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Love and Money · Real Money with Lisa Chastain

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Welcome to real money with Lisa, Chastain over the next hour.
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You will hear from leading industry experts, how to
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establish Financial confidence and freedom.
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Her guests will motivate and inspire you to make those
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financial decisions that you have been thinking about for
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weeks and maybe even years. Now here's your host Lisa
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Chastain. Yay.
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Why are you guys dancing? We're dancing because it's the
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show song, Luke. I am your father, thank you for
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calling Moviefone. Okay, so this is hi everyone.
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Hi, happy Monday. This is my husband Jimmy.
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So he's been waiting to do that since he knew.
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I had a show. Yep.
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Yes. Did you get a lot of your system
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babe? No, stop that.
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Yeah, no, probably not. Probably not.
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I want to know. Okay, look at me.
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Okay, we have we're I love you babe.
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I love you too. Okay, good.
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Well for those of you who are new to the show, I'm so
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grateful, you're listening. I'm your host.
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Lisa Chastain. This is my show, real money and
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we have a special guest in the studio.
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James, Earl Lopez. I got put it all out there.
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This is weird. Like looking eye to eye talking
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like this. Yeah, but it microphones.
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Yeah, I can't. Look at you.
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I got to look over your shoulder.
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Look at me. It's weird that you don't look
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at me. No.
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Okay. All right.
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So tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Wait what?
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Yeah, I know tomorrow's Valentine's Day so I thought
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this would be the perfect time for us to come on and profess
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our love to one another. Did you prepare that?
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Oh, you know what? That's not ready for their.
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I can't open it on the show. They can't hear us.
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They can't see it. I'll open it after the shine.
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Let's dig in for our listeners because it's going to be boring
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for them to hear me. Open this All right.
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Okay, I'm going to talk and open it.
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I cannot so. So for those of you who are
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listening on the show right now I'm opening, they can probably
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hear that. Jimmy brought me a Valentine's
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Day gift. You're so sneaky.
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How did you get that in here, without me?
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Seeing it? That's the part being married to
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a lady that He forgot his water, watch everything on the shelves.
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Lets you buy stuff. So on, you can see this on
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YouTube, you can actually go back and revisit a bit or watch
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the show on YouTube will have it up soon.
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I love that babe and the skin that with her phone and it's our
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wedding song. Oh my gosh, you're so
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thoughtful. Yeah.
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Ah, Happy Valentine's Day. Okay.
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Ashley, you can take this out of the picture.
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I'm sure Ryan wants out poster. So we're going to talk about us,
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we're going to talk about us on the show, okay?
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You ready? He is ready.
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He is ready. Jimmy and I got married four
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years ago, it'll be four years ago on a month can you believe
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it's been four years already? No I can't eat wheat at the
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covid years in there too. So that's like a big one big
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realize. It's actually been a hell of a
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four years. It's been a really Rocky crazy
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for years. Not Rocky like from our personal
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but just how I think God's been testing us and there's a lot we
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have a lot of listeners that like in our community people who
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are fans of the show. Also just people who love us who
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are listening to the show. So in talking about money, which
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is a taboo topic and we get a lot of couples in my company who
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come and talk to us about money and a lot of them will say that,
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the only thing that they fight about is money that they, you
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know, feel like they have a good relationship but then Money
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comes into the picture and you and I don't really fight about
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money. No.
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Because you control the money and I don't have it if you don't
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already love Jimmy, I don't know.
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Yeah, so okay, so in true real money form, what I want the
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listeners to do is spend a little time, getting to know
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you. They've heard a lot from me,
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you're my better half and my my life, my world doesn't work
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without you. Yeah, so I want to talk a little
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bit about how you were brought up and your life with money and
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your relationship with money. We don't get a lot of your, our
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first guy on a show. Actually.
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Yeah. So it's usually women.
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Yeah. Sharing.
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And it's so powerful though. What I'm so excited for our
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people to hear that they're not alone and for men to hear that
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they're not alone sir and one of the reasons I adore you and that
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I married you is that you're open and you talk about things
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and You're vulnerable. So let's just let's take a walk
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back into Old Town Henderson. You were where you were born in
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Henderson, right? Yeah.
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Born and Henderson kind of race between Henderson of eggs back
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and forth. Yeah yep.
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Yeah and what was life like for you growing up?
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Was it like a metal middle class family?
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Yeah, we're pretty much middle class.
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My dad was a Teamster, so he was like a truck driver by trade.
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My mom always worked for General Electric.
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That I remember they can their parts counters here in town.
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My dad would be, you know, laid off sometimes and working
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sometimes. So I never really had like money
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cut like thinner talked about money and like for doing okay or
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whatever. I didn't know nothing about it.
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So did they ever fight about money?
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Did you ever hear them fighting about money?
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No, but my dad was Alcoholic and stuff.
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So when they fought but it was just, they fought to fight.
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Mmm, very fucking fight. I think more than anything.
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Did you enjoy ever know that? Like, you parents like did you
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ever think that like you couldn't do something because of
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money growing up? Was it ever?
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Because guys and girls are different the way that we
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internalize stuff and I'm just curious like what was your
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experience of money growing up? I mean we never really did like
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vacations America couple times but we went to Disneyland or
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something like that but we are vacations always going back to
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New Mexico and seeing the family are going to California.
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See my mom's family so there's never like we went on a trip
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that I remember. Other than once, I think we left
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New Mexico early just to do a road trip on the way home
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because I think something was happening with the family.
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They're like, my mom was just tired of all the bullies and the
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Antics or whatever. But I remember one time with
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Wendy, we're going to wet and wild here in town and went wild
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when it's cool. I found ya like my mom gave me
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this money to go for me my brother word and go to Wet and
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Wild or whatever for the day. So we suck at the 7-Eleven and I
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must have left all that money on the counter.
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And so we get the whet watch that.
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Okay, you got your mind on my own.
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Oh, I could find my money. And I mean she was mad or
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whatever, but then all of a sudden, they Kevin Kammer, if we
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went to a bank orders got more money out and she's pulled it
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out. And I don't know, looking back,
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like, that could have been like a lot of money to them, you
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know, I don't know, man. Just sucks.
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You know what I mean? Yeah, it is what it is.
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Yeah. Right.
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We learn these things, as we're kids, and you've been working
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since you can remember, like, I know you're a hard-working guy,
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you work? Work, work all the time.
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And I love working, and I and I know you do.
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How long have you been working? When did you start working?
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Crap. I was always working.
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I was helping my dad and said, he'd take me to work with them.
