Drop Dead Box: Because, one day, you won’t be here to run it all

You can't run everything forever - and most parents of someone with disability already know it. More than 80% of us lie awake worrying about who will speak up for the person we love when we can't. This session won't make the worry go away, but it will give you somewhere concrete to put it.

In forty honest, practical and (yes) occasionally darkly funny minutes, Sam walks parents and carers through the stuff that actually needs doing:

  • building natural safeguards
  • assembling a "Drop Dead Box" of the About-Me, health, emergency, and contact information no one else can reconstruct from scratch
  • navigating wills, trusts, executors, Power of Attorney, Enduring Power of Attorney and Advance Care Directives
  • and writing the Letter of Intent that tells the people coming after you who your person actually is.

Trigger warning: this is hard and brave work. Bring a notebook, and someone who'll buy you a coffee (or a G&T) afterwards. You'll leave with a clear first step - and that's the whole point.

Speakers

  • Sam Paior

    Portrait of Sam Paior

    Mum, Advocate, CEO, and NDIS IAC Member

    Sam Paior is the founder and CEO of The Growing Space and co-founder of the “Make it easy” app - both purpose driven initiatives created to help people make sense of complex systems and be more in control of their lives, while employing almost exclusively disabled people and carers.

    Sam works and volunteers nationally in the disability sector and is in her sixth year on the NDIS Independent Advisory Council. She also brings something more important - lived experience as a mum to two (stellar) young men with disabilities.

    Her work focuses on making things clearer and more human, especially within the NDIS. Sam is known for translating confusing information into practical, everyday language families can actually use.

    What drives her is simple: to lessen those lost, overwhelmed, alone feelings when supporting their child or planning their future.

    In her presentations, Sam shares real stories, practical strategies, and ideas people can take home and use straight away. She wants families to leave more confident, more informed, and knowing there is a community around them who “get it”.

    Outside work, she’s in the garden, trail running with a dog, or playing bananagrams with her boys – her happy places.

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