September 29, 2025 • 28 mins
In this Movie Money Mashup, we use Remember the Titans to explore practical money and career lessons you can apply right now. Discover why your budget is a playbook, how finances are a team sport, and why small wins in budgeting create lasting momentum. Learn how to protect your family’s future with an emergency fund, insurance, and legacy planning—and what this powerful story can teach us about unity, leadership, and making tough calls with money.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Why “finances are a team sport” and how to build unity with shared goals, roles, and money meetings
- How to use your budget as a playbook (prep, run the right plays, review “game film,” adjust)
- The power of small wins to build momentum and shorten budget meetings over time
- What it means to “protect the team” with emergency funds, insurance, wills/trusts, and guardrails for each other’s weak spots
- When leadership requires tough short-term decisions to create long-term peace
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Laura (00:01):
Welcome to the Money and Movie Mashup.
Where your favorite nostalgicfilms meet real life money
lessons.
I'm Laura Sexton here with myfriend, coach David Gibbs, and
we're diving into the.
Iconic movies of the ninetiesand two thousands to unpack what
Hollywood accidentally taught usabout money, mindset, and
meaning.
It's fun.
It's a little nerdy, and we wantyou in on the conversation, so
(00:22):
grab your popcorn and let'sroll.
Well, hey everyone, coach Davidhere.
Welcome to another movie, moneyMashup, and today we're gonna be
talking through the movie.
Remember The Titans?
It is, it's pretty heavy, earlytwo thousands.
(00:42):
If you haven't seen it, youshould.
I'm gonna be sharing a quicksynopsis for those of you who
haven't seen it, so you can kindof.
Walk through with coach Lauraand I as we discuss it.
So remember the Titans.
It's a powerful sports drama.
It's based on the true story ofTC Williams High School in
Alexandria, Virginia.
During the early 1970s, therewas racial tension and following
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the integration of black andwhite.
Students.
The school hires Herman Boone, ablack coach to lead the newly
merged football team and facingresistance, hostility, and
prejudice.
Coach Boone and assistant coachBill Yost work together to unite
the team and, throughdiscipline, mutual respect, and
shared goals, the titansovercome their differences,
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becoming a symbol of hope andchange for their community.
The film highlights themes ofteamwork, leadership, and
transformative power of unity inthe face of adversity.
Yeah, so that's, remember theTitans.
That's what it's about.
Here comes Laura, and then wewill chat.
There she is.
(01:45):
Hello.
Hi, how are you?
Are you whispering?
No.
Can you not hear me?
There we go.
Now I can hear you.
No.
Hi.
Hello?
Oh man, this is a pretty heavymovie.
I feel like it's 30 minutes.
Enough time.
I don't know.
No, not to do it justice, butthis is where we're at, so yeah,
(02:09):
this is what we're gonna do.
This movie.
Woo.
Did you cry?
Solid.
Solid.
Top five.
Favorite movie of all time.
Oh, really?
I don't know.
I don't know.
There are too many good moviesto be thrown.
Top fives, maybe talk.
Oh, no, no, no.
I probably watched remember TheTitans Once a week?
(02:29):
Once a week from the day it cameout to the day I graduated from
high school.
Yeah.
Was it all just about RyanGosling dancing?
Absolutely.
Yes.
Yes it was.
I was obsessed in love with RyanGosling and Denzel Washington,
two of my celebrity crushes inthe same movie.
With so much heart and so muchpassion and football, like let's
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go.
All of it.
You're a football fan?
Yes.
I'm Texas.
I am.
I think it was required.
Oh, really?
Okay.
I'm all baseball myself, so Ionly watch football and movies.
Now, this was before theNotebook, right?
Well before, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But after Young Hercules, whichis where I fell in love with
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him.
What's what?
The cartoon.
No younger Hercules.
The series where he was, it wason Fox Afternoons and he
literally played Hercules, so hewalked around the entire show
with his shirt off.
It was great.
But he was like a little kid.
He was a teenager.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I've never heard of thatshow at all.
All right.
We're finding out new thingspost post Mickey Mouse Club.
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Mickey Mouse Club, youngHercules.
He did a show called BreckerHigh and then, oh, he was in the
Mickey Mouse Club.
I had no idea.
With Justin and Christina andBrittany, yeah.
Oh are you a fan of Fall Guy?
I loved That was good.
That was good.
So funny.
I love when Hollywood can makefun of itself and such a smart
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way.
Yeah, and Gosling was perfectfor that too.
Oh yeah, he was.
Oh yeah.
And he's gonna be in the nextStar Wars movie.
Really?
Did you know?
Did you know that?
No.
Yeah.
Well, not the next one, the oneafter that.
Next one's Mandalorian, but he'sgonna be in Star Wars, star
Fighter, the movie.
And he's a star fighter.
I mean, I'm kind of excited.
(04:16):
This sounds like a great, Imean, can't you imagine like him
just like, I'm gonna shoot theseguys, I'm gonna tell you.
Oh yeah.
Like, he's relaxed but stressedand he is okay.
You know, he's, he's the new HanSolo.
He could.
Yeah, there you go.
He's going to be Harrison Ford.
This is great.
Another one of my celebritycrushes.
Let's go.
Oh my gosh.
Alright, so I'm gonna let youget started since you, I mean, I
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will say this is a great movie.
I wouldn't say it's one of mymost favorites.
So I'm gonna let you go andI'll, I'll be your backup today.
It is, it is really hard.
I, I had to ask for help on themoney lessons'cause I sat down
to watch it, intent on moneylessons.
And I just sat and enjoyed themovie, so I had to, had to
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posthumously, Hey, that's good.
It was, it was it was flowingover you, you know, so you can
get connected better.
So I, I had to really like.
My brain because there's so manyreally good things in here.
And I think that there's a lotof you know, there, there are a
lot of pieces of ourmisconceptions of people and how
their money is and how we lookat our money there.
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There are a lot of those, but Ididn't wanna go there.
So one of the things I wanted togo with was, one of my favorite
scenes is the first time the,the players meet Coach Boone,
and, and he got Petey Jonesstanding there with his hand in
the air and he's, yeah.
I put your hand down.
One of the things he talks aboutthere, he is like he is talking
about why are you, nobody'swearing a suit.
Like you're going to show up twocamps in a suit.
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And he's like, and you can gofind a bum on the street and
trade him for his'cause.
He's definitely gonna be dressedbetter than you.
So, dress for the opportunity iswhere I was going with it.
Okay.
