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Inside Out Money — 164 episodes

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162. Time Traveling to Improve Our Lives With Ginger From ChooseFI

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161. Our 91% vs. 9% of Life: 4 Lessons from 4 Years of Early Retirement

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160. Time Wealth and Second Chapters – The Ripple Effects of Leaving Corporate America

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159. Waffle Week - On Friendship, Money Dates, ChooseFI, Taxes, Rental Income, Expense Tracking, Reclaiming Your Mornings, and More

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158. The Science of Less - Why Subtraction Is the Ultimate "Less Is More" Strategy

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157. Audit Your Influences - Why Your Financial Role Models Matter

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156. Treat Your Morning Like Your Money - The Power of Compounding Habits

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155. Willpower and Discipline Aren't the Answer, but This Is

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154. Buying Back Your Brain - Tactics to Exit the Overwhelm Loop

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153. Return on Hassle - Escaping the Complexity Trap

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152. Be Rich, Don’t Look Rich - The importance of Stealth Wealth

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151. Listener Q&A with Andrew - Surviving Market Downturns, Pensions, Tax Savings, Timing the Market, Dollar Cost Averaging, Net Worth Calculations, 401k Rollovers, and more!

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150. How to Save Thousands on Your Bills - Scripts, Whips, & Tips

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149. Voting With Your Dollars - Practical Ways to Align Your Spending With Your Values

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148. 2025 Expense Review Part 2 - The real cost of food, fitness, phones, and more!

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147. 2025 Expense Review Part 1 - From $93K to $192K, A Tale of Four Households

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146. The Boring Middle - Stop Waiting for Retirement to Start Living

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145. Generational Wealth: Give While You Live or Leave a Lump Sum?

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144. Financial goals that don’t suck - 7 traps to avoid

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143. End of Year Pod Party - Layoffs, Corporate America, Downsizing, Simplicity, Time, Lesson Learned, and more!

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142. The One Choice that can save you millions

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141. The lazy genius way to improve your finances

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140. Financial Favorites: Our top accounts, hacks, purchases, index funds, and more!

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139. Can I afford to take time off? Financial considerations for a sabbatical or career break

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138. Want what you already have - Tactics to rewire your brain to want less

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137. The 80/20 rule of money - Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good

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136. The Art of Spending Money: Morgan Housel Book Review

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135. The get rich quick trap - Why slow and boring wins the money race

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134. Finding happiness through ancient wisdom, the Epicurus way

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133. Five ways to reset holiday expectations

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132. The Art of the Return - Get your money back!

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131. What is rebalancing and should I be doing it?

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130. The Chimp Paradox: Why you spend when you know you shouldn’t

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129. Are you a HENRY? Escaping the traps so you can build wealth

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128. What is the good life? And how expensive is it?

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127. Home warranties - A safety net or a money pit?

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126. The Real L-Word - Why Limits are your new best friend

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125. The psychology of debt - How to stay motivated while paying off debt

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124. Listener Q&A with Andrew - US vs. international investing, 457b plans, roth conversion ladders, when to stop contributing to your 401k, tracking HSAs expenses, and more!

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123. A dopamine menu - 20 ways to feel good without spending money

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122. This is your brain on debt - Let’s stop normalizing debt

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121. Mid-year spend review with Liz, Andrew, Erica, and Greg

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120. The humility hack - how less ego can lead to more money

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119. The intersection of mental health and financial wealth

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118. Is more expensive better? When it pays to pay more.

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117. How to make more money - career advice, asking for a raise, side hustles, and more

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116. Our favorite financial books and podcasts, with a few surprising gems!

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115. Mind over money: How Stoicism can transform your finances with Kathleen from Minimalish Mom

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114. The inside out approach to financial freedom

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113. The real reasons you’re not improving your finances, and how to fix them

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112. Withdrawal strategies in early retirement - A flexible strategy and account playbook to fund your retirement

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111. How to handle a windfall - protect your future fortune

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110. Raising financially responsible kids - Setting money expectations at every age

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109. Andrew's Big News - What's next and why it's not early retirement

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108. Reclaim your time (and money) - Actionable strategies for the overwhelmed

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107. Finfluencers - Yuck! Wait!? Is that what we are?

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106. Find your FIRE - Lean FI, Fat FI, Coast FI, Barista FI, and more! Which FIRE is right for you?

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105. Why we keep buying stuff we don't need and how to do better

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*APRIL FOOLS* 104. Wealth Whispers - ASMR your way thru this financial checklist

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103. Borrowing boundaries - Financial etiquette for borrowing stuff, from money to mascara

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102. Beyond the Headlines: Making Sense of Inflation, Tariffs, and Your Investment Strategy

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101. 8 things to do to improve your finances, while you hurkle durkle

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100. 💯 never felt so good, except for when you get laid off and other news, but still…yay!

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099. Well this is awkward - Financial etiquette for sticky situations

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098. How to use AI to improve your finances and life

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097. Our favorite FREE stuff, that’s not a scam

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XOXO. A financial love letter

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096. Tax Time Tips: Pay Less, Save More

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095. WTF is the dark web!? And how do I protect my identity and credit

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094. Money tips you should ignore and what to do instead

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093. Teen Talk: Social Media Ads and Smarter Spending Habits with a Special Teenage Co-host

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092. Annual Spend Recap with Greg, Liz, Andrew, & Erica

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091. How to build awesome habits and improve your financial wellness

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090. End-of-year podcast party with all the co-hosts

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089. The Gift Card Debate: Safe choice or worst gift ever?

