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12 VIDEO LESSONS · FAMILY HANDOUTS INCLUDED

Insurance Genius

The course about bad Tuesdays. What each kind of cover actually does, what it pointedly does not do, and how to read the paperwork without flinching.

12lessons
12videos live now
12family handouts
$19.99one payment
WHO THIS IS FOR

Three people this was written for.

You are paying for policies you have never once read all the way through.
You have a claim ahead of you and no idea what the sequence is or who moves first.
You have two quotes in front of you and no way to tell whether they are quoting the same thing.

Insurance is the only major purchase most households make entirely on trust, because the document is written to be survived rather than read. This track takes one family's whole shield wall — health, auto, home, life, disability — and prices it in one place, then teaches the four numbers that decide what any policy is actually worth to you. Cover always depends on the terms of a real policy, and the course says so on every page it matters.

WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO

Not what you will have heard about. What you will be able to do.

Straight out of the book this track is built on, and every one of them is a thing you do on your own numbers.

THE FULL LESSON LIST

All 12 lessons, in order, with nothing hidden.

Every title is the real title. Every line under it is what that lesson actually teaches, and every "do this" is the single action that lesson asks of you.

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01

Shield It

Insurance is risk transfer: a small known premium moves a giant unknown risk onto a pool, per policy terms.

Do this: Find one policy in your house and say its premium, its deductible, and its limit out loud.
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02

Health It

Billed is an opening number; in-network, the allowed amount is the price the plan and the family divide.

Do this: Call the number on your insurance card and ask what your deductible balance is today.
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03

Road It

Six coverages live on one page: bodily injury and property damage liability, collision, comprehensive, uninsured motorist, and medical payments or PIP.

Do this: Find your comprehensive deductible and your collision deductible and say which is bigger and why.
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04

Home It

Six lettered coverages run a dwelling policy: A dwelling, B other structures, C personal property, D loss of use, E liability, F medical payments to others.

Do this: Find the contents line on your policy and say out loud whether it pays replacement cost or actual cash value.
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05

Provide It

Life insurance replaces income for the people named on the form. The insured person never collects it.

Do this: Put one date in the family calendar: the month a term window in this house closes — or, if there is no policy yet, the month somebody sits down with a licensed agent. A window with a date on it is a conversation; a window without one is a surprise.
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06

Work It

Disability coverage replaces part of a paycheck when a covered illness or injury stops the work, per policy terms. Health coverage pays providers and sends no paycheck.

Do this: Write one line on the same page where the emergency floor's balance already lives: my elimination period is ____ days, which is $____ of must-pays. Those two numbers mean almost nothing apart and almost everything together.
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07

Read It

A policy runs sixty-odd pages, and three sections carry almost every answer: declarations, exclusions and conditions.

Do this: Photograph your declarations page and put it in two phones. The page that answers every number question is worth nothing in a filing cabinet during a storm.
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08

Claim It

A claim is a paper trail, not an argument. Photographs taken before anything moves are the one part that cannot be recreated later.

Do this: Ask one adult you know who has actually filed a claim what they would do differently next time, and write their answer down word for word. It is the only page in this book somebody else gets to write for you.
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09

Bundle It

Insurers generally treat acquiring a new household as more costly than retaining one — the usual explanation offered for multi-policy credits.

Do this: Write down which insurer holds each policy you own, and the renewal month of each.
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10

Shop It

Write your coverage sheet first. Anything that does not answer that sheet is not a quote.

Do this: Read one policy's coverage sheet out loud to yourself, slowly, and mark the single line you understood least.
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11

Skip It

The question is never the product. It is the size of the loss and whose money is standing behind it.

Do this: Open one agreement you already pay for, find its service fee and its end date, and put that end date in your calendar.
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12

Toolkit It

The toolkit is five moves: one binder, one date, six life-event triggers, a yearly name check, two phone numbers.

Do this: Tell one other adult where the binder lives and what the date written on it means.
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GO DEEPER · SOLD SEPARATELY

The expanded book.

The course teaches it simple: short lessons, a family handout for each, one action at a time. The book is the expanded edition of those handouts — the same material worked to the penny, three different ways, every chapter in one easy place. Own both for the full complement: watch it work here, read it deep on paper.

How Insurance Works cover
THE EXPANDED EDITION · SOLD SEPARATELY

How Insurance Works

Health, auto, home, life, and disability cover, how to read a policy, compare quotes, and file a claim.

