Introducing: What We Spend

History is US

Audacy Podcasts | Shining City Audio

Education, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial spectrum are opening their wallets—and their lives—to tell you everything: what they make, what they want, and—for one week—what they spend. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shining City Audio, a John Meacham and C-13 original studio.
0:10.9	If you're listening to History is Us, I know you think history is important.
0:16.1	It helps us understand how we got to the world we live in and why we act the way we do.
0:22.4	I'm Courtney Harrell, and I'm here to share an episode of a new Odyssey original podcast that's also about trying to
0:27.7	understand how we got where we are. But instead of history, it's about finances. It's called
0:33.8	what we spend. And in each episode, I talk with one person as they document a full week of their lives, recording audio diaries and sharing all the details of what came up for them around money.
0:45.5	You'll hear people from all over the country share everything they purchase, the ways they've thought about their finances over the course of their week, what their relationship to money was like growing up, all kinds of things. I think the stories are intimate and moving, but some are also super
0:59.4	fun. In this preview, you'll hear from Kelly, someone navigating life with the burden of outstanding
1:05.0	student loan debt. If you enjoy this preview, be sure to search for the full episode of what we
1:10.0	spend on your favorite podcast platform.
1:14.1	You know how you always want to know about everyone else's money?
1:17.6	You do, right?
1:19.1	Like, you'll see someone buying something you want or taking some amazing vacation and you think,
1:23.9	how can they afford that?
1:26.3	Or you meet your friend's new girlfriend and she has some very impressive job and you think, how can they afford that? Or you meet your friend's new girlfriend and she has some very
1:28.9	impressive job and you think, how much money does she make? I think when it comes to money,
1:35.6	even if you don't want to admit it, we're all a little nosy. But I don't know, I actually think
1:41.2	that's good. I think we should be talking about money more.
1:45.9	And all the ways, big and small, that it impacts our lives.
1:54.2	On this show, we are actually going to do that. We are going to go somewhere that we almost never get to go deep into the heart of someone
2:02.3	else's finances. Here's how this is going to work. Each week, I'm going to introduce you to a new
2:07.9	person from somewhere across the country. And they are going to tell us everything about their finances,
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