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Master Your Money: Budgeting, Saving, and Debt-Free Living
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Who is Nate Tanner and what is the purpose of the Master Your Money podcast?
Hey there, and welcome to the very first episode of Master Your Money, budgeting, saving, and debt-free living. I'm so glad that you're here. This is a show for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by money, whether you're living paycheck to paycheck, trying to figure out where your cash goes every month, or dreaming of that day you can say goodbye to debt for good.
My name is Nate Tanner, and this podcast is part of the Trigator Philosophy, a movement that's all about helping you stop reacting to money and start mastering it. We're not here for perfection. We're here for real progress, real tools, and real transformation. And today, we're kicking things off strong. To really understand why this podcast matters, I think it's only fair that I start with a Before I go too far, I just want to let you know that I do have a cold today and it's a terrible week to have a cold with us launching. So I hope that you'll give me a little bit of leniency with my voice as we go through, because yeah, I've unfortunately been flat in bed for a couple of days, but we're starting to feel better and hopefully we'll be able to make it through this together and have a good launch week.
So back to my story. I grew up in a home where hard work was a way of life. And my dad, he was a teacher and my mom, she was a secretary. They both had worked not only their primary job, but they worked second jobs, they did side gigs, and they even tried their hands at some small businesses. You know, these small businesses went from actually brick and mortar stores where we had a video rental store prior to the days of Blockbuster. We also had a party shop that was run. But also, I remember my mom would do things like We had a local boutiquing group that she would create different crafts and stuff and try to sell them at boutiques and such. So my parents were very hard workers and they instilled that upon us, all of us kids.
And, you know, money... It wasn't really talked about a ton in our home. It was kind of a vague topic. And my parents didn't talk much about it openly. They were very private about it. But they did teach me to save, to work hard, and to try to be a good steward of the money that I earned. I was raised to avoid debt, but when I turned 18, the temptation got the better of me and I had always loved technology. So at the time I needed a computer and I needed not just any computer, but I needed the top of the line, best one that money could buy. So I opened my first credit account and I had no clue at how debt or credit or anything like that really worked. By the age of 19, I was in a real mess because not only did I have this debt, but I had a few others that I was trying to work through and I didn't have much money.
And things actually got a lot worse because I was about to leave on a two-year Christian service mission. And part of leaving on this mission, I had to have all of my financial affairs in order so that I could go and focus on service for a couple of years. So I needed to figure out what to do with my debt. And in my infinite teenage wisdom, I thought, hey, you know, I'll give this stuff that I bought to a neighbor. And they were someone who was around my age. And they honestly didn't have any more knowledge than I did about how credit or debt worked. and i thought you know we'll change the billing address and it'll be theirs and i figured boom problem solved well not exactly you see i came back two years later and i was ready to start the next chapter in my life and i had fallen in love and i started to save up for an engagement ring
And I was so close to having enough cash for that ring. But I was a couple hundred short. So I figured, hey, it's no big deal. I'll just finance the rest so that I can give this amazing ring to this amazing lady. But when the jeweler ran my credit, I got denied. And I was like, denied? What? What? Why? And I had no idea. I had no idea what was going on. So I did a little digging and I found out that it had been 18 months since my neighbor, who I had given the computer to and had since moved away and I'd since moved away and all of these things had happened.
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