He Wants to Save Money, She Wants to Spend Money: Garrett + Chelsea (He-Said/ She-Said On Money)
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this new game show type episode called "HE Said/SHE Said"! In this type of episode, on the Empowered Couples podcast, you will laugh, be entertained, and relate to this couple as they find out how they see things differently in their marriage even when they love each other, live together, and have been together for years.
No matter how well you think you know your partner, you can see things differently AND often don't even realize! (remember the newlywed game, yup it's going to be like that!)
In this episode you will know that no matter how long you have been together you are still going to see things differently (especially when it comes to money), but these differences can be turned into real strengths of your relationship. You are going to have questions to ask your partner to be more on the same page with money PLUS one powerful action to implement this week. Listening to this episode you will feel more aware and connected with your partner when it comes to your money habits.
Press play and enjoy this 100% relatable conversation!
He-Said/She-Said Questions Asked:
- Would you say your partner is more of a saver or spender?
- Would you say you are more of a saver or spender?
- Who gets more frustrated about money?
- What can frustrate you about the way your partner handles money?
- If you were left to your own devices, how do you think you'd handle money yourself?
- If you all of a sudden earned 10,000 today, what would you do with the majority of it (be honest)?
Other resources:
1) Schedule your Relationship Breakthrough Session mentioned in this episode. Scroll ½ way down the home page for the link and details to schedule.
2) Follow us on Instagram
About The Guests:
Today you will meet Garrett & Chelsea who live in Alberta Canada and recently got married and are creating a blended family! They wanted to talk about their different perspectives about MONEY! Anyone else out there have the saver/spender patterns in the relationship?
Also, be sure to connect to them on social media! They are certified relationship coaches of Empowered Couples University and building a relationship coaching business to support other blended families on their journey of connection, trust, and love.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | holding that other person in a bit of a spot where you make them feel uncomfortable around money |
| 0:05.3 | because that will just create pushback and that's not where you want to be. |
| 0:09.0 | So open-mindedness and a willingness to embrace change and look at things from a different perspective |
| 0:14.1 | and allow your partner that opportunity to provide input. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, I think just to add quickly is also just to really take that time to understand where your |
| 0:23.1 | partner's coming from when it comes to their views and their beliefs about money. |
| 0:28.3 | Because for me, that was a huge thing with Garrett. |
| 0:31.4 | And it really helps me to be able to step back and understand, you know, why he thinks some of the things that he thinks and why |
| 0:39.9 | he's perhaps stronger with money than I am is because of his experiences so that it didn't |
| 0:44.8 | make me feel like I was lesser than. And also just to talk, just talk about your finances. |
| 0:52.5 | Hello, Empowered Couples and welcome to this new episode of the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | This is actually our new type of episode, which is like a game show. |
| 1:02.0 | We call this, he said, she said. |
| 1:04.0 | And in this type of episode, you're going to laugh, you're going to be entertained and you're going to totally relate to this couple is they find out how they actually see things differently in their marriage even when they love |
| 1:16.2 | each other they live together and have been together for years so no matter how well you think |
| 1:21.7 | that you even know your partner you know you really can see things differently and often don't |
| 1:27.3 | even realize it so So do you remember |
| 1:29.1 | this show called the newlywed game? Yep, it's going to be just like that. So today you're |
| 1:34.6 | going to meet Garrett and Chelsea who actually live in Alberta, Canada, and they recently got |
| 1:39.7 | married and are creating a blended family. And they wanted to talk about their different perspectives all about the relationship area of |
| 1:48.3 | money. |
| 1:49.2 | Anyone else out there have that saver, spender mentality in their relationship? |
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