213-Overcoming Financial Ignorance: Interview with Lauren Bowling from LBee And The Money Tree

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

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🗓️ 29 June 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm pleased to share with you an interview with Lauren Bowling from LBeeAndTheMoneyTree.com!

Lauren has a really interesting story surrounding personal finance: After getting her degree in theater, and racking up thousands of dollars in credit card debt in college, she moved to New York City with $300 in her pocket. While there she landed a sweet job on Wall Street which sparked her interest in personal finance and helped her kick her bad money habits for good.

Three years, three cities, one home purchase, and nearly 2,000 blog posts later, Bowling is an expert at mastering tricky post-college finances. In addition to blogging on L Bee and the Money Tree (LBMT), Bowling is the host of the award-winning internet talk show, Awkward Money Chat. Bowling’s writing has been seen on Business Insider, Forbes.com, Learnvest, Yahoo! Finance, and The Huffington Post. As a source, Lauren’s expertise has also been featured in such notable publications as Redbook Magazine, HGTV Frontdoor.com, and Daily Worth (See here for the full list.)

She spends her free time renovating her first home, enjoying good wine while avoiding the kitchen, and “killing it” at karaoke. She’s even been known to act in a musical or two. By day Bowling works full time in marketing and resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Enjoy the show!

Joshua

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0:00.0	Today on the show I have an interview for you with personal finance blogger
0:04.4	Lauren Bowling from the website L.B. and the money tree. And the Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host.
0:29.5	Thank you so much for being here. Today I bring you an interview with a young lady
0:33.4	named Lauren Bowling. We're to talk about finance in your 20s and 30s and
0:39.2	various decisions related to establishing yourself as an adult, including how to set up a house
0:46.6	so that it makes you money instead of costs you money. My guest today again is Lauren Bowling. She writes for a website called
1:01.1	El B in the Money Tree. Lauren reached out to me, or actually her publicist reached out to me,
1:04.4	and mentioned a little bit about her story.
1:06.1	And her story piqued my interest.
1:07.9	I went over and checked out her website,
1:09.2	and decided to invite her on the show.
1:11.4	You'll hear in the content of today's interview a little bit of
1:13.4	background a little bit of information on who she is but also some of the
1:17.2	various ups and downs of her financial journey. She was a delight to talk to and it was
1:21.6	really interesting to hear some of the impact of different
1:24.5	steps that she took in her life regarding different aspects of her financial journey.
1:30.5	I was particularly attracted to bring you this interview simply because it talks about the more normal day-to-day
1:37.3	aspects of finance
1:38.7	Talks about the things that most of us have faced young people going out getting their start in the world moving to a new city
1:44.3	without any money.
1:45.3	Lauren's got a really fun story.
1:47.4	Some of the ups and downs and the lessons learned in her growth as a personal finance writer and especially I also love to bring you the
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