COVID Conquerors
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
With everything that has transpired this year, we could all use some positive news. Today Jesse highlights a couple of positive stories from YNAB users who have managed to save money and stabilize their financial situation despite job loss and salary cuts due to COVID.
Follow the four rules, and things will get better. Budgeting isn't the end-all-be-all, it's not the solution for everything, but it will help you make your financial situation better. Budgeting simply works!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, whinabers. My name is Jesse Meekin, and this is podcast number 439 for |
| 0:09.5 | Winoeb where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt |
| 0:13.5 | and save more money. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I want to talk about COVID conquerors. |
| 0:19.8 | So, 2020, what do you say? |
| 0:23.8 | I just wanted to share a couple, we get people that write in, and this is a brag, |
| 0:29.6 | we get people that write in and tell us how Wine Ave has changed their life. They actually will say it's a life changer. |
| 0:36.6 | And in light of all of the garbage that we've experienced with COVID-19. |
| 0:43.2 | I wanted to share just two stories |
| 0:46.0 | that users had written in and shared. |
| 0:49.5 | So, here's one. |
| 0:51.6 | Now, I'm sharing this fully aware that everyone's situation is unique. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm sharing this also so that you can see how powerful the four rules are. I want you to |
| 1:07.4 | see that if you work these rules your situation will always be better than if |
| 1:11.5 | you did not work the rules. |
| 1:13.4 | So we're all in different spots, infinitely different spots. |
| 1:18.6 | And we all, I mean, the cards are dealt, the way they're dealt and you you can't change that all I'm saying |
| 1:27.6 | here is if you work the four rules you will make a it will be better for you than if you did not. Budgeting makes things better. |
| 1:39.0 | It's not the end-all-be-all solution to all things, but if you say all else equal, this person budgeted, this person did not budget, the person that's budgeting is going to come out better. |
| 1:54.0 | So I say that because I don't want someone listening and saying, |
| 1:58.0 | well, gosh, I wish this, I wish that. |
| 2:00.0 | Listen, follow the four rules. |
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