Money and Happiness: What's Happiness Really Worth?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you really need money to be happy? Or is money the reason you’re unhappy? Either way, chances are your relationship to money and happiness is a little, well, messy. To kick off this Nerdy deep dive into money and happiness, Sean talks with happiness experts Gretchen Rubin and Robert Puff to understand what happiness really means. Then Sean talks with Morgan Housel, author of “The Psychology of Money,” about where money and happiness intersect. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Hey nerdy listeners, Sean here.
0:32.1	We're off this week to eat some good food, read some good books, and spend some time with our families. We hope that
0:38.7	you'll do the same. In the meantime, enjoy this episode from our archive, and we'll talk with you
0:44.0	next week. All right, here's the episode. So what really is happiness?
0:56.1	How does money help or hinder our own happiness?
0:59.4	And what can you do to improve your relationship with both to make the life that you want?
1:04.9	There's no such thing as an abject level of wealth where like, okay, once you have X dollars,
1:10.5	now you're wealthy everything is just
1:11.9	relative to other people and when you move the goalpost of who are who you are comparing
1:16.4	yourself to that like spectrum of needs just has no ceiling it can grow forever Welcome to the Nerd Wallet Smart Money podcast. I'm Sean Piles.
1:38.4	And I'm Sarah Raffner.
1:40.0	This episode kicks off our nerdy deep dive into the relationship between happiness and money.
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