In this episode, we ask:

• What happened in the middle of the tech bubble?
  
• Why is it OK for policies to take years to break even?
  
• How is this not a deal breaker?
  
• Who are the Proskauers?
  
• Would you like to hear Episode 118?
  
• What is Dan and Rebecca’s story with money?
  
• How did they pay for the wedding?
  
• How did they pay for the down payment on the house?
  
• What about being in control of money (as opposed to having money be in control)?
  
• What happened after college?
  
• What about savings?
  
• …How much did you make?
  
• …Did you sell anything?
  
• What happened in the financial crisis?
  
• Where are we in the market cycle?
  
• What did Dan and Rebecca change?
  
• Is Bank on Yourself® too good to be true?
  
• What happened when Dan and Rebecca started their Bank on Yourself® journey?
  
• What about the whole family?
  
• What about time?
  
• What about up-front costs?
  
• What about the post on the Not Your Average Financial Community?
  
• What about breaking even?
  
• What about taking on a challenge, to prove that the Bank on Yourself® concept doesn’t work?
  
• What about looking at illustrations?
  
• What about tax realities?
  
• What about high interest rate savings account?
  
• What about tax in a tax-deferred account?
  
• What about treasury bonds?
  
• What about the death benefit?
  
• What about the numbers equalizing over time?
  
• What about Day 1?
  
• What about the cash value?
  
• What about a stop loss?
  
• What about comfort?
  
• What about allowing to money to compound?
  
• What about having access to money?
  
• What about “break even” points?
  
• …Compared to what?
  
• What about start up costs with everything?
  
• Who cares about the first 10 years?
  
• What is far, far greater than what you put in?
  
• What about value?
  
• What about the long term benefits?
  
• What about the generations?
  
• What about Dan’s mother?
  
• What about the family property?
  
• What about an endowment?
  
• What about the spectacular benefits of thinking long range?
  
• What about up front expenses and costs?
  
• What about taking the leap?
  
• What about talking to people who have already taken the leap?
  
• What about reliability?
  
• What about flexibility?
  
• What about the rolling average of gains?
  
• Would you like to join the conversation and tag Dan on Not Your Average Financial Community?
  
• What happens on Day 1?
  
• Would you like to meet with Mark?
  

Dan Proskauer is Vice President of Engineering United Health Group’s Optum unit and has spent nearly 30 years as a professional in the Semiconductor and Health Care industries.

He is an engineer by personality and by training and has always been fascinated by details and numbers. Dan has been a Bank on Yourself practitioner since mid-2009 and has started new policies as recently as last year.