Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest today is Lauren Gruitman.

Lauren, welcome back to a Reprise performance

on radical personal finance.

Thank you so much.

I'm happy to be back as always.

You were last back with your husband,

excuse me you were last here with your husband Mark on episode 108.

So back in the early point of the show and now you're back to show off your new book, The Recovering Spender.

Yeah, definitely.

I can't believe it's been that long since the first time I was on.

It has been quite a while.

So we're going to primarily talk about the book and primarily talk about some of the tools and tactics and techniques that you have learned and are now sharing with others.

But go ahead and give us a brief intro story of your and Mark's story, especially as it relates to personal finance.

Yeah, so my husband and I, we've been married for 14 years.

We got married young.

Actually, we were still in college and we got married.

We got married in between our junior and our senior year of college.

And we both, you know, I didn't have very much luck with money in my teen years and in my college years and so it was just a train wreck right away

financially.

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