Mostly because I have a, I havea career client right now.
We're talking about what he'swearing, what he was going to
wear to his interview, and nowwhat he's going to wear to his
second interview.
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Ah, well there you go.
'cause your appearance is gonnaopen doors for you, but also.
You should go ahead and investin professional clothing.
You need at least one or twothings that make you look like
you're a grownup.
Yeah.
And it's okay to spend money,and this is, this is me being a
girl here.
It's okay to spend money onthose core pieces that you're
going to use as your baselineitems.
(06:24):
Yeah.
So.
David Gibbs is like, I know thisis like your, your your goofy
shirt, your Robin Hood shirt.
Right?
Like you some, some theimportant things Yeah.
That are a baseline part of yourusage, which I'm sure some
people would laugh, but I spenta lot of money on that.
That was actually a very nice,that was actually a very nice
shirt, Uhhuh.
I mean, and I like it and it'sso you, and it's like the things
that are gonna make you standout as you, I think are worth
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investing in.
So I don't know that that'snecessarily, necessarily the
best money lesson that we'velearned than others.
But I thought it was reallythere.
There's something to it.
There's a reason why he saysyou're gonna show up in a suit,
not just in whatever clothesyou're wearing.
It's because when you dress up,you are showing that something
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is important to you and that youare going to treat it with
respect, and that was what hewas asking for.
And so I think that those arethings that we should all strive
to do.
Yeah.
Well, hey, everybody out therewatching Kat's out of the Bay?
Hey, guess what?
We're both career coaches aswell.
Oh yeah.
So we, we do money and careerand then, and, and I think it's
perfectly relevant'cause guesswhat?
Where does money come from yourcareer.
Absolutely.
(07:27):
Yeah.
And and then to jump onto that,you know, it's, it goes to
preparedness, you know prep,preparing when you.
Or looking at your budgetpreparing before you go to the
store with a list, you know, sothat you're not overspending.
You know, it, it's, and thenit's always said, you know,
career wise, you know, dress forthe job you want, not the job
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you're in.
Right.
And so, yeah, it's all connectedin the great circle of money.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Not work.
Okay.
Give me, gimme one of yours.
All right.
You know this just really mademe think of my wife and I, you
know.
Finances and money.
Anything that we want to do,especially when you're in a
household and you're married,it's a team sport.
(08:10):
Yep.
And we have to have thattogetherness.
When I was actually just talkingto some friends last night about
how I started as a husbandbecause I really wanted to make
sure we got out of debt.
So actually my wife, she movedinto our future apartment a few
months before we got married,and I was living at my best
(08:31):
friend's house and, and becauseI was trying to already be a
great leader and a greathusband, I was like, okay, babe.
Don't turn on the airconditioning.
We have no money.
And it's like, it's, it, it, itwas July, Laura, it was July.
That's, that's not gonna workout.
And and my wife, you know, tellsthe funny story how she was in
bed, just like sprayingspritzing water into the air and
(08:52):
having the fan like, oh,daughter player.
Good for her.
Well, and.
She was very nice, you know, butafter a while we had to, she
pushed back and, and, and I hadto realize that it's not just,
you know, for me, all I neededwas a folding chair and a tv,
you know?
Right.
And she said we can have apillow and still reach our
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goals.
We can do all these thingsuntil, so she brings in what I'm
not.
I bring in what she's not, andwe have to enjoy what each other
is and what each other is not.
And so it's team sport.
Well, yeah.
And you need to be able to haveunity.
If you don't have unity, you'renever gonna win.
You need shared goals.
You need to open communication.
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If you call an audible, you needto hear the audible.
Like this is otherwisesunshine's gonna get hurt when
we gotta pay attention to whatwe're doing.
It wasn't sunshine that got hurtwhen he called the audible.
No, it was Jerry.
It was Rev.
Yeah.
But anyway you gotta listen whenthe audible is called, you gotta
be able to turn and do ittogether.
And it's a team sport.
We're doing this together.
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Your mother I love your mother.
It's true.
I remember mom.
So yeah, I wrote that down too.
A United Financial plan is gonnacreate a momentum that a solo
effort number can, there's areason why the team won and it's
because they were the titans.
They were together, they wereunified, mostly through song.
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Once the songs came in, theywere all good.
My what, my favorite memory.
My favorite memory of the wholething is when Ryan Gosling stew
and the dance to his folk musicand his, his roommates.
Like, does the term cruel andunusual punishment mean anything
to you?
Yep.
But that's the beauty of it.
You know, we need both of thoseguys on the team.
(10:38):
Absolutely.
You have to, you have to haveboth.
And I, I love that you weresaying that about your wife, my
husband and I, we can both bespenders if we're not careful.
That's kind of our natural bentis more to be.
Okay.
I am really stressed out.
I wanna go spend money.
Yeah.
So it's only okay for one of usto be stressed out at a time.
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Somebody's gotta pick up theslack and be like, okay, no, no,
no.
I got this.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna hold itdown over here while you be
stressed out and then we'll dothis together.
And connected to all that, andeven preparation as well is, and
that we've seen in the movie issmall wins build momentum.
Oh yeah.
They were completely dividedand, and it was sometimes
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challenging and difficult wherewe'd have a little fight.
We'd be kind of friendly.
We're learning one thing abouteach other.
We have to, you know, keeppushing and getting together on
these things.
And and that's where, you know,just going back to the marriage
relationship as well, is that Ihad to, it wasn't, it's, it
wasn't perfect.
It took years, you know, now ittakes us like 15 minutes to do
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our budget.
It was an hour and a half to doour budget when we started, you
know, and, and, and there wasconversations and figuring out,
getting on the same page.
And so just like in the movie.
You know, it's not racialtension, but it's just
challenges.
There's tension.
Yeah.
You know, and it's learning towork together and, you know,
going to the movie, it's thoselittle moments, you know, like
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Coach Boone, he is, he is sayingdress properly, get in the right
mindset.
I love that they themselvesbrought in the dancing.
You know, it's all those littlethings that help them to relax,
work together, be on the samepage.
And get going.
So is, is finance a team sport?
Is it, it seems like it's, it,it's definitely a sport there.
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There's some heavy, heavybreathing that comes along with
like, I mean, to get your mindright and play the, play the
long game.
Right?
You have to plan for yourfuture.
You have to plan for what's tocome.
I do, I do like the idea of the,the budgets kind of like the
playbook, right?
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
I only run seven plays split v.
Like, like no, can just give itTime always works.
