The Money Gains Podcast Financial Expert Reveals: 31 Money Lessons To Grow Your 1st 100k - Brian Mitchell (Frugal Spender)
Oct 1, 2025
Brian Mitchell, known as Frugal Spender, is a personal finance creator dedicated to helping others avoid debt and achieve financial stability. In this engaging discussion, he reveals why most budgets fail and how to automate financial planning for success. The dangers of car financing and the importance of choosing the right partner for financial harmony are also key topics. Brian emphasizes that understanding your spending habits and prioritizing meaningful experiences over consumerism can lead to long-term wealth growth.
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Budgeting Is Practice Not Perfection
- Do expect your first budgets to be wrong and treat them as practice months.
- Repeat and tweak for three to four months until it becomes a quick habit.
Gambling Debt That Sparked Change
- Brian used gambling funded by credit cards to chase losses and amassed about £6,000 of debt.
- He paid it off with overtime and side hustles and that crisis started his financial education.
Make Money A Shared Team Decision
- Do agree joint financial priorities and allocate equal personal spending allowances.
- Put the rest into shared pots for bills, holidays and investing and decide allocations together.