YNAB Interview with Mike Michalowicz

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YNAB Interview with Mike Michalowicz

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Aug 21, 2018

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Jesse talks with Mike Michalowicz, author of Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself—a book about how to stop sacrificing family, friendships and freedom for the sake of your business. Available Today

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Aug 21, 2018

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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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049 - The New Retirement. An Interview with Todd Tressider of FinancialMentor.com: Todd was a panelist at FinCon12, where the topic was the new retirement. I was impressed by Todd's analytical approach, and approachableness (is that a word?) on the topic. He also managed to find financial freedom by age 35. And by "find", I mean... by The YNAB Podcast
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034 - Success Story: Debt Free and Loving It: Bill has been using YNAB for three years, along with Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover method. They're debt free, and are working to pay down their mortgage as fast as possible. 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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018 - Too Poor To Budget: Are you too poor to budget? Absolutely not! by The YNAB Podcast
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026 - Backpacking and Rationing: When backpacking, you don't eat all of your food the first day. When you receive a paycheck, you don't spend all of your money the first day either. Also, handling a wildly variable income. 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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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
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033 - A Week in the Wilderness: Prepping for a 50-mile hike is a lot like the monthly budget meeting. This topic is oozing metaphors. 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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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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073 - Your Life on a Treadmill: 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!?" by The YNAB Podcast
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