Episode 103: Budgeting 101: How To Organize Your Life with Financial Coach Alaina Fingal
OUR HOSTS:
Corinne Foxx - @corinnefoxx
Natalie McMillan - @nataliemcm and @shopnataliemcmillan
What we're drinking: 2020 Te Whare Ra New Zealand Riesling
MEET OUR GUEST:
Alaina Fingal - @theorganizedmoney, The Organized Money on YouTube
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Alaina Fingal is an accountant, certified financial coach, author, and content creator. She helps busy people who struggle with budgeting and time management use a paper planner to get organized. She shares her easy approach to productivity and finances through her YouTube channel and has amassed over 100,000 subscribers and 6 million views. Her work has been featured in Yahoo! Finance, The New York Weekly, The Huffington Post, and she was recently named one of LA Wire’s 40 Under 40.
TOPIC:
We invited Alaina on the show to do a deep dive on one of the most requested episodes from the Am I community: budgeting. She breaks down how to take the fear out of budgeting, tips for organizing your life, and explains why she prefers pen and paper to any modern budgeting tools. She’s all about reframing budgeting as a spending plan that can open up opportunities rather than being a punishment or an unrealistic restriction. She walks us through how to set up a budget, categorize spending, and create achievable financial goals. Plus, she has amazing advice for entrepreneurs, freelancers, or other professionals without a consistent income.
In this episode, we discuss:
How to organize your life to achieve financial freedom
Overcoming the intimidation and dread that many of us feel around budgeting
Why it’s so important to be honest with yourself about your spending habits
Alaina’s saving strategy to get one month ahead of your finances
Simple and efficient ways to track expenses
Taking the stress out of checking your bank account and budget by setting up a daily, weekly, or monthly ‘money date’
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END OF THE SHOW:
Corinne and Natalie introduce Hottie of the Week: Ed Sheeran
WINE RATING:
2020 Te Whare Ra New Zealand Riesling 8.5 = / Ed Sheeran
WRAP UP:
To wrap up the episode, Corinne and Natalie play Citizens Arrest. Nat has had it with shoppers who leave their carts in parking spots and people who get married on holidays. Corinne thinks that the accident lawyer billboards and ads around LA have gone a step too far.
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