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A weekly dose of just the right medicine to help you get out of debt, save more money, and beat the paycheck to paycheck cycle.

The YNAB Podcast Jesse Mecham

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    • 4.6 • 88 Ratings

A weekly dose of just the right medicine to help you get out of debt, save more money, and beat the paycheck to paycheck cycle.

    A Quote from F.W. Boreham

    A Quote from F.W. Boreham

    Jesse ran across a quote from author F.W. Boreham the other day that resonated strongly: "We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us." Mr. Boreham described the goal of the Four Rules in one simple and effective sentence! Working the Four Rules to create a spending plan involves making decisons -- decisions about what you value and where you want to spend your money. Those decisions stack on each other and in turn lead you to financial freedom, peace, and, ultimately, more joy with your money.
     
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    • 6 min
    Ask Jesse: Selling a Rental Property, Buying a Car, and Pausing Retirement to Save?

    Ask Jesse: Selling a Rental Property, Buying a Car, and Pausing Retirement to Save?

    Jesse is back with another round of questions from his inbox, including whether or not a listener should sell her rental property, whether it's worth buying a new car to relieve the stress of sticking with an old car with problems, and if pausing retirement savings to get a month ahead on expenses is worth consideration.
     
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    • 13 min
    Giving the Old Bird to Money

    Giving the Old Bird to Money

    Jesse has been focusing on the joy of spending money lately, and one way to achieve joy is to simply give it away. In a sense, giving away money is the ultimate way to give money the bird, so to speak. It's an act of defiance, that you don't need it, and you aren't consumed by it. But mostly, it's an act of joy, to give it away freely because your spending plan is working and your needs and wants are met.
     
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    • 3 min
    It Has Nothing, and Everything, to Do with Spending

    It Has Nothing, and Everything, to Do with Spending

    "You need to spend less money." "Money's not everything." But what if you don't need to spend less money. And what if money is everything? In today's episode Jesse offers up the idea that money is you -- the sum product of your energies and desires -- and if that's true, then you don't need to spend less money. You need to spend more of you on you! The more you can engage with the question of "what do I want my money to do" the more joy spending can bring you, because ultimately that question is "what do I want to do?"
     
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    • 8 min
    You Didn't Quit. To Every Season...

    You Didn't Quit. To Every Season...

    Once again, the holidays are nearly upon us. If your spending plan hasn't gone to, well, plan then that is OK. Seasons are everywhere in life. We see them every year and we see them over periods of many years. Some seasons you're really engaged with your spending and some seasons you're not. But you didn't quit. Whether you need a fresh start, or you're trucking along and spending with joy, this is a season.
     
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    • 5 min
    Building Habits: Four of Them, Actually

    Building Habits: Four of Them, Actually

    At YNAB they're called the Four Rules, but as Jesse argues, maybe they are best described as habits! The four habits of budgeting...
     
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    • 4 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
88 Ratings

88 Ratings

Bus Boss 1973 ,

So far so good

Wish I found this APP when I was newly married and not 15 years from retirement.

It’s a clean, simple budgeting tool that leaves accountability solely with the user. Plenty of support via Podcast, YouTube and Facebook.

I have had immediate results with use and look forward to seeing where this will take us in the future!

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Got me more into debt

This show made me sell my kidney

Csibiur ,

A Great Podcast on Everything Personal Finance

Short and easy-to-listen-to episodes, covering a wide variety of personal finance topics. Jesse has a very approachable and relaxed tone as he talks about these topics and the short format works perfectly for my short commutes.
A great personal finance podcast whether you use YNAB or not.

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