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The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

208: How A Low Buy Year Changed Christinas Life And Relationship With Money

The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8931 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today Christina Mychas is sharing how a low buy year changed her life and her relationship with money! Christina is a lifestyle vlogger behind the youtube channel and Instagram account, Christina Mychas. She is also a full time pharmacist living in Toronto, Canada. On her social media channels, Christina shares insights into intentional living, minimalism and mindful spending as she openly works her way through paying off $120K of student loan debt and overcoming a shopping addiction. Christina discovered that there's a lot more to learn about money than just saving, investing and making more of it. She realized how you spend your money matters, so she spends time unpacking the behavioural sides of money, conspicuous consumption, and understanding why we can be motivated to spend the way we do in an effort to get to know yourself and know your money.  WHAT CHRISTINA DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE: 1. What prompted her start a low buy year 2. The inner work she did around why she spent money the way she did 3. How much debt she had in total 4. How has the experience changed her mindset and attitude about money 5. How she manages the temptation around slipping back into old habits AND SO MUCH MORE CORRECTION: Christina confirmed her loan term would've been around 10 to 15 years and not 15 to 20 years as mentioned on the podcast. HOW TO KEEP UP WITH CHRISTINA: - On IG @christina.Mychas - Search Christina Mychas on YouTube Video mentioned on episode: Why is it so hard to stop shopping? https://youtu.be/sdQ0OB75Vvw ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast. This is Boila Schokumbi. I'm the founder and CEO of Clever

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Girl Finance. The Clever Girls No Podcast is a podcast for women offering a space

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Just search Clever Girl Finance on YouTube. And if you

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don't already follow us on Instagram you can find us at Clever Girl Finance.

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Okay so let's get into today's episode. So before we get into the

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episode I just wanted to give you guys a bit of context on what a low-buy year

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is because I forgot to have that conversation with Christina in terms of

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talking about what a low by year is. So a low by year is where you are

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essentially very very intentional about where you are spending your money and you choose to spend very little amounts on certain areas of your life, whether it's items or experiences, etc, that may be distracting you from your financial

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goals so you are setting rules around how you spend your money and you're trying

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to spend as little as possible in certain areas so you can use that money towards

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your financial goals and a low-by-year is similar to a no-by-year where in a no-by-year you

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choose only to spend money on your essentials and you spend no money at all on your

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