Kristen Hagopian Show - 08 27 25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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four zero a two. Guys, how about this fabulous weather
it is I'm freaking out a little bit. It's if
the kids have been in school now for a week
and she was such a trooper. I was a wreck
this first week and she's just nailed it. I am
so proud of her. Here's the next thing. Jumping from

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subject to subject just a bit, but this first week
of high school school pictures, this completely threw me for
a loop. Does anybody else have that going on out there?
Tire elementary school experience? You always had pictures easily like
two three months into the year. Not quite sure what's
going on with that. There was a rumor floated that

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they do this first week of school photos because they're
gonna do beginning of the school year photos in addition
to end of the school year photos. Sounds like a
school photo scam. But I'm trying not to be crazy
about that. I will keep you updated. But if you
have that thing going on as well, Lordie, I mean,
we haven't even taken the sticker off the whole idea

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of the year, and here we are getting pictures. AnyWho,
So there's the first week of high school going on.
Robbie is loving have school all to himself. These kids
are sitting, They're just getting so grown up. I can't
stand it. It's amazing. Anyway, hope you guys all have
a phenomenal Labor Day wee weekend. I had a goal
for my Labor Day weekend because over the entire summer

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I wanted to get this one bedroom. Finish this back
guest bedroom. We don't use it for a lot of stuff,
but we were having guests for Labor Day and and
overnight guests, and I really wanted to make it nice.
It was time to get it done. I had a
goal for myself. I was going to get it done
during the summer, and I considered the day before Labor
Day weekend to just under the wire. And I'm thrilled,

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and I put it up on Facebook. We got a
tremendous response via social media and I had a lot
of requests for people just breaking it down how we
did it. Now, for those of you who saw, go
to brilliantfrugalliving dot com. From there, go to Facebook. You
can see the before and after videos. It was tremendous fun.
Now here's the thing. I wallpapered this. Oh my gosh.

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This was when we first moved into the house. This
is one of the first rooms I did and I
did a great job wallpapering. I obsessed with it. I
probably took about five times longer than any sane person
would to wallpaper this room, but it came out really good. Now,
the only problem was it was an extremely gaudy wallpaper pattern.

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It looked better in my head than it did on
the wall. It wasn't bad on the wall, and my
phone's gone off. Excuse me. It wasn't bad on the wall,
but I thought for sure I was going to have
to redo it or paint over it or whatever. Then,
just as I was about to paint over this stuff,
because there's some great products out there these days, let
you paint rite over wallpaper, I went to Goodwill, my

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weekly good Will trip, and found this bolt of fabric
that miraculously complimented this gaudy wallpaper flawlessly. I could not
believe it. Also found a wall hanging that fit the
colors really, really nicely. I figured the stars were just aligning.
So I buy the fabric, I forget the idea about

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painting over the wallpaper, and I go to work. Now,
over the last month or so, on all of my
trips to Goodwill, I'm noticing in the home improvement section,
in the in the the fabrics and the curtains and
the bedspreads and all this other stuff around the pictures
and the portraits, I am noticing a lot of people
are donating like the what's the word for it, that

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beautiful earthy green, that sage green, the dark blues, the burgundies.
I am digging it because that's my favorite colors to
decorate with. So I had plenty of curtain panels, all
matching from the exact same set to handle this. And
now all I needed was something across the top of
each window. There's three windows in this room. Found this

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fabric got to work, and I'm loving the effect, so
that I make pillowcases to match. I make a bedspread
to match with the same sort of window panels, and
it came together beautifully. People were asking for the price
that we did this for. Here's the cool part, so
we broke it down. Now the let's see here, I'm

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looking at this, the fabric for the top of the windows,
this huge bolt of fabric. This is yards and yards
of waverly fabric that you would find in any kind
of a home improvement place for easily twenty five dollars
a yard. So this was, oh gosh, like eighty bucks
worth a fabric. And at Goodwill it was four dollars
all right, So I'm already thrilled. Then I found this

