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Friends and Family Night

Prevention and Reaction

Saturday, October 24, 2026

With panelists Lindsy Weiner, Deborah Roache and Anishia Thompson. Hosted by Charming Ihekoronye.

Lindsy is the person to talk to about a home in a hard spot.

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Today is all about prevention and reaction.
Charming IhekoronyeHost, Royal Family Finance
Watch the full replay56 minutes, with chapters
Charming Ihekoronye
Charming Ihekoronye
Deborah Roache
Deborah Roache
Anishia Thompson
Anishia Thompson
Lindsy Weiner
Lindsy Weiner
Full recording

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  1. Chapters 55:47
Highlights

6 short clips worth sharing.

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Charming Ihekoronye

Prevention and reaction

0:57
Lindsy Weiner

What does the homeowner actually want?

1:22
Deborah Roache

What silence costs a family

1:42
Anishia Thompson

We did everything we were supposed to do

2:58
Anishia Thompson

One step this month: the kitchen table

1:46
Charming Ihekoronye

The old way and the new way to pay off your home

0:51
Panel Q&A

Questions for the panel.

7 questions from the night, each answered in 2 to 5 minutes.

01What’s the first thing you try to understand?Lindsy Weiner · 3:21
02How do you decide which option makes sense?Lindsy Weiner · 3:04
03What do the foreclosure numbers mean?Lindsy Weiner · 1:51
04What does silence around money cost a family?Deborah Roache · 2:05
05Where does the no-minimums drive come from?Deborah Roache · 2:20
06Why did a nurse move into finance?Anishia Thompson · 4:58
07One step a family can take this monthAnishia Thompson · 2:17
The panel

Meet the panel.

Lindsy Weiner

Lindsy Weiner

Client Success Manager, Greater Lynn Property Solutions

She works with homeowners whose situations don't fit a traditional sale (mortgage pressure, major repairs, inherited or complicated ownership) and starts with what the homeowner actually wants.

Deborah Roache

Deborah Roache

Marketing Director

After 15 years as a program manager in health care and financial services, she helps families protect their income and plan ahead, with no minimums and no prequalifying.

Anishia Thompson

Anishia Thompson

Senior Associate, founder of EmpowerHer Wealth Circle

A registered nurse for over 20 years, she helps young women build a plan for their money and their protection.

Charming Ihekoronye
Hosted by Charming IhekoronyeRoyal Family Finance
Take it home

4 questions for your kitchen table

From Anishia Thompson at our Friends and Family Night

Watch Anishia explain them
  1. What if something happened to me tomorrow? Would my family be okay?
  2. Do you know what’s coming in and what’s going out?
  3. Do you have protection in place? Is it enough?
  4. Does your family know where everything is?
The numbers

What the research shows.

The figures shared on the night, with their sources.

227,548

U.S. homes had a foreclosure filing in the first half of 2026, up 21% from a year earlier.

Source: ATTOM, Mid-Year 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report (July 16, 2026)
+33%

more homes taken back by lenders than in the first half of 2025, for 27,983 in all.

Source: ATTOM, Mid-Year 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report (July 16, 2026)
4 in 10

U.S. adults carry medical or dental debt. That is about 100 million people.

Source: KFF Health Care Debt Survey (2022), reported by KFF Health News “Diagnosis: Debt”
1 in 12

people with that debt lost their home to eviction or foreclosure, at least partly because of it.

Source: KFF Health Care Debt Survey (2022), reported by KFF Health News “Diagnosis: Debt”
70%

of adults who reach age 65 develop serious long-term care needs before they die.

Source: HHS ASPE lifetime risk of long-term care study
$127,750

a year is the national median for a private nursing home room, about $10,646 a month.

Source: Genworth and CareScout 2024 Cost of Care Survey
6 in 10

nursing home residents rely on Medicaid as their main payer, out of 1.2 million residents.

Source: KFF, 5 Key Facts About Nursing Facilities and Medicaid (July 2024 data)
Age 55+

Federal law requires states to seek repayment of long-term care costs from the estates of enrollees 55 and older.

Source: KFF, What Is Medicaid Estate Recovery?
24%

of Americans have a will, down from 33% in 2022.

Source: Caring.com 2025 Wills Survey
500,000+

U.S. properties are likely heirs’ property, passed down with no clear title. About 65% are in rural areas.

Source: Housing Assistance Council and Fannie Mae; HUD-published heirs’ property study (2024)
74 million

Americans say they need life insurance but don’t have any.

Source: LIMRA and Life Happens, 2025 Insurance Barometer Study