Achieving the American Dream? Yes, It Is Still Possible! Interview with Mark and Lauren Greutman from I Am That Lady and The Simpler Happier Life Podcast RPF0108

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2014

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In our current culture, it's easy to become discouraged and feel as though the American Dream is out of reach for the common person. Is it easier to achieve now than in the past? Is it harder? Let's leave that debate for another day. Frankly, it doesn't much matter in your individual situation.

What does matter is whether it's possible to improve your circumstances and to pursue your version of happiness.

My guests today are proof that the American Dream is alive and well for some people.

In many ways, Mark and Lauren Greutman embody an oft-repeated scenario. Married young, four small kids, strongly middle class circumstances, mild to moderate overspending and being stuck in circumstances that felt beyond their control.

And yet, a few years after their wakeup experience, they're in a very different place.

Mark recently left his job in the corporate world and he and Lauren now work together in the family business.

Many of the tools we talk about each day in the show were instrumental in their journey and you'll hear how they are all interwoven.

Enjoy!

Joshua

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0:00.0	Today on the show I have an interview for you which I think qualifies as a pretty good mash-up.
0:06.6	It's a combination of some teaching on tips and techniques and strategies that will be helpful
0:12.1	to you in saving money.
0:14.0	It's also a combination of a case study
0:17.0	illustrating a few things that you can do wrong
0:20.0	and then a bunch of things that you can do right and then it's got a healthy sprinkling of
0:25.1	inspiration thrown in. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and today is
0:47.6	Monday, November 24, 2014. I have an interview for you today with Mark and Lauren Grutman.
0:55.0	Lauren is the founder of the couponing website called I Am That Lady.com
0:59.0	and we're going to talk about their personal finance story.
1:02.0	I've got a lot that you can... We're going to talk about their personal finance story.
1:03.4	I've got a lot that you can learn through it. I am preempting the Monday show that I had planned originally I was
1:19.8	planning to bring you a review of Tony Robbins new book called Money Master the Game and I think
1:25.3	I'll be able to bring that to you tomorrow I got to finish the book yet book first is a
1:28.4	650 page book I didn't have much time to read over the weekend so I've got to finish it I'm about halfway done I should be able to finish it tonight and then be able to bring you that book review tomorrow and then Wednesday I'm going to bring you a show on
1:40.0	gratitude about why basically this is the greatest time in the history of the world to be alive
1:44.7	and I hope you'll tune in for that if you get to it before Thanksgiving great it's not going to be some
1:48.8	corny Thanksgiving show but it is a neat opportunity it's been it's a show I've been wanting to do for a while and it is it's going to be a nice theme. But today I am bringing forward the interview that I had planned for tomorrow with Mark and Lauren Grutman. And this is a really fun interview. I met Mark and Lauren when I was in FinCon
2:04.6	out in New Orleans, which was the Financial Bloggers Conference. And I immediately
2:09.8	enjoy talking to them because they hit a couple of themes that are right
2:13.6	that I just immediately knew that they were hitting on a couple of themes that are
2:17.1	important to me. They immediately started talking about minimalism but they have four
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