Hi, my name is Trent, and I'm the show producer, and I'm dropping in to let you know that our audio for this episode and the next episode

are not quite up to scratch.

We had a mishap and we basically forgot to record audio for these episodes.

So I'm taking the audio from the camera feed and I did the best I could to clean it up,

make it sound intelligible, but it's not up to our usual standard.

So please bear with us for this episode and next week's episode, and then we'll be back to our

normal selves.

All right, hope you enjoy the podcast.

Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show, and I'm here

each week to obsess out loud about spending purposefully,

saving aspirationally, and giving joyfully, and occasionally, teaching my kids, and hopefully

you're teaching your kids, how to get good at money. Now, I did a little thing. I asked my kids,

a few just general questions,

and there were some interesting comments,

and we just kind of dove into my.

Let me give you a little bit of backstory.

First of all, the whole reason that we even started why now

was because we were going to have a baby

and things were tight, and Julie wanted

to be able to step out of the workforce.

And I was not yet able to step into it fully, was still working on my accounting degree, but Porter was coming along.

And we needed to make some extra side money.

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