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For our second Life Stories episode, Chuck and Eric meet Tracy Hunger, the 2008 grand prize winner of the Life Foundation's essay contest about the impact of life insurance. Tracy's mother passed away when she was 4 years old, shortly after the birth of her brother, Matthew. Tragedy struck again at age 13, when her father was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and liver cirrhosis, which slowly robbed him of his ability to work. He passed away when Tracy was still in high school, thrusting her into adulthood as she worked full time to support herself and her brother. We spoke with Tracy about the struggles of working over 90 hours a week to make ends meet for her and her brother, the community that came together to help their family when they needed it most, the financial turmoil that they've dealt with, and the life she has built through her grit and perseverance. -- Learn more about Tracy's story at LifeHappens.org: lifehappens.org/videos/jh-survivi…gh-determination/ -- Real Life is a podcast about life, death, and expecting the unexpected co-hosted by Chuck Anderson and Eric Lindholm. Produced and recorded at Quotacy, the best place to buy life insurance online.

In our Season 2 premiere, Chuck and Eric interview Shane LaBarge, the 2013 grand prize winner of the Life Foundation's essay contest about the impact of life insurance. Shane lost his father during his first year of college, and had to grapple with the reality of supporting both himself and his family without the financial safety net that a life insurance payout would have given them. We talk with him about the feeling of helplessness that the loss of a breadwinner can bring, his struggle to pay his own way through college and law school, and the lingering feeling of financial uncertainty that's still in the back of his family's minds almost ten years later. -- Read Shane's grand prize winning essay at LifeHappens.org: https://lifehappens.org/past-scholarship-recipients/shane-labarge/ -- Real Life is a podcast about life, death, and expecting the unexpected co-hosted by Chuck Anderson and Eric Lindholm. Produced and recorded at Quotacy, the best place to buy life insurance online.

In Episode 6 of the Real Life podcast, Eric and Chuck sit down again with special correspondent Lauren Wright to talk about the many reasons people buy life insurance to protect themselves and their families. -- Real Life is a podcast about life, death, and expecting the unexpected co-hosted by Chuck Anderson and Eric Lindholm. Produced and recorded at Quotacy, the best place to buy life insurance online.

Having a parent pass away is never easy. Today on Real Life, we interview two members of the Quotacy team about the deaths of their fathers, and how life insurance helped to ease the burden of their passing. -- Real Life is a podcast about life, death, and expecting the unexpected co-hosted by Chuck Anderson and Eric Lindholm. Produced and recorded at Quotacy, the best place to buy life insurance online.

Real Life is about finding beauty and meaning in every part of life, even death. We want to explore what people of all cultures believe happens when our time runs out, and with the help of Special Correspondent Lauren Wright, we're starting with something familiar to us: the idea of going to heaven. -- Real Life is produced out of the offices of Quotacy, the best place to buy life insurance online. Visit Quotacy.com to find a policy that's right for you. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/RealLife_Pod

In today's edition of Real Life, Eric and Chuck discuss LegacyShield, a new service that seeks to help people protect not only their valuables after death (like life insurance policies, bank accounts, wills, etc.) but their values as well, offering a way to pass along stories, memories and wishes to the next generation. To do that, we interview LegacyShield CEO Mike Babikian and discuss how our two companies could work together in the future. -- Real Life is produced out of the offices of Quotacy, the best place to buy life insurance online. Visit Quotacy.com to find a policy that's right for you. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/RealLife_Pod

In this episode, Chuck tells us about his near-death experience. He was alone, without water or technology, wandering helplessly through the Death Valley desert. He also discusses how this experience understandably reinforced his view on the value of life insurance—not to mention changed his outlook on life. Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealLife_Pod

In episode 1 of Real Life, your hosts, Eric Lindholm and Chuck Anderson, introduce themselves, as well as Quotacy, the show's primary sponsor. They interview three of Quotacy's co-founders: Jeremy Hallett, CEO, Abby Reddy, CMO, and Jason Nash, VP of Sales and Operations. Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealLife_Pod