073 - Your Life on a Treadmill

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073 - Your Life on a Treadmill

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Mar 11, 2013

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Anyone can keep pace when the treadmill is level, you're not carrying any extra weight, and the speed is slow. But what happens when Big Events change that? What drove you to the point where you thought, "We need a budget!?"

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Mar 11, 2013

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Titles in the series (100)

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.

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006 - The Budget and Slow Suffocation: One of the more embarrassing moments of my teenage years taught me a great lesson about budgeting, breathing, and the crushing effects of five pounds. by The YNAB Podcast
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023 - Reality and Unleashing Your Will: If you're not operating in reality, you don't know what you want. If you don't knowo what you want, you won't get it. by The YNAB Podcast
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020 - Success Story- Musicians Rock with YNAB: I talk with Mason (who created our podcast bump music) about how his finances are now rockin' with YNAB. by The YNAB Podcast
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062 - Bought a Car, Broke Both My Rules: I have two rules when it comes to buying a car. Don't buy new, and don't finance it. Broke both of those. by The YNAB Podcast
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013 - An Interview with Baker from ManVsDebt.com: Baker and his wife had an epiphany the night their daughter was born. With the answer to one simple question, they found freedom. This will get you thinking! by The YNAB Podcast
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Episode 002 - Setting and Achieving Mini Financial Goals (Budgeting): Wait, I thought we were budgeting. What's all this talk about goals, mini-goals, and habits? Yeah, you're not budgeting. You're becoming an unbelievably effective goal setter/reacher. by The YNAB Podcast
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005 - Success Story: a Cut in Salary, and Freelancing: An interview with Brian from Massachusetts, a freelance video editor, that now feels content--even with a large drop in income. by The YNAB Podcast
16 min listen
019 - Halftime Adjustments: Five minutes trying to convince you that adjusting your budget is not only correct, it's a best practice. by The YNAB Podcast
6 min listen
007 - Christmas, Weak Reports, the Best Report of All: A few words on Christmas, why January's so important to your Christmas spending, and weak reports. Also, a hat tip to the best report of all. by The YNAB Podcast
15 min listen
014 - Success Story: From Doing Fine to Awesome: A YNAB success story interview with Brian from Portland. We wax philosophical about present you, and future you (Rules One & Two), and Brian talks about his transition from Quicken. by The YNAB Podcast
24 min listen
054 - Your Car is a Wealth Sucking Parasite.: If you're like most (and you probably are), you're driving too much car. Consider how it just might be keeping you from the financial goals you REALLY care about. by The YNAB Podcast
10 min listen
Episode 004 - Lavish Spending (on Purpose): Lavish spending. Your budgeting indulgence. No judgement here, as long as it's purposeful and done with total awareness. by The YNAB Podcast
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Episode 001 - Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck: 70% of people live paycheck to paycheck, but did you know the interesting part of that statistic that isn't often quoted? It will surprise you, and perhaps spur you on to decide that $1000 is the new $0. Rule Four, "Stop Living Paycheck to... by The YNAB Podcast
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016 - The Double-Edged Sword of Automation: Automation is a two-edged sword. Used wisely, it will revolutionize your finances. Used poorly, it will do nothing for you (it may even hurt you, in a financial way). by The YNAB Podcast
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025 - Success Story - Bible Study Group: This church out of Idaho has been using YNAB as part of their bible study groups -- for SIX YEARS. I have a long conversation with them about how it's helped them, what they'd like to see improved, and tacos. by The YNAB Podcast
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011 - A New Year's Crash Course: Erin Lowell, YNAB's head of Education, jumps onto the program to introduce our new New Year's Crash Course. One more way to help you get this money thing done RIGHT. by The YNAB Podcast
13 min listen
009 - Success Story: a Quicken Junkie Convert!: I interview Sheridan from Orange County, California. She's now been using YNAB for 2.5 years, and won't be going back to Quicken any time soon! by The YNAB Podcast
20 min listen
022 - YNAB for Your Business?: Can YNAB serve your business just as well? Well, YNAB's serving YNAB well. by The YNAB Podcast
11 min listen
037 - What IS YNAB Anyway?: In the wake of an eventful, learning-filled, stressful launch of YNAB 4…what IS YNAB? by The YNAB Podcast
7 min listen
017 - The Debt Snowflake: The debt snowball is tried and true, but what's the debt snowflake? It's more effective than it sounds :) by The YNAB Podcast
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008 - 3 Tiny Habits, Big Takeaways: I relate my experience with BJ Fogg's 3 Tiny Habits program, and how that ties in so beautifully to budgeting--specifically staying on top of recording your transactions. by The YNAB Podcast
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032 - How I Paid Off My Mortgage Before I Turned 30: Kind of hesitant to share this, because up until now I haven't made it public. But what the heck. The key for me paying my home off before I turned 30 was incessant focus, and long hair. by The YNAB Podcast
11 min listen
015 - Ignoring Life's Biggest Expense is Folly: Taxes are your life's single biggest expense. Cozy up with the tax code and minimize as if your financial life depended on it! by The YNAB Podcast
20 min listen
010 - YNAB Gets a New Site Design!: I discuss some of the whys behind our 12/2011 site redesign. by The YNAB Podcast
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021 - Your Budget Boiling Point: Your budget has a boiling point. Dial it back a few notches so you can stick to your budget for the long haul. by The YNAB Podcast
7 min listen
012 - An Interview with Carl Richards, Author of "The Behavior Gap": "Simple ways to stop doing dumb things with money" is the tagline of Carl's book, "The Behavior Gap". Stop doing dumb things when it comes to investing? I'll take one of those please! by The YNAB Podcast
29 min listen
027 - What Does the Ideal Budget Look Like?: A rambling discussion of accounts, categories, cash, and just trying to do everything you can to simplify your budget process, while still deriving all of the benefit it provides. by The YNAB Podcast
10 min listen
024 - The Disaster Effect: When it rains, it pours, right? Sometimes that's our own doing (and demise). Financially speaking, of course. by The YNAB Podcast
9 min listen
031 - Success Story: Where There's a Will...: Will has been using YNAB for about five months and, since he only had nice things to say about it, I thought he made a great success story ;) by The YNAB Podcast
12 min listen

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073 - Your Life on a Treadmill

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