AAR11 - Monthly Financial Check-Ins

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

Andrew Sather & Glassbox Media

Business, Investing

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode, Evan Raidt introduces Dave Ahern, a former bank manager turned investing mastermind, to discuss the importance and benefits of monthly financial check-ins. They delve into the reality that many people lack regular financial check-ins and how this negatively impacts their financial stability. The episode outlines what a financial check-in involves—budgeting, tracking investments, and planning for future expenditures—and emphasizes the importance of communication for financial health, especially among couples. Evan and Dave also share their personal check-in routines, offering practical advice for making these reviews efficient and less intimidating. The episode concludes with a motivational reminder that financial freedom is built incrementally through wise, informed decisions. 00:00 Introduction and New Microphone 00:21 Importance of Financial Check-Ins 02:23 Defining Financial Check-Ins 05:01 Consequences of Not Having Financial Check-Ins 10:55 Personal Financial Check-In Practices 22:16 Common Barriers to Financial Check-Ins 30:29 Conclusion and Viewer Engagement Timestamps are generated by artificial intelligence, and are not 100% accurate depending on the platform used for listening. Today’s show is sponsored by: Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SHOPIFY.COM/beginners⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to start selling with Shopify today. Squeeze the most out of your Summer with Liquid I.V. Tear. Pour. Live More. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LIQUID-IV DOT COM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and get 20% off your first order with code INVESTING at checkout. Leesa has a lineup of beautifully crafted mattresses tailored to how you sleep – without the luxury price tag. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Leesa.com⁠⁠⁠⁠, promo code INVESTING for 25% off mattresses PLUS an extra $50 off. What do Dave and Andrew recommend? Our #1 recommended stock research platform is FinChat (now Fiscal.ai). Get 2 weeks access for free using our link (no card required): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fiscal.ai/ifb⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Have questions? Send them to Evan at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tunein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.6	Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast with Benjamin Boster.
0:33.6	If you're tired of sleepless nights, you'll love the I Can't Sleep podcast.
0:41.3	I help quiet your mind by reading random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice.
0:50.3	Each episode provides enough interesting content to hold your attention, and then your mind lets you drift off.
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1:05.6	That's I Can't Sleep with Benjamin Boster. Greetings, everyone. Welcome back to at any rate. My name is Evan Ray, and we are here to help you make sustainable financial changes without breaking a sweat. And today we've got a couple of exciting things. First off, we have a new microphone. We've seen the complaints. We've seen people talking about how muffled and mumbled I am.
1:44.8	So hopefully this will help improve things.
1:46.9	So feel free to comment below whether you still see any issues or not.
1:50.5	And today we're going to be covering monthly financial check-ins to make them both more useful for you financially and for your financial future, but also less intimidating and reduce the friction for you getting started
2:01.4	doing them today with our resident bank manager turned investing mastermind Dave Ahern.
2:07.1	Hello.
2:09.6	Beautiful welcome.
2:11.5	So in your experience as a bank manager, because I always love drawing upon that because I feel like you get to see the raw unfiltered
2:18.8	ways that people really handle their finances because most of the ways that that all of us see
2:24.5	how other people manage finances is through social media through blog posts through podcasts like
2:29.3	this as well and it's going to be more filtered it's going to be more curated and so I always
2:34.0	love hearing the raw somebody just walks into a bank and they're trying to be more filtered. It's going to be more curated. And so I always love hearing
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