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But it's the, it's, there's somuch about this movie that I
just love, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
And I, and I'm just thinking,for example one thing that I,
you know, I always have to sayis the rich ask how much in the
poor ass, how much a month?
Yeah.
And, and having that mindset, ittook me.
A long time to slowly build mylife around that mindset.
(13:14):
Right.
You know, because I didn't havechunks of money to pay things
off quickly when I firststarted, and now it's become
part of the rhythm.
So, so I just wanna encourageeverybody, just do, what's the
little thing you can do to moveyou forward today towards the
life you want?
Well, and this, and this issimilar on, on the note that you
just said, has nothing to dowith the movie.
My husband and I just bought anew car.
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There it is an accident.
It got totaled.
And it was funny because wewalked in, told the guy, Hey,
we're going to pay cash for thecar.
And so you're not supposed totell them that you're supposed
to trick'em?
No, no, no, no.
It is a no haggle lot, so.
Oh, okay.
We were like, look, look, we'repaying cash, so let's, let's do
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this thing.
This is what we want.
This is what we don't want.
And the car that we ended upbuying was$2,000 more than we
were planning on buying.
We watch on a lot'cause that carwasn't available, but we had the
money.
It was fine, but I had to stopand go, okay, this is money
that's coming out of our Housefund now this is not, this is
not, we don't have a, use a newcar fund because that wasn't
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something we were planning onhaving to do anytime soon.
And it was, it was very much a.
We have to actually think aboutit.
We have to be thoughtful andmethodical.
What are we gonna do?
And before I went into the carlot, it's kind of like watching
game film, right?
Where I went over, this is whatwent wrong last time.
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Last time we bought a card.
This is what we did wrong lasttime we bought a card.
This is what we did, right?
Let's do more of what we didright and less of what we did
wrong.
But at the same time, we have tobe in agreement on the line of
scrimmage.
You can't, you can't be on theline of scrimmage and one of
you's playing, you know, doingone play and the other one's
doing the other.
'cause you're gonna go intotally different directions.
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Nobody's gonna win anything.
So for me, it was very muchwalking in here, okay, we're
gonna pay cash.
And the guy at one point goes,well we can get you this other
car.
It's just a little bit more,your monthly payment's not gonna
go up much at all.
I was like, oh, my monthlypayment's not going up at all.
Because I don't have those, itmeans nothing to me, buddy.
(15:22):
It's like okay, pay in cash.
Got it.
I was like, no, no, I'm not.
I'm not playing around.
I'm not those up.
And you had already, you hadalready told them you were
paying in cash at that point,right?
Yeah, he's not listening.
He is still trying to be asalesman.
Well, yeah, of course he is.
He's trying to make more moneylike I get.
I get it.
And he was, he was a nice kid.
He was a nice kid.
So no shade to him.
But his default, his default ismonthly payments.
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He's like, his default is, oh,you're gonna have, I can keep
your monthly payments low.
That's default.
He's just used to speaking thatway.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I said, and then he lookedat me or I said, oh no, we're
not gonna have monthly payments.
And he goes, oh, right, you toldme you're paying cash.
Yeah.
Okay.
And like he had to reset hisbrain.
It was very interesting.
Yeah.
(16:04):
So I have another thought,Uhhuh.
This is, this is a big part ofthe movie.
Don't let outside pressurederail what you're doing.
Yeah.
So, I mean, there's pressurethrough the entire movie, of
course.
I'm so glad the girlfriend camearound, but actually side note,
isn't it so sad?
Poor Jerry.
(16:25):
You know, he gets hit by the caronce and then they had him have
another that ended up killinghim, you know?
Yes.
He was a drunk driver.
So it's this poor guy just offthe street.
That's, it's funny.
I just wish he died fromsomething.
Yeah, I wish he died fromsomething else.
You know, it's like we have tohit him again.
But.
Throughout the entire movie.
You know, it, it's pressure,it's challenging.
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It's those that racial conflictof people with signs and they're
trying to be together.
And that's the same way, youknow, when we're trying to
accomplish anything.
There's the people who kind of,you know, want to bring us down
to their level.
Who, why are you doing that?
Why are you being weird?
Why are, why are you making thatdecision?
Just do what we're doing.
What, what?
You're better than me.
You know, all that crap.
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And so.
So that's something to remembertoo.
You know, we have to run ourrace, have it written down, have
our plan, and stick to it nomatter what people are saying or
doing.
Have you, have you ever had gowith pressure?
Yeah.
Have you ever been pressured?
Have you ever been, had anybodysay you're weird with your money
or not?
(17:30):
Hmm.
With my money, I was gonna say Iwas a teenage girl, of course.
I felt peer pressure.
With my money?
No, because I'm so stinkingstubborn that once I make up my
mind, that's kind of what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that, and Ithink I've shared this story
before, so I, I wouldn't saypressure per se, but but there
were just kinda like a littlebit of expectations in my family
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growing up.
So when my wife and I weregetting out of debt, all of a
sudden it was, okay, we'rehaving a family birthday party
this weekend, four presents go,and it wasn't in the budget, it
wasn't our plan, you know, andwe made some cookies, you know,
and so, so I always think aboutthat.
It was like.
That was weird.
Some people might have stressedout and been like, oh, I have to
go get presents.
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I have to do this.
You don't have to do anythingbut die and pay taxes.
Right.
You don't have to do anything.
That's it.
And so that's what we all haveto remember.
I guess technically you don'thave to do anything except die
and file taxes.
We don't have debt.
S but if you don't file, they'llcome after you.
Yeah, they, they'll garnish yourwages though eventually you have
to pay.
(18:32):
Okay.
So going back to the movie.
And our, our money lessons.
In the movie Left side Strongside, you have to protect your
team.
You have to protect the team.
And that means emergency funds,that means life insurance, that,
that means a long-term plans,right?
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Health insurance, trust will,things like that.
We have to make sure that thepeople that we care for are
protected, not just when we arein their presence, but long
term.
Making sure that they, becausestuff happens, life happens,
injuries happens.
Car, car accidents happen.
Like he probably should havebeen paying attention to what he
was doing and not just revvingthe engine, but at the same time
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it, it could have been anythingfor any reason and people can
lose their life.
Yeah.
We have to make sure that ourloved ones are covered.
Yeah.
And in, in, in that way, youknow, in the line of protecting
the team.
I have a question for you.
Okay.
We have those, you know, thosebig things, those life insurance
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things.
Yeah.
