What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

We're constantly groomed for overconsumption. So we're over-consuming and we're not enjoying.

So this is a quote from my very special guest today,

Bree Sedano. Bree, if you haven't already listened to my episode back from 2019 with Bree, where we talk

about budgeting and how they don't always work for everyone. I'm so excited to welcome her back into

the show. But whether that's now, you hop on and listen to the episode or after this one, go back. I know it'll take a little scrolling through your podcast up,

but I promise you that episode with Bree is worth it. So I wanted to have her back on the show today

to talk more about finances. So again, if you haven't met Bree, she's amazing. She is a financial

advisor and her content has been

featured all over, but most recently on the US News, Business News Daily, and Huffington Post,

just to name a few. So Bree knows her stuff. And the reason I want to have her on today is because

I wanted to share kind of a personal story. And this is a financial roadblock that

kept me stuck and therefore it kept our family stuck because I was spending a little too much

money for a long time. Actually, before, I really was able to dial it in once I met Bree

back in 2019. I took one of her courses called Find Your Bleed, and we're going to be

talking about that today. That really helped me make some slight variations to the way I

handled money and rewired the way I handled money. And it just took my and our finances as a family

really to the next level. And I have her to think. And so I really wanted to have her back on the show

...