Money Dates, Prenups & Combining Finances with Aditi Shekar

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

BiggerPockets

Investing, Education, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Talking to your partner about money can be very difficult - especially when you’re bringing up the conversation for the first time. Today, we’ve brought Aditi Shekar back to discuss finances from a couple’s point of view. Yesterday we heard Aditi’s personal money story, and today she shares tips for speaking to your partner about your finances. How to go on a Money Date, all about her $20 prenup and why she feels everyone should have one, her guide to combining your finances. In fact, Aditi is so passionate about personal finance in general, and couples finance specifically, she created an app to help you share and discuss finances with your partner! Zeta is a personal finance app designed for couples to help you stay on top of your finances, together. Looking for a way to talk about money with your partner? This episode was made especially for you. In This Episode We Cover: The first thing that a couple should do once they discover that they are far apart on money The importance of talking about money early and often with your significant other Layers of fights about money Guide to combining finances On prenup and how she approach the subject with significant other On people who didn’t have prenups How to go on a money date Finding out who is the CFO in couple Her relationship advice and tip for listeners The importance of knowing your money personality And SO much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the BiggerPockets Money Podcast, Show Number 82.5, where we bring back
0:06.1	Oddity shaker from Asksada.com.
0:09.3	We found that the more that you talk about money consistently and regularly the healthier your relationship is.
0:16.8	And so what we said is, okay, well, how do we institute money dates and how do we make sure that the money
0:21.4	date spends time talking about your
0:23.6	present but also spends time talking about your future so you can connect your
0:28.0	present to your future. It's time for a new American dream, one that doesn't involve working in a cubicle for 40 years
0:34.3	barely scraping by whether you're looking to get your financial house in order invest the
0:38.6	money you already have or discover new paths for wealth creation you you're in the right place.
0:44.2	This show is for anyone who has money or wants more.
0:47.1	This is the Bigger Pocket's Money Podcast.
0:50.0	How's it good, everybody?
0:50.6	I'm Scott Trench, and I'm here with my co-host Miss Mindy Jensen. How you doing today, Mind Scott Trench and I'm here with my co-host Miss Mindy Jenson. How you doing today?
0:54.3	Scott, I am having a fantastic day. How are you doing today?
0:57.7	I'm doing great. I'm excited to bring back Oddity here and talk about couples and money.
1:02.0	I am so excited to talk to
1:04.4	Oddity today because she has such a great story about couples money but we couldn't
1:09.0	fit it all into yesterday's episode and she very graciously agreed to come back today and share it with us.
1:14.8	Shall we bring her in?
1:16.1	Let's do it.
1:17.1	Oh hey you're still here you just caught me doing some mid-adbreak painting. Thanks to Masterclass, my artistic side is flourishing.
1:29.0	And I'm cooking better than ever. One second, I'm also finishing this home negotiation.
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