130 pages · 12 chapters
Digital edition · $19Paperback on Amazon · $34.99
WHAT IS INSIDE ONE LESSON

Six things, every single time.

So you always know where you are, and the depth never depends on how motivated you felt that day.

The video

A short lesson that names the thing and shows you the shape of it. Lazy-loaded, so the page is not carrying it until you press play.

What it teaches

Five plain sentences, taken from that chapter's own summary, so you can tell in ten seconds whether you already have this one.

The one action

A single thing to do on your own numbers. Not a homework pile. One action, small enough that it actually happens.

The family handout

That lesson's own PDF: the worked example, real blanks for your own numbers, and the one action. Print it, fill it in together, keep it on the fridge.

The go-deeper pointer

The exact chapter and page in the expanded book — sold separately — where this lesson is worked out in full, with the math, the three scales, and the six what-ifs.

Your progress

Mark the lesson complete and the track remembers. Come back next week and it tells you where you stopped.

THE VOCABULARY

The words you will own by the end.

Every one of these is defined on the page it first appears on, in a sentence a person can actually use.

RISK TRANSFERRISK POOLPREMIUMDEDUCTIBLECLAIMEXCLUSIONCOPAYCOINSURANCEOUT-OF-POCKET MAXALLOWED AMOUNTNETWORKEXPLANATION OF BENEFITSLIABILITYCOLLISIONCOMPREHENSIVEUNINSURED MOTORISTCOVERAGE LIMITDECLARATIONS PAGEPERILACTUAL CASH VALUEREPLACEMENT COSTPERSONAL PROPERTYLOSS OF USEENDORSEMENTTERM LIFEWHOLE LIFEDEATH BENEFITBENEFICIARYCASH VALUEUNDERWRITINGELIMINATION PERIODBENEFIT PERIODOWN-OCCUPATIONANY-OCCUPATION

Questions people actually ask

What exactly is Insurance Genius?

Health, auto, home, life and disability, plus how to read a policy and file a claim. It is 12 video lessons, each with its own downloadable family handout — a real per-lesson PDF, enough to teach that lesson on its own. Each lesson pairs one video with one handout and one action small enough to actually do. The matching book — How Insurance Works — is the expanded edition of those handouts and is sold separately.

Where do the family handouts come from?

Every lesson has its own handout PDF built from that lesson's walk-through: the worked example, the blanks you fill with your own numbers, and the one action. Sufficient on its own — and when you want the full depth, the book works the same material to the penny, in one place.

Do I get the book with the course?

No — and that is on purpose. The course stands on its own: every lesson has its own family handout PDF, and the handouts are sufficient. The book is the expanded edition — the same material worked to the penny, every chapter in one place — sold separately here as a digital edition and on Amazon in paperback. Each lesson page points you to the exact chapter so the two fit together perfectly. Course plus book is the full complement; the Everything bundle is the one purchase that includes both.

Is any of this financial advice?

No, and it never pretends to be. Everything here is general financial education. It is not financial advice, not tax advice, not investment advice and not a recommendation about your circumstances. Every dollar figure is an invented practice number for a made-up household — not a forecast, not typical of anything, and not a claim about what anyone earns. For decisions about your own money, a licensed professional who can see your actual paperwork is the right person.

How long does a lesson take?

Watch the video, read the chapter, do the one action. Most people give a lesson somewhere between twenty minutes and an hour depending on how much of the chapter they read in one sitting. There is no schedule, no cohort and no expiry — the track sits in your library and waits for you.

Do I have to take the lessons in order?

It is built in order and the story runs forward, so first time through, in order is easiest. Nothing stops you jumping — every lesson page carries its own family handout and its go-deeper chapter pointer, and your progress is tracked lesson by lesson so you can wander and still know what you have done.

What if I do not like it?

Email us inside 30 days and you get all of it back. No form, no reason needed, and nobody will try to talk you out of it. You may keep the files — asking somebody to delete a PDF is theater.

Can I get this as part of something bigger?

Yes. The Everything bundle is every book and all seven tracks for $49.99 once, with free updates for life. If you only want this one track, buy this one track — that is cheaper and we would rather you did.

Insurance Genius

12 lessons, 130 pages of book, 12 printables.

$19.99 once. Every lesson's family handout included. Yours forever, with free updates for life.

Plain about what this is. General financial education, not financial advice, not tax advice or investment advice, and not a recommendation about your situation. Every dollar figure is an invented practice number for a made-up household. Written for adults, 18+.