228 - Think Long, Act Now: Focus & Start Now
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2016
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
YNAB Chief Customer Officer, Todd Curtis, and I discuss focusing on long term goals by looking at the here and now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, whinabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 228 for Wino, where we teach you four rules to help |
| 0:15.8 | you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:21.6 | Today I am pleased to have with me Todd Curtis. He is Wineab's Chief |
| 0:26.1 | Customer Officer and we talk about thinking long but acting now. I'll cut over to the |
| 0:30.7 | interview. Okay I'm here with Todd Curtis again he's the chief customer officer for |
| 0:35.2 | WANAB he is in charge of making sure you understand how and why we use |
| 0:40.7 | WANAB so welcome back Todd. |
| 0:42.8 | Thanks Jesse. |
| 0:43.8 | So we wanted to talk kind of continuing on the same theme of the Think Long Act Now |
| 0:49.2 | And specifically we were we wanted to kind of dive into the idea of focusing and |
| 0:55.0 | starting small and so I wanted to maybe just start us off with a real life |
| 0:59.4 | example of a conversation I had with Julie just yesterday where I had kind of spur the moment |
| 1:05.2 | but I had the thought why wouldn't we why couldn't we move the kids to Hawaii |
| 1:11.6 | and we all just live there for a year. |
| 1:14.3 | Why not a remote company? |
| 1:15.8 | We can do this internet thing. |
| 1:17.6 | Why wouldn't we do that? |
| 1:18.8 | And Julie's response was, that sounds pretty hard. That was kind of where we left it but I want to |
| 1:26.2 | explore that because we don't want to talk I don't want to talk about like take a |
| 1:29.3 | you know a small vacation because this is really long stuff, big stuff and how that applies. |
| 1:34.2 | So how would we approach that like with our budget and just kind of with our thinking? |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, we have the same conversation about moving to France. |
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