Money and Your Marriage with Jesse Mecham

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Financial issues are one of the biggest causes of divorce. Not only do money problems make life stressful, they can lead to conflicts that can damage a marriage and destroy a family. But what if you could take a few, simple steps right now to totally change your money situation? Today, we talk about money and your marriage and how you can make budgeting decisions with your spouse easily and argument-free.

Jesse Mecham is the creator of the YNAB (You Need a Budget) app. He is back on The Dad Edge to talk about how to approach the money discussion in a way that will stop friction and encourage intimacy. He outlines his 4 Money Rules to future-proof your finances and gives guidelines for trimming the fat on your expenses without feeling deprived.

After listening to this show, you will feel confident about budgeting, prepared for the unexpected, and hopeful about your dreams for the future.

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0:00.0	We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.
0:14.0	We have one shot in life to be a dad.
0:20.0	Why not make it epic?
0:25.0	What's going on?
0:29.0	What's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast.
0:30.0	I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show
0:32.0	and this is all about money.
0:38.5	I love with my dogs in the background,
0:40.2	just scratching back there.
0:42.3	You can barely see him, but there he is. Yep going crazy. Yeah. All right. Thanks dog. Thanks for ruining my intro but you know what it's not about perfection here. That's what's all about because fatherhood is not perfection.
0:54.0	Hey, so today we have a very exciting interview that's right in the wheelhouse of
0:59.0	mastering our personal finances, our family finances. I talk about the five dimensions all the time of
1:05.4	being a father-husband man. One is mastering finances, the other is
1:09.3	optimizing physical, mental, emotional health, creating a legendary marriage, epic connection, and
1:14.3	influence with your kids, as well as being a leader in your business and or community.
1:19.2	So today, man is all about money.
1:21.3	And today I am speaking to the founder of Wienab and some of you might not know what Wienab is in fact you're probably listening to it like the heck is why nab
1:31.2	y nab you need a budget budget oo ooch right sometimes that word it's like
1:38.2	diet like it's like a I hate talking about the budgets. But what if we reframe that? What if we reframed it to give every dollar a job and you manage your money and your money not manage you, right?
1:55.0	So that's what we're talking about today is how we can basically be the general
2:00.0	and our money is like $1 bills that are soldiers and we tell it what to do.
2:05.0	And Jesse Meekham in 2003, he started this journey of
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