Welcome to the Stay Walthy Podcast.

I'm your host, Taylor Schulte, and I have two important things to share with you today.

First, I don't know about you and what the weather is like in your city at the moment, but

winter has officially arrived here in San Diego.

In fact, last week, we had over one inch of rain.

And I think we even saw the temp drop down into the high 40s there for a few minutes. So if like me, you're ditching the flip-flops and you're trying to stay warm out there, I've got you covered. I partnered with one of my favorite brands, Link Soul, to make some high-quality custom, stay wealthy hoodies. And the first box just arrived at my office and i want to

give them away to our listeners this holiday season as a way to say thank you on january third

i'll be drawing names and shipping them off so if you want to throw your name in the hat all you have

to do is go to you staywealthy.com slash giveaway. That's you staywealthy.com

forward slash giveaway. And if you're driving or at the gym, don't worry, I'll be linking to the

giveaway URL directly in the episode description, which shows up in your podcast app, as well as

adding it to the show notes, which can be found by going to you staywealthy.com forward slash 137.

Okay. Next, on a not so exciting note, two weeks ago, my wife and I escaped for a nice

staycation, our first time away from all three kids, and unfortunately, we came back to a flooded

home. Like many homes, our plumbing is buried in the foundation. And, well, one of those water

pipes in the foundation burst causing what's called a slab leak, which is just a fancy word for

you've got water coming up through your floors, which nobody wants to come home to. So we've

been out of our house for two weeks now, bouncing around Airbnbs with three kids and a dog trying to sort this whole mess out.

And along with just sharing a personal update here, I also learned something pretty surprising through this process that I think everyone here might be able to benefit from.

So as always, when you have water damage, your first call is typically to a restoration company to help

come and mitigate the damage as quickly as possible.

And when the restoration company showed up to our house, the first question the guy asked me was,

...