Do you want to have a more lighthearted relationship with money?
Want to learn the integral concepts about money in one single book?
Then listen to this episode as I interview for the second time my friend Emily Guy Birken about her new book “Stacked: Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management”. We chat about investing for retirement vs saving for retirement, disability insurance, inflation, and learning as you go with compassion, grace, and humor.
“I look at money as a game that I could win rather than as something that I needed to worry about. And that helped immensely in keeping me from feeling anxious when I was making very little money.” – Emily Guy Birken
“Saving for retirement is giving something up in order to get something later while investing for retirement sounds more like an opportunity rather than some kind of deprivation.” – Emily Guy Birken
What You Will Learn From This Episode
- Having a playful attitude with money and how it helps with your mental health
- Investing for retirement vs saving for retirement
- How we can deconstruct our money scripts to find out what we really want and need and what works for us
- Disability insurance policies – how we can prepare ourselves today for short-term/long-term disability
- All about term life insurance and how Covid may affect insurance policies
- Tips to combat the effects of inflation
About Emily Guy Birken:
Emily Guy Birken is a freelance personal finance writer and author of the new personal finance book “Stacked: Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management” alongside Joe Saul-Sehy. She is also a money coach, retirement expert, and former educator. Her background in education allows her to make complex financial topics relatable and easily understood by the layperson. Her work has appeared on The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Kiplinger’s, MSN Money, and The Washington Post online
Resource:
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- Stacked: Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management by Emily Guy Birken and Joe Saul-Sehy
- Emily’s first interview – How Grief Affects Your Finances
- The Stacking Benjamins Podcast by Joe Saul-Sehy (listen to Melanie’s episode here)
- End Financial Stress Now: Immediate Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Financial Outlook by Emily Guy Birken
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