, host of The Simply Retirement Podcast and founder of Blake Wealth Management to talk about how women are redefining retirement, decision-making, and what it means to use money intentionally.
As women become the primary recipients of the great wealth transition, Eric explains why traditional financial conversations need to evolve. We explore why ...
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Taj Chiu, divorce coach, about navigating divorce as both a financial and emotional transition, and how clarity, communication, and planning can help people move forward with greater confidence.
Taj reframes divorce not as a failure, but as a forcing function that invites reflection, growth, and better alignment with what comes next. We explore why knowledg...
What if learning about money felt more like running a lemonade stand than sitting in a classroom?
Can a video game improve financial literacy for kids? In this episode, Mac Gardner joins me to explore how Berryville teaches money, entrepreneurship, and real-world financial habits through hands-on experience.
Key Takeaways
🔹Financial literacy sticks when it’s fun, practical, and interactive.
🔹Berryville teaches m...
On this episode of Get Ready: Before Life Happens, I spoke with Sharan Kaur Varaitch, founder of Build and Conquer Financial Literacy, about her journey growing up paycheck to paycheck, supporting her family from a young age, and discovering how saving, investing, and asking better questions helped her build stability and purpose.
🔑 Key Takeaways
🔹 Financial literacy begins with lived experience rather than fo...
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