Financial Festivus 2023: Celebrating Listener Money Wins #763

Dec 18, 2023

Listeners of the podcast share their impressive financial wins, including negotiating hospital bills, buying new homes, and launching new businesses. The hosts discuss transitioning from frugality to balanced spending and the importance of building a supportive community for financial success. They also highlight the benefits of asking for discounts and share success stories of reducing medical bills. The chapter ends with the hosts reading emails from listeners expressing gratitude for the podcast and sharing their own money wins.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Sharing Listener Money Wins and Personal Finance Achievements

01:52 • 2min

Transitioning from Frugality to Balanced Spending

04:03 • 17min

Cody's Journey to Buying a First House

21:06 • 4min

Building a Supportive Community for Financial Success

24:41 • 4min

Big Money Wins and Increasing Donations

28:55 • 15min

Asking for Discounts and Getting Medical Bills Forgiven

44:20 • 4min

Money wins, resilience, and success stories

48:29 • 11min

Beer Tasting and Wrapping Up the Episode

59:54 • 4min

For a year that could be dominated by headlines of derailed trains, wildfires, and global conflicts, we think it’s important to focus on some of the good things that happened this year – and we’re not just talking about The Eras Tour! Not only do we share our financial wins from this year, but a massive number of How To Money listeners have been able to make significant strides with their own money. We love creating this episode, hearing what y’all have been able to accomplish, and sharing it with your fellow listeners. We hope that it’s as inspiring and motivating to y’all as it is to us! Listeners were able to do everything from negotiating hospital bills, to pivoting careers in order to drop commutes, to maxing out IRAs, to buying new homes, to launching new businesses… we could go on. Hopefully we can all learn something from each other today and we’re also hoping that this episode might be the spark for some epic 2024 money wins.

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