How much do you spend on a monthly basis?

A lot of people don't know.

That's why we sat down with Stacey Zrehen, who heads up Acheezer's financial literacy programs.

We went through a personal budgeting worksheet, went through the various expenses people have,

what she's seeing from her seat, very enlightening conversation.

And she does it as we learned in this episode for free, which is amazing.

She can help you. And here's how. Enjoy.

Being a Jew, awesome. Managing personal finances, not so awesome. Welcome to Kosher Money.

Another episode of Kosher Money. Stacey, how you doing? I'm great. How are you today?

Good. So tell us about what you do and how you help families. So I work with Achiazer currently as volunteer, as a financial

advisor. I've been doing it for about 15 years now, through Achiazer and separately as well. And I

work with families to create a financial plan, a budget in this most simplest form, and then to sort of look forward and see

what they're coming up challenges or other financial issues are. And we work together to make

sure they've got a plan going forward. This is volunteer. This is a paid gig. How do you have the time for

this is what I do? That's beautiful. Beautiful.

I have a very nice husband.

So tell us what that means exactly.

So when we started doing this through Achiazer, we were called and I was called in and we have a team of budgeters under Alisa Wartelski.

We were called in to help basically with fires, put out fires.

We had a lot of people who were in dire straits who were having issues. They were going through a foreclosure. Their house was going to be taken

away. They had enormous credit card debts and other issues. They weren't able to pay tuition.

So they were called in on an, we were called in on an emergency basis, basically.

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