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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

The plan for day one was open my day on laptop and just start hustling, and I did.

And I remember like I was taking anyone who would meet with me.

I was asking for people who would give me advice.

I was looking for advisors, just literally paying people an equity, which was all phantom, because the company was worth nothing.

And I hired my first intern, literally hired her to a Starbucks.

And I was like, do you want to work for my company?

My company was like me inside the Starbucks.

Raman PR, it's how I built this.

A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Raaz, and on today's show, how of traumatic experience in her childhood inspired Alexa of Antobac.

Alexa of Antobac to create LearnBest, a company that simplifies financial planning, and how she went on to sell it for a rumored quarter of a billion dollars.

So most of us, you, me, your friends, your spouses, whoever, most of us do not know how to organize our finances.

I mean, just think about it.

The average US household has $16,000 in credit card debt, and two thirds of us have less than a thousand bucks in our savings accounts.

And here's one more, the median amount of money the average American has saved for retirement is $5,000, which, and I hope I'm not freaking you out here.

This is not enough money to get you very far after you stop working.

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