Your Voice Matters.
At Your Legacy Echoes Network, our motto is
Live Well — Love Well — Leave Well.
We are an Alberta-based nonprofit community.
YLEN brings trusted professionals, practical education, and secure organization together in one place so members can understand their options, connect with the right expertise, and prepare with greater clarity and confidence.
Why We Built This For You
We saw the same story too many times.
People were already juggling caregiving, health changes, grief, or family responsibilities, simply trying to keep up with life. Then circumstances changed, and important information had to be found across phones, filing cabinets, inboxes, and half-remembered conversations. Instead of having time to focus on one another, someone was left playing detective during an already difficult time.
We also saw how grief, overwhelm, and too many responsibilities at once could leave people unsure where to begin.
We built Your Legacy Echoes Network to provide one affordable and accessible place to start before illness, aging, grief, or estate responsibilities make life more complicated — while strengthening human connection through clearer communication and preparation.
Our motto is Live Well, Love Well, Leave Well.
Live Well offers practical resources and professional knowledge for healthy aging and proactive life management.
Love Well offers guided tutorials for creating and preserving heartfelt messages, stories, and memories for the people in your life.
Leave Well offers secure organization for essential information in the Echoes Digital Vault, giving you, your loved ones, and your Executor less searching, less guessing, and less future stress.
Real People Helping Real People
in an AI era
People have knowledge, experience, stories, and compassion worth sharing.
Professionals offer personal guidance. Community organizations connect people with resources.
Families preserve stories and important information.
Our role is to help bring those pieces together.
How We Help
We help people reduce stress, navigate grief and overwhelm, stay connected, retain their agency and voice, learn from trusted people, and find a clear place to begin.
- Echoes Essentials Toolkit — Subscribers organize important information in one central place, so the people supporting them aren’t left searching when it’s needed.
- Echoes Digital Vault — Powered by SideDrawer Inc., a secure place to organize important documents and wishes, giving the people who may one day access them greater clarity and fewer unanswered questions.
- Trusted Professional Experts — Practical guidance on where to begin, what questions to ask, and when professional support may help.
- Healthy-Aging and Grief Resources — Reliable information, lived experience, and community perspectives that help people feel more informed and less alone.
- “Your Life Messages” — A tutorial space for personal writing that preserves words, memories, stories, appreciation, and lived experience, to share now or keep for later.
We’re also building a community where people share knowledge, support one another, and stay connected through difficult times.
Our Mission
At Your Legacy Echoes Network, our motto is Live Well, Love Well, Leave Well. As an Alberta-based non-profit, we strengthen human connection, preserve personal wishes and stories, and protect authentic voices in an AI era. We build community and bring together like-minded professionals, practical resources, expert guidance, and secure tools, with a focus on affordability and accessibility. We support grief relief for adults, their loved ones, and their Executors through clearer communication and organized preparation, helping them proactively navigate the challenges of later life.
Our Vision
We envision a Canada where conversations about future planning feel normal, comfortable, and caring. By replacing fear, silence, and avoidance with awareness, practical guidance, and open conversation, more people can prepare before a crisis, make their choices and wishes understood, and reduce stress, uncertainty, conflict, searching, and guessing, while helping the people in their circle feel more supported as they live through grief.
Our Three Pillars
Prepare — Organize Essentials
Put the practical and legal essentials in place before life becomes urgent. Document your decisions, communicate your wishes, and gather the information caregivers, emergency contacts, executors, and loved ones may one day need.
Protect — Wishes and Messages
Protect your voice by securely storing your important documents, wishes, instructions, and guided legacy letters. Keep everything current, organized, and accessible to the right people so they have a clear roadmap instead of a scavenger hunt.
Preserve — Support Well-Being and Family Connection
Preserve your well-being through healthy-aging, self-care, and grief resources. Preserve your voice through Your Life Messages, while clear communication, recorded wishes, and organized information help reduce misunderstandings and strengthen family connection.
Echoing Hearts Message Keeper
Most of us intend to write things down.
Most of us want to share the stories, lessons, memories, and words that shaped us. But life gets busy, and the right moment does not always come.
Echoing Hearts Message Keeper helps you preserve meaningful messages in short, simple steps. No writing experience needed. Just your voice, your memories, and your honest words. Some of these messages will be read one day. Others may never leave the vault. Either way, writing them is where the weight starts to lift.
In a world where AI can replicate almost anything, the real thing matters more than ever.
You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup
Self-care is not selfish. It is part of preparation.
Many adults are carrying work, family, aging parents, grief, health changes, and future planning.
That takes energy.
Our Wellness Hub, Mind and Body Routine, and Self-Care Daily Journal help you protect your well-being while you prepare.
Small habits matter. So does having support.
A Network That Shows Up for You
A Fundraising Tool for Other Nonprofits:
Your Legacy Echoes Network also supports other nonprofit and community organizations. Through our fundraising program, participating organizations receive 30% of referred Echoes Essentials Toolkit subscription revenue when someone subscribes through their referral link.
It is a simple way to raise funds while connecting their community with practical later-life planning, Executor support, healthy-aging resources, and trusted professional expertise.
Our Trusted Professionals Network:
YLEN is building a referral resource for later-life living by connecting subscribers with trusted professionals, nonprofits, community organizations, and useful services across Alberta.
Subscribers can learn from professionals through How to Begin — Experts’ Advice, get to know the people behind the businesses through Share Your Business Story in the Wellness Hub, and find professional and community support through our Experts Directory and YLEN Connections resources.
Humans connecting humans—making professional knowledge and support easier to find and understand.
“We developed Your Legacy Echoes Network to connect families to trusted resources and like-minded communities so people feel more prepared, informed, and less alone.”
Eric Menard, Director
Join Us as We Grow
Preparing isn’t morbid—it’s kindness.
You do not need more late-night Google spiraling trying to find support. You need the right information in one easy-to-use place.
Your Legacy Echoes Network curates plain-language resources for later-life planning, grief, healthy aging, and Executor support.
We help you find a place to start, with trusted information and resources you can return to.
Start with the Free Connections Plan. Receive the Echoes Video Magazine once a month and take one small step at a time.