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Better Financial Decisions Start With Listening

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Financial Readiness Briefing: ideas, conversations, research, and practical steps to help you prepare before life happens. In wilderness medicine, one of the first things you learn is to establish rapport. You introduce yourself, explain why you are there, and listen. L...

Oct 10, 2026

Are You Set Up For Your Long Term Goals?

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Financial Readiness Briefing; ideas, conversations, research, and practical steps to help you prepare before life happens. When scouting a rapid, you start at the bottom and work your way upstream. You want to make sure that you end up where you want to end up by unders...

Oct 03, 2026

Financial Confidence Starts With Small Habits

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Financial Readiness Briefing: ideas, conversations, research, and practical steps to help you prepare before life happens. When I took a whitewater rescue course, we swam the same rapid over and over with variations with no gear, with swim fins and with a boog...

Sep 26, 2026

Does Everyone Know Their Role?

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter—ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. On a whitewater rafting or other outdoor trip, we assign leadership roles before setting out. Experience, training, and willingness helped determine who would s...

Sep 19, 2026

Calm is a readiness skill

Hi, welcome to this week’s edition of The Get Ready Newsletter. Opening Thought: Calm is a readiness skill In wilderness first response, one of the first lessons is simple: slow down before you rush in. When a scene feels chaotic, adrenaline tells us to move quickly. The optimal response is to...

Sep 12, 2026

Survey the scene before you decide

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter—ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. The Situation When rescuers arrive on a scene, a basic rule is to avoid becoming another patient. Before rushing in, you survey the scene. You pause, you make ...

Sep 05, 2026

Talk About Money Before Life Happens

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter: ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. Prior to going whitewater rafting, it was important to talk to the participants about what to expect. People often had anxiety about what to expect. Having a co...

Aug 29, 2026

Why Listening Matters?

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter—ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. When working as a first responder, how you talk to a patient is critical. You want to be in control of your emotions, be confident and reassuring. You want to ca...

Aug 22, 2026

What are your money decisions signaling?

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter—ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. When there’s an emergency, our first instinct is to immediately jump in and take action. What I learned from first responder and whitewater rescue training is t...

Aug 15, 2026

Do better decisions begin with logic or emotion?

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter; ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. We recently bought a new car. The numbers mattered: price, operating costs, reliability, and how the purchase fit with our other financial priorities. However, ...

Aug 08, 2026

How do you know which financial advice to trust?

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter: ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. Opening Thought: We have access to more financial information than ever. More information does not lead to greater financial understanding. Financial guidanc...

Aug 01, 2026

Recognizing financial warning signs

Hi, Welcome to this week’s Get Ready Newsletter: 10 ideas, conversations, questions, and resources to help you prepare before life happens. Here are this week’s 10 things. 1. The Big Idea A nationally representative UK study* found that almost one in five adults, including one in five women a...

Jul 25, 2026

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