Craft Your Money Story

#020: After 3 years of working from home, we're sharing our best tips for staying productive and sane through this new normal. Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Resources Page - https://mappedoutmoney.com/resources Stuff We Like - Remote: Office Not Required - https://amzn.to/31MfZI4

#019: "Avoiding stupidity is easier than trying to be brilliant."  This is an idea called inversion that David Perell highlights on his blog. It's so true and so often overlooked. Let's figure out what inversion can tell us about using our money as a tool to live a better life. Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Newsletter -  https://mappedoutmoney.com/ David Perell -  https://www.perell.com/blog/50-id...

#018: Home Buying Update You may remember us talking about our approach to home shopping a few episodes back. Well... we changed our minds on a few things! Listen in for an update on how we're continuing to think through the home buying process. Plus, we share insights on maneuvering through the same three obstacles that seem to come up with all our major life decisions. Featured Links: Sponsor -...

017: Lessons From the Book Extreme Ownership We've learned so much from Jocko Willink. His principles have helped us improve everything from our workout routine to our finances. So today we're sharing Nick's favorite 5 takeaways from Jocko and Leif Babin's book,  Extreme Ownership . Thanks for listening! Featured Links : Sponsor - MO$ YouTube Channel -  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRqvJFJ6LL...

016: 7 Credit Score Myths and How to Improve Yours Don't let your credit score stress you out! Instead, join us as we debunk 7 common credit score myths and discuss some wise ways to improve your score. And don't forget to download our free Credit Score Quick Reference Guide! (https://mappedoutmoney.com/016) Hope you enjoy! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Resources Page - https://mappedoutmoney.com/...

015: 3 Common Finance Questions You Shouldn't Ask We all ask questions about how to get ahead with money. But what if we're asking the wrong stuff? The quality of our life is determined by the quality of our questions. So let's make sure we're asking the right ones. Today we're diving into 3 commonly asked questions, why they're not the best, and what you should be asking instead. Thanks for liste...

014: How We're Thinking About Home Buying (NCQ1) This is our first Nick's Curious Questions episode! We're deep diving into our decision to focus on real estate investing, and how we've used lots of questions to help us figure out our next steps. We hope you find it more entertaining than our little dog, Margo, who you might hear snoring occasionally in the background. Thanks for spending time wit...

013: 4 Steps To Retire Early Without Financial Independence (FIRE Movement) Is there a way to achieve 80% of what you value about retirement with only 20% of the time investment? We think so! Check out this episode for the four steps we used to do this in our own life. Thanks for listening! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRqvJFJ6LLQ62lKmOUXATw You...

012: How to Painlessly Save Money Through Conscious Spending Most people think of a budget as being a restrictive "diet" for their money. But we're sharing why, for us, a budget is just the opposite. Check this episode out if you need a plan to save money that you can actually stick to. Thanks for listening! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Resources Page - https://mappedoutmoney.com/resources/ I Wil...

011: For Recent Graduates - 5 Thoughts on Money and Success Here are some of the most helpful mindsets and strategies that we aim to implement in our own lives and wish we had learned as new graduates. And with each item on the list, we include some thoughts for parents of graduates as well. We hope you enjoy this episode! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Newsletter - https://mappedoutmoney.com/ JP S...

010: Why You Should Budget and Most Popular Budgeting Methods We love budgets! And we hope you will too after listening to this episode. Thanks for spending time with us! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mappedoutmoney Stuff We Like - Running! - Find a race near you at https://race-find.com/us Some featured links may be affiliate links. I...

009: Four Reasons Financial Success Requires You To Be A Noob Paul Graham's article on being a noob inspires us to keep pursuing growth in all aspects of our life. But today, we focus specifically on how being a noob can help you on your journey to financial success. Thanks for spending time with us! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Minute - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mapped-out-money-minu...

008: A few lessons we learned from reading Mary Laura Philpott's I Miss You When I Blink. Hope you enjoy! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Products - mappedoutmoney.com/products Stuff We Like - The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt https://amzn.to/2LE3

007: In the midst of the Coronavirus, lots of people are wondering how to handle their money in a crisis. This episode highlights seven tips that have helped us feel financially stable despite widespread uncertainty. Thanks for listening! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Minute Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mapped-out-money-minute/id1507076604 In this Episode: You Need A Budget (YNA...

006: Good financial habits don't always start with money. If you've tried everything to get on the same page with your spouse when it comes to finances (or if you're single and struggle to successfully manage your money)... Start here! Thanks for listening! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Resources Page - http://mappedoutmoney.com/resources James Clear's Atomic Habits - https://amzn.to/2YtiCON He Re...

005: This episode builds off our honeymoon story shared in Episode 004. We explore how we finally got on the same page with money and how we work together to stay on the same page. Through reflecting on our experiences, we identify 5 steps to help you and your spouse actually enjoy the process of mapping out your money together. Hope you enjoy! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ Minute Podcast - https:...

004: In this episode, we discuss how we let money ruin our honeymoon. And how self-awareness helped us improve our relationship with money and each other. If you and your spouse have ever ruined what's supposed to be an amazing experience by arguing and found yourselves wondering, "What the heck is wrong with us?!"… this episode is for you. Hope you enjoy! Featured Links: Sponsor - MO$ YouTube Cha...

003: In this episode, we discuss the importance of self-reliance with your financial decisions and how to not let others' opinions influence you. Unfortunately, most of us go through life without always thinking about what we want. Instead, we are pushed and pulled to choose careers, buy homes, live in cities, and make purchases based on the people around us. Not anymore. Today we'll discuss how t...

002: In this episode, we discuss how the sunk cost bias can have a large (often negative) impact on our finances, careers, and life in general. If you aren't sure what the sunk cost bias is, don't worry, we guarantee it's affected you even if you didn't know it.  But don't worry, once you learn to recognize this bias, you can easily overcome it using the three steps we layout in the episode.  Hope...

Understand finance, manage money, and live your adventure, that's what we're here to help you do. We're Nick and Hanna True, full-time RVers, traveling the country with our two cats and two dogs. We hope you'll join us as we talk about finance, mindset, productivity, and using money as a tool to build a life that you love. To learn more about the show, please visit https://mappedoutmoney.com