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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,
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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at
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will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,
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as well as a focus on health and wellnent. Now,
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let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson as together we
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start with Asking Good Questions.
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Hello, this is your host, Benita bell Anderson. Thank you
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so much for joining us today on Ask Good Questions.
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I have a special guest today with me, John Johnson,
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and I am going to give you a little bit
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of information about him. Actually, I'm going to start with
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telling you the story of how I met John. So
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I want to welcome John to the studio. And I
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went through a horrific divorce about it's been about twenty
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five years ago, and actually moved my youngest daughter and
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me to Saint George, Utah, where she was attending a
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brand new performing arts high school. And I was just
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in a total funk. And I went to like this
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marketing meeting and I sat next to this guy named
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John Johnson, who happened to be a Northwestern Mutual agent,
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and I said, Oh, I need to restart my life
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and I need to do this and that. So that's
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how I actually started. He was actually helping me restart
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my life. So welcome John, Thank you, Thank you. John
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is actually here in Saint George, Utah with me, but
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he's at in his studio and I'm in my studio.
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So let me tell you a little bit about John.
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He actually had a career before the whole life insurance gig.
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And we're calling today and this was John's I thought
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this was pretty clever on John's part. You have a life,
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you need life insurance. We are going to talk about
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the scintillating topic of having life insurance today. You're going
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to be so glad you paid attention to this episode.
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But let me tell you a little bit about John. First,
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he transitioned from a twenty five year career in ophthalmology,
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biomedical photography, medical education, ANYI research, what's any I research?
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National student health.
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Okay, okay, just in case anybody doesn't know, and clinical care,
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and he left that industry to go into financial services
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and it was really, really, really challenging for him. I'm
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going to have him tell a little bit more about that.
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But he started off with the bank. He completed his
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first year as a special agent. He was awarded Agent
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of the Year. Did you get a big head, John
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when all that happened?
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No, I just I put up with it.
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Yeah. And he was lives leader for a new Northwestern
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Mutual District agency in Saint George, Utah, and it really
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helped get him off the ground with that. Over the
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next twenty six years, he built an insurance an investment
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practice as Southern Utah's senior financial advisor, and he helped
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clients with their personal financial goals, utilizing facts, sound financial
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planning principles, and strategy or strategy or strategies. If I
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could talk, He's a fiduciary, which means he always puts
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the client's interests first, and he built and maintained long lasting,
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trusted relationships over all that time. John was a great
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mentor for me because when I met John was right
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when I was transitioning into figuring out what do I do?
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And it was actually John that said, you should look
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at this as a career. You'd be good at it.
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So do you have anything that you want to add
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to that.
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Well, it's recruiting good people, is what we did. You know,
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we started an agency in southern Utah, in Saint George,
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and we wanted some good people and we didn't have
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very many good people. And I thought you were, you know,
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with your background education, you would be good at what
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you do. So I could see in the crystal ball
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all these wonderful things happening to you over the next
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thirty years or so.
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Right, Well, yeah, it seems crazy that it's been that.
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You know, it's been a long time now, but John
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and I kind of lost track of each other, and
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recently we've reconnected when I became a snowbird and ended
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up in Saint George again, and so that's been really
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fun to reconnect with John. And when I was thinking, I,
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because I do financial topics obviously along with health and
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wellness topics, I thought, why would I Who would I
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go to if I wanted to talk about life insurance?
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And I thought, I couldn't think of anybody but John,
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because he's like the master and he knows. And actually,
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we've got some good stories that we're going to tell,
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both the good and the bad side of why you
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should have something. So we are hoping that this will
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spur you to do that and to look into it.
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If you have any questions, there's a way for you
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to get in touch with me after the show, and
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you can go to the podcast website and all that.
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So anyway, well, John, let's get into it. This idea,
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you know why you need life insurance? We would you
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tell someone if they're going on I don't know if
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I need any of that stuff? Why should I?
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It's a real hard sell because it's not like something
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that you can put your hands on. It's a promise
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from a company that they'll pay something if you die.
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And going through the process of figuring out how much
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life insurance you need is not a mystery. It's a
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matter of replacing a lot of things and taking care
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of a lot of expenses that you want to not
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leave other people that you care about. And that's one
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of the things that we have to think about, is
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if you care about someone, you probably should have life insurance.
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And a rule of thumb has been for many, many
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years to have as much life insurance as approximately ten
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times your income. But I think with inflation and with
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changes and with debt and everything, realistically that's not even enough.
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So you think about if you have a mortgage and
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if you have monthly expenses that you want to take
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care of, you need it really max out as much
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as you can qualify for, right And the key is
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to qualify for as much as you really need and
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then figure out how to put that in the form
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of a life insurance contract that's supportable.
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Right you pretty much? I mean, like my best example
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of someone you know, like young people I remember back
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in the day, right when we were young, And I
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am thinking of an assistant, a current assistant, somebody that's
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working for the registraed investment advisory firm that I'm with.
