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Welcome to So Money. Hey everyone, welcome back to So Money. I'm your host Farnoosh Tarabi. I am

pumped for today's episode. Very excited to introduce today's guest. He is one of the most influential financial

bloggers of our time. He's the founder of two personal finance websites. The first is

Budgets are sexy.com and the second is rock star finance.com.

He also coaches those interested in blogging and online business and his name is Jay Money. Like many of us Jay struggled with money and

made some poor choices early on in life and so what did he do naturally? Well

he decided to blog about it and in 2008 he started his first personal

finance blog, Budgets are sexy.com, to track his spending and keep himself accountable.

And that actually worked.

It worked not only for himself but for the millions of readers who come to him and since then he's

built his net worth to over half a million dollars just by doing what he loves.

Now a few takeaways from our interview with Jay, why home ownership he says is not for everyone.

So if you're renting and you're thinking about owning,'ll want to take some notes how Craig's list helps Jay develop better money habits and he actually makes money weekly off of Craig's list Also some awesome tips for reducing your phone bill and I'm

actually going to re-listen to this section because I just got my Verizon bill

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