Why Small Acts of Care Matter More Than You Think
From The Death Readiness Podcast: Not your dad’s estate planning podcast by Jill Mastroianni - Estate Planning & Probate Attorney/Lawyer for Women
February 20, 2026 · 13 min · Episode 66
About this episode
Jill shares lessons from fostering a puppy and reframes death readiness as choosing small, meaningful actions.
In this Friday episode, Jill shares the unexpected lessons she’s learning from fostering a puppy named Boots, and how chaos, inconvenience, and small acts of care reveal what agency really looks like. Through stories about raising a guide dog puppy as a child, parenting, and estate planning, this episode reframes death readiness as something much more human: choosing small, meaningful actions even when the outcome isn’t guaranteed.
People in this episode
Host: Jill Mastroianni
Topics covered
- care
- estate planning
- fostering
- death readiness
- parenting
- agency
Keywords
- estate planning
- fostering
- puppy
- death readiness
- small acts of care
- parenting
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