Hey everyone, Mr. John Luskin and I are taking a short break this week, and we're heading to a conference out in beautiful Orlando, Florida, with 2,000 other money nerds from around the country.

I'll be speaking on Saturday, which will be my first for this conference, and then I'm racing home as fast as possible because my wife is due with our

second boy and let's just say Orlando is nowhere near home. So I got to get my butt back.

But while we're away this week, I thought we would replay one of our most downloaded episodes

from last year, which was an interview I did on one of the top personal finance

podcasts in iTunes called Stacking Benjamins. In this interview, I share the story of my wife

and I buying our first home several years ago. The home ended up being defective. We entered

a three-year lawsuit. We almost lost our life savings. We're having a baby through all of this and

somehow, some way we came out the other end, relatively unscathed. It was a really, really challenging time in our life, but we learned a lot.

And it's fun and helpful for me to look back and reflect on this time.

But, you know, we made some mistakes.

And hopefully you can learn from some of those mistakes that we made.

And hopefully the story is entertaining as well.

But if you didn't catch it last year, please give it a listen.

If you have listened to it already give it a second listen and

maybe you'll you'll catch something new and learn something new so thank you all for your

continued support we really really appreciate you we will be back with you in two weeks

and with that here is my interview on stacking Benjamins with Joe Salcihai.

Taylor Shelty is a certified financial planner in San Diego.

And he has a great podcast called Stay Wealthy, San Diego.

And he also is a co-founder of a firm called Define Financial in San Diego.

And he's got maybe, maybe, one of the most grueling stories about moving into a brand

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