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Portfolio Update: Murs and I have recorded our portfolio update for April 21, 2025
Life in Focus – Preserving Memories in the Modern Age
Radon and Murs discuss the art and importance of Preserving Memories with Angela Andrew, Product Evangelist for the Mylio App. In an age where digital images accumulate rapidly but often remain disorganized, Mylio offers a transformative solution for families looking to protect and share their memories. This episode dives into how the app simplifies Digital photo organization, helps Backup family photos, and creates a seamless structure for Family photo storage that enhances your Legacy planning....
Life in Focus – Preserving Memories in the Modern Age
In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of collecting meaningful life moments in retirement and discuss a modern solution: the Mylio app, an innovative tool designed to help families organize digital photos, scan old photos, and share family history photos safely and efficiently….
In today’s hyper-digital world, we’re better than ever at capturing memories — photos, videos, stories — yet ironically, we’re at greater risk of losing them. With thousands of photos buried in smartphones, scattered across cloud services, and hidden in shoeboxes under the bed, preserving memories for future generations has become both a personal challenge and a critical piece of legacy planning.
In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of collecting meaningful life moments in retirement and discuss a modern solution: the Mylio app, an innovative tool designed to help families organize digital photos, scan old photos, and share family history photos safely and efficiently.
Too Many Memories, Not Enough Organization
We live in a time where taking a photo is second nature. Every milestone, meal, and moment can be captured in high definition with the click of a button. Yet, many people aren’t organizing their photos in a way that preserves their meaning and makes them easily accessible.
Scattered or unorganized photos can look like:
Hundreds (or thousands) of pictures are stored on your phone
Older pictures live on outdated hard drives or DVDs
Some are buried in cloud accounts like iCloud or Google Photos
And let’s not forget the boxes of printed photos stored in closets or attics
This scattered photo legacy makes it difficult to pass along meaningful memories to your loved ones. In retirement, preserving your cherished moments becomes a priority. Organizing your photos from all their locations in their many formats can be overwhelming to start, using a program like Mylio can turn a big project into a joyful activity.
Mylio: A Digital Solution for Collecting Memories
The Mylio app is a solution that transforms disorganized photos into a secure, structured archive. Mylio’s mission is to make memory preservation simple, secure, and shareable — no matter your age or tech experience.
Mylio helps users:
Organize digital photos from phones, tablets, and computers
Scan old photos and integrate them into a unified library
Tag faces, places, and events to make search effortless
Synchronize libraries across devices
Grant access to family members with customizable permissions
Backup family photos using industry-standard encryption and off-site storage options
These features make Mylio a powerful option for family photo storage, helping retirees and families ensure their memories are never lost.
Preserve Your Legacy Without Losing Simplicity
As we age, retirement planning isn’t just about finances. It’s also about ensuring our stories, milestones, and values are passed along. A carefully curated collection of photos does more than display memories — it connects generations.
Preserving memories should be part of every retirement checklist. If you understand the importance of planning your finances, healthcare, and living arrangements, you should also prioritize how your personal history is archived and shared.
Mylio provides tailored tools for this very purpose:
The Life Calendar view allows you to browse photos by decade, year, and month
A Map View organizes images by location, letting you relive past travels and family gatherings
The People View uses advanced facial recognition to tag individuals and group all photos associated with them
Making Memories Accessible and Shareable
Beyond organizing, Mylio excels at sharing photos with family in ways that are intuitive and secure. Through shared albums and private family libraries, users can:
Selectively share certain albums or photos with specific family members
Create private links for older relatives who may not use smartphones
Segment photo access so different branches of the family see only what’s relevant to them
This functionality is essential for those focused on legacy planning and remembering loved ones with intention and privacy.
How Mylio Outperforms Traditional Photo Storage
You might already use iCloud or Google Photos, but these platforms aren’t built with legacy planning in mind. Only one in four people pay for additional cloud storage, meaning most devices aren’t backed up completely. Even if you do pay, these services can:
Compress or store only low-resolution versions
Become vulnerable to accidental deletion or data breaches
Limit your access or control over organization
Mylio solves these issues by supporting the 3-2-1 backup model: three copies of your photos, two different types of media, and one off-site location. That means greater secure photo backup and peace of mind.
The Emotional Value of Memory Preservation
Imagine sitting down with your family, opening your tablet, and showing them perfectly organized photos of your childhood, your travels, your first home, and their parents growing up. Each image is accompanied by a caption, a story, and a date. You’re not just remembering loved ones — you’re introducing them to a new generation.
This is the emotional payoff of family history photos beautifully organized and preserved. It’s not about hoarding pictures; it’s about creating intentional legacy planning that spans generations.
Sleep soundly knowing your memories are safe and accessible
Mylio offers plans starting at $20/month for individuals, with expanded family photo storage options for larger households. With access to onboarding experts and easy-to-use tools, even tech-novices can succeed with Mylio.
