This week on MomAdvice Simplified, my weekly podcast for moms, we are joined by Julie Murphy Casserly to discuss tips on simplifying money-management. Julie will help us identify our preconceived thoughts and feelings about money, how to overcome negative thoughts and put ourselves on a path to a positive financial future. Julie is a CLU, ChFC, CFP® and a 14-year veteran of the financial services industry and author of the new book, The Emotion Behind Money: Building Wealth from the Inside Out.
Julie’s mission to “financially heal America” by helping people understand their emotions behind money, and how these attitudes affect how they earn, spend and save – or, conversely, accumulate debt. She delves into the emotion and psychology behind her clients monetary issues.
Just as a reminder, you can listen to the show live every Thursday at 2PM EST or you can listen later right here on my the left sidebar! Check back after the show for our resource list so you can explore all of the great links to the books and advice that we share during our half hour.
During this podcast, we are going to be offering one lucky listener a copy of Julie’s book! I know this would be an invaluable tool for money management so I hope you will tune in live to hear Julie’s wise words for understanding our feelings behind our spending.
Julie will be joining us live so if you have any questions you would like me to ask her, please leave those here in the comments and I will ask them on the air!
I will be listening to this later. Our main financial issue is that we could potentially be saving money and doing better. We don’t have credit card debt, just mortgage and student loans, and we have a decent money market account. But our problems are with bill paying and spending. It is impossible for me to keep on top of the bills. I can always pay them off completely, but I end up paying late or forgetting because I am so disorganized!! I have tried the Money software, excel spreadsheets, everything–I cannot come up with a good way to keep track of when bills are due. And I also can’t figure out an easy way to track spending. I work 30 hours a week and have a 2.5 year old and 8 month old. So I don’t have hours so sit down and work at it.
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Amy you did a great job tonight! I really liked how she kept stating how important it is to be conscious about your spending- no matter what you choose to spend your money on.
I wrote a post on my experience with Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball. I am so jealous you were able to switch to a 15 yr mortgage. How exciting!
http://myfrugaladventures.blogspot.com/2009/03/our-dave-ramsey-experience-part-2.html
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