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About Kristen, The Frugal Girl

Kristen is the founder of The Frugal Girl a blog focused on helping people saving money, green living, food waste, mindful spending, and buying super high-quality stuff that lasts, encouraging other to live with more intention.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

• How Kristen became passionate about frugality
• Growing up in a non-money centered home
• The ins and outs of homeschooling
• Recognizing Kristen’s own problem with food waste and learning how to be more frugal with food
• Environmental impacts of food waste
• The shocking amounts of money the average person wastes on food
• Kristen’s food waste reduction course
• Kristen’s experience with her blog growth and starting to make money from it
• Secrets for blog success and how to stay inspired blogging
• Ways that Kristen makes money from blogging

Resources

Kristen’s Website

Take a course on reducing food waste

#MoneyWin

Maddge– “My washing machine died this week-called someone to fix it and they charged $125 to come out. Turns out it was the drain pump and they would charge $489 to fix it parts and labor. Similar lg washer is 1000 at Home Depot. Watched some you tube videos, turned out the drain pump is $26 on Amazon. Took almost 2 hrs to install, but it was not complicated. Those two hours (plus the three 10 minute you tube videos are either worth $489 or $1000. Total cost to fix $151.01 plus up to 3 hrs of time. Either way, it’s a #moneywin for me.”

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Eric Leigh is back to hang out with us! Eric is the VP of mortgage at Guaranteed Rate.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

• Year to year real estate appreciation in some areas across the country
• Factors that influence your mortgage interest rate
• Differences between refinancing and first-time purchase interest rates
• What a cash out refinance is and how it can be beneficial
• Common ways that people finance real estate investments
• The necessity of savings when seeking approval for an investment mortgage
• Why HGTV is probably giving you a skewed view of what getting approved for loan looks like
• Renovation loans vs new construction loans

#MoneyWin

Sydney– “That moment when you find out your savings is the same amount as the previous amount of debt you had.”

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About Mark Butler

Mark Butler is the founder of the accounting startup Let’s Do the Books, as well as the bookkeeper, CFO and confidante to top online entrepreneurs like Brooke Castillo.

Before working in finance, Mark co-founded three online businesses that brought in close to $2 million in total revenue.

Today, Mark combines his business savvy with his certification in life coaching to help business owners take control of their finances and work through the shame and anxiety that almost always comes up when dealing with money.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

• Experiencing imposter syndrome
• Cash flow management lessons Mark learned from his businesses
• First steps for cash flow management in your business
• The importance of separating business money from personal money
• What service Mark specifically offers to his clients
• Differences and similarities in cash flow management for different business sizes
• Common anxieties that Mark’s services are equipped to fix
• Why relying on ratios can be tricky
• Strategies for organizing money for taxes
• Mark’s own personal finance management strategies
• The emotional aspect of making investment decisions
• The Dave Ramsey influence. Looking at debt dogmatically and how that can be problematic.
• Why your perceived financial problem could very well be a marketing problem

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About Lauren Bowling

Lauren Bowling is an award-winning writer and digital content strategist. She’s best known as the blogger behind the popular millennial finance site, Financial Best Life. She has since sold Financial Best Life and taken on a new career in real estate and house flipping.

Resources

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What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

• How Lauren’s life has changed since the last time she was on the podcast
• Experiencing burnout and selling her blog
• How Lauren unexpectedly got into fix and flips
• How to even begin investing in a fix and flip
• How much money you should have going into a property based on what you want
• What managing fix and flips looks like and finding good contractors
• Red flags to look out for in fix and flips
• The importance of location when investing in real estate
• Approaching neutrality vs innovation and creativity in your flips
• Affordably staging your real estate listings
• How long-term of an investment fixing and flipping really is
• What Lauren wants her investing future to look like
• Pro tips for getting started on fix and flipping

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