What a death doula can teach us about money, meaning, and making time count
Most of us approach financial planning as if it’s purely a math problem. We reduce it to formulas and timelines: save a certain percentage, invest in the right accounts, retire at a specific age. It feels structured, predictable—almost controllable.
But that sense of control depends on one fragile assumption: that life will unfold according to plan.
What happens when it doesn’t?
That question sat at the center of a recent conversation I had on Earn & Invest with Rose Zealand, a Certified Financial Planner and end-of-life doula. Her work lives at a crossroads most people spend their lives avoiding—the intersection of money and mortality.
And once you hear her perspective, it becomes very difficult to see financial planning the same way again.
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