In this week’s episode, we share what both of our families spent in 2021. We give a full-year expense review and break down our top spending categories, which areas we’re feeling good about, and where we’d like to improve in 2022. These conversations are best to have with your partner and family members, so we do that and bring on our spouses to join us as we run through all of this. We also share additional reflections and financial goals as we kick-off 2022.

In this week’s episode, we talk with Chris and Deb from Go Bucket Yourself. Chris and Deb are a married couple living in Colorado with two daughters and two dogs. They had built a safe and secure life and slowly realized the white picket fence life with only a couple of weeks of vacation each year wasn’t their dream. They started to question the idea of putting their dreams on hold until retirement, so they made some big changes in their lives. They decided to put conventions and expectations aside, quit their jobs, and take steps towards an unconventional and curious life. Chris and Deb are now living their “bucket-list” life and share with us how they got there and what their life looks like.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the amazing benefits of meditation and how it can positively impact your money. Meditation has some pretty impressive benefits that have been scientifically proven, from reducing stress and anxiety to reducing coronary disease and lowering your blood pressure. First, we dig into what meditation is, its many benefits, and how it can improve your finances. Then we teach you how to meditate and suggest some free apps that can help support your meditation journey.

In this week’s episode, we reflect on another unique year, 2021! We share it all, from what we’re most proud of personally to what we’ve learned and reflected on. We also share some of our favorite podcasts from the year, along with some of your favorite podcasts based on the numbers. Finally, we reminisce through everyone we’ve met and interviewed this year and give some teasers for what we’re most excited about in 2022.

In this episode, we share ideas and tips for challenging typical medical insurance norms so you can save money on your medical expenses. Most people think there’s only one path for all of their medical expenses if they have traditional insurance, but that’s just not true. In reality, there are many ways to save on medical expenses, whether through your traditional insurance or outside the traditional insurance ecosystem. We share 10+ tips and tricks for saving money on your medical expenses, from more well-known tactics like using an FSA or HSA to less common tactics like leveraging GoodRx for online doctor’s visits and paying the cash rate versus your medical insurance’s rate.

In this week’s episode, we share our early retirement plans, goals, and why we’re both still working. We get this question a lot from our listeners, so we’ve finally decided to address it. We share how we’ve both reached our financial independence numbers, are still working, but still plan to retire in our early 40s. We talk through how we’ve been able to leverage hitting our FI goals to negotiate more flexibility at work and what we’ve learned since having more flexibility. We also dig into the one more year syndrome and how we’re getting past our fears to take the plunge into early retirement.

In this week’s episode, we review important end-of-year financial reminders and do a goals check-in. First, we review the 2021 financial checklist we shared at the start of the year and focus on the most important items to remember before the end of the year, such as using your FSA dollars, maxing out your 401k and IRA, and Don’t worry; there’s still time! We also discuss our 2021 goals, how we did, and our takeaways from the year. Finally, we encourage you all to take some time to review your 2021 goals, so you’re celebrating your wins and taking your learnings into 2022.

In this week’s episode, we talk about how to spend less at Target or fill in the blank on whatever your version of Target is. We’re talking about those stores where you walk in for a $5 item, and you walk out with $75 or even $150 worth of things you didn’t know you needed. We share actionable tips for intentionally approaching your shopping lists and trips in a way that will help you spend less and save more. Some of our tips include limiting your trips, avoiding walking inside the store, leveraging shop online and curbside pickup, leveraging their app, using their free 2-day shipping, and more.

In this week’s episode, we talk with Court from the Modern FImily. Court and her wife Nic are a married couple who lived significantly below their means, paid off their debt, started investing, and were able to retire in their 30s to raise their two young kids in Canada. Court shared how she grew up financially and how she first learned about financial independence. We then cover a range of topics from how they live below their means, finding a community of people, her best frugal tips and life hacks, how to have a meaningful life without spending a lot, the importance of downtime, and being a valuist.

In this week’s episode, we share one simple thing you can do to plan for traditional retirement successfully. The one simple thing is to invest in your 401K, 403bs, and/or IRAs as young as possible and as much as you can afford to put in. The more, the earlier, the better. These tax-deferred retirement accounts are ubiquitous, but do you know how to maximize it? We talk through the power of compound interest and time and hope it encourages you to max out these accounts as young as you can. We also share some powerful scenarios to bring the math on this to life.