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Don't Retire...Graduate!

The Joy of Saving: Strategies to Get You Excited About Saving Money

Nov 4, 2021
35:05

Welcome back to Don’t Retire... Graduate! Our guest on today’s episode is a true celebrity and has made a career out of helping consumers save money. Jeanette Pavini is an Emmy-award winning reporter and author who talks about the money mindset she learned from her Italian American father and how she has used her platform as a reporter to share simple money-saving strategies with viewers for more than 20 years.

In this episode we’ll talk about:

  • The importance of mindset in saving money
  • How a single mother living paycheck to paycheck built a career out of her own need to save money
  • The differences in mindsets between different generations
  • The danger of student loans and how to save money on your education
  • Finding a balance between saving money and living and having fun today
  • Taking the time to find deals and discounts instead of shopping on impulse
  • Separating your expenses into those that can’t change and those that can to find places you can save
  • The key to wealth is not the right investments, luck, or salary. It’s time and behavior
  • How a cashless society means not having a relationship with our money
  • Apps are gamifying finances in a way that is dangerous to your financial future

About Jeanette Pavini:

Jeanette Pavini is an Emmy Award winning consumer and investigative reporter completely over 10,000 money-saving segments for CBS News, Hallmark’s Home & Family and MarketWatch among others. Her book: The Joy of Saving: Money Lessons I Learned From My Italian American Father & 20 Years As a Consumer Reporter, offers people unique money-saving strategies. Jeanette has been a guest contributor on The Today Show, and her advice has been featured with hundreds of media outlets including Good Morning America and Oprah.com.

Links:

www.JeanettePavini.com
Twitter: @jeanettepavini
Instagram: jeanette.pavini
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Saving-Italian-American-Consumer-Reporter/dp/1098341775

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