395: No, You Really Don’t Need a Budget! And How to Make Your Money Work For You with Jesse Mecham

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jesse Mecham is a personal finance expert, speaker, business leader, and the Founder of You Need A Budget (YNAB for short). A self-proclaimed “recovering CPA,” he is deeply passionate about teaching individuals, families, and business owners his method to taking control of their money and making it work for them. Jesse hosts The Jesse Mecham Show, and is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of book You Need A Budget. He is on the show to discuss the biggest mistakes we make when it comes to money, how to use scarcity to our benefit, reframing saving, how to get out of debt, why naming your money is important and how to differentiate between present and future you. This is a fun empowering episode that will help you cultivate a better relationship with money.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.7	In a world of ever-changing wellness trends and information, what does it mean to truly be
0:10.1	well?
0:11.0	I'm Ariel Lurie and I'm going to explore this with you.
0:14.8	I am bringing you candid conversations that will equip you with everything you need to live your
0:19.5	best life and look good doing it.
0:21.8	Think of Well is your go-to resource for all of the latest in wellness and me as your
0:26.2	internet bestie.
0:27.4	Well, let's get into it.
0:30.5	Hi, everybody.
0:31.7	Welcome to the show.
0:33.6	It has been a hot minute since I have done an episode on finance, which I think is a
0:39.4	massive oversight on my part because I truly, truly believe that financial wellness is a huge
0:46.9	component of overall wellness. I believe it was when I had Sally Crawcheck on maybe two years ago when we talked about this concept
0:56.4	that you cannot have true wellness if you are constantly living with the stress and the
1:02.5	strain of financial insecurity or financial stress. So I'm really excited to have Jesse
1:09.5	Mekum on today. He is the founder of Wynab. It is something
1:14.3	that I know a lot of you are familiar with. It completely changed the way that I look at and utilize my
1:20.5	finances. It's an award-winning app. It's changed the way people think about their money. So the
1:25.9	Wynaub method of giving every dollar a job has helped
1:28.6	millions of people align their money with what matters most. And they call this spendfulness.
1:34.5	So we had so much fun in this episode talking about finances. Jesse was a broke college student,
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