Budgeting With Confidence | God-Led Budgeting, How to Stick to Your Budget for Moms, Save Money, Manage Money, Money Habits and Routines, Money Mindset

I think the famous and almost annoying phrase that we hear on the daily is there are only 24 hours in a day and no matter how irritating it may be to hear, we still feel it. When we are trying to cram everything we can into one day, overwhelm and burnout and eventually convince us to quit. That is why in this episode I am going over 3 budgeting Systems  that are not only going to save you time, bu...

How long does it take you to pay your bills? What if you could do it in 5 min? Today’s episode is going to change how you pay your bills forever. It’s going to take away the stress, it’s going to take away the guesswork, it’s going to give you back your time but more importantly it’s going to make sure that all your bills are paid and paid on time! This system will help ease up that mental stress...

The one constant that we can come to expect in our financial journey is the unexpected. You work so hard to stick to your budget so that you can save money, hit those goals and so much more. But what you don’t plan for because let’s be real, it’s not fun, are the unexpected events, or better said emergencies.    You don’t want to think about things going wrong. You don’t want to think about losing...

Have you ever asked yourself why they say you should do a Financial Audit? I know how difficult it can be and how painful it can be to bring up all of the emotions that come with spending money, but it’s so important to do.    In today’s episode we are talking about why you should be auditing your expenses. So that you have the tools to set yourself up financially. So that you can make smarter, mo...

Hey Mama,   I know how difficult it can be to get lost in the world of money. To see all the income you have leftover that you can play with or feel the stress of not having any extra income to play with at all. All the possibilities and goals you can set or can’t set.    Your  focus is flipped from what’s truly important to the things that you can or can’t buy and that becomes the thing that you...

It’s Day 5 of the Christmas Budgeting Series and it saddens me to think that this is the last day of this amazing series. We started out looking into the past so that you can learn what you did and use that information to create a budget for Christmas. We talked about the true meaning of Christmas and creating your own personal family mission for the season so that you are able to enjoy the season...

Welcome to Day 4 of the Christmas Budgeting Series! Can you believe it’s already day 4? We are over half way through this series that has been eye opening and has been helping you to create not just a financially successful Christmas, but also one that is focused more on the true meaning of Christmas.    This series is helping you to set intentions for how you want the month to look like. To help...

Welcome to Day 3 of the Christmas Budgeting Series on the One Income Family podcast! The past two days have been so great helping you to open your eyes to the amount you have spent in the past and then using that to set up this year's Christmas budget.    Today in the Christmas Budgeting Series we are going to get a little less practical and a little more emotional. I think it’s so important to re...

Welcome to Day 2 of the Christmas Budgeting Series. Today is all about the Budget. Yesterday we learned what the categories were, what amounts needed to go into those categories and now today we get to plug it all into one comprehensive sheet that allows you to make sound decisions when putting together your Christmas Spending Plan!    It’s the boundaries you need so that you can continue to feed...

Welcome to Day 1 of the Christmas Budgeting Series on the One Income Family Podcast! Are you excited? I know I am!    Day one is all about auditing last year's Christmas spending. Now don’t freak out as auditing is simply a fancy term of looking over what you spent, totaling it up and deciding if you should continue what you are doing or not.    I mean tell it to me straight. How many Christmases...

Hey Mama, I’m so glad to have you back with me on the One Income Family Podcast. I have more information on the Christmas Budgeting Series which I am super excited about! And today I am jumping into some systems that when plugged into your budgeting routine you don’t have to touch again unless there’s a big financial change obviously but essentially it takes the budgeting out of the budget.    Yes...

Is money how you define success? Do you find yourself reaching for the biggest and most expensive things because you don’t want to look poor? Mama, life is so much more than money. The world today tells us that money is power and that money is what defines our success. But today I want to challenge those thoughts. Today I want you to think about the things that life brings you and you can look at...

