054 - Your Car is a Wealth Sucking Parasite.

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054 - Your Car is a Wealth Sucking Parasite.

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Oct 29, 2012

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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.

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Oct 29, 2012

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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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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
17 min listen
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
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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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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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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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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048 - Achieving Money Zen. An Interview with Leo Babauta of ZenHabits.net: I LOVED doing this interview! Leo really helped me think through priorities, gaining clarity, and determining what matters. I'm more zen-like because of it :) by The YNAB Podcast
39 min listen
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
12 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
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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
8 min listen
Episode 003 - The Power of Rule Two (Plus Rule One): Creating blissful cash flow situations 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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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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022 - YNAB for Your Business?: Can YNAB serve your business just as well? Well, YNAB's serving YNAB well. by The YNAB Podcast
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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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041 - Credit Card Pros and Cons: If you carry a credit card balance from month to month, your credit cards should be destroyed. If you're operating by YNAB's 4 Rules, Credit Cards offer some advantages. by The YNAB Podcast
7 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
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
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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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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094 - Cellphone, Unshackled.: My thoughts on cellphones, not just smartphones, and how we're being sold a bill of goods that's costing us money, and decreasing quality of life. And yes, I'm going for "dramatic" here. 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
5 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
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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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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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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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
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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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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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054 - Your Car is a Wealth Sucking Parasite.

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