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worked perfectly in this space. These old shipping trunks, you know,
like the one you'd see in Titanic where you have
the big buckles on the side and it flips up
and you can store anything you want there. You can
store a sofa in there. It's just big. Found one
of those as well for ten bucks. It was perfect
for this smaller space. I took tons of stuff out

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of this room. If you want to know one of
the best redecorating techniques you can employ declutter. Get a
box and take anything that you have not looked at
or used or cared about in the last six months
and just put it right in there. Take it to
good Will, let it go to someone else who can
get some use out of it. I have done this
kind of a purge so many times, and it feels

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like a million bucks. The only downside is when I
go to drop off this stuff at Goodwill and I'll
find things that I want to bring homes. So I'm
just keeping an equilibrium in the universe. The good news
is I'm finding everything I need to redo this room.
I found the panels for the windows, enough panels to
handle not only the windows, but to sew a bedspread

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as well, So everything's very matchy matchy. It's very granimals.
You will find my home has a very gor animals
feel to it. I love that kind of matching look.
So the room looks phenomenal. We have wall hangings all
from Goodwill. These let's see, let's they're one, two, three,
four total hangings and four total wall hangings. These wall hangings,

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they're big and a couple of them have the original
prices on it. So we're talking hundreds of dollars worth
of wall hangings. And I got them all, all four
of them, for a total of twelve bucks. So we
have the window panels, we have the matching bedspread. We
have the toppers to the windows which match all of
the pillowcases, which is just gorgeous. That fabric was just

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four dollars. The panels were twenty four dollars. You see
where I'm going with this. So by the time we're done,
we have decluttered this ridiculous room. I actually I like
this room a lot. It's a perfect guest room. We've
decluttered the room. We put up the brand new windows,
the new window wall hangings. Love this stuff. The brand

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new panels along the windows, perfect color, the toppers which
are again miraculously a fantastic match to my gaudy bell
wattling wallpaper. I love this stuff. We have the bed matching,
the curtains, we have the floor. Now this my gosh,
this carpeting we've had in this house for easily twenty years,

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but not a lot of traffic on it. It's not
an off used room. So I take the beloved carpet,
the deep carpet cleaner. I think everybody should invest in
one of these. It doesn't have to be the size
of like a zamboni or anything, but get yourself a
carpet cleaner, a deep carpet cleaner that puts the you know,
the liquid in there and suck it back up and

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all kinds of scary things come up out of it.
Get yourself one of those. You will find your carpeting
will absolutely be revived in a way that you never
thought possible. The hundreds of dollars you will save in
carpeting alone is extraordinary. So when now we have the
matchy matchy curtains matching, the bedspread matching, the pillows matching miraculously,

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the wallpaper accenting it and highlighting it nicely, the wall hangings, everything,
The carpeting, which was kind of a dingy or blue
now a very revived, vivid, gorgeous blue, and the entire
room decluttered, which freed up square footage in a way
that you just want to think possible. All right, So

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that's the transformation we did in just one day. These
shows that transform these houses, I adore these shows. Don't
get me wrong. I'm starting off the sentence saying I
love these house rehab shows, but they're intimidating people think,
oh my god, it's going to be a quarter million
dollars to rehab the house. We don't have anything close

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to that kind of energy or time or cash. Throttle
back on that just a bit. Soak up every decorating
idea you can think of when it comes to that,
and then throttle back and just apply it to one room.
Apply the colors that you loved, the furniture placement that
you loved, the textures from those shows that you loved,

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and then get yourself to your local goodwill because all
the other people you're thinking about out there are also
watching those shows. They're buying everything brand new, and they're
taking all of their older stuff, which is still beautiful
and usable and amazing to goodwill where you can get
it for about ninety five percent off. So now we
have a gorgeous room, transformation, phenomenal response from people online.

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And we did it all for less than fifty bucks.
And if I can do it, you can do it.
Pick the room. It doesn't have to be a big room.
It can be a bathroom or a closet, or a
den or part of your kitchen, anywhere, a spare bedroom
that you don't usually use. Give yourself a day to
plan and execute and declutter and put this new stuff in.