But how do you and your husband.
Protect each other from, becauseyou know, after a while we get
to know, you know, like yousaid, you know, you both can be
spenders at times.
So what do you do to protecteach other when you see those
situations or you find yourselfin those situations?
(19:57):
Hmm.
That's an interesting question.
So this last week with the carand everything else going on, my
husband had already spent all ofhis fun money.
We have certain amount of funmoney that we get every two
weeks.
Yeah.
And he had already spent his,and he went out with his guy
friends.
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And that amount of money was thesame amount of money I had left
in my fun money.
So I just transferred envelopesand was like, okay, you're
covered.
So I do, I do that a lot becausehe, he is.
More likely to spend all of hismoney than I am.
So that is protecting both ofus.
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It's, and it doesn't hurt me,and it's one of those things
where I get to do something nicefor him and that makes me feel
like I'm serving him in someway.
I think there's a lot of gracein those moments for either of
us.
I went shopping for clothes forenrichment, which David and I
are gonna be at in two weeks,and I wanted all new clothes.
And there's so much grace,there's so much grace given to
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me in those moments where he'slike, okay, that's more than we
were talking about.
But it's still within thebudget, so, okay.
But I think also we're very goodat calling each other out.
So when we've hit the limit, theother person's going to say
something, Hey, we, we've, we'vehit it and we need to just watch
out with the rest of ourspending.
(21:20):
Usually that's enough to keep usfrom going over, to keep us from
having a problem.
Mm-hmm.
Sometimes it's not, and we haveto like rethink some things that
we're doing and we have to havethose tough conversations.
I love a good dream meeting.
Oh yeah.
I love, I love a good date nightto talk about these things.
It's a good excuse to connectand recalibrate.
(21:44):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, because it's you know,it's a good reminder that.
A lot of the times it's those,those little slices, those
little cuts that get you, youknow, that a lot of, you know,
our clients deal with all thetime.
On, on my side of things one ofmy biggest issues is my wife
loves.
To forget to update the budget.
(22:05):
Yep.
She loves it.
It's her favorite thing in theworld to forget to update it.
And then I don't know what'sgoing on.
And so we have to, we have towork on that.
You're getting better babe.
If you, you watch this, you'regetting better.
But we have to work on that.
Her and I, we both have neverhad much of a spending issue.
I mean, I would say, you know,myself, if anything, I want that
(22:26):
big thing every once in a while.
Like I'll never forget when Iwanted the PS five.
I saw kind of like a spot in ourbudget and I really wanted to,
PS five.
So I actually went in to ourbedroom.
I got down on my knees and I waslike, Hey babe, I haven't gotten
anything in a while.
Can I get a PS five?
So I guess I should have thosebut.
(22:47):
What she said.
Yes.
Oh yeah, yeah.
She said yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But but the biggest thing thatwe that she has learned that I
need protection from is myself,because since I am kind of, you
know.
As she sees me as more thefinancial guru, sometimes she
allows a little bit too muchweight on me because she just
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assumes I've got it.
Yep.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, so we'vehad to put things in place that
she is part of it.
She's making the decision, she'sthere, and I don't feel that all
on me because then I get upsetand cranky.
So that's how we have to protectour team in that way.
Yeah, my husband.
Lets me make the budget and Irequire him to change something.
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So that is, that is one way thatwe have, yeah.
That together.
And it works out really well.
And kind of following this, mylast point that I had is that
sometimes leadership requiresreally tough decisions.
Oh, are you talking aboutkicking Ray off the team?
That jerk?
No, but that is a good, I wasgonna say, when Coach Boone
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pulls PD out and the other, oh,shoot.
What is, what is the othercoach's name?
Yost.
Thank you.
Oh, wow.
That really was not there.
And Coach Yost like pulls himaside and he's like, you know,
he's like, oh, it's gonna beokay.
I am gonna make sure that you'refine.
And, and it's like, you can'talways coddle them.
It can't be, it can't, itdoesn't always get to be a
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comfortable decision that'smade.
Sometimes we have to makesomething hard and, and it
sucks.
Sometimes it sucks.
Like let's just be completelyhonest.
This is not all sunshine andrainbows.
We don't always get to make thefun decisions.
Sometimes we have to make hardones, and so I think just
remembering that no one, it's afull sentence, but two, it's a
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short term most of the time.
It's a short term thing, right?
We're saying no to short-termpleasures.
We're saying no to short-term,you know?
Yes to short-term pains so thatwe can have a more comfortable
future.
So sometimes.
The hardest financial decisions.
They're hard in the moment, butthey definitely make life easier
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in the long run.
So those hard decisions,leadership is hard but if your
attitude reflects leadership,lead in a positive way.
That's all I have to say.
Boom.
Are you having fun?
Football's not fun now.
I'm kidding.
I was like, football's reallyfun.
Yeah.
No.
0, 0, 0.
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Fun, sir.
Sir.
Zero.
And, and he is like laughing.
Thanks on.
He is always been one of myfavorite guys.
He is hilarious.
I was no, nevermind.
I'm gonna take it back.
Oh, it was so funny.
I was ready.
I was excited.
No, I was, you can take it back.
That's okay.
His name is Donald Faison, butwhen he said Faison, I
immediately popped to FaisonLove who was in couples retreat,
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and that's where my brain wentand I was like, how did I get
there?
It's fine.
I was talking about Donald Peon.
Yeah, I know you are.
You're right.
Alright everybody, well thankyou so much for watching.
Oh my gosh.
We have to figure out how we'regonna do it next time.
Next time's gonna be a littledifferent.
There's gonna be a special guestand, and we can tell you right
now, usually we have to figureit out and do some voting, but
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next time is what LauraTwilight.
Yeah.
What special guest?
Our special guest is EdwardColen.
Edward Colen is going to be onthe show and if you don't know
who I'm talking about, one, youneed to watch Twilight and two,
you need to show up for ourvideo.
Yeah.
And, and, and it's not actuallylike the character Edward.
(26:28):
We do like try and dress him upin so.
Shh.
Don't spoil it.
Well, I mean, I don't want themto be, I didn't say Robert
Pattinson was coming.
I said, Edward Colen is coming.
Okay.
We should have him just likelighten up and put some powder
on him.
But but that'll be August 8th.
And as far, I mean, we will leteverybody know if it happens to
(26:49):
be a different time.
All right, everybody.
Well, thank you so much forwatching, and if you want to see
some older episodes and catchthem, you can do it in two
spots.
Yeah.
