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The Playbook With David Meltzer

4 Rules to Take Control of Your Money | Interview With Jesse Mecham, Founder of You Need A Budget

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Mecham, Author and Founder of You Need a Budget (YNAB), sits down to discuss the four strategies that will empower anyone to take control of their financial well-being, as well as how to eliminate some of the stresses that are caused by money. Mecham and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a range of topics including their own perspectives on the energy of money, why each dollar that you earn should have a specific “job”, and what it means to let your money age. Their pair also talk about how to align your current and future priorities with your spending habits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I want to have a plan when I have a little pile of money, $300, $3,000, it doesn't matter.

0:05.3

I want to ask myself, what should this money do before I'm paid again?

0:11.4

This is the playbook.

0:13.0

Another extraordinary entrepreneur, Jesse Meekam, author and founder of You Need A Budget.

0:19.0

Tell me about it.

0:20.0

I think timing and risk tolerance in budget are the simplest ways.

0:23.5

We call it the YNAB, YNAB, Jesse, welcome to the playbook.

0:28.8

Thanks for having me.

0:29.8

It's about to be here, David.

0:30.8

Well, you talk about, in your expertise, it's taking control of your money.

0:36.9

And financial literacy, I work with Marshall Falk, we're on a team together to help.

0:41.9

It started with just athletes, now it's vets, and now entrepreneurs, of how literally

0:47.7

to take control of your money, because that's what financial literacy is about, is actually

0:52.8

having a system in place to take control of your money.

0:57.8

People around my office and community have been bragging about you, your app, and they're

1:02.6

like, Dave, this makes it so easy to gain control of your money.

1:07.0

What are some of the rules that you've developed to take control of our most important currency

1:14.6

of this vibration, this objective energy we put into the flow to get what we want?

1:19.0

Yeah, money is just another form of energy, it's just a store of energy, right?

1:22.4

You spent all of this energy to create something of value, someone paid you for it, now you're

1:27.2

just holding a dollar or whatever in your hand, and then the question is, how do I use

1:30.7

this energy that's now just in the form of a dollar, and that's kind of where we shine.

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