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Long as I can remember. I mean, like 13 make probably
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they actually get paid. The second.
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I get a job, like, legally, get a job.
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I wouldn't start working. What was your first job?
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Go-kart track tumble down really?
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Yeah, that's awesome. Competition Grand Prix.
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I didn't know there was a g Campbell daughter, Jimmy, and I
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grew up in different sides of the city.
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I grew up in North Las Vegas area and he grew up in
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Henderson, which at that time, were like, Worlds Apart, she
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still are in a lot of ways. So you started making your own
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money. Did you ever learn?
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Did anybody ever teach you? I mean your mom's pretty
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sensible. She's pretty good with money.
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Did she teach you how to manage money?
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No, I don't think so. No.
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Where did you learn to be good at it.
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So where did you learn? My mom helped me in what way
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like did she open a checking account for you?
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And that kind of stuff that we did that stuff, but she's always
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been the one that Kate might be time to refinance your house.
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Kind of thing. Interest rates are good.
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She's always done my taxes and stuff for me.
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I'm out. How do you know that stuff?
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So yeah. Yeah, she's always done it.
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One thing that we'll talk about how we met and all the things I
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guess, I'll come back to this. But one of the things that I
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noticed about you, when we started dating was that, you are
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very stable. So even though you say you're
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not good at money with money, you always provided.
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Yes. You've had your house for years,
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like our house now, but Really, we have this conversation last
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night. What we did?
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I give the garage but there's a bunch of junk in the garage
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murder of this conversation last night.
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No, I don't see how that works. The real Chastain leash.
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Ain't me suggest that. Yeah, so you didn't know a lot
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but you still are very stable, man.
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Yeah, what was your motivation to be stable?
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Become stable have your shit together.
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I've always make good money. So being in construction but the
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same company almost 28 years, I think I always big decent money.
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And so when I bought my first house, when I was 23, then I got
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the house on and now when I was like 27 26, hmm, just always
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worked hard or, you know, worked hard and had, you know, made
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good money, mmm. Yeah, can we talk about your
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career Journey? Because I love the company that
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you're with, they're like family.
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Yes. Really.
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And so many ways. Yes.
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And that was another thing that I was like, man, this guy is
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like donuts and Company for a long time.
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He's Like family. Like when we started dating, I
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was really paying attention to the people.
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You are hanging out with and our listeners.
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Know, I don't have a great background history story with
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like stableman. So I was really looking for that
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in like who I wanted to spend my life with, and you've gone.
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Be stable. You are you don't think you are
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just playing with you. Women know what I'm talking
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about? It's really nice.
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It's really refreshing kudos to you.
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Thank you seriously. Yeah.
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Where was I going with that? So you started working at the
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racetrack. Did you work through high
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school? Yes.
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Worked all through high school. I went to though of vocational
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school for culinary arts, And brighten High School.
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I started working at a place that was in town called the
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country in as a cook, which country.
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And did you work for one? That was a Henderson.
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That was awful, like mother sunset in Sunset or the tee off
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right there by Heffalumps. Yeah, there.
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And then, from there, I went to Sam's Town.
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And then I got a job at the Mirage as a cook.
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And then I was working at Mirage and Sam set the same time and
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Sam's Town found out that I was working at the garage.
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They call it a conflict of interest and of every remembers
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back in the day with samstat. Went Mirage, first came.
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It was like the crème de la crème, so there's really no from
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Sam's Town to Mirage, a big gap. Yeah.
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Hotel Industries. But they called it a conflict
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interest. I got fired, it's only job ever
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got fired from from Sam's Town. Yeah.
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Then. Went to the Mirage started
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cooking. Loved it did worked at a bunch
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of the rooms. Different restaurants killed it,
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nailed it and then my dad said to get me a job making
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construction when for 60 bucks an hour at the time, I'm going
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to 1677 an hour's. Make it 12 bucks an hour to
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cook. And so I threw my letter, you
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know, resigned and all that. And when I quit, the chef told
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me, he goes the executive chef at the time he goes, Jimmy, the
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one reason you don't have your own restaurants because I can't
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give the keys with alcohol because you're not 21.
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Yeah, so much 21 years old. So then I started my journey in
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construction. Did you start at Wells Cargo you
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requite? I'm 18.
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Yeah, I was 18 18 half think like 18 19, whatever that after
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Sherry she knows us to the office.
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I don't know. Start as a laborer at the
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company doing labor stuff, doing underground piping.
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Yeah, underground. Utilities grading literally be
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pretty much built. A lot of someone back in the day
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we'd start up a job and not a lot of people of Destruction on
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this radio. I don't think so.
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But so I go set up the the survey stakes and then all the
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big quipment come in. Then we do the update, all the
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ditches, put it on the piping in then we do the finished grade
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and I'm getting hot for the grades, the blades, telling them
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what to do, how deep the cuts stuff and then we pave it, then
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we come back and like up all the band holes and stuff like that
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and just move on the next. The next job connection and then
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I got the opportunity to get into the operating engineers.
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Local 12 that's here in Vegas, is for the heavy equipment.
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Operators for the same company running a Crusher that made type
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to Nets and took an aggregate for construction.
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Did that gun of the Russian side?
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And when it was slow, are about, I bounced between our weld shop,
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the company, and Crush in, and out in the job, and stuff like
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that. On the field ran dirt, spreads
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for a little bit. This is all like, foreign to me.
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Yeah, yeah. Right.
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I mean it's foreign probably a lot of people on here but yeah,
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I'd rather it spreads for a little bit when I got it and
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then I became a foreman over that Crusher.
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And I was youngest forming at the company.
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I was like, 21, 21 and a half, and then I was not only the
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oldest format, the content, the company, I was the youngest
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forming in the Union at that time.
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It says a lot about you. Yeah.
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I just like to work. We'd follow.
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Yeah. Get out of the way, right?
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And your silver? Yeah.
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Are you gonna get yourself hurt? Yeah.
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Jimmy or take heart? Take charge kind of guy?
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Yes, yeah. So you you've always worked fit
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like that was like even cooking, you're very Hands-On person.
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And some of you may not know this about Jimmy, but he's
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actually your welder to us and he makes beautiful stuff like
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there. We've got Furniture in our house
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that he's made and always working with his hands.
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And I love that about you like, yeah, my they are modeling.
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So you've been with those cargo for a long time and through all
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of that. IQ made.
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I mean, in construction in general in Vegas, you make
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really good money. You making over time.
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All of that but you didn't have range until your 30s.
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Yes. So what was your 20s?