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It is invigorating, It is way fun and I highly
recommend it. I want to hear your stories as well.
Find me online brilliantfrugal Living dot com. Tell me about
your fifty dollars and under room redos, or maybe it's
one hundred or less. Who cares? Find me more After this.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Not too.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
The best, and we are back with the Christin Agopian
Show talking about ways to save you huge money by
investing in a deep carpet cleaner. All right, guys, I
was not sold on these until I tried it. I've
heard from people talking right and left about hiring someone

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to come out and do it. There are pros and
cons to that. We talked about that in the latest segment.
I am now focusing on going out there buying one
on your own. I went and bought mine brand new
at a warehouse club, came home. It has already paid
for itself, big le Can I please share that with
you brief math recap bought it for one seventy five, okay,
and I did about seven hundred square feet of carpeting.

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Took me three hours to do it. I now have
no lie you guys, brand new carpet back in my
family room, my den, the home recording studio, the kid's
little playroom type thing. It is unbelievable. And if I
were to get new it would be roughly between anywhere
between four and seven grand. And that's the average cost
of carpet, okay. Now the pros charge about three hundred

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for that. I just got it done for one to
seventy five, and I've got this machine for life, all right.
They're very very user friendly. I cannot stress this enough. However,
when I put the word out about this, I was
also sent a wealth of information from our listeners about
other ways to take very good care of your carpeting.
If you've got the major stains. That kind of thing,
and a couple of them really grab me. So I

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have to share here all right. And first of all,
if these people have far more of a social life
than I do, the stains they get in their carpet,
holy crap. Your social life is your own. But my god,
So here we go big things to use on your
carpet rather than use the really expensive cleaners. Here's the
best part that I loved. You've already got this stuff
at home for your deepest, craziest stains. All right, if
you're going to be even better than I am and

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go for this like pre treating stuff. If you've got
pets that leave a lot of stains, kids or grandkids
or spouses that leave a lot of stains, here's the
big things you need. You need some shaving cream. Apparently
the best carpet cleaner for general stains is just ordinary
shaving cream. It's user friendly, it's environmentally friendly, don't need
to worry about any of those crazy chemicals out there

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these days, and apparently it removes just about every type
of stain. Okay, so before you use your brand new
or your gently craigslist used carpet cleaner, get some shaving
cream up. Put it on every single deep stain. You
know what the stain is, maybe it's oil, Maybe it's dirred.
Maybe it's a total mystery stain. You have no idea

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what it is. The biggest recommendation get some shaving cream out,
so you apply it directly to the stain. Let it
set for about thirty minutes, all right, And once the
shaving cream is set, you blotted away.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
I love this with a dry white cloth. Okay. I
don't think my home is in possession of any dry
white clean cloths. However, we have got an abundance of
ratty old rags, so I'll be using that. You finish
by spraying the area this. I dig this so much.
You finish by spraying the area with one part vinegar

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mixed with one part water. Okay, and then you blot
away the solution with the cloth, and you're golden. I
love that. Number One. You should have vinegar in your house.
It is a terrifyingly effective liquid to have in your home,
not only for your better health, which is kind of scary.
You drink this stuff to make it healthier, and yet
it removes every type of stain and obliterates any kind

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of worries in your house. It's a terrifying solvent. But
there it is next up. This is something I heard
about from a lot of people. I don't have a
lot of gum cheers in my house, however, I'm apparently
in the minority. If you've got gum anywhere in your carpets.
This is something that was sent to me also by
daycare centers some elementary schools that have little carpeted play areas.

