The Jesse Mecham Show

Keeping the holidays merry--within limits.

A Series of conversations with the real-life success stories featured in Jesse's new book, You Need A Budget—The Book, now available for pre-order!

A Series of conversations with the real-life success stories featured in Jesse's new book, You Need A Budget—The Book, now available for pre-order!

A Series of conversations with the real-life success stories featured in Jesse's new book, You Need A Budget—The Book, now available for pre-order!

Settle in fast, because it's expensive not to.

Set Some Rules. Have Fun. (And take advantage of our Black Friday deal --this year only!)

For the spontaneous people.

Experiences over material things. Coming at you from New York.

At what point should you stop tracking cash?

Is there a point where you no longer really need a budget?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...does your budget look like it as well?

Do you suffer from lifestyle creep? I do.

When's a good time to start budgeting? Or start building any new habit?

Is there such a good thing as good debt? Yes. Though it also can become bad if you aren't careful.

Maybe if we just didn't treat student loan as a viable option for paying for college...

How to protect your identity without paying for an expensive monitoring service.

Millennial Money advice is the same as every generation's money advice.

I'm scared and excited to live in New York for a while.

Routines were made to be broken.

Where I discuss our new mobile apps, and why.

Different partners may have different levels of budget materiality. What it is, and how to navigate it.

Everyone should be taking a clarity break.

We're programmed to amass, hoard, acquire. What do you do to combat that?

The launch of YNAB's new 80/20 guide, "The Debt Consolidation Myth"

Our epic failure to be less granular, and how I'm getting back to it with our own personal budget.

Sometimes starting something as a beginner again is just what you need for reinvigorating the budget.

Can too much of a good thing become a bad thing?

What are we doing when we water the sidewalk, but when we're really talking about budgeting?

What do weeds and budgeting have in common? Everything.

A discussion of the book "What Doesn't Kill Us" and why I'm now taking ice cold showers.

Saving up so you can live it up.

An Interview with an author of a book that changed my life and is required reading for the entire YNAB team. Every year.

It turns out when you peel back the priorities onion, the core of it a lot of times is an experience, not an item.

Julie set herself a goal for 2017.

Is it possible to just settle in with your stuff and avoid some of the churn involved in repeat purchasing?

All I wasn't is a toaster I can pass on to my children.

When you're buying something, you're also tacking a bunch of todos on to your list.

When you're buying something, you're buying so much more.

Maybe you've only been budgeting a month. How's it going? What are some of the victories you've experienced?

In getting a reluctant partner on board with budgeting, you've got to play the long game.

There's one reason why people quit budgeting (and most anything else).

With budgeting, the key might be to start over.

Here's how you budget so it sticks.