Remarkable Futures — A Podcast by Able Planning
You've been listening. Let's talk about your family.
Remarkable Futures was created to help families understand the questions around disability, benefits, and long-term security. Able Planning is the team behind those conversations — ready to help you apply what you've learned to your own family's plan.
You Know the Conversations. Meet the Team Behind Them.
Remarkable Futures is more than a podcast. It reflects the same approach behind Able Planning: listen first, understand the whole family, and make complicated topics easier to act on.
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For Stephen Norton, This Work Is Personal.
Stephen is a financial professional — and a father who has spent years navigating special needs planning for his own son, Harry, who has autism and an intellectual disability.
He understands that these decisions aren't just financial calculations. They're questions about independence, quality of life, siblings, caregiving, and what happens when parents are no longer the ones providing care. That perspective — parent first, professional second — is why Able Planning exists.
"I've sat where you're sitting. I know how it feels to not know where to start — and I know how much it helps to have someone walk through it with you."
Stephen E. Norton, ChSNC®, AIF®, RICP®
Founder, Able Planning
Special Needs Planning Has a Lot of Moving Pieces.
No two families' circumstances are the same. Planning may touch financial, benefit, legal, educational, and long-term care considerations — Able Planning helps you see how they fit together.
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Able Planning provides financial planning and coordination. We work alongside — and refer to — qualified attorneys, tax professionals, and other specialists as needed; we do not provide legal or tax advice.
Real Conversations for the Questions Families Are Actually Asking.
Each episode of Remarkable Futures brings together parents, advocates, and specialists to talk through the topics that come up again and again for families like yours.
Listening Is a Great First Step. Your Family's Plan Is the Next One.
Podcasts can explain how ABLE accounts and benefits work in general. Eventually the real question is what it all means for your family — and that's where a conversation helps. You don't need to have it all figured out first.
Let's Talk About Your FamilyStarting Doesn't Have to Be Complicated.
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Ready to Have a Conversation?
You don't need to have all the answers — or even know all the questions. Tell us a little about your family, and let's start with a conversation.
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Choose a Time That Works
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Schedule a ConversationPlanning Built Around Families Like Yours.
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Questions Families Often Ask.
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You've Spent a Lifetime Advocating for Their Future.
Let's help you plan for it. Not by predicting every possibility — but by making thoughtful decisions today, together.