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Live Your Life Insurance

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This book is a short read with concentrated information on different types of life insurance policies. Better than that, it shows creative (even surprising!) ways to use certain types of insurance to build tax-deferred or tax-free growth of your money. It describes ways to enhance your life at every stage of adulthood. In other words, using the policy for financial benefit while you are alive, not only for a payment to your family at the time of your passing. Hence the word "live" in the title. It's a complicated subject, but the author breaks down the concepts into understandable chunks and explains each step. She also describes the different actions and benefits to take at each stage of life: 20-40, 41-50, and 50+. I was particularly intrigued by learning how to use one kind of policy, in conjunction with specific financing on a home, to live a more fun and comfortable life after retirement - and still leave my heirs with more assets and no debt! If Kim ever writes a revised edition, I'd sure like to see some graphics to help demonstrate the concepts but this is a great expose` on the principles as-is.

Kim Butler has a unique and refreshing view of life insurance. Instead of only receiving benefit from your insurance when you die, she explains how to use it while you are alive. She clearly explains how life insurance can be an asset throughout your life. I am also one of Kim's clients, and I can honestly say that insurance as she explains it works just like she says it does in Live Your Life Insurance. A great book and a new way of thinking about life insurance that everyone should read.

I'll give credit to the author for distilling a great savings and personal finance tool to a VERY quick read, but having read other books on the subject such as Bank on Yourself, Becoming Your Own Banker: Unlock the Infinite Banking Concept, The Wall Street Alternative etc, there are plenty of other books out there that provide the same information with more depth and often for less money overall (and certainly less per page!).

I think the greatest value this book could offer is as a primer for potential customers that's easy to read, but at $25 a pop, I'm not about to buy a case for sharing.

Final analysis: this books info is good, it's quick, and it's overpriced. Buy Nelson Nash's Becoming Your Own Banker for a few dollars less and get twice the book from the guy that conceived of the method Ms. Butler is re-branding.