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Like who? Do you really want it on the
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show? Know it was so hard on me, but I
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look back in my 20s. I had a blast, I mean, I was
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bouncing and clubs to on the weekends and a lot of that was
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taking care of my dad. My dad got sick, you know,
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paying off his medical bills and stuff and I was bouncing tell
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me, it was fun. I loved it.
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I mean it was a fun town back then.
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Yeah, a Vegas for those of you who are not in Vegas, we have a
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lot of listeners who are around the world.
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Vegas is very country. Country Roots, blue collar, Our
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country roots and when you say bouncing you are bouncing for
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clubs like you were doing security.
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Yes. Yes I was being a security at
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the nightclubs. So back in the day we had the
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beach was on the biggest heavy because it's now gone.
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Yeah and then yeah just work in the club scene for a little bit.
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Taking money from people, hot water.
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What does that mean? Oh, like it, the door.
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Oh yeah. Like a lot of times they come
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in, they have like a fake ID and depending on the club you worked
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at you that you take the ID or you keep the idea or give it
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back to him kind of thing. Yeah, so good.
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The club want us to take them we take it from putting my pocket
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say what you want to buy it back and again how much okay give me
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50 bucks. Mmm they give up the key.
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Figure, boxing back their ideas. I can I come in there like no,
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get out of here. Yeah.
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Got it. You got it.
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Know how to play the game, right?
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Yeah, that's fun. Okay, so twenties were pretty,
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why, what, how old were you when you met Breyer?
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I was seven years older than her, so she was 18.
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So what does that? I was 25. 45 times x.
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Okay, so Jimmy and I are both. We both met each other after we
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went through our divorces. So I was about a year out of my
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divorce. You were a couple of years out
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of your divorce I think or three years out of here talking choice
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or when we like that. When we met said like dates.
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Okay yeah. But we met in 2014.
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Yes. No 20 well 2014 technically I'm
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not Because you kicked up my best friend from my house for a
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date and I was still married at the time, the oh, yeah.
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Yeah, cash. These in the studio, listening
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to this. So a lot of you don't know this
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story, but so in 2014, Jimmy and I both went through a personal
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development program at different times, different classes.
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But in 2015, it was, it was Valentine's 2015, where you went
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through Ooh, relationships with Sylvia.
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Shout out to Sylvia. I love you.
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And I was going good. You still not like a whole
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nother story and that if you want to hear it, we'll share it
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later. Yeah, you're not gay.
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Yeah, definitely not. No, no.
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So we had gone through relationships class together.
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It's a weekend class about relationships and understanding
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while funding our understanding ourselves with love healing
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ourselves. All the things you have gone
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through your divorce with Breyer and I was on the verge.
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Age of divorce. I was really trying to figure
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things out, but I didn't go to the relationships class with my
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ex-husband and he didn't go with Briars.
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So we were there by ourselves I thought he was there.
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He wasn't. Okay, it was just me and we
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ended up in a group like, what? On Sunday.
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They put us in groups to do. Yes.
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So you want to tell the story sumeet?
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Yeah. Well, we're groups and the girls
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had to change into that. Was it sheets or something like
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that? Yeah, we weird.
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It's like a weird story but we were doing a skit.
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Yes, and I just remember, Lisa take it off for sure to juice
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that in their bra and I'm just like blah a little bit.
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Share these highlights an early rehearsal adorable, but I always
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got a crush on after that point. Yeah, and I didn't know that
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know, my first memory, I do remember you somewhat in that
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class but you weren't like you weren't A front-runner in the
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class, like, you know, if there were other people that were
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like, but, you know, taking the lead but I do remember you in
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that class in that small group experience.
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But my first real experience of you was at one of the nights
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where we all get together and we do we do some really cool things
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and you were like Chu and everybody out your like yelling
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at everybody in the room. I was like, wow, who's this guy?
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He seems really bossy. I always like to stay in the
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back like I don't never want to be the center of attention till
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it's time to be the center of attention.
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Yeah, it's like there's a ton. Just sit back and shut up.
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And let now you don't always have to be a chief, you know,
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you got to be an Indian but then there's times that you said,
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okay, this is stupid, people are stupid.
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So let's just man up, getting figure it out, get it
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straightened out and it's all right, let's go on the next
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thing. You control the chaos.
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So we hung out there a little bit and then I didn't really
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know your relationship status. I didn't know a whole lot about
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you. I didn't know anything about
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Breyer. I didn't know that you had
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arranged nothing and so fast forward to 2017. 2018, I'm going
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through my well, there was one little, there was a stand.
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I was a relationship coach and you came to my event, which is
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so funny. Right?
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That love frog. Kisses.
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Yeah, and here comes Jimmy, I was like, how sweet and I was.
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Yeah. Anyway, I was being supportive
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of your group. And I don't know if you were
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there. Ashley, she was asking if she's
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there. So, Jimmy was there.
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Remember if Ashley Moser and what come to find out?
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You were like There to support me.
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Yeah. Well I was trying to yeah, I
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kind of get a quote on quote support.
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Yeah. So the alternative alterior
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motive presents itself. But then when we reconnected
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actually Church. Yes.
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So in 2018 I started going to Central and you were at Central
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and for me that was like oh like hey how are you, it was Easter
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the Easter there with Conifer mukai Reserve Connor and What
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happened after that? Oh, I remember, I had to, I was
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in a situation where I had to move.
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Yes. So everyone's heard my story on
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the show and through the divorce, I had to move a couple
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of times. And I had this guy in my life
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who was like a rebound who destroyed my condo, and I had to
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move like overnight to get it out from under that situation
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and you were the, I was like, I remember this.
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So vividly. I was in my bedroom on the floor
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and I was like Like praying, because I was so stuck.
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I didn't know what I was going to do, and it was so clear to me
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in my head that it would said, I think it was God that said call
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Jimmy. Hmm.
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No. And then I did, I did I text you
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and you were like jumped in to help me and figure it out.
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And then I remember you kept checking on me like kept texting
21:04
me and Mike one morning. You invited me to breakfast.
21:07
Dramatic music. Wait a minute.
21:15
And, and then it like, duh. So Amanda debogorski.
21:20
And I, and you were friends, you know, you were friends with AJ
21:24
and I'm friends with her and separately, I had called her and
21:28
I said, hey, what do you think about Jimmy and you did the same
21:31
thing? Maybe she was like, kind of like
21:34
plant the seed. Oh yeah, I think she's drop
21:35
that. I saw that.
21:36
But yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, she was watching both of
21:38
us. Loving enough kiddo.
21:40
Love you. So yeah, here and here we are.
