75. “We 4x'd our salary as COVID nurses. The experience haunts us. So does the money”

Money For Couples

Ramit Sethi

Relationships, Society & Culture, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Jenee and Dan are 31 and 34. They've been married for three years and they're travel nurses, moving from city to city to alleviate workforce pressures. During the pandemic, they earned up to 4X their salaries, allowing them to pay off their debts—but at a huge emotional and mental cost. Links mentioned in this episode Join my Money Coaching program Get the I Will Teach You to Be Rich book Get the IWT Rich Life Journal Download the Conscious Spending Plan Connect with Ramit Get Money Coaching with Ramit Download the Conscious Spending Plan Get my New York Times best-selling book Get my no-numbers journal Other episodes Instagram Twitter YouTube If you and your partner have a money issue and you want my help, I occasionally select a couple to work with, free of charge. Apply for my help here. Produced by Crate Media.

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0:00.0	You know, recently CMBC wrote about me and how I drive a 17 or 18 year old car.
0:06.9	And a lot of people got mad at me, oh, for me, what's the point of being a millionaire
0:10.6	if you drive an old Honda?
0:11.6	I'm like, first of all, this Honda is sweet, what's your problem?
0:15.5	But what was not mentioned is that I love to spend money on clothes.
0:20.4	I have a sweater that costs more than my car.
0:24.5	Now listen, I know that's crazy, I know.
0:28.1	But for a lot of us, our rich life is crazy to other people as well.
0:33.5	And that is the whole point of my philosophy, your rich life is yours.
0:39.0	It's not mine, it's not your parents or your friends.
0:42.3	It's what you want to spend money on extravagantly.
0:45.5	So this week on my podcast newsletter, I am going to share 10 unusual rich life expenditures.
0:53.6	These are the crazy, surprising bewildering ways people are spending money on their rich
0:59.1	life because they know it's not anybody else's, it is their own.
1:03.6	I want you to be inspired by these examples so you can create your rich life.
1:08.7	But to get these examples, you've got to go to IWT.com slash podcast newsletter.
1:14.7	This podcast newsletter goes out on Saturday, September 9th and you cannot get it anywhere
1:19.7	else.
1:20.7	Next up, IWT.com slash podcast newsletter.
1:29.0	I feel pretty stupid to be honest about money.
1:31.2	We paid off everything, we checked all the boxes that we had agreed we needed to check
1:35.0	off.
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