Courtney Harrell (Host)
speaker
376 appearances
10 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
Courtney Harrell (Host)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
He didn't see it as a kid, but now as a young adult confronting the reality of his parents' finances, he thought about the ways his mom would spend money when he was growing up and the ways that was probably shaping his spending now.
Wow.
After the break, we'll dive in to Jay's week.
On day one, Jay also paid a credit card bill and sent a $50 gift card to his mom for her birthday, bringing his total for the day to $400.
Total for day two, $108.00.
On day three, Jay also had one more expected expense. His mom's cat of 15 years died, and Jay offered to help cover the death expenses.
With the medicine, cough drops, and wine, plus some propane for their stove and generator and Jay's phone bill, day three's total was $345. On day three, they also had a little extra money come in. If Jay's family history means he's always looking for corners to cut and occasionally having to help out his folks, his wife's family and their money situation creates a different kind of anxiety.
They've got money to spare.
Then, a few years later, when they wanted to buy a house, his wife's parents helped them again. This time with $25,000 towards a down payment, which Jay says would have otherwise used up more than half of their savings.
You talked in your diaries about her parents giving you all money.
What about it bothers you?
Right, it puts what you have done up to that point in a totally different light.
Oh, I see.
It lessens it.
After a tip on the haircut and buying a box of tea, the total for day five was $61.
Jay knows that money has colored everything about how he sees the world, but he's really been trying to change that. As a religious studies professor and also a religious person himself, the way he thinks about it is, what does my life revolve around? It's what one religious scholar he loves calls an orientation point. Everyone has an orientation point.
The struggle for you was how do I shift my orientation from money to religion?
I think that's kind of beautiful. That feels like a kind of surrender.
Well, I would like, I don't know if there feels, there feels like there's something like powerful in the idea that you're saying this is bigger. Well, I'll just, let me clarify.
how do you want to talk to your kids about money?
Showing 321–340 of 376 · page 17 of 19
← Previous
Next →