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Welcome to the Emotional Balance Sheet, the go-to podcast for parents with multiple kids, especially those with twins, triplets, or more, who are navigating the maze of modern family life and personal finance.
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Patience Has a Blind Spot (opens the original)
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Work with Paul: Schedule a 30-minute conversation What if the most disciplined thing you do with your money is quietly working against you in one specific account? Today I walk through a family that had not touched their investments in several years. While that is highly unusual, what was not was our review of one of the spouse's equity compensation. The flat rate a company withholds at vest can sit well below what a high-earning household actually owes. And every vest quietly adds to the same p
When Selling Means Admitting You Were Wrong (opens the original)
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Work with Paul: Schedule a 30-minute conversation What are you actually holding onto when you refuse to let something go? What could it be costing you to keep hoping you'll be proven right? In this episode, I get honest about the three years I knew I'd leave my corporate career before I actually did, and why that's the same trap I watch families fall into when they won't loosen a single stock that's grown too big. I get into why this hits hardest for people who've done well, and why the real pri
The Hardest No in Your Personal & Financial Life (opens the original)
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Work with Paul: Schedule a 30-minute conversation What's the hardest thing you've ever had to say no to, and was it really the nicer car, or was it something you actually loved? Today, I get honest about the "no" I'm worst at, turning down more of the work I genuinely love, and why that one is so much harder than turning down a bigger house or a nicer car. I talk about why this hits working parents hardest. When the income lever is always in reach, "enough" stops being a math problem and becomes
Patient or Just Stuck? (opens the original)
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Work with Paul: Schedule a 30-minute conversation How do you tell the difference between being patient with your money and just being stuck? Today I want to work through an idea about long-term thinking: know the very few things that will never change, and put everything else in a bucket that needs constant updating. I use the example I see most often, a job change, where a stack of retirement and account decisions gets made in week one and then quietly runs for years on settings nobody chose on
When the Right Call Looks Wrong (opens the original)
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Work with Paul: Schedule a 30-minute conversation What do you do when the smartest money decision you made is the one you can't stop second-guessing? In this episode, I dig into a line from Morgan Housel about how it's possible to make good decisions that don't work and bad decisions that work beautifully. I talk about why that lands so hard for families who built their careers in fields where good process reliably produces good results, and why money refuses to play by those rules. I use the ex
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