Adulting Is Easy: Making Personal Finance & Real Estate Easy

Lauren's husband is here in honor of Valentine's Day! Lauren and Aric Aumond discuss couples' finances: separate, joint, or hybrid? Should married couples keep their finances separate? Should marital finances be combined? What about debt? They talk accounts, joint credit cards, paychecks, and more. Learn whether there's a right or wrong way to handle your bills as a couple. You'll be left with som...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Logan Haskett. Given Logan started in real estate by wholesaling, the two chat a bit about that. He used paid mentorship to get started and it really worked for him. They discussed Logan's current portfolio and his buy and hold strategy. Logan says the best way to learn about real estate investing is through podcasts (like this one) and Real Estate I...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Barbara Sloan, a woman who has worked in many service industry jobs all across the US. She knows what she's talking about when it comes to receiving variable pay and little benefits. Slowly, she learned how to manage her money and she literally wrote the book on personal finance for service industry professionals. Lauren, having read Barbara's book,...

This group of speakers has a ton of experience, whether it's customer support, inside sales, or outside sales. Whether we're talking aerospace, agriculture, technology, banking, training, retail, or restaurants, these folks have done it. The group discusses why you should get into sales, cold calling, how to increase your income once you're there, sales leadership, sales training, and more. They a...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Chris Perry, a really great Realtor from DC to give us the real estate agent perspective on the markets. They talk about first time home buyers vs investors. Chris tells you how to interview and agent, but also remember that your realtor is interviewing you too! He gives actionable advice on how to come prepared when searching for an agent. Are real...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Steve on Speed. Steve and his wife retired in their 30s and Lauren wanted to hear all about it! Did they have high salaries? (Yes) Was he always a good saver? (Absolutely not) Can anyone retire early? (YES and NO) Steve recorded his interview with Lauren from his off-the-grid home in Arizona. They talked early retirement, net worth, expenses, inflati...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with JT, a value-add house hacker from the northern US. The two describe exactly what house hacking is, and why it's the best way to get started in real estate investing. JT, his wife, and son have done value-add house hacking a few times. He talks about balancing the real estate with his full-time job and family time. JT is honest and he and Lauren break...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Chris from Heavy Metal Money. The two discuss the sensitive and emotional topic of divorce, and they really dive into the financial impacts of divorce. What happens to your bank accounts? Retirement accounts? What about your credit score? How do you split your assets? Who takes care of the kids? Is there alimony? Child support? Despite the heaviness...

Here are the bloopers and outtakes from the 2022 Year in Review Episode Enjoy this sisterly ridiculousness! And happy new year.

