Hello, whinabbers, my name is Jesse Meekham and this is

podcast number 73 for you need a budget where we teach you four rules to

help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money. I was talking

with Taylor, our lead developer a week ago and we were discussing different interviews I've

been doing with customers that just recently

purchase WANAB and I was talking to him about events. Everyone's

experienced some kind of an event. I think there was a TV show called

the event. I never checked it out. But events push us toward

that idea of needing a budget. Nobody wakes up on some random day, sees the bright sun streaming through the window and thinks,

we need a budget. I didn't. And like I said in my blog, I'm a budgeting freak of nature.

So my wake-up call came entirely from a big event on my own horizon, which was my marriage to the

greatest woman in the history of the world.

When I was 14 my dad gave me Dave Ramsey's book Financial Peace.

I read it in a few days, life insurance, mutual funds, growth, value,

all this stuff that was in there, get out of debt, stay out of debt. I had no money.

So it was all really simple, set up a budget. I actually started tracking my money because of that.

And I think because of a personal finance merit badge, personal management. of that

and I think because of a personal finance merit badge,

personal management, I think it's called.

And another story for another time,

but I was always a little bit of a geek in that regard.

I read the millionaire next door before I finished high school,

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