Mailbag Series: Emergency Preparedness for your Finances Watching Trees Grow: A personal finance podcast by Troutwood.

What is Emergency preparedness? Maybe you’re prepared for an environmental emergency, but what about a health emergency or job loss? Gene and Jeff were inspired by the student questions while teaching a course at Grove City College. Gene answers some of those questions in this episode and how YOU can be prepared for anything!
 
0:26 Welcome
0:40 What is emergency preparedness?
1:05 – What inspired this episode
2:05 – Two most common emergency situations
2:32 – Two categories
2:45 – Financial capital and human capital
3:10 – Question to students: How do I even know where to start?
3:23 – Nine categories for the financial capital portion
4:46 – 401k
5:29 – Roth IRA
5:47 – Asset Allocation
6:17 – Sources of income
6:59 – Reducing and prioritizing debt
7:37 – Mandatory bills and expenses
8:17 – Recap of 9 Catagories for Financial Capital
9:00 – Human Capital
9:06 – What is human capital?
9:17 – Why human capital maters
10:53 – Certifications, job training, higher education
11:43 – Recap human capital
12:39 – End