BUILT ON 50+ YEARS OF FIDUCIARY EXPERIENCE

Know your why before you sign your will

Most Canadians know they need an estate plan. Most don't have one. Not because they don't care — because the system was never designed to help them move forward. LegacyYou changes that.

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"The wealthiest place on earth is the graveyard — full of people who died with their best ideas unshared, their stories untold, and their wisdom untransmitted."

The Legacy Procrastination Effect

50%
of adult Canadians do not have a will
76%
of business owners plan to exit with no formal plan
$2T
in business assets changing hands this decade
9%
have a formal succession plan in place

People respond to planning triggers in three ways — all of which create a false sense of completion. They set priorities and wait for a challenge. They research options without acting. They take one step and stop. We call this the contentment trap. It's why most people spend decades oscillating between awareness and action without ever reaching abundance.

The framework

Four phases of legacy readiness

Published in "Emerge: Be the Unmistakable Authority in Your Field" with Brian Tracy, 2021

Innocence
Haven't begun to think about legacy planning. Wealth viewed exclusively as financial. Estate planning means a will — if that.
Acceptance
Aware of the need but stuck. Cost, complexity, family dynamics, or uncertainty prevents action. Research feels like progress.
Furtherance
Taking action — will, POAs, insurance — but stopping at contentment. Life changes, and the cycle restarts.
Abundance
Purpose-driven, generative planning. Values articulated. Heirs prepared. Advisors coordinated. Legacy as a lifelong process.
Most people spend their entire lives looping between Acceptance and Furtherance — never reaching Abundance. LegacyYou is the navigation system that breaks the cycle.

Find out where you stand

Five minutes. No cost. No login. Each assessment identifies your phase, surfaces your specific gaps, and tells you exactly what to do next.

How it works

From overwhelmed to ready

1

Take the assessment

Five minutes. Identify your phase in the Legacy Procrastination Effect cycle, see your specific gaps, and understand what's keeping you stuck.

2

Understand your why

Before you think about documents, understand what matters most. Your values. Your priorities across all eight forms of capital. Your legacy mission. The documents come after — and they're better because of this work.

3

Prepare your decisions

Work through every decision you need to make — executor, Powers of Attorney, guardianship, beneficiaries, digital assets, funeral wishes — with education at every step. No jargon. No pressure.

4

Meet your lawyer with clarity

Arrive at the lawyer's office with a complete Legacy Planning Brief — decisions made, information organized, wishes documented. The meeting takes half the time and costs significantly less.

Your clients arrive prepared

Estate lawyers, financial advisors, accountants, and insurance professionals — LegacyYou does the preparation work so your meeting starts from clarity, not confusion.

"When clients arrive having done this work, we get to drafting in the first meeting. It saves me hours and saves my clients money."

— Estate lawyer feedback on the LegacyYou preparation process

Send a link, get a prepared client

No onboarding. No training. No dashboard to learn. Share an assessment link with your client. They arrive at your next meeting ready to act.

Co-branded experience

Your name alongside LegacyYou. Your client sees you as the professional who cared enough to help them prepare — not just the one who billed them.

Qualified, motivated referrals

Every assessment identifies specific gaps that map to specific professional services. Clients arrive knowing what they need and why they need it.

The difference

Estate planning vs. purposeful planning

Traditional estate planning

Prioritized toward tactics and products
Scarcity mindset
Asset-oriented
Private
Convergent thinking
A commodity
An obligation
Entropic

Purposeful planning

Prioritized first with values and goals
Abundance mindset
Human-oriented
Shared and collaborative
Divergent thinking
A process and journey
An opportunity
Generative

50+ years of combined experience

LegacyYou was built by practitioners, not technologists. Every question in our assessments exists because we've seen what happens when it isn't asked.

Christine Brunsden
TEP, EPC, MFA-P — Co-founder
Founder of Trusted Legacy and the Ability Ecosystem. 30+ years as executor, trustee, guardian, and Power of Attorney. Thousands of families navigated through estate planning, disability benefits, and fiduciary care. Creator of the Legacy Procrastination Effect framework.
Chris Delaney
B.A., LL.B., B.Ed., TEP, FEA — Co-founder
Author of "The Naked Opus: Growing Your Family Wealth for the Long Term." Lawyer, Family Enterprise Advisor, and intergenerational wealth strategist. Specialist in business and farm succession planning. 20+ years helping families preserve wealth across generations.

The most valuable things you'll leave behind can't be listed on a balance sheet

LegacyYou helps you capture what matters most — before it's too late.

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