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Chapter 1: What is the margin between income and monthly bills?
How big is the margin between what you make and your regular bills every month? How much wiggle do you have? Like no wiggle room? Do you know how much money you spend in a week? Like, if you were to add it all up, the little treats, the cost of groceries these days, those unexpected car repairs, the new pair of shoes you really don't need, it adds up, right? It adds up for everyone.
Chapter 2: Why don’t people usually talk about their finances openly?
We just don't usually talk about it. But imagine if we did. Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. How much do you make? Who paid for that fancy dinner you went to the other night? What did your house actually cost? How would you describe your relationship with money? Consuming. Oh. I would describe it as all consuming, yeah.
Chapter 3: What can listeners expect from each episode of What We Spend?
On every episode of the show, a different guest will open up their wallets, open up their lives, really, and tell us all about their finances. For one week, they will tell us everything they spend their money on. So I spent tonight $42.06, which is crazy.
Chapter 4: How do everyday expenses and unexpected costs affect budgets?
My son slammed like $6 worth of blueberries in five minutes. Having a kid in general was just death by a thousand cuts. So I paid $2,400 against my credit card bill.
Chapter 5: What are the emotional impacts of financial stress at age 30?
I still have a bit of a balance going on with the rest of the bill. I don't want to talk about it today, but maybe we'll get to it at some point. This is a show about all the ways money comes into our lives and then leaves again, which of course we all have a lot of feelings about. I am stressed about being 30 years old and only making $35,000.
Chapter 6: How do personal desires clash with financial realities?
I'm also stressed that I found love, but I cannot afford marriage or children. What I need is a car. What I want is to buy myself Mary J. Blige tickets.
Because whatever you are buying or not buying or saving or spending, at the end of the day, money is always about more than your balance.
I'm the child of immigrants, and I will do whatever it takes to take care of myself at all times.
At some point in my checking account, I had like $15,000. And I was like, damn, maybe I'll be a venture capitalist now.
I really want these things. I want to own a house. I want to have a child.
I'm Courtney Harrell.
But this morning I really wanted a coffee.
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