21:42
So we started needing. Yeah.
21:44
Forget about we did the Habitat for Humanity thing, we built the
21:47
house. Remember John Todd story, early
21:50
member the strange, Mary, you're there.
21:51
And I'll show you like you and all the girls that kind of the
21:53
he's the nail gun and stuff like that.
21:55
So you're all freaking out kinda there's pictures on my phone
21:58
somewhere. Yeah, but we signed the
22:00
blueprints for and, you know, you signed your name right next
22:03
to mine or I sign my name, right next year's not knowing of it.
22:06
And Guy, the owner, the company, some because it's up to the
22:09
placket are and our office. He sent me a picture of her, and
22:12
I was our names next to each other, and that was in.
22:14
Tina's years, down the road and back all along.
22:18
What I've grown tremendously in my faith, since starting sits
22:22
in, starting my journey, back at Central and getting baptized and
22:26
everything. But really growing my faith with
22:30
you and seeing all the ways that God was leading me to you.
22:33
I like feel emotional thinking about it and I'm also grateful.
22:37
Absolutely. Ya know, for whatever.
22:40
As much as my divorce up and I can speak for myself.
22:43
It was horrible. I hated that they didn't go
22:45
through it, but I had to go through that pain to get to you.
22:49
And so I know God put me through those those there's chaotic
22:53
times but now it comes with the calmness of having you in my
22:55
life, so it's well worth it. Yeah, yep.
22:59
Yeah. I think, even though I'm a money
23:02
coach, we work with people a lot on relationships.
23:05
And what I'm really excited about for having you on the show
23:07
is that other couples can hear other.
23:09
Well, people can hear that like a journey to the right person is
23:13
not linear. It doesn't, it's not like a
23:16
straight line, like you meet them, right?
23:18
Like oh no Halo and for whatever reason we had to be on our
23:23
journey to get to each other. But also like I had to be, I had
23:29
to be willing to like pay attention to the signs and like
23:32
listen where I can be pretty stubborn.
23:36
Anything you say that again, I can be pretty stubborn one more
23:40
time, please. I can't eat this recording,
23:45
right? It's recording okay.
23:47
Courtney. Yes, I'm admitting on live radio
23:51
that I can be stubborn. You are not stubborn baby?
23:53
Yeah I am but I'm glad that I listened this time me too.
23:58
And here's the thing. So here's my learning and then
24:00
we're going to switch to money. We actually are almost to the
24:03
second half of the show already. If you don't leave its Fallen
24:06
by, what what I've learned is that what was I going to say
24:12
about relationships? Uh-oh, remember how is
24:14
interviewing you when we first started?
24:16
Oh yeah. You'd ask questions after
24:17
questions. After questions at the
24:18
questions, I'll make cheeseless ladylike.
24:22
Slow your roll pump. The brakes.
24:24
Come on. Like you you like to talk.
24:30
I don't like to talk. I talk when spoken to and you
24:33
know, you guys all make fun of me that people always got to
24:35
talk to me. They do.
24:36
And I try to walk around like this resting bitch face is so he
24:39
wouldn't talk to me, but it don't work and people just call
24:41
up and say, oh hey, how are you like me?
24:44
Going to go start checking out and the lady wants start.
24:46
That's the checkered one start. Talk to me is like, I hate it.
24:49
No, no, no, please don't talk to me, please.
24:51
And then Yeah, I'm doing great. How was your day?
24:53
Oh that in bubba bubba bubba bubba but but then again you
24:56
meet some beautiful, people have beautiful conversation, you do
24:59
it. I just like to live in my little
25:00
bubble and that's it. Yeah I know but you do a good
25:05
job of breaking out of your bubble to because I know I know
25:09
you really do care. I do I do care about everybody.
25:12
I know you do almost too much. Probably maybe that's why right
25:15
fault. Yeah definitely a protector of
25:18
people and I think people get that when they see you which is
25:21
why they want to be around you is that you really are hard on
25:23
the outside but soft on the inside.
25:25
I grant a lot of deer in the mornings, I told him the other
25:32
morning, I think I'm just gonna grind it you for a whole day and
25:34
see the perfect conversation. Perfect pepper, but we do have
25:41
really great conversations. So for anyone who's looking for
25:47
the right human or for anybody who's in relationship?
25:49
What I, what I what I've Earned from Jimmy.
25:52
Is that it's never going to be perfect.
25:55
We're not perfect. I don't.
25:58
I'm I did not marry you to change you.
26:00
I love you. And shows you exactly as you are
26:03
for who you are and with your money, which we're going to roll
26:07
into that in the next phase stage.
26:10
What part the next part of the show that is do did is talking
26:16
about how we work. Because we do work.
26:21
No. You take care of the money.
26:22
I work and you take. I work to go to work and then
26:30
you take care of the money. Yeah yeah I don't know what's
26:33
going on next thing. I know like a notaries at the
26:35
house. Like it baby two, notaries here
26:37
for a business, whatever she goes.
26:38
Oh really call it re redid the house really refinance,
26:42
refinance the house. Yo babe sign this.
26:44
I'm like wait what? Well yeah we find it somehow
26:46
suspect. Okay sign here that we
26:47
refinanced it from like a An interest rate?
26:50
No, I'm sorry, but I had no idea was going on.
26:52
That's the point of this thing. There's a notary at the house.
26:54
I'm just thinking Some for your business and then it's no, you
26:56
gotta sign here. Here's the thing though in my
26:58
first marriage that that level of trust was not there.
27:02
So my ex has been didn't want to be involved in the finances but
27:06
also would like make me wrong. Every time I make a decision, it
27:11
was like a tug-of-war and for you you didn't have that trust
27:15
that level of trust in your first marriage.
27:17
Oh no you didn't like it. We have joint accounts.
27:20
We I think we barely got joined a counselor because we were
27:23
together. I think we remember how long we
27:26
were married for but we were together like 12 years or
27:28
something like that. But yeah, we never had joint
27:31
accounts like the last couple of years of our marriage.
27:33
Yeah, so there was a lot of control.
27:36
Those all control for me, when did that shift?
27:39
The controlling part or your nature?
27:42
After going through those emotional tones glasses.
27:45
Yeah. Get rid of all the control.
27:46
I didn't need to control it. Yeah.
27:48
And going back to church if I didn't go through.
27:51
Well, I don't know if you have time.
27:53
If I never went through this room have one.
27:55
Innit. Yeah, till next time, where you
27:58
could have time. Yeah, no, those go ahead.
28:00
Well, if I never went through those emotions, tell just
28:02
classes, I'd never been opened up to go to church.
