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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 184: Women and Credit: The History That Still Shapes Your Finances

In this episode, Bri Conn, CFP® sits down with Grace L. Williams, financial journalist and author of Give Her Credit, to trace the women’s banking movement from a living room in Denver to the laws that changed everything. Grace spent nearly a decade researching the founders of Women’s Bank, the legislation that finally gave women access to credit, and the remarkable, often overlooked stories of the women who made it happen.

Episode 183: Money, Independence, and the Childfree Woman

Maddy and Bri talk honestly about what the data actually shows for Childfree women and financial independence.

Episode 182: Designing Your End of Life

Maddy and Zeena Regis of Compassion and Choices, have a frank discussion about medical aid in dying, end-of-life options, and what intentional death planning really looks like for people living a Childfree life.

Episode 181: Planning Without Next of Kin

Chris Dale, CFP®, CeFT® shares a real story of a Childfree client who finalized his estate documents just weeks before a major accident.

Episode 180: The Importance of Care Plans

Wills, powers of attorney, and trusts only name the people who can make decisions for you. They don’t explain how you would want those decisions made.

Episode 179: Building Childfree Trust® With Welon Trust

Dr. Jay and Welon Trust’s John Steiner and Robert Allan reveal the two-year journey of launching Childfree Trust® together. They discuss the industry’s refusal to provide medical power of attorney, the rigorous banking regulations protecting clients, and the social biases they overcame to create a nationwide legacy solution built to outlive its founders.