Oct 26, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min · 11 segments
In today's episode Ben and Ernie chat with Kayleigh and Shae, a couple living in New York City while paying off six figures in student loans. Kayleigh and Shae post regularly on YouTube, sharing their…
We thought we would try something new and we want to start with community highlights because there's YNAB stuff going on all over the place.
And Ben, you're kind of dialed in to all of them.
And so we thought, hey, why don't we just, you know, some of these stories that pop up and we share with the team all the time, let's share them with the community.
And so we got a couple of them for you.
And actually, this first one is really fun.
Yeah, shout out to Elena, who I met at a Simmel concert, which is a singer-songwriter.
You probably never heard of them.
It's pretty obscure, pretty cool.
I was in a standing room only concert in Washington, D.C. Me and my wife went up there for this concert.
And there's like, I don't know, maybe like 200 people in this room.
And between acts, Elena came up and was like, hey, are you Ben? And I'm like, yeah.
And at first I was like, How do you know me? And I was like, oh, do you know me from YNAB? She's like, I watch this show.
And so we chatted a little bit.
So yeah, it was neat to meet a listener out in the wild.
And it was really cool to meet you, Elena.
Another thing I wanted to highlight, we had just another in real life thing that happened this month.
We had some book meetups.
So we got some people who were interested in hosting like a little bit of a book event.
like a book club in real life in their particular cities.
And we got six different events with like, some of these had multiple hosts too.
So there were a lot of people that were interested to come and talk about Never Worry About Money Again.
And the cities were Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Diego, Lexington, Kentucky, and hampstead new hampshire and bismarck north dakota don't count out north dakota there we go i mean like we had some we had some big cities we had some little cities we had everything in between it was really cool and they sent us some pictures which we're showing you now and yeah this was just like a little experiment we were just like who might be interested in in having a book club and people stepped up and it was really neat to have some in-person events they all went really great and we were just thinking like man this is this could be a thing maybe not just to talk about Never Worry About Money Again, the book, but to talk about YNAB in general.
We thought we would try something new and we want to start with community highlights because there's YNAB stuff going on all over the place.
And Ben, you're kind of dialed in to all of them.
And so we thought, hey, why don't we just, you know, some of these stories that pop up and we share with the team all the time, let's share them with the community.
And so we got a couple of them for you.
And actually, this first one is really fun.
Yeah, shout out to Elena, who I met at a Simmel concert, which is a singer-songwriter.
You probably never heard of them.
It's pretty obscure, pretty cool.
I was in a standing room only concert in Washington, D.C. Me and my wife went up there for this concert.
And there's like, I don't know, maybe like 200 people in this room.
And between acts, Elena came up and was like, hey, are you Ben? And I'm like, yeah.
And at first I was like, How do you know me? And I was like, oh, do you know me from YNAB? She's like, I watch this show.
And so we chatted a little bit.
So yeah, it was neat to meet a listener out in the wild.
And it was really cool to meet you, Elena.
Another thing I wanted to highlight, we had just another in real life thing that happened this month.
We had some book meetups.
So we got some people who were interested in hosting like a little bit of a book event.
like a book club in real life in their particular cities.
And we got six different events with like, some of these had multiple hosts too.
So there were a lot of people that were interested to come and talk about Never Worry About Money Again.
And the cities were Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Diego, Lexington, Kentucky, and hampstead new hampshire and bismarck north dakota don't count out north dakota there we go i mean like we had some we had some big cities we had some little cities we had everything in between it was really cool and they sent us some pictures which we're showing you now and yeah this was just like a little experiment we were just like who might be interested in in having a book club and people stepped up and it was really neat to have some in-person events they all went really great and we were just thinking like man this is this could be a thing maybe not just to talk about Never Worry About Money Again, the book, but to talk about YNAB in general.
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