You're Not You When You Are Worried About Money
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Remember those Snickers commercials about people acting out because they were "hangry?" We could say the same thing happens to people who are stressed about money. Maybe you're shorter with your kids, maybe you feel pressure to work more hours, to move faster, maybe you argue with your spouse more -- however your money stress manifests, it still... manifests.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show, |
| 0:16.6 | and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about you, never worrying about money again. |
| 0:22.8 | That is it. |
| 0:23.7 | That's what I've given my life to, is helping people to not worry. |
| 0:27.6 | And I want you to, well, first maybe take a walk back with me. |
| 0:32.9 | Think about what we are like when we worry. |
| 0:36.6 | If you want, think of that Snickers commercial |
| 0:40.3 | where the person is hangary, as we call it in our house. |
| 0:44.3 | And I actually made a, had a little whiteboard for Julie |
| 0:47.5 | for Christmas one year and the quote that I put on there |
| 0:51.6 | was, I'm sorry for what I said when I was angry and it's a thing so that |
| 0:57.9 | Snickers commercial kind of plays into it like the person is just being awful and then |
| 1:02.2 | you give them a Snickers and now they're back to their normal selves and my question for |
| 1:06.3 | you today is what is your normal self if If you were not worried about money, what you would come out. Or maybe |
| 1:16.9 | you would come out. Maybe I shouldn't say what you, but you, you would. If you think about what |
| 1:21.9 | worry does, what stress does, you will see it pretty apparently and pretty regularly. |
| 1:30.7 | When I'm stressed, I'm shorter with my kids. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm a little colder. |
| 1:35.7 | When I'm stressed, I'm maybe a little more defensive or accusatory with Julie. |
| 1:42.7 | When I'm stressed, I'm maybe a little more judgey, or I feel like I'm being |
| 1:50.1 | judged from friends or family. When I'm a little more stressed, work takes on a different |
| 1:57.0 | color, and I maybe feel like we have to go faster instead of doing better. So there are |
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