11 Dangerous Financial Mistakes Couples Make

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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

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🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dangerous Financial Mistakes Couples Make

Do you and your other half function as a team? If you’re the financially dominant one, do you include your spouse in all financial decisions? Does your spouse understand why you make those decisions? We’re covering these topics and more as we take a deep dive into how couples can successfully manage their financial lives together. Learn the 11 most common -- and dangerous -- mistakes we see couples make with their money, and gain insight into how you can avoid these missteps in your own marriage and life.

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0:00.0	In today's show, we're going to be taking two decades of professional money management experience
0:05.6	to talk about the ins and outs of the most popular, I shouldn't say popular,
0:11.6	probably the worst mistakes we see couples make with their finances. So if you're one of those
0:16.1	people who want to make sure you're doing the right thing with your couple finances, this is your
0:20.0	show today. It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,
0:27.5	investing, taxing. You've got financial questions. He's got financial answers. It's Brian Preston,
0:34.6	the money guy. But we're actually recording this show a little early. We are recording it a
0:40.7	little early. Why are we doing that? Because Brian is traveling out to Las Vegas. Oh, the money
0:47.8	guy does Vegas again. Yeah, I'm going out to that auto show that you and I went to was a two
0:52.0	years ago out to SEMA. That's right. The big auto accessory car show. So it's going to be too
0:57.1	late for you guys to say, give me a shout out or say hello because I will have already been there
1:01.2	and probably on my flight back about the time this show gets released. But nonetheless, we're excited.
1:07.7	Go check us out money-guy.com to talk about today. Just mistakes that we see couples make. I mean,
1:14.4	one of the benefits for doing this professionally is that we get to work with very successful couples
1:20.3	and families and individuals for that matter. But we get to see the mistakes that people have made
1:25.5	but then also the great decisions. And I'm hoping that from our experience, you're going to be able to
1:31.3	take some of these items and internalize it and figure out how to make better decisions for your
1:37.3	family. So since we have a number of them, I think the best thing to do is kind of jump in these
1:42.8	things. Absolutely. If I could just give the intro of already giving you the website money-guy.com
1:48.0	or money-guy.com, by the way, just in case I know I keep going back and forth with that. But we
1:52.6	are, we've got some exciting things coming out for 2016 guys. Just know money-guy.com is just
1:58.0	easier to say. We're going to be focusing on that more. You can always go to the website.
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