Hi and welcome to the Deeper Than Money podcast. I am your host, Chloe Elise. I'm a millennial money

coach speaker, dog mom, and a seven on the enneagram, and I am on a mission to prove to you

that finances can be fun and easy. On the Deeper Than Money podcast, we will dive

into all things millennial finance, debt, saving mindset, and how to have financial freedom

to enjoy life in your 20s and 30s. I want you to leave this podcast with more confidence around

your Moolah and the belief that your biggest financial dreams are

possible for you.

So let's talk money.

Today we're going to be talking about. Hello and welcome back to the Deeper Than Money podcast.

Today we're going to be talking about spending, funding your priorities.

So recently I made an Instagram post about where my money goes and does not go when I'm on vacation, where I spend my money versus where I do not spend my money. And it was crazy to me because I had so many people in my DMs or in the comments

after I posted it saying, oh, so I shouldn't be doing this or I shouldn't be doing this. And while there are a lot of

principles that when I teach you, I think it would be very impactful for you to follow,

when it comes to what exactly I am spending my money on, that shouldn't be a copy and paste formula for you. Because most likely we don't

have the exact same priorities. And I think it's important to, you know, see, oh, okay, that's

interesting. That's where she's spending her money or that's where she isn't. It's awesome to note that. I love knowing that

in other people, partially because I'm nosy, but also just as a kind of benchmark of like,

oh, okay, that's interesting. I do not, however, use where other people spend their money as a

roadmap for what I need to be doing. Because when that happens,

when you look at what I spend my money on and you say, oh, well, Chloe spends her money on eating

out and when she's on vacation and ordering whatever she wants on the menu instead of, you know, saying, oh, I have to spend

buy the cheapest thing. I need to do that. If you go out and do that, but that's not in alignment

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