Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things

planning and planning adjacent.

Today, I have a June Q&A episode for you you and I actually have a lot of questions here.

So we will see if these fit into one episode or if it ends up being two. I think that's okay

too. You guys submit such great questions that I'm happy to speak about them and hopefully

provide some interesting answers. I also have a few pieces of feedback that were shared by listeners

that I'm going to share as well. So first, a little bit of orientation. Where are we right now?

So as I'm recording this, it's early June and my kids are finished with school. I'm super excited

about that, actually. I don't know if I've celebrated the end of school as much as I have this year,

but we just had a lot going on this particular school year, and I'm excited for fewer evening

activities, fewer academic stressors on my kids, and just a little bit of a slower lifestyle.

My kids do go to camp for the most weeks of the summer anyway, so I don't feel like I have a huge, I don't know,

stress about finding ways to occupy them or increase parenting responsibilities, really.

So it's kind of the best of both worlds, not to use the name of my other podcast in vain,

but it's just kind of nice that they're doing things they enjoy during the day, and it's just

a little bit less hectic around here. So with that, I have to announce to you that I have made

some progress on some of these long-term things that I was talking about. Many listeners know we

had struggled with our estate planning, and I'm happy to say we now have

an appointment set up to sign documents that will put everything in place. So we are at the

finish line of that long-term project. And another long-term project that I finally made some

headway with is organizing. So I have kind of looked to multiple sorts of inspiration and recently finished

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