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The Jesse Mecham Show

249 - Budget Fails with Variable Income

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Why does variable income make budgeting so tough? Because we're budgeting wrong.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabbers my name is Jesse Meekam, this is podcast number 249 for Why Now, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:20.0

Today I am going to be bringing on Todd Curtis and we are going to be doing the first of a four-part series on variable income.

0:28.0

How do you budget with a variable income?

0:32.0

So here we go.

0:35.0

Todd introduce yourself again to Weinabbers everywhere.

0:39.0

So my name is Todd Curtis, I'm the chief customer officer at Wineb and like to think and

0:44.5

obsess a lot about how to help you be successful with your budget.

0:48.0

You drive your kids crazy with the obsession or do you?

0:50.8

They have their own budgets that they stick to pretty well, yeah.

0:54.0

Do you make them obsessed about it or do they just obsess on their own?

0:57.2

A little bit of both.

0:58.2

It probably did start with me.

0:59.8

Yeah, okay, excellent.

1:01.2

Genetically or otherwise. Yeah, I mean that's what your job is so very good. What this is not part of the podcast topic what are they saving for right now?

1:12.0

Let's see what lots of Pokemon going on. saving for

1:15.0

one my kids and then bike gear is always a favorite you know you can think a lot of

1:22.0

you can think a lot of money into the bike gear if you want to you can you know that's probably an obsession that's passed on a little bit too is the the gear category and then my daughter really her favorite category is college.

1:32.6

So I can't complain there.

1:33.6

Oh gosh.

1:34.6

Wow.

1:35.9

Yeah.

1:36.4

Okay, that's the end everyone's just quitting because they're like, well, I'm demoralized.

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