Going from Bad to Good with Money
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
When you're bad at money, it only brings you worry. Get good at it, however, and it's empowering. Like Thanos' gauntlet.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show, |
| 0:16.2 | and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about you getting good at money. |
| 0:24.6 | Last week, we talked about the difference of reality. No, reality is not different, but your perception of it, your handling of it is different. |
| 0:29.2 | When you are bad at money, reality scares you. When you are good at money, reality informs you. |
| 0:35.0 | Let's talk about money specifically. When you are bad at money, money worries you. |
| 0:40.9 | Money is a source of worry. The thing we want, the thing we work 40, if we're lucky, 40 hours a week |
| 0:49.1 | for, I mean, let's be honest, it's more. But we work so hard for it. |
| 0:54.5 | We give up so much of our time for it. |
| 0:56.3 | We give up time with family, friends, hobbies, leisure. |
| 1:01.2 | We give all this up. |
| 1:02.7 | We sacrifice ourselves on the altar of education over and over again for so many years |
| 1:08.3 | so we can get money. |
| 1:11.2 | And then what does that money do? |
| 1:12.7 | It worries us. |
| 1:14.3 | Worry, worry, worry. |
| 1:16.7 | When you are bad at money, it worries you. |
| 1:20.5 | I mean, you think about that. |
| 1:21.4 | Just, I want to say, I just want to stop this recording and then put it on a loop and do the |
| 1:26.5 | same little thing three more times. |
| 1:29.2 | So we would have just a minute, we'd have four minutes of me just talking about how you want |
| 1:34.0 | money so bad, you do so many things for it. And then the very thing you want, it just worries you. |
| 1:44.0 | I mean, aren't we glutton for punishment, if that's the case. |
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