Mind Your Money: Money and Partnership Lessons Every Couple Should Learn

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Today’s guest is Yanely Espinal.

Yanely is the author of Mind Your Money, the host of Financially Inclined from Marketplace, and Director of Educational Outreach for Next Gen Personal Finance. In 2015 she started MissBeHelpful, a YouTube channel that now has over 4 million views, to help others learn the money skills she never learned in school. 

Yanely will share her success stories: overcoming over $20,000 in credit card debt, her new book Mind Your Money, and how her partner supports her as a high achiever. 

Enjoy the show.

Purchase Yanely's book: https://www.mindyourmoneybook.com/ 

Show Notes

0:00-2:00: Introduction

2:01: How Yanely observed her parents in a traditional home and money management structure, and how she approaches it differently. 

5:02: How she, and many others, fall into the credit card debt trap.

7:20: Yanely shares a story, similar to the stories we all have from our childhood, about wearing your sister’s Jordan’s when you were really young and how that story shaped her spending habits in early adulthood.

14:32: Yanely shares how to stay trendy without overspending, and it all started with her losing everything in an apartment fire. (This should be the social media post)

17:28: Yanely shares a bit about her partnership.

22:26: Yanely provides an overview and context about how she and her partner manage money together.

26:48: Yanely shares the details of how she and her partner manage money together. 
31:27: A must listen portion of our episode about how Jamil and Yanely support each other in their careers. 

36:05: For our younger listeners out there in particular, what are three essential ideas from your book they need to hear that can improve their lives? 

38:36: Essential advice for couples who are still dating on how to approach money conversations early in a relationship.

40:34: Three key lessons learned in Yanely’s book Mind Your Money

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