28:04
And if I were to watch Step foot into those motels classes, they
28:07
were talking about God, I would have walked out.
28:08
And left eye was a guy that used to walk around drive around flip
28:12
off to give, give the church the bird.
28:14
Yeah. So that's how closed off I was.
28:16
And there's a lot of stuff behind the reason why that was,
28:20
but you know, that's what, maybe realize the let go of everything
28:24
because I'm not, And then after going to church and realizing
28:28
that God is actually the one that control that there's
28:31
nothing I can control. So just roll with the punches
28:34
instead of anything instead of trying to stop the punches, just
28:37
roll with the punches and of that because you can never stop
28:41
them. I don't.
28:42
Speaking of stopping that's a great time for us to take a
28:44
break. Good job, Jimmy.
28:49
Good job. Okay.
28:50
We're going to take a two-minute break, Jimmy.
28:51
Yeah, babe. All right.
28:53
Yeah, that's weird. I'm sorry I saw Sorry.
28:55
So sorry. We're going to take a two minute
28:57
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29:01
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29:05
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29:10
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29:12
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Here is Lisa Chastain. Lisa Chastain and Jimmy Lopez.
31:55
My significant other has been love of my life.
31:59
It's funny. When I, when it finally tickled
32:02
my brain, that you were actually interested in me.
32:06
I was like, there's no way. Like I didn't think in any way,
32:10
shape, or form that I would be your type.
32:14
At all alike. Go ahead.
32:16
Well, I don't know that's maybe my confidence to I mean You're
32:21
obviously hot in your tiny. It's our look like Shrek and
32:24
everyone were pictures. So it just I don't know, being a
32:27
guy that you see a guy with a hot chick and he kind of looks
32:30
like me not trying to like body shaming or nothing like that.
32:33
But like the guys, look at him. Give Mike the head, not like,
32:36
good job, you know? I really I get that all the
32:37
time. We walk around.
32:39
Hey, how does that even happen? Like well the name money?
32:45
As you're a good guy, okay, I was like a very good guy.
32:48
My thank you, got one, I got one, I have a lot of people that
32:52
will come up to me and be and tell me that like so.
32:55
And so was crushing on you or someone wanted one, when you
32:58
were single like all these women will come and tell me how like
33:00
they had friends that wanted to be with you.
33:02
And where were they when they come talk to me at the time?
33:04
Well there because that you were waiting for me.
33:07
Well, that's very true. Mmm.
33:09
I was running through them. Yeah, tune in next time for
33:15
Conversations of Jimmy's dating life.
33:18
The LOL. Oh my gosh, Delilah.
33:21
I do I do? She still around, is she really?
33:24
Yeah. Okay.
33:26
So let's talk money. Let's talk money.
33:29
I don't have any American. Your financial coach.
33:33
See you buddy. That's a good guys.
33:37
When we got, when we got together, we weren't coming only
33:42
money, but then we got married. Yes.
33:44
And what was that? Like, for you to give me the
33:49
reins? I remember you ask me you're
33:53
late so I think we're by ourselves, even it was like
33:57
thank you. You intended have this
33:58
conversation a heart-to-heart almost you like.
34:01
So what would you think if I took over our checking account
34:04
that checking account, meet, Bill combined, whatever you call
34:07
that goodbye their money. I'm like, I liked everything,
34:10
okay? It's like me, you'd be like me.
34:12
You trying to tell me how to like, build stuff?
34:14
Yeah, it just, yeah, it's what you do for a living.
34:17
Yeah, you're good at it. So.
34:19
Okay. That's all That's a struggle for
34:22
a lot of couples. Well, they shouldn't let it, I
34:25
mean, I don't know. But growing up.
34:29
Going through all the training I've done.
34:33
Like, that is a big reason why my marriage failed the first
34:35
time, the trying to control and everything like that.
34:37
So, And trying to be right and doing just being, right?
34:42
Like the analogy of every time you take an actual tree,
34:44
eventually the tree is going to fall, you know what I mean?
34:46
So every time you try to prove somebody wrong but me want to be
34:49
right, you take it. You hit the truth of that as
34:51
well. When the tree finally Falls
34:53
over, I'm standing there. Like what happened?
34:54
What the hell happened? Poor me, poor me, my wife, just
34:56
left me, but look, really, I need to look at myself and
35:00
that's what happened when I went through the classes and all
35:02
that. That looked at myself and
35:03
realize that nothing nothing in my life is worth being right
35:07
about with you. And that's how I this in our the
35:09
marriage. Now, where I learned from my
35:11
mistakes on the first one is I'd rather be wrong all day long and
35:15
as nothing to do with being, right?
35:17
I could sit there and say things I know.
35:18
I'm right out with you but what's that going to do?
35:21
It's not worth being right? Yeah.
35:24
Yeah I feel the same way. I let things go.
35:27
We're both very strong. Yes personalities.
35:31
Strong people and you did say you're hard-headed, I did and I
35:35
said I was stubborn. Oh yes sir.
35:38
Is that the same thing as hard-headed 60?
35:40
Yeah probably. But then you know couples are
35:43
trying to figure out the world of money and one of the things
35:46
that we talked about in our world, what meeting with couples
35:49
in particular is to say one, let one person Drive the Bus and
35:55
know the system's set up systems be on the same page and we'll
35:58
share what those are for us and then the other person supports
36:01
the system that takes a lot of trust and that's really hard for
36:05
a lot of couples but it's I think it's A theory, it works
36:09
for us. It's raining again, I don't know
36:13
what you're doing. I go to work, the check gets
36:15
deposited, whatever, direct deposit.
36:18
So I don't know what happens to it, and you always try to sit
36:20
down and explain it to me in a spreadsheet and I don't do give
36:23
a spreadsheet so I'm like okay we go on but it is trust and I
36:26
trust you with everything. So why would I be worried about?
36:28
Look, if you're going to Break break.
36:32
The bank with me till I money. I think you would have done it
36:34
already so it happens. Unfortunately, absolutely does.
36:37
So, there there is blind trust. And then there's also just
36:41
saying, okay this is this is probably going to be good for us
36:45
and so we but we do have systems in place and one of those
36:48
systems are different accounts. Was that hard for you to
36:52
transition to having different accounts for different things?
36:56
I mean, at first, I would say it was hard.
36:58
Just getting used to it. I mean, you just, you know,
37:00
dumb. I've always had one card to do
37:02
this and you break it up. It works.
37:06
It does work. So, we have an Eagle card
37:08
because it's actually got an eagle on it.
