Cynthia Straus is a Life Protection Specialist. She grew up helping her father with his business providing life and disability insurance to groups in the mid-Atlantic states. She has expanded these services to include access to life insurance with living benefits, legal services, home care, and data protection. She is passionate about helping people put services, procedures, and policies in place to protect themselves and their families. Her passion comes out of her own lived experience. Taking care of her mother, which depleted all her mother's savings, being hit by the financial downturn of 2008/2009, and her husband's near death experiences, have all increased her awareness of the need we all have to be prepared for life's unexpected events.