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If you've got gum okay, or maybe you know you
step on it in the street, you don't realize it
until you walk across your own carpet. This one I
knew since I was a kid and a gum cheer myself.
Mom took care of this for us to get our nea.
To get out any kind of gum in your carpet,
head to the freezer, grab a couple of ice cubes,
and then just lay it right on top of the gum. Okay,

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lay it there, walk away for a couple of minutes.
Once the gum is frozen solid. It is super easy.
You just use a spoon, lift up that big gross
glob and then cut any I mean tiny tiny cuts.
Cut the strands of carpet as close to the gum
as possible, and you're good. Okay, Now, granted, as I
read this, I'm thinking to myself, it would have been

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easier for my mom to take care of any kind
of gum in the carpet type stuff back in the
days of seventies shag carpet. But even with today's carpet,
you're gonna be in good shape. You just freeze it
and you're good. Love this all right? Next step, Oh yeah,
wax in the carpet. You guys have some serious social
lives compared to me. Never in my life would we
ever have wax in the carpet. But you got a

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lot of people out there love to burn their candles.
They're aromatic, the lovely lilac candles or the other scented
stuff out there, and apparently it gets into the carpet. Now,
I would think, honestly, do the uh what do you
call it? Do the ice cube again. However, they're recommending
here to heat it back up to remove it. So
you place your place your clean white cloth. Actually that's

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not gonna happen. Place your if you're in my house,
you're ratty yet still dependable. Rag clean over your iron.
Then put the iron on top of the wax to
warm it up and then you scrape off the wax
with a butter knife. Sweetness. I love that, and then
get to work with this deep cleaner. I love this stuff.
All right, what's up? There is one other one getting
out blood. That one caught my eye because obviously few

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carpet stains are as obvious as blood. Right, But if
you get who knows, a paper cut on your finger,
or someone you know, one of your kids or grandkids
has a nose bleed, and they kind of freak out
a little bit and it gets a little chaotic, you're
gonna get a few drops on your carpet. But that
doesn't mean the carpet's wrecked. All right, People freak out
a little bit, you get blood on your clothes, you
think that they're toast. They're not. Here's the thing. Hydrogen peroxide, apparently,

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according to this, will get blood out all day long.
And this is from a professional carpet cleaning company that
sent me this. All right, First, you loosen up the
dried blood with water mixed with a mild to urgent.
It can be a dish detergent, it can be a
laundry detergent. Then you scrape off as much blood from
the fibers as you can, Okay, get it to that
point to get the remainder, especially on your lighter carpets,

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but apparently this will work on the darker carpets too.
Apply hydrogen peroxide directly to the stain. Just pour a
little bit on there, not mixed down, not watered down,
a couple of spoonfuls of hydrogen peroxide right on the stain.
And apparently the solution will immediately foam when it contacts
the blood, kind of like if you ever put it
on a cut. That makes sense, so don't be surprised.

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And then you simply dab up the hydrogen peroxide with
towels to dry the carpet. Sweet. I love that stuff,
all right. I want to get to one more before
the break, because a lot of people out there, a
lot of listeners to the show have got tons of
pets out there, wonderful furry family members that can make
a huge honkin mess on the carpets. Okay, even the

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well trained pets. You know who you have out there,
You know your little buddies, You know how well trained
are and you know they have their oops. Is I
heard from people who have pet rabbits talking in their house,
who talk about how to clean this stuff up too,
so you're not alone. Okay, here we go. This company
prefers organic cleaners, which can cost about ten bucks for
a spray bottle, rather than using chemicals, and there's a

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lot to be said for that. You spray the cleaner
at the stains, some scrubbing will be necessary. And again
people are talking about the shaving cream, except you leave
it on there for hours. What could be possibly safer?
Give it a little time to soak in. And apparently
even the toughest, most imaginative you know read in air quotes,
gross messes that your pets can leave on there are

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taken care of. And you know what I dig that?
Not only am I turning into a mild hippie when
it comes to the chemicals on your floors, I'm kind
of a big fan. Especially if you have kids, or
pets or grandkids or little ones running around. They're closer
to the ground, oftentimes they're barefoot. So many reasons you
want to have really organic cleaners that are to work here. Luckily,

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they don't have to cost a heck of a lot,
especially when you're using stuff that's already around your own house.
That's something we're going to touch on right after the
next segment, and I want to hear from you guys
as well. Apparently there is this huge underground movement of
amazing cleaners you can make out there. I've had recipe
after recipe. I'm gonna go into a couple of those
in the last segment as well. But what are your

