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The Jesse Mecham Show

Who Could You Become If You Weren't Worried About Money?

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It's an interesting question, isn't it? Imagine for a second... your credit cards are paid off, you have cash in the bank, your bills are on autopay and you don't even know when they will hit because you already have the money in your account. In fact, you get to the first day of the month and all your bills for that month are already paid for. What would this do to your stress? Your relationships with your friends and family? How would it affect the way you look at your life, your goals and desires?

 

This could be you... and you could become something more when you learn to get good with money.

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:13.2

My name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show.

0:16.4

And I'm here each week to obsess out loud about you never, ever, ever, ever, worrying about money again.

0:23.1

Last week, we talked about what it feels like to carry that worry with us all the time, shorter with the kids,

0:30.3

accusatory defensive with the spouse, stressed at the job, judge you with friends.

0:36.1

It doesn't feel great.

0:37.8

And this week, I wanna maybe take it more

0:41.7

on a positive note and elaborate more on where we ended it.

0:47.8

Think about what you would be like, what you would.

0:53.9

Last week we talked about you being able to come out, right?

0:58.8

And be the real you because you don't have this worry kind of constraining you.

1:04.0

But there's a whole future ahead of that you.

1:08.6

And what would that you become?

1:13.9

There's a lot of time left what would you become if all your bills were taken care of if you know you started this month with all of the

1:22.1

money for the month already sitting there and you're just going to be earning money this

1:25.3

month for the next month you've broken that paycheck to paycheck cycle completely.

1:29.6

What if all of your consumer debt were paid off?

1:31.8

You didn't know anything on cars, on credit cards.

1:34.8

Maybe you have some mortgage debt.

1:36.9

And what if you were able to give without even a hint of consternation, a hint of worry?

1:44.9

What if you were able to be more generous in ways that you've never even thought of?

1:50.6

What kind of hobbies or projects or experiences would this you come up with where money is no

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