157. What Happened to My Budget After Having a Baby on One Income.

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Why did Molly pause the podcast for maternity leave and what changed when she returned?

Molly Benell 0:00
Hey hey oh my goodness it is so good to be back. I know that I was planning on being back much sooner but let's just say that maternity leave ended up being much longer than I intended for it to. Lots of things happened and you know that's partially about what I'm going to share with you today. So I have had to update my base budget more times than my brain and postpartum brain and exhaustion and all the things had wanted to do. And that is what I'm going to share with you. You know, all the many updates that we have made to the budget and everything that goes along with it. All of the stress and overwhelm, all of the decision-making and working together to budget in a way that, you know, it just brings us joy, but also keeps us financially stable.
Molly Benell 0:52
But most importantly, living in financial peace rather than the stress and overwhelm that can so easily come from with living on one income, right? So go get your drink, open your heart to God, and let's dive in. But before we go too much deeper into today's episode, I want to share with you, if you don't already know, that I have a wonderful community out there called the Budgeting with Confidence community. This is a great community where you can get more support, not only from me, but from other mamas who, you know, have already went through what you're going through with the same struggles. So I want to invite you to come over and join the community. Let's connect. Let's get to know each other.
Molly Benell 1:37
I know we You're getting to know me a lot, you know, because you get to listen to all my stories. But I don't get the same thing, right? I don't get to know who you are. So I would love for you to come join the community so that we can connect. We can work together. We can answer each other's questions, you know, because I'm sure that there's things in life that I don't know. And there's things that you don't know. And we can just, you know, have the fun little... mama group you know and connect and get all our budgeting questions answered maybe even some life things have answered because you know living on one income is not easy and when you get together with other like minds you can really figure things out and not feel alone i know that's one thing in this time of age where we really feel alone because
Molly Benell 2:22
I don't know. I was just talking to my husband the other day where I just felt like we are living in a time of age where we're just isolated from everybody. And instead of getting like parenting questions answered from your family, because, you know, way back when you used to live together with your family and you just work together and get it all figured out. But nowadays you just go off and do your own thing. And when you have parenting questions or budgeting questions, you look online or you look to a book, right? So let's make our own community where we can connect and just answer all our one income questions. And then I can come in and answer your budgeting questions as well. Right? So come over, join the community.
Molly Benell 3:07
If you also would like to get deeper into what it is that I talk about, like to know, you know, the things that extra tips, that's kind of what I'm trying to do. trying, what I'm trying to spit out, man, my brain these days just is not a hundred percent there. So if I stumble a lot, I apologize in advance. But what I'm trying to spit out is that I also have an email list that I called my insiders list. And this is where you get the extra tips about budgeting, where you can really like, just talk to me personally. If you don't want to be like putting your stuff out there for everyone to see. Cause I know with budgeting, it's really personal and it can be hard. So if you want to just ask me simple questions and join the email list and let's talk that way as well.
Molly Benell 3:55
And maybe you don't have Facebook, so you can also join the email list. And that's another way that I can support you and get to know you. And we can create wonderful, beautiful friendships, right? Okay. You can find those links in the show notes if you are looking for them.

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