Is Aggressive Saving Derailing Their Short Term Goals?
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What is Joey and Lia’s current financial situation and net worth?
That's one of the biggest things I have with achievers. You're running an internal checklist. You're like, you know what? Good student, check. AP classes, check. You know, I've been rewarded for every one of these decisions, but I'm here to tell you, you're running up against the internal narrative is separated from the reality.
give us the background. Who are you guys, right? So obviously you come from San Francisco. What got you from birth to San Francisco and now here today?
I grew up on the central coast of California. Went to, I'm one of five sons, so I have four brothers. Let's go. I kind of knew. Where are you in the order? I'm number four. Number four. Number four. So almost the last one younger brother. Do they have a female name for you? You know, probably Josefina.
I'm just curious because you know that every time they're like, okay, here's the daughter. Here's the daughter. So this is going to be the girl's name just in case. Well, that's what I said.
I don't know if I'd exist if a daughter came before. And then after five, they're just like, okay, I guess it's just not happening. But yeah, I grew up there, went to college locally. I kind of knew that I would have to cover most of college. So I was kind of researching when I was in high school, I knew the college I wanted to go to. I knew I wanted to go into business and I was researching, you know, which AP credits are gonna transfer to this college. Cause I knew I was gonna have to front that cost. Ended up going to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which is where Leah went. And I graduated with an accounting degree.
How old are you now? 24. 24. What do you do? Do you do accounting? Is that what you do now?
Yes. So I got my CPA license a few years ago. Was working in tax while I... So graduated and got a job locally, a tax job, which I did enjoy. And then Leah actually ended up getting a job offer in the Bay Area. Started looking for different jobs. Wasn't sure if I wanted to stay in tax or kind of branch into something different. But I found a really cool opportunity and went into forensic accounting. Nice. So I am really loving that. I'm about two years into that. Forensic accounting can mean a bunch of different things. Most people think I'm in the FBI catching criminals and stuff like that.
He's at the crime scene. Yeah.
Have you seen the movie The Accountant?
Uh-huh. Ben Affleck. That's exactly what I was thinking about.
That's exactly what I was thinking about. Not quite. You presented that the most accountant way ever, too. I love that. That's so great. Leo, what about you?
What's your back story?
Yeah, so I was born and raised in Sacramento, California. My dad always did science experiments with me growing up and we're always working on something and that really sparked my curiosity and I had a great chemistry teacher in high school and my college actually offered like a blended BS, MS program. I'm getting my ROI because I can still, I work a side job as a professor at a local community college in addition to my day job as a research and development scientist for a consumer packaged goods company. in the San Francisco Bay Area.
So what does that mean? I understand all of those words individually. When you put them all together.
That's on my paper. Research and Development Sciences. I was like, that's a cool job title. He's going to start breaking out big words.
No, no. No, no, no, not today. I'm a product development scientist. It's called like product slash process development. So we carry products in early phases through discovery work, and then we lead them all the way to activation and large-scale manufacturing.
So like new flavors of Doritos?
Work with a lot of fragrance science. Is it the packaging or is it the flavoring and the actual product?
All of the above. We have special scientists that focus on packaging development and like oftentimes they have like material science backgrounds or they study packaging specifically. So my role is more of like the product development. How do we slap a great claim on the package? How do we sell this?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Joey and Lia’s current financial situation and net worth?
0:00–5:33
2
How do they prioritize saving for a $30,000 wedding versus other financial goals?
5:33–11:46
3
What are the pros and cons of buying a home in the Bay Area versus continuing to rent?
11:46–18:51
4
How could switching from Roth to traditional 401(k) contributions improve their cash flow?
18:51–26:04
5
What role does the family cabin play in their long‑term financial plan?
26:04–32:44
6
How should Joey and Lia combine their finances after they get married?
32:44–39:21
7
What strategies can they use to build an emergency fund while funding multiple goals?
39:21–47:57
8
What final recommendations do Brian and Bo give for balancing aggressive saving with life goals?
47:57–56:55