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088. Listener Q&A with Greg - managing difficult financial convos, FI feels unattainable, raising kids to spend intentionally, stress levels post-retirement, and more!

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087. Case Studies: Where to focus when you’re feeling behind? Investing, life insurance, and paying off your mortgage in your 70s?

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086. End-of-year money moves to finish the year strong

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085. Trick yourself into spending less money

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084. Trump 2.0 and its impact on your finances

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083. Live for today or save for tomorrow?

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082. Case Studies: How to get started when you’re stuck? Burnt out and how do I know when I have enough to retire?

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081. Listener Q&A - 401(k) vs. roth 401(k), Budgeting, Automation, Decluttering, Early Retirement, and more!

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080. We’re all going to die, so let’s talk about life insurance

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079. The new American Dream - Is it misunderstood or evolving?

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078. Take back the holidays - 8 ways to spend less this holiday season

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077. Listener Q&A - Debt, Savings, Windfalls, Deferred Compensation, Withdrawal Strategies, and more!

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076. Investing terms you should know - ETFs vs. mutual funds, target date funds, expense ratios, dividends, market vs. limit orders, and more!

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075. The cost of convenience - Is it worth it?

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074. An investing discussion: how to get started, are ESGs worth it, what to do when the market’s down, automating your investments, and more

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073. Grocery Savings Hacks: Where to shop, freezing food, and more!

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072. The best financial advice no one wants to take: Move your money to a high-yield savings account already!

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071. Listener Q&A - Boring middles, making FI friends, investment strategies, kids, and more

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070. Save money by using what you already have

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069. Avoid these money mishaps and win long-term

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068. Is life more expensive in early retirement?

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067. Two investment metrics you should understand - CAPE ratio and SORR

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066. Mid-year spend review with Liz, Andrew, and Greg

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065. Save money and the planet - Shopping secondhand for the win

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064. Packing light and spending light while traveling

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063. Number one early retirement metric: your savings rate

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062. Our favorite savings hacks that will save you thousands a year

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061. Transform intentions into action - Navigating the execution gap

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060. Progress over perfection - Understanding perfectionism to improve our finances

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059. Splitting Finances with Your Partner - Practical Approaches for Financial Transparency

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058. Breaking up with your financial planner - Why and how to do it

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057. Comparison is the thief of joy - Stop comparing yourself to others

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056. 8 lessons learned two years into early retirement

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055. Our formula for how much to keep in your emergency fund

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054. 15 things we don't spend money on

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053. Why we’re more exhausted than ever and how it’s impacting our finances

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052. Simplifying our finances - How we’re saving $20K by ditching robo-investing

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051. Taming Target and Amazon: We pull up our order history for you to judge

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050. From Cubicles to CampFI - An interview with two early-retiree couples

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049. Is it Deprivation or Discipline? And Will It Improve My Finances?

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048. 5 cell phone hacks to save you thousands

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047. The economics of happiness - Will a bigger house or shorter commute make me happier?

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046. Smash or Pass? Common financial rules

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045. The one metric you likely don’t track: Lifetime gross savings rate

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044. Love don’t cost a thing - Our love and money story

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043. Burning bridges or building boats? How to leave a job the right way!

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042. 6 ways to be a more conscious consumer

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041. What we spent in 2023 - Part 2: Food, Utilities, Internet, and Cell phones

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040. What we spent in 2023 - Part 1

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039. What’s in our wallet? Our index funds, accounts, and more!

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038. The inside job of improving your finances

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037. Best and worst purchases of 2023, superlatives, OnlyFans, and so much more

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036. From canceling Netflix to selling our homes - What we’d do in a recession

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034. Predatory marketing tactics and scams - How to spot and avoid them

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033. Step-by-step path to grow wealth - The investment walk to financial freedom

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031. End-of-year financial sh*t you need to do!!

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035. Does anyone actually pay sticker price for college? Expert Dr. Rebecca Sandidge answers that and more

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032. RIP Mint - Expense + Budgeting Tracking Software Review

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030. Simple joys and the art of saving money

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029. The great mortgage debate: payoff or invest?

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028. Love and money - navigating finances in a relationship

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027. Happy Sexy Millionaire Book Review - Two thumbs up, one thumb down

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026. How to raise a millionaire, according to Maggie’s mom

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025. Our biggest financial regrets and what we’d have done differently

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024. The surprising truth of early retirement - 500 days early retired

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023. 4 reasons HSAs are awesome and how to maximize the benefits of Health Savings Accounts

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022. How much do you need to retire? Flaws in the 4% rule

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021. What is Enough?

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020. Meditation will fix that - Sit with us September

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019. Rental property management - why and how we self-manage

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018. 9 ways to manage money anxiety

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017. Three Superpowers to financial success

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016. What's your why, and does it matter?

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015. All the financial hacks with Chris Hutchins

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014. Mid-year expense review with Andrew, Liz, & Greg

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013. Are we quitting travel hacking?

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012. Setting up your kids for financial success

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011. Die with Zero: 5 takeaways from the anti-frugal book

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010. Out of sight, out of mind spending

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009. We bought a 2023 Tesla for $10K!? Yes, there's a little more to the story

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008. Save or splurge!? Being intentional with your spending

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007. Do $118 yoga pants make you happier? Lifestyle creep and lifestyle satisfaction

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006. 10 Foundations of personal finance

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005. Reflections on one year of early retirement

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004. The easiest way to be rich and thin

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003. How and why to invest in index funds

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002. Why we spend the way we spend

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001. The fresh start effect

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000. Welcome to Inside Out Money!