Living Your Legacy

Amit Chawla - Special Needs Parent to My Special Financial Planning - One Parent's Journey

Episode Summary

In this episode of the Living Your Legacy Show, Michelle is joined by Amit Chawla to talk about financial planning for the special needs community. Isn’t that idea so inspiring? With just that, don’t you want to know more about him? Stay tuned!

Episode Notes

Episode Highlights:

• Amit and his wife’s experience with their son being diagnosed with a developmental disorder.
• The difficulty of finding people that can help children with special needs. 
• Can you imagine sending your eight-year-old to a residential school?
• The reason why Amit and his wife decided to have another child.
• Amit’s journey towards helping families with special needs children with legal planning, financial planning, and many other things!
• And much more!

About Amit Chawla:

Hello, I am Amit Chawla. I am a husband to an Estate Planning attorney (who is further studying to specialize in Special Needs law) and a dad to two boys, 7 and 13, and a dog. We live in Lexington, Massachusetts. For my full-time job, I work as a Software Product Manager for a Wealth/Investment Management software company.

My oldest son is 13 years old and has Autism. He is in a residential school. I'd like to give back to the special needs community by doing something meaningful. My goal is to help families with special needs members with planning for a better future. Ever since my son left for residential school 5 years ago, my wife and I have been busy preparing ourselves to help him in all things related to special needs planning. My wife has been focused on legal aspects and I have been focusing on financial aspects. We moderate a private Facebook group called Planning for Special Needs.

I am also the founder and owner of a financial planning company - My Special Financial Planning and I volunteer for a couple of non-profit organizations to provide pro bono financial planning services.

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PlanningForSpecialNeeds 
Private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/planningforspecialneeds

Website: https://www.myspecialfinancialplanning.com 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MySpecialFP/

Twitter Handle: https://twitter.com/MySpecialFP
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MySpecialFP 
LinkedIn Company Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-special-financial-planning/

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