You can go to my YouTube coach,David Gibbs on YouTube, and then
they're starting to come out onyour podcast, right?
They are every other week, justright along our cadence here
this week.
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You've got mail or you've gotmail.
Episode just aired on mypodcast.
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All right, everybody, have agood day.
All right, bye bye.
Welcome to the Money and Movie Mashup.
Where your favorite nostalgicfilms meet real life money
lessons.
I'm Laura Sexton here with myfriend, coach David Gibbs, and
we're diving into the.
Iconic movies of the ninetiesand two thousands to unpack what
Hollywood accidentally taught usabout money, mindset, and
meaning.
It's fun.
It's a little nerdy, and we wantyou in on the conversation, so
(00:22):
grab your popcorn and let'sroll.
Well, hey everyone, coach Davidhere.
Welcome to another movie, moneyMashup, and today we're gonna be
talking through the movie.
Remember The Titans?
It is, it's pretty heavy, earlytwo thousands.
(00:42):
If you haven't seen it, youshould.
I'm gonna be sharing a quicksynopsis for those of you who
haven't seen it, so you can kindof.
Walk through with coach Lauraand I as we discuss it.
So remember the Titans.
It's a powerful sports drama.
It's based on the true story ofTC Williams High School in
Alexandria, Virginia.
During the early 1970s, therewas racial tension and following
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the integration of black andwhite.
Students.
The school hires Herman Boone, ablack coach to lead the newly
merged football team and facingresistance, hostility, and
prejudice.
Coach Boone and assistant coachBill Yost work together to unite
the team and, throughdiscipline, mutual respect, and
shared goals, the titansovercome their differences,
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becoming a symbol of hope andchange for their community.
The film highlights themes ofteamwork, leadership, and
transformative power of unity inthe face of adversity.
Yeah, so that's, remember theTitans.
That's what it's about.
Here comes Laura, and then wewill chat.
There she is.
(01:45):
Hello.
Hi, how are you?
Are you whispering?
No.
Can you not hear me?
There we go.
Now I can hear you.
No.
Hi.
Hello?
Oh man, this is a pretty heavymovie.
I feel like it's 30 minutes.
Enough time.
I don't know.
No, not to do it justice, butthis is where we're at, so yeah,
(02:09):
this is what we're gonna do.
This movie.
Woo.
Did you cry?
Solid.
Solid.
Top five.
Favorite movie of all time.
Oh, really?
I don't know.
I don't know.
There are too many good moviesto be thrown.
Top fives, maybe talk.
Oh, no, no, no.
I probably watched remember TheTitans Once a week?
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Once a week from the day it cameout to the day I graduated from
high school.
Yeah.
Was it all just about RyanGosling dancing?
Absolutely.
Yes.
Yes it was.
I was obsessed in love with RyanGosling and Denzel Washington,
two of my celebrity crushes inthe same movie.
With so much heart and so muchpassion and football, like let's
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go.
All of it.
You're a football fan?
Yes.
I'm Texas.
I am.
I think it was required.
Oh, really?
Okay.
I'm all baseball myself, so Ionly watch football and movies.
Now, this was before theNotebook, right?
Well before, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But after Young Hercules, whichis where I fell in love with
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him.
What's what?
The cartoon.
No younger Hercules.
The series where he was, it wason Fox Afternoons and he
literally played Hercules, so hewalked around the entire show
with his shirt off.
It was great.
But he was like a little kid.
He was a teenager.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I've never heard of thatshow at all.
All right.
We're finding out new thingspost post Mickey Mouse Club.
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Mickey Mouse Club, youngHercules.
He did a show called BreckerHigh and then, oh, he was in the
Mickey Mouse Club.
I had no idea.
With Justin and Christina andBrittany, yeah.
Oh are you a fan of Fall Guy?
I loved That was good.
That was good.
So funny.
I love when Hollywood can makefun of itself and such a smart
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way.
Yeah, and Gosling was perfectfor that too.
Oh yeah, he was.
Oh yeah.
And he's gonna be in the nextStar Wars movie.
Really?
Did you know?
Did you know that?
No.
Yeah.
Well, not the next one, the oneafter that.
Next one's Mandalorian, but he'sgonna be in Star Wars, star
Fighter, the movie.
And he's a star fighter.
I mean, I'm kind of excited.
(04:16):
This sounds like a great, Imean, can't you imagine like him
just like, I'm gonna shoot theseguys, I'm gonna tell you.
Oh yeah.
Like, he's relaxed but stressedand he is okay.
You know, he's, he's the new HanSolo.
He could.
Yeah, there you go.
He's going to be Harrison Ford.
This is great.
Another one of my celebritycrushes.
Let's go.
Oh my gosh.
Alright, so I'm gonna let youget started since you, I mean, I
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will say this is a great movie.
I wouldn't say it's one of mymost favorites.
So I'm gonna let you go andI'll, I'll be your backup today.
It is, it is really hard.
I, I had to ask for help on themoney lessons'cause I sat down
to watch it, intent on moneylessons.
And I just sat and enjoyed themovie, so I had to, had to
(04:57):
posthumously, Hey, that's good.
It was, it was it was flowingover you, you know, so you can
get connected better.
So I, I had to really like.
My brain because there's so manyreally good things in here.
And I think that there's a lotof you know, there, there are a
lot of pieces of ourmisconceptions of people and how
their money is and how we lookat our money there.
(05:20):
There are a lot of those, but Ididn't wanna go there.
So one of the things I wanted togo with was, one of my favorite
scenes is the first time the,the players meet Coach Boone,
and, and he got Petey Jonesstanding there with his hand in
the air and he's, yeah.
I put your hand down.
One of the things he talks aboutthere, he is like he is talking
about why are you, nobody'swearing a suit.
Like you're going to show up twocamps in a suit.
(05:42):
And he's like, and you can gofind a bum on the street and
trade him for his'cause.
He's definitely gonna be dressedbetter than you.
So, dress for the opportunity iswhere I was going with it.
Okay.
Mostly because I have a, I havea career client right now.
We're talking about what he'swearing, what he was going to
wear to his interview, and nowwhat he's going to wear to his
second interview.
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Ah, well there you go.
'cause your appearance is gonnaopen doors for you, but also.
You should go ahead and investin professional clothing.
You need at least one or twothings that make you look like
you're a grownup.
Yeah.
And it's okay to spend money,and this is, this is me being a
girl here.
It's okay to spend money onthose core pieces that you're
going to use as your baselineitems.
