Don't Afterpay Your Way Though the Holidays
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Watch out credit cards, a new game is in town, and it's waiting to trip up your budget during the holiday season. We're talking about payment plans: sort of like a credit card, sort of not, but definitely loaded with high interest, fees, and confusing terms designed to trip up customers. YNAB has a team dedicated to helping budgeters navigate their way through payment plans using the YNAB software, and ultimately get out of them altogether. Sofia Hergenrader, a YNAB expert on payment plans, joins the podcast to talk about the pitfalls of this new breed of financial products.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, WineAppers. My name is Jesse Meakum and this is another episode of The WineApp Podcast |
| 0:08.8 | where we teach you four rules to help you stop if you paycheck to paycheck, get out of |
| 0:12.0 | debt, and save more money. I am very, very excited to have with me an internal source |
| 0:17.7 | of just endless wisdom, a fountain of knowledge, and her name is Sophia. She has been working |
| 0:23.2 | at WineApp about two years and she has found herself in the odd spot of expert in all |
| 0:31.0 | things in installment plan. And you all know what I'm talking about. It's that after |
| 0:34.6 | pay a firm, clarinet stuff that is so, so tempting. And I've ranted on the podcast before |
| 0:44.5 | everyone's a finance company. My word people save up for things before you spend your |
| 0:49.1 | money. That kind of thing. Well, today we just kind of hit brass tax. And Sophia walks |
| 0:53.2 | us through with a lot of empathy. A lot of I know where you're coming from kind of stuff. |
| 0:57.6 | She walks us through what we're dealing with. And it is a quagmire of confusion by design |
| 1:03.0 | for the most part. Anyway, I'll just let Sophia do most of the talking here. We just dive |
| 1:08.3 | into all things in installment plans and installment plans attached to a credit card. They're not |
| 1:12.7 | really installment plans. You'll find out which are the worst and which are if an absolute |
| 1:18.1 | necessary evil, less evil. Anyway, it was an absolutely thrilling conversation. I've |
| 1:22.8 | had Sophia on the podcast before we were doing behind the scenes stuff. And I can't wait |
| 1:26.6 | to have her on again at some point. So here is my conversation about all things installment |
| 1:30.8 | loans with Sophia. Sophia, welcome to the WineApp podcast again. Yeah. Thank you for having |
| 1:41.2 | me on. You've been on twice as much as most anyone else really at this point. This is |
| 1:46.5 | number two for you. Tell everyone a little bit about yourself and what you do here at |
| 1:50.9 | WineApp kind of high level. For sure. So my name is Sophia. I work in WineApp support. |
| 1:56.8 | I work part time here, which I think is just important to mention because it's a really |
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