304: An Intro To Budgeting (Using The Erin Condren X Clever Girl Finance Budget Planner!)

The Clever Girls Know Podcast

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, How To

4.8 • 898 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode we discuss how to get into budgeting with Mechaela Vardoulakis from Erin Condren. We also discuss how to leverage the new Erin Condren x Clever Girl Finance Budget Planner to budget better! Mechaela is a Product Manager on the Product Development team at Erin Condren. She has been with the EC team for four years and before that, she was an Elementary School Teacher. She got her Master's in Education and taught for 4 years in the public school system in Orange County CA. She transitioned out of the classroom and into her role with Erin Condren and it's been an incredible journey since. ABOUT THE ERIN CONDREN X CLEVER GIRL FINANCE BUDGET PLANNER We are so excited to share the launch of the Erin Condren x Clever Girl Finance Budget Planner now available on ErinCondren.com! Set, track, and achieve your financial goals with this new, Clever Girl Finance Budget Planner. This budgeting planner is filled with so much functionality and planning potential! The easy-to-use monthly expense logs help you categorize your expenditures and help you see your spending patterns. Keep track of monthly recurring expenses, log your weekly spending habits, and use this budget planner to meet your savings goals. This planner includes a sticker sheet to help make budgeting fun, a double sided pocket folder for receipts and more, as well as Clever Girl Budgeting Tips throughout the entire planner! The planner is now available for $32.50 just in time for the holiday season and to help you kick off the new year on the right financial foot! Follow the Erin Condren brand on Instagram: https://instagram.com/erincondren

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0:00.0	Hi Michaela.
0:02.0	Hello, how are you?
0:03.7	I'm doing great.
0:04.7	How are you?
0:05.7	Fabulous.
0:06.7	Well, I'm so excited to have you here.
0:09.4	We're going to be having a great conversation about an introduction to budgeting using our very new budget planner
0:16.2	launch the Erin Conjun and Clevergo Finance Budget Planner.
0:20.0	And we're going to talk about just our experiences with budgeting and how someone who's brand new to budgeting can basically do it well and do it in a way that benefits them.
0:29.0	Before we dive in, I'd love for you to tell everyone who's listening and watching who you are and what you do.
0:35.4	Yes, thank you so much Bola. So I am the Kayla Vardoloccus. I am a product manager on our product development team at Aaron Congren. And for those of you who might not be familiar with our
0:47.8	brand, we are a lifestyle brand and we make really fun and functional organization items for your home, for your office, for school, and we're best known for our paper planners and our notebooks. They have really high quality
1:05.8	paper so that's what we're best known for.
1:08.0	I love that and I'm so excited about this partnership. I'm a huge fan of the company and the brand and just you know the quality of the
1:16.7	products that you guys create but I want us to dive in just dive straight into the
1:21.6	topic and I'd love you to share what some of the common misconceptions or myths about budgeting that you have personally experienced.
1:31.0	Oof, the first one that I experienced was that you have to be good at
1:37.4	math to do budgeting. I am someone who is not a math person. I love reading and writing so all throughout school I have just
1:49.0	always thought I'm not a math person so I've never really took the time to start budgeting.
1:55.0	And so in my early 20s I made a lot of mistakes because I didn't take the time to
2:01.0	actually form a budget plan. And as I've grown, I've learned that all budgeting is is really effective planning. It's not a math thing. It doesn't have to be this overwhelming daunting thing.
2:15.0	It really is just all about effective planning.
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