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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

Setting money goals at milestone birthdays, and scoring big bucks with bank bonuses

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As you approach your 30s, 40s or beyond, let the milestone birthday be an excuse to set some new money goals. Also, some banks will pay you to open a new bank account, but you need to look beyond the bonus to see if you’ll pay more in fees or collect less interest. As always, send us your money questions! Email [email protected] or call or text the NerdHotline at 901-730-6373. And visit www.nerdwallet.com/podcast for more info on this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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slash setup welcome to the nerd wallet smart money podcast where we answer your

0:36.6

personal finance questions and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money.

0:41.2

I'm your host, Liz Weston.

0:42.7

And I'm your other host, Sean Piles.

0:44.8

As always, be sure to send us your money questions.

0:47.1

You can call or text us on the NerdHotline at 901-730-6373.

0:52.6

That's 901-730 Nerd. Or you can email us at podcast at nurdwollad.com.

0:58.8

And while you're at it, please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you're getting this podcast.

1:03.1

This episode, we're talking with one of our banking nerds about how you can get bank sign-up bonuses.

1:08.3

Free money! Yes. Love free money. But first in our this week in

1:13.6

your money segment, Liz and I are going to have a little bit of a self-reflective conversation

1:17.9

about what it means to set financial goals as you age. This is a somewhat self-indulgent topic

1:23.1

that was inspired by my birthday the other week. I'm officially 29, which means that I'm on the cusp

1:28.4

of a new decade. Thank you. Thank you. And I've been thinking about what my goals were in my 20s and what

1:34.7

I want them to be in my 30s and what changes from one year or one decade to the next. Okay, first of all,

1:40.9

happy birthday. That is so cool. And you are a twin, right? So there were two of you.

1:46.4

I did want to say shout out to my fellow Gemini, especially my literal twin sister. I couldn't see her due to COVID. But I did get to take a week off of work. And I mostly just sat around in my garden and read books and avoided the internet. And so I had that time to sit and think about what my goals are and what I want to do in the next decade.

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