What happens when I die?
What happens when I die?
The truth is most of us are unprepared for the practicalities of our own death. This podcast will get you thinking about what happens after you die, not in the philosophical sense, but what will happen to your kids, your things, your wealth, and even your body. Host Anna Hacker and her expert guests talk candidly on the legal, monetary, and physical elements of death. Learn what will happen if s…Follow the podcast:
Episode 04: Navigating the death of a life partner
In this final episode of What Happens When I Die?, Anna Hacker talks to Robert Kerr, an Australian Unity Trustees client, and father of Australian Unity Wealth and Capital Markets CEO, Esther Kerr Smith. Robert generously talks about his experience navigating the death of his wife in July 2021 – r…
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Episode 03: Using investment bonds as part of your estate planning toolkit with Ryan Francis, Commercial Manager at Australian Unity Life & Super
Investment Bonds remain a relatively well-kept industry secret and can play a useful role in people’s estate planning strategies as Ryan explains in this super practical episode. While getting good advice when it comes to estate planning strategies remains key, Ryan talks about the clients he has …
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Episode 02: What happens to my child living with disability when I die? with Rohani Bixler, Special Counsel at Burke & Associates
In this episode Anna is joined by Rohani Bixler, who is in a league of her own when it comes to supporting families/parents/guardians to put in place arrangements to make sure their child (or children) living with disability are looked after when they die or lose capacity. Rohani is a pre-eminent …
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Episode 01: Planning for death with Advance Care Planning Australia & Dr Sonia Fullerton
One of the lessons we have gleaned in our work helping people with their estate planning is the stories of regret and remorse as they relate to the guilt of not knowing what their loved one’s dying wishes were – be it about life support, palliative care, burial/cremation preferences, resuscitation …
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Special Episode: International Women's Day 2022
What happens when I die? International Women's Day 2022 #Breakthebias Join Anna and very special guests, Sally Capp Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Mary Delahunty Founder and Executive Director of Seven Advisory (previously HESTA's head of impact) and Esther Kerr-Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Austral…
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Episode 06: Death, Decluttering and Deductions in the time of COVID
In another big episode (the final in season two) Anna talks to Marsha Laine Dungog, international tax lawyer extraordinaire from San Francisco about the profession's swift shift to digital to better serve a peripatetic client base. Anna also talks to much-loved guest Amy from The Art of Declutteri…
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Episode 05: Finding strength in others during death and dying
In this moving episode Anna Hacker talks to insightful end of life doula Helen Callanan. A doula fulfils a non-medical role which provides practical, emotional and spiritual support, helping to demystify death and dying for those nearing their end of life and those close to them. This is a big epis…
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Episode 04: What happens when I lose capacity?
It's Dementia Action Week. And one of the key objectives of this important campaign is to get more of us to think about planning ahead so that our choices will be known and acted upon if we can't express them later in life. So it's in the spirit of action that we share the latest episode in our p…
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Episode 03: What happens to my kids?
n one of the most anticipated episodes of the series, host Anna Hacker, principal of Australian Unity Trustees Legal Services, discusses what happens to your kids when you die with barrister, Simon Gannon. The idea of "estate planning" does seem to focus on the financial side of Wills, but in reali…
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Episode 02: Finding the lighter side of death and dying
On this week's episode of "What Happens When I Die?", we welcome special guest Kitty Flanagan, comedian, author and star of the ABC's new smash hit show, "Fisk". In Fisk, Kitty's character, Helen Tudor-Fisk, is a probate lawyer in a suburban Melbourne law firm and in an art imitating life moment, h…
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