This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. How you doing, bro?

I'm splendid. How are you, Alison?

I'm good. In today's episode, we are sneaking our listeners into a recent member event in Boston so that you can eavesdrop

on some of the highlights. We'll also answer your question about how we personally personal

finance. All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers.

It's time for Answers Answers, and today's question comes from Albert. He writes, I am

starting to get proactive about my expenses,

but I feel I am still a newcomer. Can you provide advice on what inspires you both to think high

level about your finances in life? I haven't had much guidance growing up and just want to hear

what any of your long-term goals are and how you build your plans to achieve them. Any personal

examples and obstacles along

the way Albert would also like to hear about? Do you want to go first?

I'll go first. That's a very interesting question. I was thinking about why did I,

how did I create my beliefs about money in general? Because he talked about expenses, and

I've always been someone who was frugal. I was

never comfortable spending a lot of money and I guess that comes from my parents, although

looking at some of the expenses from other people in my family, my sisters.

Do they listen to the show? Hope not.

I doubt it. There's a couple of them are more comfortable spending money than I am,

so I don't know where it came from my parents.

But we all did go through an experience in high school when my dad's business went belly up, and we went through some hard times.

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