Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

Rebroadcast • Breaking the Fear of ADHD Budgeting with YNAB Founder Jesse Mecham


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It’s summer rebroadcast season! Ok, let's get this out of the way: We're big fans of You Need a Budget. Like, huge fans. Massive, life-changing kind of product fans. So you can imagine that we're a bit beside ourselves this week.

See, for someone who has had struggles with money in the past, discovering a tool that has the capacity to rewire your brain around budgeting and spending is a pretty big deal™. That's YNAB, a budgeting tool like no other. Even better, while the team had not intention to make a budgeting tool that can work for folks with ADHD brains, for a lot of us, they did just that.

Jesse Mecham is the Founder of YNAB and personal finance expert. He hosts the You Need A Budget Podcast, the Beginning Balance Podcast and is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of the book of the same name, You Need A Budget. The Smart Money Mama herself, Chelsea Brennan, introduced us to YNAB in 2020 and the tool quickly landed at the top of our list of favorite, life-changing services, so Jesse is here not only as a budgeting guy we think you might like to meet, but because we are legit fans.

YNAB isn't a sponsor of this show, but we encourage you to visit right away and sign up for their 34-day free trial and see how it works for you.

  • (00:36) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
  • (03:29) - Support the Show: Become a Patron at Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast
  • (06:30) - Introducing Jesse Mecham
  • (13:46) - The Tenses of Money
  • (16:46) - The Four Rules
  • (17:44) - 1. Giving Every Dollar a Job
  • (20:48) - 2. Embrace your True Expenses
  • (25:54) - 3. Role with the Punches
  • (27:06) - 4. Aging Your Money
  • (30:16) - The Elusive Emergency Fund
  • (33:36) - What if you hate "Budgeting"
  • (35:06) - Your Credit Card and You
  • (39:32) - What if you're overwhelmed?
  • (43:20) - YNAB as a Couple
  • (46:35) - Kids

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