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The Jesse Mecham Show

316 - "The Mexican Fisherman"

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A little story about a man and his boat. And an investment banker.

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0:00.0

Hello, Winebbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is Podcast,

0:08.0

Number 316 for Wineb.

0:10.0

Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck get out of debt and save more money

0:17.0

Now I've been talking a lot about that because I feel like you should save more than you are

0:21.0

And if you're killing it and you write to me you say,

0:23.0

Jesse, I'm saving half of my income, talk about something else, I'll say no, let me just

0:27.1

have you come on the podcast, we can do a little interview and inspire the others to

0:31.6

bump up their savings.

0:33.1

So I'm going to keep talking about it for quite some time because it's bothering me right

0:36.1

now for some reason.

0:37.8

I feel like we're under saving and we need to get out of it.

0:40.5

In the meantime though I want to take a little break I've got here a little story

0:46.7

It's called the Mexican Fisherman you may have heard of it

0:51.0

One of our executives chance he shared it with the execs and Todd, who's our chief strategy officer,

0:57.3

he hadn't heard of the story, which surprised me because I thought everyone had.

1:02.2

But because Todd hadn't heard of it and he's quite well read, I thought, well, there are

1:07.0

podcast listeners that haven't heard this story.

1:09.9

So, yeah, I went online and it's all over on the internet. I don't know who it's originally

1:16.7

attributed to at all. I tried to look hard and couldn't find it. So I pulled this up on a blog called Living Well with Less. And credit goes out to them for posting it for me.

1:30.0

Okay, here we go.

1:32.0

An American Investment Banker was at the pier. me. Okay, here we go.

1:32.8

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small

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