Welcome to the BiggerPockets Money Podcast show number 47 where we interview Jim Wang from

Wallet Hacks, the great uncle of personal finance blogging.

Before all the different tools, I think budgeting is hard because you have to constantly write

down transactions and

then it's sort of a cognitive load and you're tired and you don't feel like doing

it and then you fall off the wagon. You know like anything else maybe you need a break

but with the tools now you it'll take care of it for you. Maybe you don't look at it every single day and you give yourself a break, but it's still powerful stuff just to maintain

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podcast. How's it going everybody? I'm Scott Trench. I'm here with my

co-host Miss Mindy Jensen. How you doing today, Mindy? Scott, I'm here with my co-host Miss Mindy Jensen. How you doing today Mindy?

Scott, I'm having a really great day and I'm so excited for this interview because I've known Jim

Wang forever. Like you said, he is the great uncle of personal finance blogging and he's just an all around

really interesting person and a super nice guy, very knowledgeable and I feel like we say this every single week this episode runs really long because he had so much great things to say.

So many great things to say?

So many great things to say.

Yeah and he has a great story as well where he has really built a great business. He's a pioneer not just in personal finance and understanding all that kind of stuff, but also the entrepreneurial side of that. He built a personal finance site called

bargaining which he then he calls it liquidated, sold at a big profit. So he was a

very successful entrepreneur and has been you, made a large number of great

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