Get Ready Before Life Happens
Create Your In-Case-of-Emergency Plan. Use the free Financial Readiness Plan to organize what matters, prepare the people you trust, and build your Financial First Aid Kit.
I’m Tony Steuer, Financial Readiness Advocate, award-winning author, and podcast host. I help people prepare before life happens by asking better questions, organizing what matters, and making more thoughtful financial decisions.
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Build Your Financial First Aid Kit
Your Financial Readiness Plan helps you build your in-case-of-emergency Financial First Aid Kit.
It helps you organize the information, documents, contacts, conversations, and decisions that matter so you and the people you trust can respond when life happens.
Use the Plan to:
- Identify gaps and open questions
- Organize essential financial and personal information
- Prepare for important conversations
- Clarify who may need to step in and what they will need
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 Recognize red flags and know when to verify information or seek qualified help
- Choose practical next steps
- Make things easier for the people who count on you
Move at your own pace. Start with the area that matters most today.
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Use the Plan to:
- Identify gaps and open questions
- Organize essential financial and personal information
- Prepare for important conversations
- Clarify who may need to step in and what they will need
- Make things easier for the people who count on you
Move at your own pace. Start with the area that matters most today.
Why Preparation Changes OutcomesÂ
Life transitions often bring financial decisions, family conversations, new responsibilities, and situations where trustworthy information matters.Â
Preparation creates options. It gives you more time to understand your choices, involve the right people, recognize potential problems, and make thoughtful decisions before circumstances become urgent.
Better questions create better decisions before life happens.
Hi, I'm Tony
For close to 40 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of insurance, consumer advocacy, financial education, and real-life decision-making.
I’ve seen the difference preparation makes when important decisions become urgent.
My approach is also shaped by Wilderness First Responder and whitewater rescue training. Those experiences reinforced lessons I had also learned through financial work: preparation creates options, assess before acting, communicate clearly, understand your resources, and know when to bring in qualified help.
Today, I help people prepare before life happens by asking better questions, organizing what matters, recognizing red flags, understanding their options, and making more thoughtful financial decisions.
I believe consumer-first best practices, good judgment, and better questions are some of the strongest forms of financial protection.
Get Ready is about more than organizing your financial life. It’s about becoming more prepared, capable, and thoughtful in the decisions you make before life happens.
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Conversations That Help You Prepare
The Get Ready: Before Life Happens podcast brings together qualified professionals, authors, advocates, and other trusted voices with relevant knowledge, experience, research and perspective.
Each conversation helps you ask better questions, add context, discover trusted resources, and make more thoughtful decisions.
Reaching listeners in 130 countries and territories.
The Get Ready Newsletter: Ideas to Help You Prepare Before Life Happens
The Get Ready Newsletter brings together:
- One practical question
- Featured podcast conversations
- Books, projects, tools, research, and other resources worth knowing about
- Consumer-first best practices and scam-awareness insights
- One practical action to strengthen your Financial Readiness Plan
Along the way, I share lessons drawn from financial experience, emergency preparedness, and conversations with qualified people.
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Your support helps:
- Keep the Financial Readiness Plan free
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Use these resources to build on your Financial Readiness Plan, strengthen your Financial First Aid Kit, and explore important questions in greater depth as your life and responsibilities change.
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