How a LOTTERY WINNER Spends Her Money

Frugal Friends Podcast

Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures

Leisure, Home & Garden, Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

One lucky ticket. One massive win. And one story you won’t believe. Jen and Jill chats with our lucky listener about money, divorce, and what it means to move forward with more intention and less guilt. Watch or listen wherever you get your podcasts to catch her story and maybe get a little luck dust too!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich life.
0:15.0	Here are your host, Jen and Jill.
0:18.9	Joni, welcome to the spending intervention.
0:22.6	Thank you.
0:23.7	We're so glad you're here.
0:26.0	Spoiler alert, this is my aunt.
0:28.5	And I'm so thrilled that you're here because you are my coolest aunt.
0:32.3	Yeah, I said it.
0:33.0	Of course I am.
0:33.9	Just because you won the lottery.
0:40.8	No. I'm sure. I was cool before that. Yeah, I'm excited to get to know all the cool things about you as we talk about your spending. And I'm not your
0:45.6	only aunt. Let's make sure they know. I know. I know. They all heard it. You are very cool.
0:52.2	Oh yeah. It's something to aspire to. Okay, so tell us a little bit about
0:56.7	yourself. Give us a little bit of the overview, some of the, some of the facts about your
1:01.5	situation currently. So I am 56 years old. I am divorced three years. I live in Michigan, so I am from the north. And I live, I am in a season where my
1:19.9	children, adult children, have grown and are out of the house. My youngest is in college. I have
1:27.0	his golden doodle that I take care of, Stella. And then I just
1:31.1	adopted another golden doodle in December. So I have Colin Stella. So they're my at home with me.
1:37.7	So I'm not an empty nester yet, but I am. All right. And you won the lottery.
1:44.1	I won the lottery. How long ago was that? A couple of years ago. Nice. And you won the lottery. I won the lottery.
1:44.9	How long ago was that?
1:45.8	A couple of years ago.
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