Do you wince when you hear the word budget? It’s about as painful as the words diet or jail, but if you don’t budget for your goals now, you will never be able to enjoy life to the fullest and neither will your family. The majority of families are living paycheck to paycheck. Minor emergencies quickly send most people into debt. It’s no wonder that money issues are the number one cause of divorce.
Jesse Mecham is our guest today. He is the founder of YNAB (You Need a Budget) and is here to share his no-nonsense takeaways that will help you effortlessly budget money for everything you need and want in life. This show will outline the easy and effective way to budget for your goals so that you can live with less stress and make the most of the money your work so hard for.
Do you wince when you hear the word budget? It’s about as painful as the words diet or jail, but if you don’t budget for your goals now, you will never be able to enjoy life to the fullest and neither will your family. The majority of families are living paycheck to paycheck. Minor emergencies quickly send most people into debt. It’s no wonder that money issues are the number one cause of divorce.
Jesse Mecham is our guest today. He is the founder of YNAB (You Need a Budget) and is here to share his no-nonsense takeaways that will help you effortlessly budget money for everything you need and want in life. This show will outline the easy and effective way to budget for your goals so that you can live with less stress and make the most of the money your work so hard for.
Jesse Mecham
Jesse has been married for fifteen years and has six kids! That’s right, three boys and three girls. With this size of a family, it’s no surprise he is passionate about budgeting.
Back when Jesse was still in school before finishing his masters in accounting, he and his wife Julie struggled to get by. What gave them their solid foundation and a good trajectory was that they knew their non-negotiables. Julie’s was to stay at home and raise her children. Jesse’s was to never, ever borrow money.
Jesse knew that in order to finish school without borrowing any money, he’d need an extra $350 a month to cover expenses. This vision didn’t change for a while, but these first steps to helping people budget were the beginnings of what YNAB is today
What You’ll Learn
- The ‘YNAB’ budgeting methodology
- What it means to ‘give every dollar a job’
- How to discover what your true expenses are
- How to be proactive instead of reactive about money
- How a following a budget reduces stress and benefits your health, work, and relationships
- Why not having enough money is almost never an income issue
- The wrong ways couples go about money
- How to deal with a spouse who is resistant to a budget
- Why checking your bank balance is a poor source of information on your financial situation
- YNABs revolutionary budgeting app
- How the YNAB app relieves dads from being the bad guy who always have to say ‘no’ to spending
- How budgeting can end up being fun
- The huge monetary rewards of budgeting
- What’s next for YNAB
- Jesse’s dadly advice as the father of six kids!
- Get a FREE 34 Day Trial at YNAB.com/dads
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Originally published on The Good Dad Project
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