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best go to moves for these cleaners. I'm hearing all
kinds of very creative stuff and I want to hear
from you too. Find me a brilliantfrugal living dot com.
Let me know what you're putting into these deep scheme
cleaners for your carpets. And I want to try it
out as well, because I got this thing for life.
I'm addicted. I love it. My carpets are brand new.
I want you guys to experience the same fun. And yeah,

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I'm getting the wild and crazy from Tony's. Who'll be
right back right after this, and we are back with

(20:02):
the Christian Gopian Show, and guys, it is upon us
once again, back to school time. I can't believe it.
The summer has absolutely flown and you might be in
the same bag that I am right now, where you've
got a couple of beautiful kids prepping for school. You've
got a bit of a to do list. Who better
to join us than Macrimata back by popular demand to

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break it all down on how to get all of
this done without losing our minds. Matt, welcome back. How
are you doing?

Speaker 3 (20:28):
I'm doing so well. Thanks for having us back. Kristin.
We love talking to you.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
It's always a pleasure because it's always wonderful having you on.
Because this time of year, you've got parents of all ages.
We're talking about those who have their firstborn about to
get into kindergarten, or maybe their youngest is going off
to college. But no matter what, we've got a big
heap and helping of payments that we have to get

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out there. We have to buy a whole bunch of stuff.
Not sure how we're all going to get it done.
Break it down for us. What do you see out
there the street? And how can we beat these high
prices this year?

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Keep it simple? Keep it simple, right, Kristen. You and
I have talked in the past with tips and tricks.
Here's an easy one, right If you want to set
your kids up for success when it comes to money,
An easy way to do it is to start with
a simple budget, super simple, fifty thirty twenty. Any money
they have coming in, fifty percent goes to their needs transportation,

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back to school, supplies, you know, food, thirty percent goes
to their wants going out with their friends, a splurge,
and twenty percent goes directly into savings. Fifty thirty twenty.
It works great for our older kids, frankly for adults too,
but it also is great for younger kids to start
the conversation on the difference between what's a need and

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what's a want.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
That is brilliant and it's so true. I'm taking notes
as you're talking here because we wish so much that
we had more class is like this in school. I
just love this, you know. And one of the big
reasons that I love this is that it doesn't require,
you know, an app. It only requires a little bit
of common sense and a little bit of thinking. Just
take a deep breath, write down the numbers that you're

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talking about. And it's one of those things that's common
sense that just isn't getting taught in schools anymore. You know,
they're not teaching the budgeting and they're not teaching the
here's where you put your money for highest priority and
maximum benefit, that kind of thing. What's been the feedback
you've had with regards to getting out the word with
just keeping it simple and keeping it straightforward and just

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getting it done.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
You know, honestly, one of the things we hear so
often is that parents and grandparth they know they need
to be doing this and they want to, but you
know what, they didn't learn it well in school, right,
And so often we hear that they wish they had
some easy tools that they can not only pass on
to their kids but also use themselves. So right, hopefully
this can stuff can help us all keep it simple

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and take some good steps forward to help our kids
but also help us.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yep, it's true, It is absolutely true. And you made
me think of a question, and I realize this next
question is going to be super subjective. But you connect
with people coast to coast, all ages, all parents of
all ages, all kids of all ages, and what do
you find would be like a sweet spot age to

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start introducing these concepts. You know, you don't want to
go too early where you look like some crazy helicopter parent,
but you don't want to wait too late to the
point where they're really not going to be open to
the whole budgeting and spending correctly and you know, writing
things down and planning for the future. What do you
find would be that perfect timeline to introduce these concepts

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to our kids?

