Let's Start a Money Revolution (SB1704)
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Happy Independence Day, Stackers! While fireworks boom and flags wave, we're lighting a spark under your financial life. This episode isn’t about tea in harbors—it’s about burning down debt, revolting against lifestyle creep, and rallying your family for a better money future.
Joining Joe and Doug in the basement for this full-on financial insurrection:
- Dorethia Kelly, TikTok titan and money coach, shares how she raised her financial flag as a single mom and became a force for smart money choices.
- Jesse Cramer of the Personal Finance for Long-Term Investors podcast ditches tired spending habits and charts a course for independence through intentional investing and budgeting.
- Steve Stewart, longtime SB editor and podcasting Yoda, reveals the pivotal Jeep moment that changed his financial course—and why he's racing OG to mortgage freedom.
🎙️ In this basement-based revolution, you'll hear:
- The financial “tea party” moments that woke our guests up to their money mess
- How to declare independence from credit cards, lifestyle creep, and sneaky “Buy Now, Pay Later” traps
- Tools, mindsets, and support systems that help you keep your financial revolution alive
- Why tax planning is the financial Boston Tea Party nobody's talking about
- The trivia showdown no revolutionary should miss: How many grains of silver made a dollar in 1792? (Spoiler: Jesse knows his colonial coinage.)
And in the aftershow? We ask the deep questions our Founding Fathers never saw coming, like: why is gambling debt dischargeable in bankruptcy, but student loans aren't?
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| 0:00.0 | Doug, you ready to start this thing? I am. Hit record. I think we're recording. We are recording. Oh, cool. I wish somebody told me. I wouldn't have said all the stupid stuff. Hey, Joe, it's summer blockbuster movie season, right? I mean, I know you're into movies. You're probably going to go to a couple. We got F1. |
| 0:21.6 | We got, what is it? |
| 0:22.8 | Thunderbolts is coming. |
| 0:24.4 | The surfers coming out. |
| 0:25.4 | Check this out. |
| 0:31.2 | When will you finally declare your financial independence? |
| 0:34.9 | Well, hopefully right now. |
| 0:41.7 | Because live from the basement of the YouTube headquarters, it's the Stacking Benjamin Show. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm Joe's mom's neighbor Doug, and this Independence Day, let's start a revolution. |
| 0:57.9 | Who's with me? |
| 0:59.3 | Today, we're talking about how to burn down the barriers of debt, overthrow bad planning, and start anew. |
| 1:05.9 | But that's not all. |
| 1:07.5 | Of course, we never build a newer and better financial plan that didn't include our |
| 1:12.6 | awesome Friday trivia competition. |
| 1:15.5 | And now, here's a guy who's lighten the lantern and shouting, the savings are coming. |
| 1:21.3 | The savings are coming. |
| 1:23.1 | It's Joe. |
| 1:24.3 | Oh, Sal C-high. |
| 1:28.7 | Hey, they're, stackers, and happy Friday to you. |
| 1:31.9 | If you're in the United States, happy Independence Day. |
| 1:33.9 | If you're anywhere else, happy Friday. |
| 1:35.9 | We do have a special show for you today because we are celebrating money revolutions. |
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