(06:24):
Yeah.
So.
David Gibbs is like, I know thisis like your, your your goofy
shirt, your Robin Hood shirt.
Right?
Like you some, some theimportant things Yeah.
That are a baseline part of yourusage, which I'm sure some
people would laugh, but I spenta lot of money on that.
That was actually a very nice,that was actually a very nice
shirt, Uhhuh.
I mean, and I like it and it'sso you, and it's like the things
that are gonna make you standout as you, I think are worth
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investing in.
So I don't know that that'snecessarily, necessarily the
best money lesson that we'velearned than others.
But I thought it was reallythere.
There's something to it.
There's a reason why he saysyou're gonna show up in a suit,
not just in whatever clothesyou're wearing.
It's because when you dress up,you are showing that something
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is important to you and that youare going to treat it with
respect, and that was what hewas asking for.
And so I think that those arethings that we should all strive
to do.
Yeah.
Well, hey, everybody out therewatching Kat's out of the Bay?
Hey, guess what?
We're both career coaches aswell.
Oh yeah.
So we, we do money and careerand then, and, and I think it's
perfectly relevant'cause guesswhat?
Where does money come from yourcareer.
Absolutely.
(07:27):
Yeah.
And and then to jump onto that,you know, it's, it goes to
preparedness, you know prep,preparing when you.
Or looking at your budgetpreparing before you go to the
store with a list, you know, sothat you're not overspending.
You know, it, it's, and thenit's always said, you know,
career wise, you know, dress forthe job you want, not the job
(07:49):
you're in.
Right.
And so, yeah, it's all connectedin the great circle of money.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Not work.
Okay.
Give me, gimme one of yours.
All right.
You know this just really mademe think of my wife and I, you
know.
Finances and money.
Anything that we want to do,especially when you're in a
household and you're married,it's a team sport.
(08:10):
Yep.
And we have to have thattogetherness.
When I was actually just talkingto some friends last night about
how I started as a husbandbecause I really wanted to make
sure we got out of debt.
So actually my wife, she movedinto our future apartment a few
months before we got married,and I was living at my best
(08:31):
friend's house and, and becauseI was trying to already be a
great leader and a greathusband, I was like, okay, babe.
Don't turn on the airconditioning.
We have no money.
And it's like, it's, it, it, itwas July, Laura, it was July.
That's, that's not gonna workout.
And and my wife, you know, tellsthe funny story how she was in
bed, just like sprayingspritzing water into the air and
(08:52):
having the fan like, oh,daughter player.
Good for her.
Well, and.
She was very nice, you know, butafter a while we had to, she
pushed back and, and, and I hadto realize that it's not just,
you know, for me, all I neededwas a folding chair and a tv,
you know?
Right.
And she said we can have apillow and still reach our
(09:15):
goals.
We can do all these thingsuntil, so she brings in what I'm
not.
I bring in what she's not, andwe have to enjoy what each other
is and what each other is not.
And so it's team sport.
Well, yeah.
And you need to be able to haveunity.
If you don't have unity, you'renever gonna win.
You need shared goals.
You need to open communication.
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If you call an audible, you needto hear the audible.
Like this is otherwisesunshine's gonna get hurt when
we gotta pay attention to whatwe're doing.
It wasn't sunshine that got hurtwhen he called the audible.
No, it was Jerry.
It was Rev.
Yeah.
But anyway you gotta listen whenthe audible is called, you gotta
be able to turn and do ittogether.
And it's a team sport.
We're doing this together.
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Your mother I love your mother.
It's true.
I remember mom.
So yeah, I wrote that down too.
A United Financial plan is gonnacreate a momentum that a solo
effort number can, there's areason why the team won and it's
because they were the titans.
They were together, they wereunified, mostly through song.
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Once the songs came in, theywere all good.
My what, my favorite memory.
My favorite memory of the wholething is when Ryan Gosling stew
and the dance to his folk musicand his, his roommates.
Like, does the term cruel andunusual punishment mean anything
to you?
Yep.
But that's the beauty of it.
You know, we need both of thoseguys on the team.
(10:38):
Absolutely.
You have to, you have to haveboth.
And I, I love that you weresaying that about your wife, my
husband and I, we can both bespenders if we're not careful.
That's kind of our natural bentis more to be.
Okay.
I am really stressed out.
I wanna go spend money.
Yeah.
So it's only okay for one of usto be stressed out at a time.
(10:59):
Somebody's gotta pick up theslack and be like, okay, no, no,
no.
I got this.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna hold itdown over here while you be
stressed out and then we'll dothis together.
And connected to all that, andeven preparation as well is, and
that we've seen in the movie issmall wins build momentum.
Oh yeah.
They were completely dividedand, and it was sometimes
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challenging and difficult wherewe'd have a little fight.
We'd be kind of friendly.
We're learning one thing abouteach other.
We have to, you know, keeppushing and getting together on
these things.
And and that's where, you know,just going back to the marriage
relationship as well, is that Ihad to, it wasn't, it's, it
wasn't perfect.
It took years, you know, now ittakes us like 15 minutes to do
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our budget.
It was an hour and a half to doour budget when we started, you
know, and, and, and there wasconversations and figuring out,
getting on the same page.
And so just like in the movie.
You know, it's not racialtension, but it's just
challenges.
There's tension.
Yeah.
You know, and it's learning towork together and, you know,
going to the movie, it's thoselittle moments, you know, like
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Coach Boone, he is, he is sayingdress properly, get in the right
mindset.
I love that they themselvesbrought in the dancing.
You know, it's all those littlethings that help them to relax,
work together, be on the samepage.
And get going.
So is, is finance a team sport?
Is it, it seems like it's, it,it's definitely a sport there.
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There's some heavy, heavybreathing that comes along with
like, I mean, to get your mindright and play the, play the
long game.
Right?
You have to plan for yourfuture.
You have to plan for what's tocome.
I do, I do like the idea of the,the budgets kind of like the
playbook, right?
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
I only run seven plays split v.
Like, like no, can just give itTime always works.
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But it's the, it's, there's somuch about this movie that I
just love, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
And I, and I'm just thinking,for example one thing that I,
you know, I always have to sayis the rich ask how much in the
poor ass, how much a month?
Yeah.
And, and having that mindset, ittook me.
A long time to slowly build mylife around that mindset.
(13:14):
Right.
You know, because I didn't havechunks of money to pay things
off quickly when I firststarted, and now it's become
part of the rhythm.
