Taking Charge of Your Money (Part 1)

Get Yourself Together, Chica

It's time to take charge of your finances. In this episode, we explore:

• Five Stages of Financial Freedom, to help you assess where you are, right now. (Hopefully, it will also show you how far you’ve come, already!)
• Three Levers you can pull on, to increase your financial freedom.
• And we talk about what Ramit Sethi, calls your Money Dials: The areas of your life you that you want to crank your spending way down… or way up… so that you get the most from your money!

I also share some of my own money stories, the best tools I’ve found for managing my finances, and some of the most helpful books that I’ve read, at each of those different financial freedom stages.
This is the first episode in a two-part series.
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1. Taking Charge of Your Money (Part 1) (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:31)

3. What's bringing me joy (00:01:35)

4. Five Stages of Financial Freedom (00:02:38)

5. Your Financial Dashboard (Levers & Dials) (00:05:52)

6. Stage #0. Drowning (00:09:41)

7. Stage #1. Treading Water (00:11:43)

8. What I've been listening to this week (00:13:52)

9. Build a reciprocity network (00:18:40)

10. Rethink and reconsider your expectations (00:23:06)

11. Track every dollar (00:24:29)

12. Learn everything about how to spend less and how to earn more (00:25:55)

13. Build a debt payoff plan (00:27:34)

14. Stage #2 Doggy paddling around the pool (00:28:29)

15. Start saving for retirement (00:29:20)

16. Separate your finances (00:31:04)

17. What I've been cooking up in the kitchen (00:31:59)