Own the Muddy Parts of Your Story with Mary Marantz
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Jesse chats with author Mary Marantz about her book Dirt, the story of her life journey growing up in poor, rural West Virginia to eventually attending Yale Law. Mary grew up with a strong, hard working father who instilled in her a vigorous work ethic and a love for her hometown. However, her working class roots cast a shadow of doubt over how high she could climb in the world, and how qualified she could feel amongst those from different, more economically priveleged backgrounds. Dirt is the story of Mary reckoning with the good and bad of her upbringing, and how it shaped her into the woman she is today.
How does this relate to money? Money is all about feelings, and often our upbringing instills deeply seated ideas about how to earn and spend money that are hard to shake as adults. Mary's story is a powerful reminder that doing the work to better understand yourself, your history, and your place in the world prepares you to make lasting changes to your decision making around money.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Meakum and this is podcast number 484 for Wine Abwhere we teach |
| 0:09.5 | you four rules to help you stop if you're in paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, |
| 0:12.7 | and save more money. |
| 0:13.7 | Today I am pleased to have with me on the podcast Mary Moran's. |
| 0:16.9 | She is the author of this fantastic book that I finished a few weeks ago called Dirt. |
| 0:22.7 | And she's a podcaster, she is an author, a speaker. |
| 0:26.1 | She had me on her podcast and it was an absolute delight. |
| 0:29.4 | It's interesting about Mary and I'll just read a little bit from her bio if you'll excuse |
| 0:33.1 | me. |
| 0:34.1 | She grew up in a single-wide trailer in rural West Virginia, the first of her immediate |
| 0:37.6 | family to go to college and she went on to earn a lot of grief from the nation's top |
| 0:42.1 | ranked law school and she makes clear to me. |
| 0:44.5 | It is Yale, absolutely. |
| 0:46.9 | After ditching six-figure salary law firm offers in London and New York, she started a business |
| 0:50.5 | with her husband Justin, together they have built a successful online education platform |
| 0:54.7 | for creative entrepreneurship. |
| 0:57.1 | She is also the host of the highly ranked and popular podcast that Mary Moran's show. |
| 1:02.0 | Mary released this book, Dirt, I really liked it. |
| 1:06.6 | It's called Growing Strong Roots in What Makes The Broken Beautiful and she did that last |
| 1:11.1 | September. |
| 1:12.1 | She lives in a fixer upper over in Connecticut with her husband Justin and their golden |
| 1:16.1 | retrievers. |
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