Welcome to the Jill on Money Show.

It's Monday, April 6th, and we are here trying to help you make better, sometimes less bad financial decisions.

And I say that because not everything that you do in your financial life has to be optimized. I know that there's this

whole crazy desire to be like, I'm going to make the very best decision. I'm going to have

the highest possible return. Sometimes the decisions you make, there has to be a meeting between

like your real life and what is optimal. And sometimes those

things do actually converge and sometimes they don't. But it's okay. Either way, we just need to

hear what's going on with you and then we can help you find the roots available. That doesn't

have to be the best. Again, it doesn't have to be the fastest. Maybe some days you're like, I like to take a slower route because I want to look at the nice view. Great. And we can point that out to you. Maybe you say, I really do want the fastest. And even if it's something where it's going to be kind of a boring trip, but I really want that trip to be over quickly? Fine. But if you don't get

in touch with us, it's hard for us to give you direction. So to get in touch with us, you go to our

website, jillonmoney.com. You click on the contact us button. You write us a note. And if you'd like to

join us live, you check the box. And when you check that box, Mark will take over and schedule you.

Now, Mark, get on your microphone.

I have an exciting thing for today, April 6th.

I will tell you why it's exciting.

Well, I think I already know.

It is my anniversary with CBS News.

My first day at CBS News was April 6th, 2009. 18 years? Are you kidding me? Remember?

Seems like yesterday. Mark was also at CBS News at the time, right?

I was. I started right around this time, like the same monthish, spring. I think it was like May or June of 2005.

Oh, well, you had years on me. You were an old, you were already a veteran of the CBS News Radio Division. What were you doing there? Were you like a writer? What were you produced? What were you actually? What was your

title there? Writer, producer, editor, but I've been gone far longer than I actually work there now.

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