37:09
America, America, and that's our household checking account.
37:15
Like, that's where we have our debit card.
37:17
So, we put money in there every week, and that's for groceries,
37:21
and gas and fausto's eating out when we want to do that.
37:25
And then, You have your own card.
37:27
My allowance is I call it a grown-ass man.
37:30
Give it allowance. He does have an allowance so
37:33
$200 a week. Yeah.
37:36
And that works too. Oh, it's great.
37:42
How do you really feel about it babe?
37:43
I love it. No, come on.
37:46
No it look maybe you know better than anybody I would buy dumb
37:50
shit all the time. If I was able to get anything,
37:53
I'd have guns, new guns and ammo at the house every day, so and
37:57
tools and yeah, so I always Leslie.
38:00
So when she is like it's funny that will get a check for Mike
38:04
IRS Ursa IRS for like, Hey, you got a refund of like, $28 at
38:08
least because here we go reform. I can I buy a gun?
38:11
And she always tells me know when she said yes, coupled to
38:14
three times. But yeah, I do I say yes but I
38:17
know there's gonna be an end game and they're being at time
38:20
when it's all we're debt-free and all that stuff than I can go
38:23
by dumb stuff again. Mmm.
38:25
Yeah they'll come. Yeah.
38:27
We had a we had a big transition this year also.
38:30
So what what I like about this systems?
38:33
Oh, I have a question for you that I never Do this.
38:36
Like do you stress about money ever?
38:40
Now notice you got to figure it out.
38:43
I hope I do. I mean like literally you if I
38:48
came home and said, you said okay we're losing the house or
38:51
something. There would be some questions.
38:52
Okay, what happened? But I okay let's move forward.
38:55
You know if you said hey I screwed up and I lost all the
38:57
money on crypto or whatever. But okay.
39:00
Yeah. Okay why?
39:01
But let's focus. We have funded apartment or
39:03
something but I don't think that's ever going to happen.
39:06
Yeah, no, I have we have priorities.
39:08
One of one of the things Is that we're working hard towards.
39:11
So, just some tips for couples and if you have questions, I
39:14
mean, Jimmy can answer questions.
39:16
You can email me at Lisa. Lisa, at least hsn.com and I
39:20
think this would be a valuable conversation to continue on the
39:22
show of couples. Want to hear more about how we
39:25
would recommend certain things work but works for us is the
39:27
system. So we have different, you know,
39:29
money for different spending and for Jimmy who's the supporter in
39:32
the relationship for the finances?
39:35
You know, when we have money and we don't have money.
39:38
Yeah. And there's never, we never I
39:39
have we don't have money. Yeah.
39:42
Yeah. You know what I mean?
39:43
Like, it's more like we're broke, but it's like, okay, well
39:45
this is gonna we have. We're down to 20 bucks, no more
39:48
stupid shit, no more Amazon! Yes, Jimmy!
39:53
So we do the money types and you haven't ever, did you ever take
39:56
the money type quiz? Oh, you've had me take a
39:58
thousand to five. Nicholas New Year, whatever, but
40:04
he's definitely a spendthrift. So what I tell my friend, like
40:08
my clients is that with spendthrifts.
40:10
You can't change them. So me trying to tell you that
40:13
you can't. So yeah, I mean, I'll go spend
40:16
it just to prove you wrong. That's right.
40:17
Watch this. Yeah.
40:18
And a lot of couples do that though.
40:20
Yeah. No one tries to control the
40:22
other and not spend money and So the new hate spending money.
40:27
I don't I yeah, what? Yeah.
40:31
What time should she have a Dell computers for Rick?
40:34
We're always saying they think we were dating and it was a very
40:37
short dating process for us was like three months having 82
40:40
years in the marriage, she kept, I think pre covid.
40:42
I just kept going through Dells at once, he won some bucks,
40:44
Chromebooks were 250 dollar company.
40:46
Yeah, kept going through them, kept on through it.
40:48
Once he or she need a new one. I might want to buy Matt.
40:50
Why don't you buy him a cover? And I'm not a computer that I've
40:52
ever great things about Mac. They don't get viruses.
40:54
Yada yada yada yada. She goes, okay, so buy me one
40:58
moment. Okay, get on Amazon.
41:00
Swipe, swipe.com. Here we go.
41:02
And my house, this one that she was okay.
41:03
And I poop by. Yeah, she looked at makes it
41:05
was, like, 1,200 bucks or whatever wasn't like, okay, it's
41:08
done. So, I had to, she wanted it.
41:11
She'd want to spend it. So, I had a, but that's right,
41:13
and it was done. That's right.
41:14
And now she's got, you get a Mac.
41:16
Uh, now I have one at home in the office, but you helped me
41:22
break out of that scarcity. So I'm not a cheap chip.
41:27
By like it when I'm in my Lane, I'm actually a delusional
41:30
Delilah and definitely we both are over-generous.
41:32
Like we're just very generous. So a lot of our money goes to
41:36
church and other people and for you even more, even though you
41:40
do spend on yourself, you spend a lot on the boys and other
41:43
people. Yes, that's a part of.
41:45
I think why we work too is that we both are committed to being
41:47
generous, but I grew up very like, my parents were like, very
41:53
mindful. Maybe you've heard them, even my
41:55
mom makes comments. The time about like saving money
41:58
and how he didn't have money growing up and so spending money
42:01
was very scary. And then after my divorce for
42:03
sure, like being in a relationship where I was beat up
42:07
all the time, about not physically beat up and mentally
42:10
beat up all the time, about the choices I was making and then
42:13
with him being an alcoholic money was never like I couldn't
42:16
keep money ever around. So the fear comes from like not
42:21
having it and making sure I like want to make sure we always have
42:25
it. And that I really do Oh, I do
42:28
want you to trust me. And that's part of it, too.
42:31
Like I always want to make sure that we have money.
42:33
No. You know.
42:36
So that's important to me. So that's why I get fearful or
42:38
scared because I'm just always thinking about the bigger
42:41
picture to yeah, the bigger picture I want you to retire.
42:45
Good luck with that one. Well, I want you to have the
42:48
option. Yes, it's some point to do that.
42:50
So I really want to make sure that we're planning our money.
42:53
So for couples, you know, listening to this and thinking
42:55
about your own Journey with money.
42:57
There's no wrong, or right way. And like I love the fact that
43:01
Jimmy is more like spending because we just booked a trip to
43:04
Alaska and I don't know that we would have done that.
43:06
If it was just me at the control but you're like, babe, we're we
43:09
gotta go. Yeah, gonna do this and it's
43:12
scary for me like oh my gosh, it's a lot of money.
