Welcome to the Mind on My Money podcast presented by Pinnacle Trust.

Hosted by Rebelgrove.com publisher Neil McCradie and Pinnacle Trust financial guru Martin Palomo.

The Mind on My Money podcast tackles the financial questions we're all thinking about.

From paying for college to saving for retirement, from life insurance needs to 401Ks and everything in between.

The goal is to help you take the stress out of financial concerns and give you some tips to enjoy life while your mind is on your money.

Now here are your hosts, Neil McCready and Martin Paloma.

Welcome to another edition of Mind of My Money, presented by Pinnacle.

I'm Neil McCready, Martin Palomo.

With me here today as well.

We're going to talk about a number of kind of current topics as we get into the holiday season.

It always strikes me, Martin, as a guy who covers football for a living primarily,

that as the football season winds down and the basketball season gets started, covers football and for a living primarily.

As the football season winds down and the basketball season gets started,

I covered Ole Miss's season opener on Tuesday night.

It always hits me that, oh boy, like Thanksgiving here.

And as we tape this, Thanksgiving is two weeks away, which doesn't seem,

every single year I'm this way, Martin.

It doesn't feel possible because I've been so into this routine that I have with football.

And when the football season, the regular season ends on Thanksgiving night, I wake up that next morning and it's Black Friday and my kids go shopping. It's what we do. We just give the girls money and go, go buy your own gifts, bring them home, wrap them, put them under the tree. My wife wants to put the tree up. There's all this stuff that goes on. And for me, it's always this like culture shock of, oh my God, it's the holidays. And because I'm never, I'm so, I know it sounds insane. I'm so locked into football season with, I have Sunday, I do 10 thoughts, and Monday I have a press conference, and then Tuesday I have a media opportunity. And then on Wednesday, I'm working on picks and this and Thursday. You know what I mean? It's just on and on and you look up and it's like, okay that season's over right now what and I'm I kind of feel that coming and I know that means that the uh the holidays have arrived I know you've been busy the last couple weeks so it's good to uh good to be back

with you here on uh mind of my money how are you indeed man it's been uh it has been a busy uh last last few weeks man

and i had so last thursday which i totally failed to communicate to you until you know as right

before i was on a i went on a men's retreat with my men's group um You know, from the, from the Jackson area, we went to, to the Smoky Mountains to

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