So, so I just wanna encourageeverybody, just do, what's the
little thing you can do to moveyou forward today towards the
life you want?
Well, and this, and this issimilar on, on the note that you
just said, has nothing to dowith the movie.
My husband and I just bought anew car.
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There it is an accident.
It got totaled.
And it was funny because wewalked in, told the guy, Hey,
we're going to pay cash for thecar.
And so you're not supposed totell them that you're supposed
to trick'em?
No, no, no, no.
It is a no haggle lot, so.
Oh, okay.
We were like, look, look, we'repaying cash, so let's, let's do
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this thing.
This is what we want.
This is what we don't want.
And the car that we ended upbuying was$2,000 more than we
were planning on buying.
We watch on a lot'cause that carwasn't available, but we had the
money.
It was fine, but I had to stopand go, okay, this is money
that's coming out of our Housefund now this is not, this is
not, we don't have a, use a newcar fund because that wasn't
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something we were planning onhaving to do anytime soon.
And it was, it was very much a.
We have to actually think aboutit.
We have to be thoughtful andmethodical.
What are we gonna do?
And before I went into the carlot, it's kind of like watching
game film, right?
Where I went over, this is whatwent wrong last time.
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Last time we bought a card.
This is what we did wrong lasttime we bought a card.
This is what we did, right?
Let's do more of what we didright and less of what we did
wrong.
But at the same time, we have tobe in agreement on the line of
scrimmage.
You can't, you can't be on theline of scrimmage and one of
you's playing, you know, doingone play and the other one's
doing the other.
'cause you're gonna go intotally different directions.
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Nobody's gonna win anything.
So for me, it was very muchwalking in here, okay, we're
gonna pay cash.
And the guy at one point goes,well we can get you this other
car.
It's just a little bit more,your monthly payment's not gonna
go up much at all.
I was like, oh, my monthlypayment's not going up at all.
Because I don't have those, itmeans nothing to me, buddy.
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It's like okay, pay in cash.
Got it.
I was like, no, no, I'm not.
I'm not playing around.
I'm not those up.
And you had already, you hadalready told them you were
paying in cash at that point,right?
Yeah, he's not listening.
He is still trying to be asalesman.
Well, yeah, of course he is.
He's trying to make more moneylike I get.
I get it.
And he was, he was a nice kid.
He was a nice kid.
So no shade to him.
But his default, his default ismonthly payments.
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He's like, his default is, oh,you're gonna have, I can keep
your monthly payments low.
That's default.
He's just used to speaking thatway.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I said, and then he lookedat me or I said, oh no, we're
not gonna have monthly payments.
And he goes, oh, right, you toldme you're paying cash.
Yeah.
Okay.
And like he had to reset hisbrain.
It was very interesting.
Yeah.
(16:04):
So I have another thought,Uhhuh.
This is, this is a big part ofthe movie.
Don't let outside pressurederail what you're doing.
Yeah.
So, I mean, there's pressurethrough the entire movie, of
course.
I'm so glad the girlfriend camearound, but actually side note,
isn't it so sad?
Poor Jerry.
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You know, he gets hit by the caronce and then they had him have
another that ended up killinghim, you know?
Yes.
He was a drunk driver.
So it's this poor guy just offthe street.
That's, it's funny.
I just wish he died fromsomething.
Yeah, I wish he died fromsomething else.
You know, it's like we have tohit him again.
But.
Throughout the entire movie.
You know, it, it's pressure,it's challenging.
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It's those that racial conflictof people with signs and they're
trying to be together.
And that's the same way, youknow, when we're trying to
accomplish anything.
There's the people who kind of,you know, want to bring us down
to their level.
Who, why are you doing that?
Why are you being weird?
Why are, why are you making thatdecision?
Just do what we're doing.
What, what?
You're better than me.
You know, all that crap.
(17:09):
And so.
So that's something to remembertoo.
You know, we have to run ourrace, have it written down, have
our plan, and stick to it nomatter what people are saying or
doing.
Have you, have you ever had gowith pressure?
Yeah.
Have you ever been pressured?
Have you ever been, had anybodysay you're weird with your money
or not?
(17:30):
Hmm.
With my money, I was gonna say Iwas a teenage girl, of course.
I felt peer pressure.
With my money?
No, because I'm so stinkingstubborn that once I make up my
mind, that's kind of what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that, and Ithink I've shared this story
before, so I, I wouldn't saypressure per se, but but there
were just kinda like a littlebit of expectations in my family
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growing up.
So when my wife and I weregetting out of debt, all of a
sudden it was, okay, we'rehaving a family birthday party
this weekend, four presents go,and it wasn't in the budget, it
wasn't our plan, you know, andwe made some cookies, you know,
and so, so I always think aboutthat.
It was like.
That was weird.
Some people might have stressedout and been like, oh, I have to
go get presents.
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I have to do this.
You don't have to do anythingbut die and pay taxes.
Right.
You don't have to do anything.
That's it.
And so that's what we all haveto remember.
I guess technically you don'thave to do anything except die
and file taxes.
We don't have debt.
S but if you don't file, they'llcome after you.
Yeah, they, they'll garnish yourwages though eventually you have
to pay.
(18:32):
Okay.
So going back to the movie.
And our, our money lessons.
In the movie Left side Strongside, you have to protect your
team.
You have to protect the team.
And that means emergency funds,that means life insurance, that,
that means a long-term plans,right?
(18:53):
Health insurance, trust will,things like that.
We have to make sure that thepeople that we care for are
protected, not just when we arein their presence, but long
term.
Making sure that they, becausestuff happens, life happens,
injuries happens.
Car, car accidents happen.
Like he probably should havebeen paying attention to what he
was doing and not just revvingthe engine, but at the same time
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it, it could have been anythingfor any reason and people can
lose their life.
Yeah.
We have to make sure that ourloved ones are covered.
Yeah.
And in, in, in that way, youknow, in the line of protecting
the team.
I have a question for you.
Okay.
We have those, you know, thosebig things, those life insurance
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things.
Yeah.
But how do you and your husband.
Protect each other from, becauseyou know, after a while we get
to know, you know, like yousaid, you know, you both can be
spenders at times.
So what do you do to protecteach other when you see those
situations or you find yourselfin those situations?
(19:57):
Hmm.
That's an interesting question.
So this last week with the carand everything else going on, my
husband had already spent all ofhis fun money.
We have certain amount of funmoney that we get every two
weeks.
Yeah.
And he had already spent his,and he went out with his guy
friends.
