The Get Ready Newsletter

The Get Ready newsletter includes weekly action items and recommendations to organize and monitor all areas of your financial life. You’ll also notifications for new episodes of The Get Ready Money Podcast.

A Better Way to Think About Financial Readiness

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter: 10 ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. Thank you for being a subscriber. As you've probably noticed, I’ve been trying out different formats to help make this newsletter as useful and easy to...

Jul 11, 2026

What Family Money Conversations Teach Us

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter. This week, I’ve been thinking about family money conversations. Financial readiness is not only about becoming financially prepared. It is about becoming financially thoughtful. Preparedness is the outcome. Thoughtful decision-making is the practic...

Jul 04, 2026

Better questions help your Financial Readiness Plan

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter. This week, I’ve been thinking about the role questions play in helping people learn, prepare, and make better decisions. When we are curious, we ask questions. Those questions help us understand what matters, who needs to be involved, what informa...

Jun 27, 2026

Financial Resilience Starts Before the Scam

Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter. This week, I’ve been thinking about financial resilience. Financial resilience grows when we know what to watch for, who to call, and when to pause before acting. Financial readiness helps us build the habits, buffers, conversations, and awareness we n...

Jun 20, 2026

Designing Your Next Chapter

Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter. This week, I’ve been thinking about the second half of life and how much of it depends on our preparation for this transition. Retirement, aging parents, health, end-of-life planning, purpose, identity, cognitive decline, and financial security are oft...

Jun 13, 2026

Are You Living Your Financial Life With Intention?

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter. This week, I’ve been thinking about intention, especially the importance of reviewing the financial decisions, risks, and assumptions that quietly shape our lives. So many financial decisions are shaped by forces we do not always see: our money sto...

May 30, 2026

How Better Questions Protect Financial Agency

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter. I’m trying a new format focused on one reflection, one question, a few useful recommendations, and one readiness step to help you prepare before life happens and to help you ask better questions. What I’m Thinking About This Week This week, I’...

May 23, 2026

The Skills AI Won’t Replace

Hi, Happy Saturday, and thanks for being part of the Get Ready Movement. AI is changing how we access information, make decisions, and work with experts. This week’s issue looks at what still matters most: judgment, communication, preparation, and trust. 🧭 This Week’s Lens The future of financ...

May 16, 2026

Health, Identity, and Life Transitions

Happy Saturday, and thanks for being part of the Get Ready Movement. Money decisions are becoming more connected to how we live, grow, and adapt through life’s transitions. This week, one theme stood out: financial readiness expands when we connect money decisions to health, identity, and the tr...

May 09, 2026

Purpose, Identity, and the Next Chapter of Retirement

Hi, Happy Saturday, and thanks for being part of the Get Ready Movement. We spend decades planning for retirement financially. The real challenge often begins after retirement, when identity, purpose, and daily life start to shift. 🧭 This Week’s Lens This week, one theme stood out: retirement is...

May 02, 2026

Financial Resilience Starts With Your Why

Hi, The more I look at how people make money decisions, the more it comes back to one idea: behavior makes sense when we understand the story behind it. Financial resilience grows from awareness, context, and connection, not just knowledge. NOTE: If you’re receiving this for the first time, welc...

Apr 25, 2026

Preparation Builds Confidence at Every Stage of Life

Hi, Happy Saturday, and thanks for being part of the Get Ready Movement. This week, one theme stood out: while technology is changing how we live and work; trust, empathy, and human connection still drive our most important financial decisions. Inside this week:• Why human connection still matter...

Apr 18, 2026

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The Get Ready Newsletter

The Get Ready newsletter includes weekly action items and recommendations to organize and monitor all areas of your financial life. You’ll also notifications for new episodes of The Get Ready Money Podcast.