Courtney Harrell (Host)
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376 appearances
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3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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How much money would you need to make to be able to reliably have a home again?
If the job is paying so far below what you need to meet your basic needs, what is keeping you in this job?
Are there other jobs besides trucking that you could imagine having more stability in?
We talked before about the freedom you would feel on the road. Do you still feel that when you're driving now?
When you're talking about your long-term future that you are imagining for yourself, your dream of this land, does that include trucking? Or is your kind of long-term dream leaving trucking behind?
In the weeks after recording the episode, Maxine was still living in her truck and saving money towards the future. But she did get one piece of good news. Her company is getting her a newer truck. Thank you to Alex Leslie at the American Transportation Research Institute and Steve Vasselli. They both helped us understand the trucking industry for this episode.
If you want to know more, check out Steve's book, The Big Rig, Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream. What we spend is an Odyssey original podcast. It's written and hosted by me, Courtney Harrell. Our producers are Margo Gray and Kristen Torres. Our editor is Jonathan Menjivar. Our executive producers are Maddy Sprung-Kaiser and Leah Reese Dennis.
Theme song and original music by Matt McGinley. Additional music from APM Music. Mixing by Pedro Alvira. Special thanks to Melissa Akiko Slaughter, Joel Lovell, Jenna Weiss-Berman, J.D. Crowley, Maura Curran, Josephina Francis, Kurt Courtney, Hilary Schuff, Sean Cherry, Laura Berman, and Hilary Van Ornum. If you want to be on What We Spend, we'd love to hear from you.
Write us at whatwespendpodcast at gmail.com.
You know how you always want to know about everyone else's money? You do, right? Like, you'll see someone buying something you want or taking some amazing vacation and you think, how can they afford that? Or you meet your friend's new girlfriend and she has some very impressive job and you think, how much money does she make?
I think when it comes to money, even if you don't want to admit it, we're all a little nosy. But I don't know, I actually think that's good. I think we should be talking about money more. And all the ways, big and small, that it impacts our lives. On this show, we are actually going to do that. We are going to go somewhere that we almost never get to go.
Deep into the heart of someone else's finances. Hier ist, wie das funktionieren wird. Jede Woche werde ich euch eine neue Person aus einem anderen Land vorstellen. Sie wird uns alles über ihre Finanzen erzählen. Wie viel sie verdienen, wie viel sie machen wollen, worüber sie sich interessieren, oder ob sie sich überhaupt nicht interessieren.
Und dann, für eine Woche, werden wir sie durch ihre tägliche Routine folgen. Jeden Tag werden sie einen Audio-Dialog mit all den schmutzigen Details, wie sie ihr Geld verdienen. Ich meine, die Kaffee, die Gemüse, der Rentner, der Fahrer, der plötzlich alles aufhört. Und danach sprechen wir über das, was die Woche für sie gebracht hat. Was es für sie gemacht hat.
Weil was auch immer du kaufst oder nicht kaufst oder spart oder spart, am Ende des Tages ist Geld immer mehr als dein Balance. Ich bin Courtney Harrell und das ist, was wir sparen.
Und auch, wie viele von ihrer Generation, will sie ein Haus kaufen und ein Baby haben. Und sie versucht herauszufinden, ob es möglich ist, all diese Arbeit zu machen. Kelly verabredete ihren Mann vor etwa einem Jahr. Und acht Monate später sind die beiden von Tennessee nach Salt Lake City, Utah geflogen. Ben ist ein Ingenieur für eine Softwarefirma.
Kelly ist die Direktorin von Klienten-Erfahrung in einem Medizinspa. Und sie ist auch ein Online-Mental-Wellness-Coach.
Kelly wird täglich bezahlt. Aber sie macht ungefähr 50k pro Jahr. Und Ben macht ungefähr 78k pro Jahr. That's before taxes and health insurance. Together, that puts them just under the average income for married couple families in Salt Lake City. How would you describe your relationship with money?
Was machst du täglich, um deine Kosten zu gestalten?
Okay, yeah. So walk me through your spreadsheet. So I would love to hear what all of your regular expenses are and like what you kind of typically pay in each category.
Es ist ein Konvertierer. Phone Payment 75, Pet Insurance 76 and Physical Therapy for 250. It helps with Kelly's chronic back pain and osteoarthritis.
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