(20:18):
And that amount of money was thesame amount of money I had left
in my fun money.
So I just transferred envelopesand was like, okay, you're
covered.
So I do, I do that a lot becausehe, he is.
More likely to spend all of hismoney than I am.
So that is protecting both ofus.
(20:38):
It's, and it doesn't hurt me,and it's one of those things
where I get to do something nicefor him and that makes me feel
like I'm serving him in someway.
I think there's a lot of gracein those moments for either of
us.
I went shopping for clothes forenrichment, which David and I
are gonna be at in two weeks,and I wanted all new clothes.
And there's so much grace,there's so much grace given to
(21:00):
me in those moments where he'slike, okay, that's more than we
were talking about.
But it's still within thebudget, so, okay.
But I think also we're very goodat calling each other out.
So when we've hit the limit, theother person's going to say
something, Hey, we, we've, we'vehit it and we need to just watch
out with the rest of ourspending.
(21:20):
Usually that's enough to keep usfrom going over, to keep us from
having a problem.
Mm-hmm.
Sometimes it's not, and we haveto like rethink some things that
we're doing and we have to havethose tough conversations.
I love a good dream meeting.
Oh yeah.
I love, I love a good date nightto talk about these things.
It's a good excuse to connectand recalibrate.
(21:44):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, because it's you know,it's a good reminder that.
A lot of the times it's those,those little slices, those
little cuts that get you, youknow, that a lot of, you know,
our clients deal with all thetime.
On, on my side of things one ofmy biggest issues is my wife
loves.
To forget to update the budget.
(22:05):
Yep.
She loves it.
It's her favorite thing in theworld to forget to update it.
And then I don't know what'sgoing on.
And so we have to, we have towork on that.
You're getting better babe.
If you, you watch this, you'regetting better.
But we have to work on that.
Her and I, we both have neverhad much of a spending issue.
I mean, I would say, you know,myself, if anything, I want that
(22:26):
big thing every once in a while.
Like I'll never forget when Iwanted the PS five.
I saw kind of like a spot in ourbudget and I really wanted to,
PS five.
So I actually went in to ourbedroom.
I got down on my knees and I waslike, Hey babe, I haven't gotten
anything in a while.
Can I get a PS five?
So I guess I should have thosebut.
(22:47):
What she said.
Yes.
Oh yeah, yeah.
She said yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But but the biggest thing thatwe that she has learned that I
need protection from is myself,because since I am kind of, you
know.
As she sees me as more thefinancial guru, sometimes she
allows a little bit too muchweight on me because she just
(23:11):
assumes I've got it.
Yep.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, so we'vehad to put things in place that
she is part of it.
She's making the decision, she'sthere, and I don't feel that all
on me because then I get upsetand cranky.
So that's how we have to protectour team in that way.
Yeah, my husband.
Lets me make the budget and Irequire him to change something.
(23:32):
So that is, that is one way thatwe have, yeah.
That together.
And it works out really well.
And kind of following this, mylast point that I had is that
sometimes leadership requiresreally tough decisions.
Oh, are you talking aboutkicking Ray off the team?
That jerk?
No, but that is a good, I wasgonna say, when Coach Boone
(23:54):
pulls PD out and the other, oh,shoot.
What is, what is the othercoach's name?
Yost.
Thank you.
Oh, wow.
That really was not there.
And Coach Yost like pulls himaside and he's like, you know,
he's like, oh, it's gonna beokay.
I am gonna make sure that you'refine.
And, and it's like, you can'talways coddle them.
It can't be, it can't, itdoesn't always get to be a
(24:15):
comfortable decision that'smade.
Sometimes we have to makesomething hard and, and it
sucks.
Sometimes it sucks.
Like let's just be completelyhonest.
This is not all sunshine andrainbows.
We don't always get to make thefun decisions.
Sometimes we have to make hardones, and so I think just
remembering that no one, it's afull sentence, but two, it's a
(24:37):
short term most of the time.
It's a short term thing, right?
We're saying no to short-termpleasures.
We're saying no to short-term,you know?
Yes to short-term pains so thatwe can have a more comfortable
future.
So sometimes.
The hardest financial decisions.
They're hard in the moment, butthey definitely make life easier
(25:00):
in the long run.
So those hard decisions,leadership is hard but if your
attitude reflects leadership,lead in a positive way.
That's all I have to say.
Boom.
Are you having fun?
Football's not fun now.
I'm kidding.
I was like, football's reallyfun.
Yeah.
No.
0, 0, 0.
(25:21):
Fun, sir.
Sir.
Zero.
And, and he is like laughing.
Thanks on.
He is always been one of myfavorite guys.
He is hilarious.
I was no, nevermind.
I'm gonna take it back.
Oh, it was so funny.
I was ready.
I was excited.
No, I was, you can take it back.
That's okay.
His name is Donald Faison, butwhen he said Faison, I
immediately popped to FaisonLove who was in couples retreat,
(25:46):
and that's where my brain wentand I was like, how did I get
there?
It's fine.
I was talking about Donald Peon.
Yeah, I know you are.
You're right.
Alright everybody, well thankyou so much for watching.
Oh my gosh.
We have to figure out how we'regonna do it next time.
Next time's gonna be a littledifferent.
There's gonna be a special guestand, and we can tell you right
now, usually we have to figureit out and do some voting, but
(26:08):
next time is what LauraTwilight.
Yeah.
What special guest?
Our special guest is EdwardColen.
Edward Colen is going to be onthe show and if you don't know
who I'm talking about, one, youneed to watch Twilight and two,
you need to show up for ourvideo.
Yeah.
And, and, and it's not actuallylike the character Edward.
(26:28):
We do like try and dress him upin so.
Shh.
Don't spoil it.
Well, I mean, I don't want themto be, I didn't say Robert
Pattinson was coming.
I said, Edward Colen is coming.
Okay.
We should have him just likelighten up and put some powder
on him.
But but that'll be August 8th.
And as far, I mean, we will leteverybody know if it happens to
(26:49):
be a different time.
All right, everybody.
Well, thank you so much forwatching, and if you want to see
some older episodes and catchthem, you can do it in two
spots.
Yeah.
You can go to my YouTube coach,David Gibbs on YouTube, and then
they're starting to come out onyour podcast, right?
They are every other week, justright along our cadence here
this week.
(27:10):
You've got mail or you've gotmail.
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Oh, that sounds so cool.
All right, everybody, have agood day.
All right, bye bye.
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