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.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

Agency isn’t always big or visible. Sometimes it looks like fostering one dog, making one appointment, or organizing one folder, small actions that still move life forward.

Discomfort is often part of meaningful care. Whether it’s fostering a puppy or updating your estate planning documents, the things that matter most are often inconvenient, and worth it anyway.

Preparation creates power. Jill reflects on responding to overwhelming world events by returning to what she knows best: knowledge, planning, and helping others feel more prepared.

What we model matters. Fostering Boots becomes a way for Jill to show her daughter that small acts still have value, even if they don’t change the whole world.

Estate planning and fostering share surprising parallels. Both require patience, emotional risk, and planning for a future you may not personally see.

You don’t have to enjoy something for it to be important. Jill compares updating her records to running: she never regrets doing it, even when she doesn’t feel like starting.

Small acts compound into legacy. The episode reminds listeners that legacy is built through consistent, imperfect, everyday decisions, not grand gestures.

Resources & Links

Detroit Dog Rescue: https://detroitdogrescue.com/

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Website: DeathReadiness.com
Email: jill@deathreadiness.com
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This podcast provides estate planning guidance for women and discusses real, practical issues, from caregiving, pre-planning a funeral, how to avoid probate using beneficiary designations, planning for individuals with special needs (and special needs trusts), whether you need a professional fiduciary (trustee or executor), how the estate tax works and how to preserve your legacy.

Tuesday Triage episodes answer questions from listeners like you, from powers of attorney, healthcare advance directives (and whether they work when you’re pregnant), what a Last Will and Testament really is, whether you need a trust, how Medicaid works and how to have senior and elder care conversations and how to care for aging parents.

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