Conversations to Help You Ask Better Questions About Money
Hosted by Financial Readiness Advocate Tony Steuer, Get Ready: Before Life Happens features experts, authors, advocates, educators, and other trusted voices sharing useful resources, practical ideas, and perspectives to help you ask better questions, make informed decisions and prepare before life happens.
- Listened to in 130 countries and territories
- 30,000+ podcast downloads and YouTube views
- Ranked #2 in Financial Education and #4 in Financial Literacy on Goodpods
- Named one of Feedspot’s 100 Best Financial Literacy Podcasts to Listen to in 2026
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Explore video conversations with experts, authors, advocates, educators, and other trusted voices sharing useful resources, ideas, and perspectives that can help you make informed decisions and prepare before life happens.
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Explore video conversations with experts, authors, advocates, educators, and other trusted voices sharing ideas that can help you make informed decisions and prepare for life’s decisions and transitions.
Explore the conversations on YouTubeAbout the Podcast
Get Ready: Before Life Happens features conversations with qualified professionals, authors, advocates, educators, and other trusted voices who bring relevant knowledge, experience, research, resources, and perspective.
Tony asks questions, adds context, and explores how each guest’s work, project, or resource can help people prepare, make informed decisions, recognize potential problems, or guide someone else when life happens.
Topics We Explore
◆ Stepping In & Emergency Preparedness
◆ Purpose & Better Decisions
◆ Life, Health & Care
◆ Your Support Team
◆ Insurance & Risk Protection
◆ Estate & Final Wishes
◆ Property, Assets & Digital Life
◆ Financial Organization & Planning
◆ Philanthropy & Impact
◆ Work, Retirement & Life Transitions
◆ Future Ready
◆ Consumer Advocacy & Protection
What You’ll Take Away
◆ Better questions to guide financial and life decisions
◆ Practical insights and consumer-first best practices you can apply
◆ Context that helps you understand your options and recognize red flags
◆ Perspectives from experienced and diverse voices
◆ Books, tools, projects, research, and other resources worth knowing about
Who These Conversations Are For
The podcast is for individuals, families, professionals, educators, and advocates who want to make informed, values-aligned decisions and help others do the same.
Whether you’re building your own Financial Readiness Plan or guiding clients, family members, students, or people in your community, each episode is designed to help you ask better questions, understand the context, discover useful resources, and choose a practical next step.
From Ideas to Action
The podcast introduces ideas, perspectives, questions, and useful resources. Your free Financial Readiness Plan helps you put what you learn into practice by creating your in-case-of-emergency Financial First Aid Kit.
◆ Identify what matters
◆ Organize important information
◆ Recognize gaps, red flags, and questions that need more attention
◆ Prepare for decisions and transitions
◆ Choose practical next steps
◆ Make it easier for someone to step in when needed
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Support Get ReadyAbout the Host
Tony Steuer is a Financial Readiness Advocate, award-winning author, and host of the Get Ready: Before Life Happens podcast. Drawing on nearly 40 years of experience in insurance, financial education, and consumer advocacy, including decades as a fee-based life insurance consultant, he helps people create an in-case-of-emergency plan, ask better questions, understand consumer-first best practices, recognize red flags, find trusted resources and prepare before life happens. His approach is also shaped by his experience as a Wilderness First Responder and whitewater rescue instructor.
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