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.

(00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
(01:38) - Support the Show: Become a Patron at Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast
(04:39) - Introducing Jesse Mecham
(11:55) - The Tenses of Money
(14:55) - The Four Rules
(15:53) - 1. Giving Every Dollar a Job
(18:57) - 2. Embrace your True Expenses
(24:03) - 3. Role with the Punches
(25:15) - 4. Aging Your Money
(28:25) - The Elusive Emergency Fund
(31:45) - What if you hate "Budgeting"
(33:15) - Your Credit Card and You
(37:41) - What if you're overwhelmed?
(41:29) - YNAB as a Couple
(44:44) - Kids

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