Money Anxiety Is Ruining Your Health - Here’s How to Fix It | Jesse Mecham

The Art of Being Well

Dear Media, Will Cole

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this episode of The Art of Being Well, Dr. Will Cole is joined by Jesse Mecham - founder of YNAB (You Need A Budget) and author of the upcoming book Meant to Be Spent - to talk about the deep connection between financial health and physical wellness. From how money anxiety can disrupt sleep and hormones, to why your budget might be the missing piece in your healing journey, this episode is packed with mindset-shifting insights and practical tools. Jesse breaks down his powerful “give every dollar a job” method, and shows how spending with intention can help you stop living paycheck to paycheck and start feeling well again. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.3	Hi, it's Dr. Will Cole.
0:08.8	This podcast is the manifesto for a new breed of health seekers.
0:15.0	This is the art of being well.
0:25.6	Thank you. is the art of being well. What's up and welcome to the art of being well?
0:29.0	Basic labs miss so much when it comes to understanding why we feel the way that we do.
0:35.6	The conventional model of care when it comes to labs is largely trained
0:39.9	to diagnose a disease or health problem and match it with a corresponding pharmaceutical.
0:46.2	It's not dealing with why we have the problem in the first place. People are largely not going
0:51.5	through a health issue because of a pharmaceutical deficiency. So in functional
0:55.8	medicine, we're exploring these root facets that science is exploring is to be, why do people have
1:00.7	problems in the first place, looking at things like hormonal imbalances and underlying gut problems
1:05.4	and microbiome issues and environmental toxins or biotoxins like mold, bacteria, and viruses, or exploring even the
1:13.6	things we can't fully directly quantify, but we know science shows it's a piece to people's
1:18.8	health puzzle, like chronic stress and unresolved past trauma, and looking and assessing these
1:24.5	factors as to what are the pieces to your health puzzle?
1:28.5	So if you want to learn more about a functional medicine perspective on understanding you,
1:33.8	so you can thrive and feel your best, you can learn more about it at Dr.willcold.com.
1:39.3	That's DRW-I-L-C-O-L-E.com.
1:42.7	Head on over to Become a Patient Page and see how we help people around the
1:47.7	world. All right, let's get to today's guest. His name is Jesse Mechum. In 2004, Jesse was a
1:55.4	broke college student, newly wed, and soon-to-be dad, living on a tiny income. I was there. He lived my life.
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