The Easy and Effective Way to Budget for Your Goals with Jesse Mecham
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Do you wince when you hear the word budget? It's about as painful as the words diet or jail, but if you don't budget for your goals now, you will never be able to enjoy life to the fullest and neither will your family. The majority of families are living paycheck to paycheck. Minor emergencies quickly send most people into debt. It's no wonder that money issues are the number one cause of divorce.
Jesse Mecham is our guest today. He is the founder of YNAB (You Need a Budget) and is here to share his no-nonsense takeaways that will help you effortlessly budget money for everything you need and want in life. This show will outline the easy and effective way to budget for your goals so that you can live with less stress and make the most of the money your work so hard for.
For the show notes, links, and exclusive offers mentioned in this episode, go to gooddadproject.com/171.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:29.0 | What's going on guys? What's going on guys? |
| 0:30.0 | Today's show is financially focused. I know you guys enjoy these shows because every time we do a show on money, you guys really enjoy it. You guys always, the downloads are just sick. And money is an important thing to us for several |
| 0:44.9 | reasons if you think about it if you actually look the statistics and that we share |
| 0:49.8 | today in the show money is actually the number one cause of all divorces. And if you |
| 0:57.4 | think about that for a minute in the United States the divorce rate is up to |
| 1:01.4 | almost 50 percent And half of those divorces are due to financial situations, |
| 1:08.8 | financial stress, debt burden, you name in all kinds of issues. |
| 1:12.8 | So money plays an important role in our everyday life. |
| 1:17.9 | It plays an important role in our stress. |
| 1:20.4 | And it also can sometimes make or break the most important relationships in our life. |
| 1:26.0 | So it's really important to understand money, to understand our family finances, |
| 1:31.0 | to understand consumer debt, budgeting and spending and all that good stuff. |
| 1:35.3 | The problem is and the challenges is that most of us were never taught this growing up. |
| 1:41.1 | So many of us are not financially literate. We have to learn, you know, with the, just by making mistakes. |
| 1:48.0 | And unfortunately, a lot of mistakes can be pretty darn costly, no pun intended, but it can be pretty costly. But check this out, |
| 1:54.8 | so I know I already told you guys the number one cause of divorce in the US is from stress of money. |
| 2:00.0 | Also, this is one of the most staggering statistics I've seen yet. |
| 2:05.0 | The average 50 year old only has an average of $50,000 in retirement, |
| 2:11.0 | which I thought that was staggering when my guest today, |
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