We continued with the tradition of bringing Jenny back to recap 2022. The two cover who the listeners are (age, gender) and where they're from (AGAIN we added a LOT of new places!). They briefly touch on every topic covered with high level detail: real estate, long-term rentals, short-term rentals, FIRE, early retirement, financial coaching, coast FI, debt, mindsets, index funds, financial convers...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Jessica Mauser. Jessica's been in real estate full time for 17 years, but she's just now acting on her investment theses. Using 1031 exchange funds from California investments, she's expanding into Florida, Wisconsin, and Montana. She's into long-term rentals, short-term rentals, and student housing! Jessica offers great insight into getting started...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Chad Money Matters. Chad is here to answer the question, "What if I don't make a lot of money?" And tear down the excuse, "I don't make enough money to invest." Lauren and Chad discuss emergency funds and the importance of living beneath your means. Chad talks about what he's teaching his daughter about money. He outlines the steps he and his wife to...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Mark Holmes. Mark and his wife have both a long-term rental (LTR) and short-term rentals (STRs) in their portfolio, which is why Lauren invited him on the podcast. The two go over their cash flow numbers for the 3 properties, which by the way were purchased in 2022. They discuss retirement plans and numbers. Lauren asks about the controversial decisi...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with David, who is more known as Uncommon Yield on Twitter and Instagram. The two cover the history of credit and  the genesis of credit cards. They discussed the pros, like convenience, rewards, and various protections, as well as the cons, like the propensity to overspend and face high interest rates. Lauren and David dove into FICO scores, the componen...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Jessica from The Fioneers. The two talked about Jessica and her husband's journey to FI (which they're still on). It's anything but linear, but then again that's how most journeys are. She shares examples from friends and client who have reached Coast FI or semi-retirement. Jessica paints quite the picture of what designing a life you love that bring...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Lawrence Briggs. His story is incredibly fascinating because most children from the project don't grow up to be homeowners, never mind landlords. Lawrence steps Lauren through the numbers for his 3 properties (2 rentals and one primary): purchase price, closing costs, rental income, and cash flow. They discuss buying in the high interest rate environ...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Jannese Torres. The two discuss Jannese's start. Her family moved from Puerto Rico to New Jersey to realize the American Dream. It wasn't long into her career, though, that Jannese realized the traditional American Dream might not be for her. Was working 9-5 all there was to life? Did she really want to do this for 40 years? Getting fired from her co...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Tyann Marcink Hammond, short-term and vacation rental expert. Tyann answers the question right off the bat, what is a short-term rental? HINT: It's NOT an "Airbnb" or a "Vrbo." We learn how she got started, with some good, old-fashioned family rivalry. She started like many short-term rental (STR) hosts do, with long-term rentals (LTR) and house hack...

This week, Lauren interviewed Eric Friday and Jamiel Strickland, the Monopoly Brothers. They're doing wholesaling, flipping, buy and hold, and more to trade up into apartment buildings in Detroit, Michigan. Lauren wanted to know more about wholesaling real estate. The two told Lauren what it's like to works with buyers and sellers as the middle man in a real estate deal. They talked about their bi...

This week, Lauren interviews Tesho Akindele about his real estate investing experience.  They cover long-term rentals, value-add renovations, setting up a short-term rental, his top tip for opening an STR, and even the Airbnb ratings system. Lauren couldn't let him go without asking about what it's like to be a professional athlete either! Tesho also explains urbanism, and how real estate and...

Jack started his first business at 8 and wrote his first book at 17. Even in the world of entrepreneurship, that's remarkable. Now a college junior who has started 10 companies and written 3 books, he sits down to speak with Lauren about his journey and offer words of encouragement to (future?) entrepreneurs. Currently, he's in social media marketing. You'll walk away believing we can learn from e...

This week, Stephen Wealthy, Clint Murphy, Tom the Frugal Gay, and Lauren (Adulting Is Easy) recorded favorite topic: believing in yourself and having the right mindset to be successful. They were joined by their friend and special guest, Litan Yahav from Vyzer. Tom talked about learning from others and having a circle you get motivated by. Clint emphasized that life is happening for you, not to yo...

This week, Lauren brings you her interview with Tampa-based financial coach and co-host of the Crushing Debt podcast, George Curbelo. It turns out, financial coaching is all about balancing your spending and saving. Some of George's client need immediate help, while others use financial coaching to fine tune their financial spending and plans. Whatever the case, financial coaching is about focusin...

This week, Lauren interviews Sarah Glidewell about short-term rental arbitrage. Sarah went from $20k in student debt to saving $20k to invest in real estate on only a $50k salary. She dove into rental arbitrage JUST before the COVID-19 pandemic and still was able to thrive. According to Sarah, she “experienced failure so fast” and the stock market just isn’t creative enough for her. Who wants to s...

This week, Lauren interviews Tampa bankruptcy lawyer and host of the Crushing Debt podcast, Shawn Yesner. Obviously, this man knows about debt. And it turns out, a lot of people have debt. It's nothing to be ashamed about, and there are ways to take care of it long before you need to get to bankruptcy discussions. There are a lot of kinds of debt out there: credit cards, medical debt, student loan...