43:15
How are we going to make it work?
43:16
But your trust in me and then also just your more fluid I
43:21
guess or trusting that. It's all going to work out.
43:23
Fine. I know.
43:25
Yeah. But we, I mean, we both make a
43:30
good living for ourselves. We work hard for our money, we
43:32
have to enjoy and and and wasting your time.
43:35
When you say waste, and spending your money on moments instead of
43:38
material things, I think is a big thing for everybody like
43:43
We're even talked about this instead of her Christmas, it
43:45
again, the boys presents and all that, you know, I don't call
43:48
dumb stuff, but it literally is material stuff in the Bible who
43:51
talks about, you know, don't don't want a camera to find that
43:55
the diverse orders about think it's in Matthew, but invest in
43:59
the things that were wrought and get eaten by Moss or something
44:01
like that or rust, make it about the memories and about the
44:06
material things. And so that that's going to
44:08
Alaska, the memories will have the boys will have, you know
44:10
what I mean? And we'll have so because
44:12
eventually they're Old and get the hell out eventually sooner
44:15
than later, but please Lord. But yeah, no, I did.
44:19
Yeah, it's all about memories. It is.
44:22
And this year, really like this last year, especially it's been
44:25
a rough year. This is my, we went through a
44:27
big transition where so, when we were dating and newly married,
44:32
our boys, went to their other parents house.
44:35
So, range would go for a week that we only caught again, and
44:39
then Connor would go like every other weekend or whatever.
44:42
So we Bad brakes, which was actually really nice.
44:45
Thank you to get to know each other and fall in love and all
44:49
of that. And then in the same year,
44:51
within four months of each other, we hope we have the boys
44:54
full-time Now. Yep, they're expensive and they
44:57
stink and they stink gosh. They stink so bad people but we
45:05
We've had a net. Thank you could chew the air in
45:11
the room, so I swear it's so gaming, so gay me, I know, but
45:17
that's been a big transition financially to.
45:19
I've experienced that like the money goes a lot faster and it,
45:23
I always wanted the boys full-time like to not have
45:27
Connor full-time and I'm, you know, I know it for a long time.
45:30
You did have yes let that's actually a good, a good thing to
45:34
talk through what was Like being a single dad, I mean off and on
45:38
will for a long time actually write it would be it would go
45:41
months at a time that he wouldn't see his mom.
45:44
At first, they can, he was little, he was probably three or
45:47
four when we got separated or whatever.
45:49
And there was a man wants, it was like three months until she
45:52
seen range or something like that.
45:55
But thank God for my mom, I mean really between my mom and her
46:01
group, you know, my ex-in-laws ranges grandma, And if my
46:06
neighbors have eons, you know what I mean?
46:07
Like I would take range so I was working construction.
46:09
You know, take range of my mom's at 4:00 in the morning, drop
46:11
them off. She take him to school, then I
46:14
get off in time, hopefully to pick him up for school, or she
46:16
picked him up and I pick them up.
46:17
Miss out, you know, my mom's house but I couldn't have done
46:19
it without my mom. That's 100% truth.
46:21
Like it was she was help me raise my son?
46:24
Yeah, he's made comments before. Yeah, he's like a second mom.
46:28
Yeah, yeah, I mean he's literally I pick them up and
46:30
come home and you know we start dinner.
46:33
They're going to hang out, watch cartoons or their watches.
46:34
He didn't we go to bed rinse and repeat?
46:37
Nope. Yeah financially you were
46:40
always, you honored your commitment to like you always
46:43
pay child support? Yes.
46:45
So what was that, like, financially?
46:48
Raising range is a single dad. Do you?
46:51
Did you ever feel like there wasn't enough money?
46:53
Or did you always just make it work?
46:55
Just always made it work and weather is taking on credit
46:58
card, debt and all that stuff and they just always made it
47:00
work. You have to do as a parent.
47:02
You can't, you don't have a choice too.
47:04
For me, failure is not an option.
47:06
You know what I mean? Like none of us are perfect but
47:07
we can strive for Perfection so I can't fail.
47:12
And if I do, there's something I need.
47:13
I seriously need to learn. Yeah, not that.
47:15
I don't fail, but I don't like to feel.
47:17
Yeah, he's made it work. Yeah, you did.
47:21
Yep. Been on that house 20 years now.
47:24
Someday 20-something years. I do something years.
47:26
Great neighborhood. Get Low.
47:27
The neighbor you to. Shout out to our Paradise Hills
47:30
friends. Whoa, what?
47:33
Yeah. Yeah.
47:34
So being a single parent for me was it was a credit card shuffle
47:38
and what I like about this show too is that we're not trying to
47:42
be perfect and say we got all of our shit.
47:44
Like we still have credit card debt and even as a money coach,
47:47
I think that's some people like, oh my gosh.
47:49
What is she doing sharing that it's like?
47:51
Well, that's the journey. Especially is parents like we
47:54
want to give our kids the best life possible.
47:57
We want to give him what we can, and sometimes that means we're
48:00
just going to have to shuffle things.
48:02
Yep. Or not.
48:04
Not have certain things that we want so that are and have them
48:10
have what it is that they want. But yeah, Freedom, guns and
48:13
freedom and freedom. But then acid also, like, for me
48:16
last year, what was what was hard was navigating the
48:20
emotional piece of what our boys were going through.
48:24
And I feel like that's where a lot of our money went to was
48:28
making sure that they had what they needed and that they had
48:31
what they wanted. And that they could they could
48:35
feel like we were going to definitely take care of them no
48:38
matter what you know I think. No, I mean, I don't think I know
48:43
that they, they know that we're secure and not only like
48:48
financially, but I think just, I mean, honestly, they, like
48:52
people said about raise their said about convict, they're just
48:54
happy, they're happy kids. And to see that expression of
48:58
what range of condor of both been through.
49:00
Like it's heartbreaking. What they've been through and to
49:02
see that they're happy again, they're smiling and all that
49:05
Biz, the world to me, and it It just tells me that we're doing a
49:08
good job. Yeah.
49:10
So even though I want to kill him but yeah yeah.
49:14
What parent doesn't? Yeah it's true.
49:16
Every now and then do that it would never happen just so you
49:19
know that was on the radio it would never happen but what do
49:24
you, okay? So we have probably less than 10
49:26
minutes on the show left and you are very active at church and
49:32
people seek you for guidance. I don't always get to see those
49:34
moments and very rarely do but what are what are young men
49:39
asking for support these? Like right now what are some
49:41
words of wisdom that you can give for men who are navigating
49:45
relationship and money today? It's almost before I would have
49:51
thought about it. Sorry relationships of money.