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She recently lost her husband, thirty one year old guy,
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and you know, just all of a sudden he drops dead,
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and you know, it's like some medical issues that nobody
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knew he even had. So here she is, and thank
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goodness she worked for for us because she had been
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taken care of. But most thirty thirty year olds think, oh,
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I've got lots of time.
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Oh yeah, yeah, our immortality will fool you.
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Yeah yeah, absolutely, Well okay, so you know, I want
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I'm hoping that we can make this as interesting as possible.
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And even if it's if it's like, oh I don't
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want to hear this, I want you to listen because
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this is super important. So John, let's talk about the
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different types of insurance first, because those young people they
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should get what well, initially.
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Initially most people, most younger young people have a budget,
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and everyone should have a budget, but you have to
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budget accordingly. And so if you set aside so much
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in your budget for life insurance, you figure out what
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kind of insurance that would be, it probably would be
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term insurance. Term insurance is the absolute least expensive insurance,
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and term insurance is great because it does its job
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whether you need an hour later. The price on term
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insurance generally either stays level for twenty or thirty years,
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or it goes up a little bit each year after
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a certain age, so it does get pretty pricey after
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a while. But you know, when you're young, and I say,
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when you're young and you don't know some of these things,
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a lot of people will just say, well, I'm going
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to buy term and invest the difference instead of no,
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not at all, buy term and invest the difference. And
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people never invest the difference. They just they buy a
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term and then they spend the difference. And so it's
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important to explain educate how best to buy insurance. It
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comes in a lot of flavors. Okay, it's like you
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can buy whole life insurance, you can buy term insurance,
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you can buy a hybrid and hybrid policy that has
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a lot of term insurance in it, which reduces the
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cost of it. But it depends on what you want
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that insurance to do. If you want it to be
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in place when you die, tell me when you're going
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to die, and I'll tell you how much turb insurance
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to buy it. So it's that simple. Now, if you
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don't know when you're going to die, then you might
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want to consider buying something that is flexible and will
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work in the event of many problems that people have
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is paying premium. Sometimes down the road we've had people
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that lapse their policies and don't have insurance at the
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time that they need it. So it's important to to
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plan accordingly and give all the options of the types
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of insurance and price them according to what the person's
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budget is, what it can stand. The other part of
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it is that you know, we wouldn't even be interested
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in life insurance if we didn't care about others. We
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don't care about having, you know, to pay off pay
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off a lot of debt, payoff of mortgage, payoff a heelock,
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or credit cards, and have monthly income. So some people
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think that if you have a million dollars of life insurance,
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that's really about all you need, and or two million, okay,
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that can go really fast. And some people would say, well,
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I can just live off the interest. Well, what kind
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of interest do you get today? Maybe four or five percent?
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Maybe maybe so you know, maybe if you get four
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or five percent on a million dollar or two million
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dollar policy, that might get you in a comfortable spot.
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But I think using some of the planning tools that
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you and I've used and that you currently use, I
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think that you can really narrow it down and pinpoint
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some of the better numbers that people are interested in
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versus estimates, right, and then find the cost of that
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insurance contract that will do the job. But you know,
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insurance is such a it's a hideous thing to try
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and sell. I'm sorry, it's it's it's not fun. It's
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you know, like and the people that sell it is
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you know, it's like insurance salesmen are like someplace maybe
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a little bit above the car salesman or the used
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car salesmen, or the lawyer or the attorney.
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Well you don't think you don't think twice about insuring,
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you know, doing the homeowner's insurance or the car insurance
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exactly exactly. People a lot of times don't even don't
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think about it ensure in their life. Now we'll get
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all the crazy things that that happened on a rate
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and like there's been all these plain disasters lately, Holy cow.
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Those people would never, you know, in a million years
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think I'm not going to see tomorrow.
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Yeah, so you can't put a dollar amount on your life.
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I mean, try to put a dollar amount on your life,
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and and that's that's where you start thinking more about
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what you're worth.
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Yeah, yeah, Well you know what I'm thinking is I
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think that stories are the best way to talk about
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life insurance. So you told me a story about your
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grandfather that I would love to have you tell.
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Oh, okay, well yeah there.
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Was you have Do you have the picture? Can you
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show it? Can put the picture up?
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And I don't have it. You know, I didn't get
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up and go in the other room and get it.
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But I'm just saying that my grandfather was a businessman
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in the twenties, well, ye know, in the early twenties,
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nineteen twenties and before that. So in nineteen twenty nine,
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he and his wife were going to a mother's day
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outing and they had a car accident and my grandmother
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was injured enough where she passed away within a day
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or so. But my grandfather was injured and he lived
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another five months. And when he died, he had made
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arrangements for his three daughters, who survived the accident, to
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have enough money to go to college. They had he hired,
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he had an executor of the trust, and they that
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person was responsible for taking care of all the bills,
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and the house was paid for and I mean it's
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just like such a nice transition to security because he
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had life insurance.
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Were the ages of the girls.
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Eleven, seven and four, So they lived in the home