Well, Here We Are...
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Jesse celebrates -- can you believe it?! -- the 500th episode of the You Need a Budget podcast. Nearly 10 years ago, Jesse started this podcast as an experiment. Over the years the mics have been upgraded, the acoustics have gotten better, but the message has remained the same: follow the Four Rules, and make your dollars work for you and your priorities.
Jesse reminds us that, much like doing the podcast, budgeting is mostly just doing the work, day in and day out. Budget is a verb, an activity that you do every day, and simply showing up and continuing to do it over time yields big results.
YNAB the company is still growing, and so is the podcast. Jesse and his longtime friend and corporate finance expert Mark Butler have launched a new show for small businesses called Beginning Balance. Download and subscribe here!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beginning-balance/id1569423517
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, one-ebers. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jesse Meakim and this is podcast number 500 for one-ever. |
| 0:12.2 | We teach you four rules to help you stop a paycheck to paycheck, get at a debt and save |
| 0:17.5 | more money. |
| 0:18.5 | That's all we've ever done for 10 years. |
| 0:21.4 | I've talked to you about breaking the paycheck to paycheck cycle by basically just not spending |
| 0:26.9 | stuff, not spending money on stuff that is not in line with your priorities. |
| 0:32.7 | We just go through those four rules over and over and over again. |
| 0:35.5 | Every once in a while we'll go somewhere else but we always just come back to those rules |
| 0:41.2 | because they are the magic. |
| 0:42.5 | So today's going to be no different, no I'm just kidding, it's going to be different. |
| 0:46.6 | Today's going to be different in honor of 500 episodes. |
| 0:49.9 | We are doing a few fun things for you today. |
| 0:51.9 | So after 10 years and 500 episodes, the show has gotten a little bit of a facelift as |
| 0:56.4 | you may have noticed, we've got some shiny new cover art up. |
| 1:00.2 | We've also put together a roundup on the blog of some of our favorite episodes of the |
| 1:04.8 | show. |
| 1:05.8 | So you can easily access them. |
| 1:08.6 | Head to winab.com slash 500 to check them out. |
| 1:14.1 | You know sometimes I listen to one of those old episodes and I think Jesse, that's wrong. |
| 1:17.3 | I can't believe you said that. |
| 1:18.8 | Other times I listen and I think Jesse, you used to be brilliant. |
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