49:54
I think life is about relationships, no matter what
49:59
kind of relation is true. Me and Lisa being in a
50:01
relationship is being husband, and wife, or mean casually.
50:04
Have we ever in a relationship as friends or people are at
50:08
church friends at church, everybody.
50:10
We're all in relationship, no matter what.
50:12
And we all have a relationship with ourselves and our wives,
50:15
and with God, and Some are going to go great.
50:20
So I'm going to go hard and it's okay.
50:23
It's okay to just say, hey, this relationship didn't work.
50:27
It's okay to say, hey, I love you but I need to walk away from
50:30
you. I've had to a fortune have
50:34
beautiful friends in my life and I still have beautiful friends,
50:36
my life. There's some friends that I had
50:38
to just walk away from not that I love them less but it just
50:42
wasn't going down the right path for me at the time.
50:45
So, but I could call them today and they give me the shirt off
50:47
their back and I do The same for them.
50:51
Money-wise just it's not worth arguing about.
50:54
It's not worth. I mean sometimes I see something
50:58
that count and I start getting my head.
51:00
Like what was that for what was that for?
51:01
I'm like, shut up stupid. Like it's none of your business.
51:04
Not theirs, so my business but she's got it.
51:06
Why are you worried about quit? Trying to control it like it's
51:09
going to happen like yeah, I don't know.
51:10
Does that answer? I think that's helpful.
51:12
Okay, I know we've had conversations about guys in
51:16
construction in particular. Yes, it's great that you get
51:19
paid weekly. Yes.
51:20
And it's also not so great sometimes that you get paid
51:23
weekly, but you've Always made it work financially, you've
51:27
always been responsible and you know, sometimes gone into or
51:31
whatever. But what are some some things
51:33
that you might recommend or say to someone who's like
51:37
financially going through it right now?
51:41
Save as much as you can when you can.
51:43
I mean, when it's good specially construction, you know, mean,
51:45
like when it's booming, we're getting overtime Bank, your
51:47
money, bake, your money, back your money and then because the
51:51
times are, I mean during the recession out in 2008 and all
51:53
that stuff, I almost lost my house and it was closed and we
51:56
were working it working, maybe 20 hours a week sometimes weeks,
52:00
there was crazy but we made it through it.
52:03
Yeah, I mean just you'll make it through it, no matter what
52:05
you're going through, you're gonna make it through it.
52:08
The devil's always going to tell you that you can't do it, you
52:10
can't do it. You can't make it through the
52:12
storm. But you need to be able to
52:13
Whisper back in the devils are said, no, I am the storm.
52:16
So watch out because I'm going to come through this like a
52:18
mother. Yeah, and I'll make it through
52:20
it. We have to get through the storm
52:22
to get to the, to the season of calm.
52:24
So right? I love that.
52:27
I love that about you. I love you, too.
52:31
I think those are some great nuggets is that you can make it
52:34
through and that no matter what you're going through
52:36
financially, no matter what you're going through in your
52:38
life, there's dark times. You and I have been through some
52:39
dark times. Yes.
52:41
And together, we've navigated it, and also for men, I just
52:46
want you to hear that you're not alone.
52:47
No. And I love that about you so
52:49
much that people can come to you and confide in you, but you got
52:54
to find somebody to talk to. Yes.
52:56
And men as men, I'm a huge wedding.
52:59
Guys just don't like to talk, but as men, we were taught that
53:02
we don't cry. We don't show our emotions.
53:04
We got to be tough. We got to do that as well.
53:06
That's all bullshit. Throw.
53:07
All that stuff out the door that doesn't matter.
53:10
You got to have be able to talk and I was a product years ago of
53:14
a guy that did talk to nobody. I was a fucking pressure cooker
53:17
that was way to explode and then I explode on the wrong person
53:20
because they cut me off or something like that so that
53:23
don't work. Yeah, you have to be able to
53:25
talk to somebody, whether it's talking to God, talking to your
53:27
spouse, talking your friends. You got to have be able to talk
53:30
to people. Yeah, yeah and money is one of
53:32
those things that people don't want to talk about.
53:34
It's really important because it's embarrassing, if you're
53:36
broke and you make a hundred thousand dollars years, whatever
53:39
you're broke. Oh it's not that you have money
53:41
as you probably spend a nation. Yeah.
53:44
Giants ammo and guns and American Freedom.
53:47
Yes. When zombies come go and throw
53:50
dollar bill out. Hey mister, do you got us?
53:52
So does Connery says it often, I think Jimmy's got us in a zombie
53:55
apocalypse will be fine. Anyway, well with two minutes to
53:59
close, you've shared a lot of your heart, two days or anything
54:01
else that you want the listeners to hear.
54:02
No, you already may talk too much.
54:04
Okay, I don't know. Thank you.
54:07
Yeah, I'm grateful that you came.
54:12
Everyone, my husband. Yes, yeah.
54:14
So if you're listening to this, just, you know, day before
54:17
Valentine's Day. Also our belief Jimmy and eyes
54:20
belief. Is it it's just a day.
54:21
Yep. It's just today and if you're
54:22
going crazy thinking that you have to buy certain things or be
54:26
a certain way financially for the person that you love at the
54:29
end of the day. No, their love language.
54:32
We talk about that know what matters to them and realize that
54:36
the money is it's really not as important as the words.
54:41
No. And who you're Being for each
54:42
other and the memories we're working on that actively in our
54:46
household. You don't need a day to
54:48
celebrate your loved one. It does add a doesn't tell you
54:50
what they what did Beth doesn't said it the best son on yellow.
54:54
So she said, what was it? You don't need a special day to
54:57
bring flowers and be flowers any day.
54:58
That's right, something like that.
55:00
But yeah. A little love note, Little
55:02
Flower little thing that I got. That really wasn't for
55:04
Valentine's Day. Just seen it and it really liked
55:06
it. Yeah.
55:07
But it just kind of fell on Valentine's Day so it kind of
55:09
worked out perfect. Yeah.
55:10
It's perfect. Thank you.
55:12
If you want to see it, you can see it on the YouTube channel.
55:14
Will have the show up soon. Thank you everyone for joining
55:17
us. On this special 11, money
55:18
edition of real money, thank you for spending time with me and my
55:24
husband, Jimmy. What were you going to say,
55:25
babe? So so all these things that he's
55:30
been wanting to say for so long, he's gotten to let us know what
55:34
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