Haley Sacks

But, you know, it's so important to make sure that you are also putting money away for yourself, just like in those retirement accounts, because you never know what's going to happen.

Even though you want to bet on yourself so big, never go all in.

Oh, I'm like, it's so cool to talk to someone who like really read the book and who it sat with.

Like, this is like my dream conversation.

I appreciate it.

Okay.

So what Mick is talking about is yes, chapter seven, Monday, 9-1-1.

which is really about the importance of an emergency fund, which is, you know, that's sort of the first step in your financial journey after mindset is putting away three to six months in a high yield savings account because anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

And if you don't have that, it just puts you in these really precarious situations.

And so

The story that Mick was talking about was, and throughout the whole book, if you're watching, I have these interviews with real people in them, which I think was like a really fun way to sort of get the story across, but also it was just like so fun to talk to people because it sort of makes you feel less alone in your money journey too, because you're like, oh, everyone is figuring this out.

But anyways, this woman, Kai, was freelancing, as you said.

She was working for this homemade baby food company.

And they paid her half of the amount before and then they went under before they paid her the other half and she couldn't afford her rent.

And she didn't have an emergency fund.

And so she was scrambling and was like, okay, this is really smart.

Even though it's not allowed in my building, I'm going to Airbnb out my apartment and

stay with my parents, and then I'm going to be able to make rent.

And what she didn't account for, and this is true, were the people who Airbnb'd her apartment had bed bugs.

And so she came back to the apartment and...