Summary: No one likes talking about death. No one likes talking about taxes or financial planning. But so many smart, well educated women are blindsided when unexpected curve balls in life throw their personal and financial lives into chaos.<br> Naz Barouti, the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Death-Money-Protecting-Yourself-ebook/dp/B07KTHP81B/">Love, Death, and Money</a>, believes you need a comprehensive and easy to follow guide to help you get all your legal affairs in order so that you’re ready for anything that life throws your way.<br> Naz is well-known in the legal world as an estate planning guru and really, an advocate for women. In 2011, she established Barouti Law Corporation, which now has five offices in Southern California, and she’s also the cohost of a weekly radio program called Protecting Your Family. <br> In this episode, we talk about the most important things you need to know in order to plan for the unexpected. Whether you’re a young single woman who is just starting out or a mom who is concerned for her family’s wellbeing, this is the episode that will allow you to face the future fully prepared.<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Death-Money-Protecting-Yourself-ebook/dp/B07KTHP81B/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Get Naz’s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Death-Money-Protecting-Yourself-ebook/dp/B07KTHP81B/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Love, Death, and Money</a> on Amazon.<br> Find out more at <a href="http://nazbarouti.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NazBarouti.com</a>.<br> <br> <br> Naz Barouti: A lot of people, when they first meet me, I look very white. I look very American, blue eyes, blond hair. But they don’t really know my background and my story unless I tell them my name. I wasn’t born here. I was born in the Middle East. I was born in Iran. My story’s a really interesting one, because I literally am an American dream.<br> My parents came here when they were really young. I had to basically adapt to a new surrounding, new language, new lifestyle. And my parents did an excellent job of adapting. A lot of people, when they move to America, they try to find cities now where people that speak the same language or have the same background are.<br> <br> You get comfortable in that bubble.<br> <br> I’ve always been put into situations where I had to be uncomfortable. Either people spoke a different language, they had a different background, a different religion… I’m very blessed to have grown up like that, because I think it makes me a people person. I can adapt very easily.<br> I can get along with anyone. You can put me in a room with a hundred people who are from different backgrounds, different religions, even if they speak different languages, and I will find a common ground with them. That’s because of how I was raised. I’m so grateful that I was exposed to different people and religions. I went to Catholic school my whole life, and my family wasn’t even Catholic.<br> I always wanted to be a lawyer. That was never a question for me but once I started my practice and I started seeing clients that were coming into my office, mostly people that were married, trying to plan for the future, for the day that they weren’t around, making sure their kids or their families were protected.<br> <br> I was noticing a trend where the men were dominating the conversation or the men were the ones scheduling the appointments or they were giving off some vibes where they weren’t being transparent or forward with how much money they had. Because they didn’t want their spouses, their significant others to figure it out.<br> I could read the body language, I could see that the women were very uncomfortable.<br> Or then I had women making appointments, saying, “I’m getting a divorce, I don’t have anything, I don’t where anything is, I don’t know where to start.”<br>
