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The Jesse Mecham Show

EP04 Money Stories: How YNAB Brought Sita Peace of Mind... and Peace in Life

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sita Thomas is a woman of many talents, and many careers, having worked jobs ranging from massage therapy to data analytics. She has been using YNAB for over 8 years to help her reach her goals, including going back to school and making a career change, taking time off work to care for a terminally ill family member, and removing the day to day stresses of money from her life.

 

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0:00.0

Hello, Weinabbers. My name is Jesse Meakum and this is podcast number 471 for Weinab,

0:17.6

where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck. Get out

0:20.4

of debt and save more money. Today I'm bringing you another money story. I will be talking

0:26.5

to Sita Thomas. Well, she claimed she said, I don't have these big numbers. I haven't

0:31.9

closed 55 credit cards. I haven't paid off a million dollars of debt and I love that.

0:37.6

I love that she recognizes that her story is her story and honestly, can't it sometimes

0:43.6

be a little or a lot more relatable to hear of someone just kind of doing their thing?

0:51.0

And I would say doing the normal thing but it's not normal at all. We actually dig into

0:54.4

that quite a bit. Sita mentions that she has narratives in her head that she had to

0:59.0

kind of overcome that have helped her not just with her money, but also with her life.

1:04.1

And I just couldn't be more pleased to bring you Sita's story without further ado,

1:08.3

Sita Thomas.

1:10.3

Well, yeah, I guess first just tell Weinabbers a little bit about yourself and then we're

1:19.7

going to just dive right into the story.

1:22.2

Yeah, so I have been using Weinab. I had to go back in my email and look it up. Yeah.

1:28.1

Because I wanted to know. I signed up in the summer of 2013. So that'll be almost six

1:35.7

years, almost eight, almost eight years. Yeah, that's that's a long that's a long time.

1:41.1

I mean, you're you've been around a while. I've been around a while. I mean, I'm not like

1:46.8

one of the OG spreadsheet people, which I'm I'm sorry. I wish I could say I was like,

1:52.9

I remember back loses downloadable spreadsheet, but I'm not, I'm not thankful. Yeah, there

1:57.0

were like eight of those people. That's there. We did not sell a lot of that spreadsheet.

2:00.5

So it's about yeah, you've been around a while. You were here before we moved to the web app.

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