Transcript
Courtney Harrell (0:00)
Hi, Sunshine Place listeners. I'm Courtney Harrell and I'm here to share a preview of a new odysea original podcast. It's called what We Spend. It's a weekly series all about the very personal, often complicated relationship we all have with money. In each episode, I talk with one person as they document a full week of their lives, recording audio diaries and sharing all the details of what came up for them around money. You will hear about everything they purchase, the ways they've thought about their finances over the course of their week, what their relationship to money was like growing up, all kinds of things. I think the stories are intimate and moving, but some are also super fun. I hope you enjoy this preview for the full episode Search for what we spend on your favorite podcast platform. You know how you always want to know about everyone else's money? You do, right? Like you'll see someone buying something you want or taking some amazing vacation and you think, how can they afford that? Or you meet your friend's new girlfriend and she has some very impressive job and you think, how much money does she make? I think when it comes to money, even if you don't want to admit it, we're all a little nosy. But I don't know, I actually think that's good. I think we should be talking about money more and all the ways, big and small, that it impacts our lives. On this show, we are actually going to do that. We are going to go somewhere that we almost never get to go deep into the heart of someone else's finances. Here's how this is going to work. Each week, I'm going to introduce you to a new person from somewhere across the country, and they are going to tell us everything about their finances, how much they make, how much they want to make, what they worry about, or if they don't worry about, worry at all. And then for one week, we'll follow them through their daily routine. Every day they'll record an audio diary with all the nitty gritty details of how they're spending their money. I mean, the coffees, the groceries, the rent that's due, the car accident that suddenly upends everything. And after that, we'll talk about what the week brought up for them, what it's made them feel. Because whatever you're buying or not buying or saving or spending, at the end of the day, money is always about more than your balance. I'm Courtney Harrell, and this is what we spend. How much school debt do you have?
Kelly (2:46)
I have 150,000 I had more. I had 300,000 after my master's. I had a great uncle pass away who was an artist. And my parents chose with their share of that that they would help pay off all my private loans. And so that was a crazy night. I remember pressing submit on $150,000 payment and just being like, holy shit. And they were like, yay. Doesn't that feel so much better? And I was kind of like, it feels like 50% better. And it still feels like I have still $150,000 of debt.