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, look, you said it to my disclaimer, it depends
on your kid, depends on your family, but right for
a younger kid, starting a conversation about being aware of
the differ diference between a need and a want. Usually
the needs are things the parents are spending on. But
that can be a great example to start with your kid.
And then in this and that can be as young

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as five, six, seven, we're talking pretty young right. Then
when they get to be sort of let's say nine
to twelve, nine to thirteen, what a great age to
help them learn by doing. That's where it can be
so helpful. Maybe they're getting allowance, maybe not, but once
they have some of their own money to learn how
to spend it with oversight from the parents. We actually

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create a whole account around this. It's called Chasers banking.
It's built for parents to oversee and teach their kids
through doing. The kid gets a debit card and the
parent gets control for an older kid, say in high school, right,
they want a little bit more freedom, right, you hit it.
They don't want the helicoptering mom or dad, right, they
want a little bit more freedom. So we created high

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school Checking so that the parents could still have oversight.
It's to join account with the parent, but the kid
has an independent bank account that they can get money
into and use on their own. If they have a job,
they can get paid right into that account. And then
when they're ready for college, we built an account for
that too, called college Checking. But why say college, I
mean vocational school, technical school, community college, or your college.

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If your kid is going to school, it's a great
account for them.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
I love that. And again I'm chuckling as I'm listening
to because the real life experiences that say, my daughter
and my son are doing the same you know right
now as well. They're both you know, college age, high
school age, and I can talk to them until I
am blue in the face, and they are great kids,
so they'll listen to every word. But the simple fact
of the matter is that I'm not cool. You know,

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their friends are cool. They can rely on me for
love and companionship and support and everything they can possibly need,
but they know they can't rely on me for coolness.
That's just never going to happen. However, when they connect
with their friends, you know, maybe friends that are working,
they talk about various things, and she has buddies that
say to oor, yeah, you know, I worked all these
hours last I'm still broke. I spent it all. And

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my daughter's kind of shocked, you know, She's like, well,
didn't you save anything? You know, what's that about? And
that's where the real life experiences of these kids start
to tie in, and they get all these various little
strings of information that are weaving together into their own
personal finance experience, and it can really help you get
on the right path where you know, oftentimes the well

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intended but not cool mom and dad, you know, kind
of slips. So it's a wonderful one two punch where
you can learn a lot of great personal finance stuff
at home, but you can also learn from the experiences
of your friends and family. Really puts you on that
right road to success.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
I love that, and I also I think, you know,
it gives some of our kids the chance to maybe
lead a little bit with their peers, right maybe pass
on a thing or two that they learn, such as
how they built the savings happen. Obviously, your daughter has
done a fabulous job making sure she doesn't spend all
the money she has coming in because you helped her
build that habit of savings. The hardest part I think

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when we talk to customers is really, let's shoot, new
habits are hard. It's hard to remember to start saving
if you haven't done it before, which is why it's
so easy. I know we've talked about this one before,
but the easiest way to remember is not have to remember. Right.
The Chase auto save feature allows you to automatically save

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without thinking about it. You set up a rule once
to automatically transfer money to your savings after you get
paid or every week, every month you decide, and then
you never have to think about it. Right. Your daughter's
friends maybe not in the bad situation they're in. If
they had just turned on as something simple, they wouldn't
even have to remember.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Isn't that the truth? I swear that is completely the truth.
And you brought up another really good point, Because you
know I'm a grown woman. You know I'm a homeowner.
I'm a four to one K owner. I'm I'm a
bank account owner. You know, I'm just a regular human being.
But today's beautiful kids, through all the apps and all
the electronics and all the everything, are kind of being

(28:05):
I feel like inundated with negative flashing lights all the time,
negative news about the economy, and oh, it's impossible to
buy a house, and it's impossible to finance college. It's
impossible to do this, to get a raise in your
job to afford this, And I feel like, you know,
we're missing out on getting a strong message through. You know,
I'm a grown woman. I have seen downturns in the

(28:25):
economy before. I know that everything will turn back to
a positive light. You know, in the future, it's just inevitable.
But regardless of the headlines, you know, there's there's this
huge opportunity. I feel like to kind of battle back
against this cloud hanging over the next generation of kids
that's just in a datingum with this negative messaging. How

(28:47):
do we, you know, reverse that? If we can, what
do you think?

