Banishing Money Monsters: How to Talk Money With Anyone (Partners, Roommates, or Coworkers) SB1754
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
You know what's truly terrifying? Realizing you and someone you share money decisions with have completely different ideas about finances—and you're both convinced you're right.
Joe Saul-Sehy and OG welcome Doug and Heather Bonaparte, a CFP and business partner duo who've mastered the art of not killing each other over finances. And when you work together AND live together? Let's just say they've had plenty of practice navigating the financial frights that haunt any relationship where money's involved.
Whether you're married, dating, splitting rent with a roommate, or partnering on a business venture, the same money monsters show up: the "fair split" debates, the family expectation zombies that won't stay dead, and those vampiric spending habits that drain shared accounts when you're not looking. Doug and Heather share what actually works—the timing tricks, the tone shifts, and the teamwork strategies that keep financial conversations from turning into horror shows, no matter who you're talking to.
This isn't about becoming perfect financial partners overnight. It's about exorcising the money demons before they possess your most important relationships—romantic, professional, or otherwise.
Plus: Joe and OG stir the cauldron with Halloween movie talk and trivia, because even the scariest conversations are better with a little basement humor.
What You'll Walk Away With:
- How to start money conversations without summoning the spirits of past arguments (works for spouses, roommates, business partners, you name it)
- Doug and Heather's hard-won strategies for navigating disagreements when money and relationships overlap
- Why "financial transparency" isn't about policing every purchase—it's about understanding each other's money ghosts
- The three things any financial partnership needs to align on before the little stuff stops haunting you
- Permission to be messy while you figure this out (even CFPs have money fights)
This Episode Is For You If:
- You share financial decisions with ANYONE—a partner, roommate, business associate, or family member
- Money conversations feel like walking through a haunted house blindfolded
- Someone else's financial habits make you want to scream louder than a horror movie victim
- You're tired of being cast as the villain every time you want to discuss shared expenses
- You need proof that even professionals who literally do this for a living still have to work at it
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| 0:00.0 | guys on occasion you know i just think it would be appropriate for us to fold our hands bow our heads |
| 0:07.2 | and start the show with a little prayer heavenly father we thank you tonight for all your |
| 0:13.5 | blessings you said in all things give thanks so we want to thank you tonight for these mighty |
| 0:18.7 | machines that you brought before us thank you for the dodges and the toyotas thank you tonight for these mighty machines that you brought before us. |
| 0:23.3 | Thank you for the Dodgers and the Toyotas. |
| 0:24.8 | Thank you for the Fords. |
| 0:31.2 | And most of all, we thank you for Rouse and Yates partnering to give us the power that we see before us tonight. |
| 0:35.9 | Thank you for GM performance technology and the RO7 engines. |
| 0:40.5 | Thank you for Sonoco racing fuel and Go year tires that bring performance and power to the track. Lord, I want to thank you for my smoking hot wife tonight, Lisa. |
| 0:47.8 | My two children, Eli and Emma, or as we like to call them the little ease. Lord, I pray you bless the drivers and use them tonight. |
| 0:56.5 | May they put on a performance worthy of this great track. |
| 1:00.1 | In Jesus name, bugety, boogity, boogity, boogity, amen. |
| 1:08.6 | Live from Joe's mom's semi-haunted basement, it's the stacking Benjamin show. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and you think Halloween week is creepy? |
| 1:29.7 | Try working next to the hot water heater in the basement of an old house. |
| 1:33.8 | You want even creepier? |
| 1:35.4 | Failing to communicate with friends, a spouse, or loved ones. |
| 1:39.3 | Today, we're sharing money communication horror stories with two people who've seen them, |
| 1:45.9 | Doug and Heather Bonaparte. |
| 1:50.3 | This conversation will be like an exorcism for your communication demons. |
| 1:56.0 | In our headline segment, you heard our stacker money horror stories on Monday. |
| 2:01.3 | One publication shares tales of financial ruin that are just plain trashy. |
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