Welcome to the Win Make Give podcast, Season 3, Chad Heim's here, joined again by my friend Bob Stewart. Bob, how are you today?

Chad, I'm pretty excited. You know this. I watched a bunch of beatbox videos last night.

Yes. And if you guys just, this is a total sidebar. We're going to talk about living paycheck to paycheck here in a second. But beatboxers are some of the most talented individuals like in the world. Go watch a beatbox video. DeLo is the guy's name. Unbelievable. My kid is into these things, sorry.

So Google DeLo Beatbox, check it out.

All right.

You're welcome.

All right.

Now, bye. guy's name. Unbelievable. My kid is into these things. Sorry. So Google, Google DeLo, beatbox, check it out. All right. And you're welcome.

All right. Now, Bob, this is the kind of stuff that you text us in our win make give texting

group that we get. Yet you also texted us something the other night that I was like, my jaw dropped when I actually got it from you

and said, is this true? And if it is, we need to do an episode on this. What was it that you found,

I'll read you the headline here. So I use a news app called Smart News. Ben and I use that. You might

use it too, Chad. But it basically, you know, it kind of starts to learn the

type of news that you like and then serves you up similar news. And we're constantly looking at

financial stuff and investment stuff. And so I got served this article up the other day. And the

headline is one of those stop you in your tracks headlines, which I think today all

headlines. That's the purpose of a headline. But the headline was wealthier.

Americans making $250,000 or more are beginning to live paycheck to paycheck. And like that stopped me in

my tracks. I didn't even read the article before I sent it to you guys. I think originally I sent a

screenshot of the article. And then I'm like, they need to read this. And so then I sent you the link. But, um, yeah, we're going to break that one down here, right? I mean, that's, that's unbelievable. And we're not saying it, this might be you, right? You might be out there and you might be saying, I'm making $200 to $250,000 a year. And I feel like I'm living paycheck to paycheck. So, Bob, you're going to share with us some statistics that you pulled from that article, and then we're going to talk about some of the key reasons we believe, and what you can do about it, people are living paycheck to paycheck at any price point. Chad, these are things that I think these are your themes all throughout

when make give, especially inside of the wealth series. And, you know, in some ways, a little promo for the later in season three, we're going to relaunch the wealth series. And it's needed, right? And we can tell in some of these statistics that it's needed. Because sometimes even when we're making a really good living. We are not, you know, we're not out of the rat race, right? We're just continuing each month. We have to come

back to work because we spent all the money we made the month before. So a couple of statistics out of

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