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I couldn't agree more? And you know, I think we
can help our kids find creative ways to just to
save money, to spend less on some of the stuff
that they want given stuff is more expensive right now.
So for example, we can help introduce concepts like, oh,
you want to save a little bit more money on
you know, transportation, what about carpooling with your friends or
using public transit, or hey, you're maybe another way you're

(29:14):
spending a lot on food? Maybe right, you could do
some meal prep or you could, if you're at school, right,
use that campus meal plan that actually can save some money.
There are other ways to save money too, which are discounts.
There are so many ways to save money on stuff
you would already be buying. Frankly, one of them is

(29:35):
through Chase. We have Chase offers. So you go into
the Chase app and you turn on an offer for
brands you love, and then when you go to that retailer,
the money is automatically applied, the discount is automatically plied.
It's like free money. So introducing these concepts to kids
can help them feel maybe a little less bad about
how they can save some money while they're living their lives.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Macrimata Chase Bank. Nobody does it better. Thank you so
much for all the great money saving tips, all of
the sanity saving tips. So appreciate you taking the time
be well, you've got an open mic anytime, please join
us again.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
And you Ken, Thank you so much, Christian. We love
talking to you.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
And we'll be right back in right after.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
This to.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
The best of all circumstances. Just got it, and we

(30:46):
are back with the Kristen Negophin Show. And as another
beautiful summer winds down, we've had fun with family and
friends and times in the sun and gorgeous vacation, sometimes
right in our own back yard like us, and we've
enjoyed the fruits and the vegetables and everything. It's just
been amazing from start to finish. And when it comes

(31:08):
to the food choices we've all been making and all
the great things available during the summer. You know, we
all know that a diet full of fruits and vegetables
is good for us. And even I, you know, the
ultimate carnivore, knows that plant based lifestyles have become increasingly popular.
We all know someone who's really benefiting from one. But

(31:29):
it can be tough to meet all of those nutrition
goals when you're navigating the plant based world. So here
I was so delighted to have the opportunity to connect
with our next guests holistic health coach Koya Web and
doctor Luigi Grotten with Herbal Life, a name we all
know and love to give us some tips. Welcome guys,

(31:49):
Thank you for having us. Thank you, doctor Groton. I'm
going to start with you if I can. People are
out there and they're trying to constantly better their health.
You know, we're all trying to lead a healthier lifestyle,
preferably by eating better first, you know, but people may
not be getting all the nutrients they need and it
seems to be almost maybe to me, you know, a

(32:11):
non medical person and ever sliding goal. You know, where
is the nutritional goals that we're looking for? What do
we have to do? Break it down for us just
a bit. What are we looking for to do these
days with a plant based lifestyle?

Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, absolutely, it's a great question. And we know that
more people are having a plant based lifestyle, they're eating
a plant based diet. Just to throw in a couple statistics,
as you've probably are very familiar with, about three percent
of the country thinks of themselves as vegan, five percent vegetarian.
And I'm with Koya here who is vegan. I'm what

(32:43):
we call flexitarian. So I'm kind of like fifty percent
of the country, right, So I'm having you know, like
carnivore like you just said, but I'm having fruits and vegetables.
I try and incorporate more of those in the diet.
But I think to your question, the important point is
that when people are trying a plant based lifestyle, they
may miss the vitamin's minerals, the essential nutrients like protein.
They're not getting those nutrients, and that's why Erbalife launched

(33:05):
this new line. It's a certified vegan, plant based organic,
it's non GMO and kosher, and it allows consumers the
options to get those nutrients, whether it's a protein shake,
digestive health booster, immune health, or a greens booster. So
more options for consumers.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I love that, and I'm taking notes as we're talking here,
because there's a reason why rbal Life has been flourishing
for so long, through so many different trends and so
many different economies. It always comes out on top. And
there's a big reason for that. It's because it has
It yields tremendous results. It has a tremendous following that

(33:43):
doesn't happen by accident. Quia I'm going to turn to
you if I can. There seems to be a lot
of conversation about clean eating, you know, and what that
consists of. You know, how did this way of eating
come into your life, this vegan way of eating, and
what exactly is plant cure curious? That phrase grabbed me.
Talk to me about that too, if you would.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, I love your question about being plant curious, because
I think it's the best way to enter this, you know,
plant based lifestyle. When I started, I started with yoga,
and part of my yoga practice was to incorporate a
vegetarian diet, so that include fish, much like dac La
BIGI like a flexitarian. And as I start cutting out chicken, turkey,