Do you have a budget? Is your budget not working? How great would it be if you had a budget with systems that kept you on budget? Today we are diving into budgets but more importantly the  different types of budgets and systems and how you can combine them to make the ultimate power budget. Every dollar will have a job which will reduce overspending due to that extra money just sitting in your acc...

Do you live paycheck to paycheck? Are you searching for a way to stick to your budget so that you can stop the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle? I am so happy you decided to join me today as we are going to dive into the nitty gritty of living paycheck to paycheck. I know how stressful and depressing it can be living paycheck to paycheck and I want you to know that it doesn't have to be that way. Th...

Do you find it difficult to stick to your budget? Are you looking for a way to make it easier? Then look no further. In this episode we are talking about how setting financial goals can improve your budget. You and I both know how difficult it can be to stick to a budget let alone create a budget. That is how the implementation of setting financial goals for your budget comes into play. It can imp...

Do you find meal planning overwhelming? Does the way that everyone explains it seem difficult and hard to put in place? Are you ready for a system that is Beginner friendly?    That is exactly what you will find in this episode!    I am diving deep into my simple beginners meal planning system. It helps solve the problem of what to serve when you’ve never made a meal plan before or maybe you’ve ne...

Hey Mama,   Have you ever sat down and really thought about your ideal date, or your ideal family vacation? And I don’t just mean the overall activity, but the things that bring you closer and build relationships that will last through fights, sickness and heartache? I’m sure if I asked you what a date was you should spout out what the world says is a date, which is going out to eat at a high end...

Hey Mama,    Have you ever felt so exhausted and so burnt out that you couldn’t think straight? You know that time when your kids do the littlest of things and you just blow up. Well this is what we are going to be talking about today! As a Mom it can be too easy to push our needs to the side saying that they are not important as we continue caring for our family, our house, our job. We continue t...

Hey Mama are you in for a treat on the One Income Family Podcast! Today we are going to be going through the overall look of living a frugal life and I will be breaking it down to a simple system that allows you to take it and run with it in each area of your life that you are trying to be frugal. So grab a pen and paper as we dive head first into how to live a frugal life.    Xo  Molly    P.S. He...

Do you know the difference between being frugal and being cheap? Does the word frugal give you a bad taste in your mouth? Well my Friend, in this episode I’m going to be explaining to you the difference between being Frugal and being Cheap. People have given the word Frugal a negative connotation because they believe that the word frugal is just a fancy word for cheap, and I am here to tell you th...

Hey Mama!   Just a heads up, today's episode is going to make you think a little bit, but I know you are ready for this challenge and that you are serious about sticking to that budget. So this, my friend, is where you want to start.    Today we are going to be talking about your why, and what I mean is the deep down reason as to why you are budgeting in the first place. Because trust me, there is...

Do you find yourself at the gas station unable to get gas because you’ve already spent your paycheck? Are you tired of only getting half of your groceries because you bought those yoga pants that you really wanted?   Hey Mama! You are not alone! Today on The One Income Family Podcast, we are going to be talking about my number one rule when it comes to the first purchases from your paycheck. This...

Hey Mama,    I am here with you today scratching the surface of creating a simple and frugal kitchen. There are so many stages in the kitchen so don’t leave me just yet because you think this episode is going to be all about baking bread and preserving your garden! This is just the first step towards that goal, if that’s even a goal you have. If level 1 is all the deeper into a simple kitchen that...

How long does it take you to budget? Do you want a system that takes 20 min or less? Well you are in for a treat, as I am sharing 4 tips of my extremely simple almost no budget budgeting system that will have you spending no more than 20 min a paycheck to complete! These are four things you need to set in place so that you too can have a budgeting system that gives you back your time. Between babi...

Settling into the storm is so easy to do, but not what God calls us to do. This week has been a rough one for me. My daughter is teething and running 104 degree fevers. I have went to the doctor and called the office more times in one week than I have ever done before, and needless to say, I am riding one heck of a storm. I am fearful that something bad could happen yet, there is nothing more that...