Should You Cancel Whole Life Insurance? + How to Budget Irregular Income | 610
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of whole life insurance and strategies for budgeting with irregular income.
Curious? Take The Free Money Stress Quiz! Ready? Buy Our Simplified Budget System Now! Budget besties, this episode is all about taking charge of your money instead of letting someone else—or a chaotic system—make the decisions for you. We’re sharing two real-life lessons from our coaching sessions that show just how powerful it can be to ask questions, understand the numbers, and create financial systems that actually work for your life. First, we’re talking about a couple who had both whole life and term life insurance, including a whole life policy purchased through a family member. After digging into the details, they realized the policy hadn’t been handled the way they thought it had—and at the same time, they were carrying massive credit card balances with interest rates around 28–29%. The numbers weren’t working in their favor. After asking more questions and making their own decision, they pulled approximately $28,000 from the whole life policy and used it to knock out almost an entire high-interest credit card balance. The bigger lesson? We cannot outsource understanding our money. Even when we’re working with an expert—or someone we love—we still need to know where our…
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