Our Biggest Money Mistakes: Advice on Stewarding Your Finances

For The Girl

Mac Bridges & Kenz Durham

Flirt, Ministry, Faith, Cautious, Independent, Dating, Spirituality, Women, Rescuer, Quiz, Forthegirl, Religion & Spirituality, Romantic, College

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Hey girls! We’re getting real today (and yeah, a little exposed!) about our biggest money mistakes and what we’ve learned about stewarding our finances with faith, wisdom, and a whole lot of grace. From surprise IRS letters and tanked credit scores to paying off student loans and learning to live within our means, we’re sharing the honest stories that shaped our financial journeys. Plus, have some major money tips for the single girl. Topics Discussed Our Real Paychecks & Ministry Life: A behind-the-scenes look at our salaries, starting Delight, and learning to live with less. Kenz’s Credit Score Crash: One $60 mistake with a website subscription that cost a whole lot more—learn from us! Mac’s $85,000 IRS Scare: The nonprofit tax mistake that almost derailed a wedding—yep, that happened. Rent Regrets & Wise Living: How paying less in rent gave us more freedom and why we’re passionate about not being “house poor.” Debt-Free Wins & Marriage Prep: Paying off student loans, building savings, and entering marriage on solid ground. Moving & Missing the Mail: A warning about forwarding your mail when moving—especially when the IRS is involved! Setting Up Finances Like a Pro: What we wish we knew when opening accounts and tracking subscriptions. Why Young Adults Struggle With Finances: The reality of learning the hard way and our encouragement to take small steps now. Encouragement for Your Financial Journey: You don’t have to have it all figured out—God is in the process with you. Follow Us! 📸Instagram: For The Girl Mac Bridges Kenz Durham Subscribe! 🍏Apple 🎧Spotify 📹Youtube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.5	This is the podcast for women in their 20s, learning to love Jesus with everything in them, where we also gab a lot, chat a lot, laugh a lot, hopefully. Today's episode, we are talking about our biggest money mistakes. And Ken's and I have made quite a few of them. We talk about the importance of generosity. We talk about my $85,000
1:13.3	bill from the IRS. Yes, true. You're going to have to listen to the episode. And then also
1:18.1	share our best advice when it comes to stewarding your finances. It's a good one. Let's jump in. Ben. All right, you guys, we are so excited about our money mistakes episode. Are we? Yeah, to expose ourselves.
1:41.7	Oh, man. To expose ourselves on the For The Girl podcast.
1:44.8	I can't wait.
1:45.9	We have to address the elephant in the room that we're wearing our pajamas.
1:48.9	Yes.
1:49.7	We have an amazing sponsor, Cozy Earth and they send us these pajamas.
1:53.5	And I can wear them every night of my life.
1:55.9	They're literally so comfortable.
1:57.7	If you're like our pajama girl, these are look no further. You know how like the
2:01.9	baby pajamas are those, I think these are bamboo. Cozy. Aren't they bamboo? I don't know. We should know
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