Introducing: What We Spend

Cement City

Audacy | Cement City Productions

Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 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	Hi, Cement City listeners. I'm Courtney Harrell, and I'm here to share a preview of a new Odyssey
0:05.5	original podcast. It's called What We Spend. Like Cement City, what we spend dives deep into the day-to-day
0:12.4	lives of people you might not normally get to spend time with. But this time, what we're talking about
0:18.2	is people's money. It's a new weekly series, and in each episode,
0:22.8	I talk with one person as they document a full week of their lives, recording audio
0:27.9	diaries and sharing all the details of what came up for them around money. You will hear about
0:33.2	everything they purchase, the ways they've thought about their finances over the course of their
0:37.3	week, what their relationship to money was like growing up, all kinds of things.
0:41.6	I think the stories are intimate and moving, but some are also super fun. I hope you enjoy this
0:47.7	preview. For the full episode, search for what we spend on your favorite podcast platform.
0:54.5	You know how you always want to know about everyone else's money?
0:58.1	You do, right?
0:59.5	Like, you'll see someone buying something you want or taking some amazing vacation and you think,
1:04.4	how can they afford that?
1:06.7	Or you meet your friend's new girlfriend and she she has some very impressive job, and you think,
1:11.2	how much money does she make?
1:14.1	I think when it comes to money, even if you don't want to admit it, we're all a little nosy.
1:20.4	But I don't know, I actually think that's good.
1:23.1	I think we should be talking about money more.
1:26.3	And all the ways, big big and small that it impacts our
1:29.9	lives.
1:34.6	On this show, we are actually going to do that. We are going to go somewhere that we almost
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