Today on Radical Personal Finance, let's talk about money and marriage.

So husbands and wives share a bed.

Should they share a bank account too? I'm your host.

Thank you so much for being with me today. We continue our interview blitz on Radical Personal Finance. Check back in October

for more of the normal flow of the show if you get tired of interviews, but today I got a good one so give it a shot. My guest is Derek Olson. He and his wife

Carrie have written a book entitled One Bed, One Bank Account,

Better Conversations on Money and marriage.

This is a subject that I think affects every couple that's every couple that's out there how on earth do we handle our money and how do we

communicate about our money and I'm not even going to pretend to say that I've got it all figured out. I've got a little bit of experience

but being married, what, a little over three years now I think I think I'm just starting to scratch the surface

on my own practical experience. But my guest today, he and his wife have endeavored to take this on and

tackle the subject in a straightforward manner and I hope that it's useful to

you. Money certainly affects every part of our lives and our relationships certainly affect every part of our lives and they affect each other.

Hard for me to think of a subject that's more important

Special bonus tip before I hit play on the interview here. Stay tuned. You're going to hear me

come back and wrap up at the end of the interview, but then following that is a special bonus portion of the interview.

What happened is I did a full normal interview with Derek and then later, after I turned the recorder off I found that he and his wife

are actually living a pretty hardcore radical lifestyle so stay tuned after part one for part two and you'll hear a little bit

about the realities of what they're doing right now. Here we go.

Derek, welcome to Radical Personal Finance.

Thanks for having me.

Had you on today, we were trying to get you and your wife together because we're going

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