(34:26):
different animal products, I start feeling better and better. I
had more mental clarity. I was eating way less processed foods.
And here it is eighteen years later, I find that
this lifestyle not only helps me feel good, but it
also helps me, you know, make an even deeper impact
on the planet. So there are more reasons that I've
chosen to do this for the long term, but for

(34:49):
the minimal for the short terms, it definitely helped me
feel more energized and helped me eat cleaner.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
I love that, and you're so right, you know what.
You remind me so much of my sister, My gorgeous,
amazing yoga master sister. She does a lot of the
same practices you do. She's more of a fish only
sort of eater when it comes to meats, and she
has so many similarities with all of your wonderful clarity
and mindsets. It's fantastic, Doctor Gratten back to you if

(35:15):
I could. There are also not only the short term
benefits that people report right and left, but there are
also some serious long term benefits that are now being
you know, clearer and clearer these days to eating clean
Can you mention a few of those to our listeners
and kind of break it down for us?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Absolutely, And I think it's clear now that you know,
if you look at fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains,
they've been studied and measured for many years and they're
clearly natural nutrients in there. There's a lot of compounds
we don't even know about, but think about the essential
the vitamins and minerals, the trace elements, the protein. These
we know exist and they help support the human body.

(35:53):
Now there's a lot of you know, we're on the
set here in Los Angeles in front of all these
colorful fruits and vegetables and all these interesting we call
them phytochemicals. They actually help protect and support the body.
But the important thing to your question is really about
your goals. If I'm on a weight management program, or
if I'm in the gym trying to build muscle, or
if I'm interested in heart health, we know that a
plant based lifestyle can help support those different goals. So

(36:17):
it's really about what a consumer's goals they're looking for
and how they can effectively incorporate those plants plant based
diet into their program.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
It's all so true, and you guys are making so
much sense, And I wanted to flip back over to
Koya if I could, because for all of my joking around,
I know for a fact that a snickerspar is not
going to do me as much good as say, a
bowl of lentil soup. You know, I can put my
grown up hat on once in a while, and we
all know that food intake is only part of total wellness.

(36:47):
So break it down for us just a bit, your
highest most recommended you know some other ways to keep
the body healthy. What's the nice one two punch that
gets this done for our listeners?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I love that question too. The biggest thing that help
me in my wellness journey is breathwork, like taking time
whenever I'm stressed, whenever I'm not at a ten, just
taking a moment to stop and take ten deep breaths
so that I can feel myself, feel myself in my body,
ground myself, and stay centered. The next thing is meditation.

(37:18):
A lot of times we have a million thoughts going on,
but just taking time to stop and practicing stillness and
thinking about nothing or thinking about your happy place can
help you really calm your nervous system. And then the
third thing is movement. I love yoga every day. It
helps me with strength and flexibility. But whether it's yoga
or going outside for a while, or doing anything to

(37:39):
move your body, you're gonna feel better mentally, spiritually, and
physically if you incorporate these things into your lifestyle.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Oh, you guys are fantastic, and I knew the time
would fly. Your message is so important in a world
filled with all of these screaming ideas, take this drug,
do that instead, And in a lot of cases they
can do some good, but having this alternative where it's
something that's been proven for centuries, if not millennia, between
the yoga and the clean eating, it is such a refreshing,

(38:08):
fantastic message and we are delighted to help get it
over our airwaves. Here doctor, where can our listeners go
for learning more on this?

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Well, thanks for having us first of all, and if
people are interested in learning more about the new line,
they can go to herblife dot com and they can
also find independent distributors on the website at herblife dot com.
There's plenty of resources at their fingertips.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Fantastic Koya web Doctor Luigi Grotten, you guys have an
open mic anytime. Please join us again when you can.
Thank you, Thank you, and until next week, save those pennies,
pay with cash and you all stay frugal out there,