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Dr. Jay Zigmont

PhD, MBA, CFP®

Founder and Chief Visionary, Childfree Wealth®, Childfree Trust®, Childfree Insights™

Jay Zigmont is the founder of Childfree Wealth, a life and financial planning firm dedicated to helping Childfree and Permanently Childless people, and Childfree Trust, the first of its kind next of kin representation service for Childfree people.

He's the author of The Childfree Guide to Life and Money and co-host of Childfree Life by Design podcast. His PhD is in Adult Learning from the University of Connecticut.

He has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Insider, CNBC, and many other publications (see our Press Features page for more!).

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Read The Childfree Guide to Life & Money

Episode 203: Disability Insurance and Protecting Your Paycheck

When you’re Childfree, life insurance may barely make your list, which is exactly why disability insurance is so easy to overlook and so important to get right. Bri Conn, CFP® and Scott Barnes, CFP®, TPCP®, CLTC break down how to protect the paycheck that funds the life you’ve built, and the fine print that decides whether your benefit shows up whole when you need it.

Episode 202: Where to Find Your Community as a Childfree Adult

Building real community as an adult is hard, and harder still when you’re Childfree and the friends you counted on get busy, have kids, or move away. In this episode, Maddy Roche sits down with Kari Cardinale, Florence Wlodarski, Charlie & Ali Higgins, who all stopped waiting and built the Childfree communities they couldn’t find.

Episode 201: Finding Friendship and Community as a Childfree Adult

When you are a Childfree adult, no one hands you a built-in community, so you build it intentionally. Melissa Holcombe, DSW, LCSW, Maddy Roche, Bri Conn, CFP®, and Alli Gage share honest stories of rebuilding their circles after divorce, sobriety, and big moves, plus the practical habits that turn strangers into the crew you actually do life with.

Episode 200: Building a Small Business as a Childfree Entrepreneur

Being Childfree shapes how you build a business, from the money you reinvest to the hours you keep to the question of what you’re building toward. Jena Gribble of Blush Cactus and Huzefa Kapadia of Scalar Learning join Bri Conn, CFP® to talk about what that’s really looked like, the freedom, the trade-offs, and how it changes what a business can become.

Episode 199: What Women Need to Know About Money and Starting a Business

In the United States, only 15 banks are women-owned. Ilaria Rawlins, CEO of Fortuna Bank, joins Bri Conn, CFP® to talk about why female entrepreneurs face a capital gap that most people do not even know exists, and what she built to change it.

Episode 198: Solo Aging for Childfree Adults: How to Plan Before You Need To

Most people assume that if they don’t have kids, someone will figure it out when the time comes. Carol Marak has spent over a decade proving that the people who age well alone are the ones who plan for it on purpose. She joins Dr. Jay Zigmont, CFP® to talk about the three questions every soloist needs answered, why finances anchor the whole plan, and how to build a support system before a crisis forces the issue.