How It Aligns with Retirement Planning
At Peace of Mind Wealth Management, we believe retirement planning encompasses more than money. It’s about creating a life that’s meaningful, secure, and connected. That’s why we include memory preservation in our broader planning discussions.
Our Peace of Mind Pathway helps clients secure not only their finances but also the intangible things that matter — like memories, legacy, and stories.
A strong photo archive is one of the most heartfelt elements of a secure retirement. It tells your life story, keeps families connected, and ensures that when the time comes, your grandchildren know where they came from.
To be clear, photo organization is not the only way to collect and preserve the stories of your life and history. Do you love storytelling, or want to pass down some secret family recipes? You may want to look for a program to help you write a book. There are options out there to help you build your life stories into a legacy that is true to your style.
Investment Advisory Services offered through POM Investment Strategies, LLC dba Peace of Mind Wealth Management (“POM”), a Registered Investment Advisor. Mylio.com is not affiliated with POM. This material is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute investment advice and is not intended as an endorsement of any specific investment. Stated information is derived from proprietary and nonproprietary sources that have not been independently verified for accuracy or completeness. Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses associated with any investment. Always consult an investment advisor, attorney or tax professional regarding your specific situation.
Retirement planning is at the forefront of many people’s minds when they near retirement. You’ve worked diligently to save for retirement, and the big payoff is finally nearby. However, you may also want to start thinking about legacy planning.
We recently had a chance to sit down with Angelina Carleton to discuss designing your legacy plan.
Who is Angelina?
Angelina was a commercial real estate broker 10 years ago and worked with multimillionaires. She was working at an event where the topic was private prisons. As she looked around the room, she questioned whether these individuals realized that they were profiting off the misery of others.
As she went to her car, she asked herself if it was time to leave the commercial real estate sector and go into coaching.
What if she could convince all the financial representatives at the event to invest in something other than private prisons? Through her research, she couldn’t find a coach to help her create a legacy.
What was the solution?
Fill the gap. Angelina realized through her coaching that once people change, it impacts others around them, too. Angelina has helped others figure out their legacy plan and helped them reach this goal.
What is Legacy Planning for Angelina?
For many people, legacy planning means leaving money to their kids or grandchildren. People think of their homes, money, and other material things, but legacy planning is much more than that.
Angelina’s definition of legacy planning is a bit different than the definition you’ll find in the dictionary.
For Angelina, legacy means integrity and being true to yourself while being here. Of course, you can leave money to friends and family. However, people also want peace of mind in the legacy that they leave behind.
When coaching, she can help people get “unstuck.”
She wants to help people understand why they do what they do during their lifetime. When a person can get to know themselves beyond their careers, they can truly see what their theme is in life.
Unfortunately, many people don’t allow themselves to become who they really are until retirement.
A person may be a leader in the business world, but that doesn’t mean that they want to be in this position. Instead, through coaching, Angelina helps people open to who they really are at a younger age so that they can leave behind their own legacy.
A few questions to ask yourself are:
If you didn’t have to impress anyone, who could you be?
If you didn’t have to get it right, what could you create?
If you had nothing to prove, what would your legacy be?
For many people, they can’t answer these questions immediately. However, in one, two or four weeks, people have the answer because they allow it to marinate.
When you don’t have to fit a certain mold, you can create the true legacy that you leave behind. The legacy that goes beyond assets and talks about the way that you live your life, too.
Leaving Your Legacy Plan Behind
Angelina asks to tape all her sessions with clients, and if they approve, she gives them a big book of all the key points that were discussed during the coaching contract. These books can help you leave the legacy you want behind.
For example, let’s say that you run a family business and want to leave it to a successor.
When the successor goes into the head role, they may or may not be ready for this big role and responsibilities. They may not know the company’s:
Vision
Mission statement
Values
Guiding principles
Etc.
Aligning these values and principles is important because when these individuals come into an inheritance, whether it be money, a business, or others, it can help them create the legacy they want.
Who Should Be Designing Their Legacy?
Surprisingly, designing a legacy isn’t for everyone. Generally, people who have had coaching of some kind in the past excel in designing their legacies. Coaching is a broad term, but this can be people who have worked with:
Sports coaches
Business coaches
Personal trainers
Etc.
There needs to be a high level of trusting the process when working with a coach to really extract the maximum value possible.
Legacies aren’t for the lucky. They are only for those willing to perceive.
Angelina’s approach to legacy planning is a lot different than the normal financial legacy planning that we’re used to in our practice. Instead, this is an approach that looks at your life and what it means to truly be yourself.
Instead of an estate plan or financial legacy, this is the legacy of what it means to be you, including your values, guiding principles and beliefs.
For example, some of the clients Angelina is working with have started to try and save the planet and solve some of the problems in the world. This is the type of legacy planning that Angelina has to offer.
If you need help finding the true legacy you want to leave behind, you can go to Angelina’s website to see what she is all about.
There are many approaches you can take with legacy planning. If you need help with the financial side of legacy planning, we can help. Simply call us at (919) 787-8866 or click here to schedule an introduction call with us.
