How To Use Our #1 Key To Money Management Success (SB1641)

The Stacking Benjamins Show

Joe Saul-Sehy | Cumulus Podcast Network

Investing, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Is automating your finances the key to effortless money management, or a one-way ticket to financial autopilot disaster? Paula Pant, Jesse Cramer, and Doc G join us to navigate the fine line between automation genius and accidental money mayhem. Done right, automation saves you time and stress. Done wrong? You might be funding a forgotten gym membership for the next five years. 😬 What’s Inside This Episode? 💰 The Power of Automation – How strategic automation can make your financial life simpler, more efficient, and stress-free. 🤖 What to Automate & What to Keep Manual – Should you set bills to auto-pay, or will that lead to mysterious charges on your credit card? 📊 High-Tech Money Tools: Are They Worth It? – Todoist, Notion, and other techy automation tricks—are they game-changers or just digital clutter? 💡 Personal Automation Hacks – How the panel automates their finances like pros (without losing control of their money). 🎭 The Dark Side of Automation – Horror stories of overdraft surprises, vanishing paychecks, and auto-pay regret. 📢 Stacker Debate: Should You Automate Everything? – The great automation showdown—when automation helps and when it hurts. ✨ Special Bonus: The Worst Things to Automate – Some things should NEVER be on autopilot. Find out what financial automation fails made our list. Takeaways for Smart Stackers: ✅ Automation = Freedom (When Used Wisely). The right balance saves you time while keeping you in control. ✅ Auto-pay is great—until it isn’t. Track subscriptions and bills so you don’t end up paying for things you don’t use. ✅ Manual check-ins keep you financially sharp. Even with automation, you need to review your money regularly. ✅ Tech tools can help—but they’re not magic. The best system is the one you actually use. 🎧 Hit play now and rethink your approach to automation before it outsmarts you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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