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Podcast: The Money with Katie Show
Episode: Money, Friendships, and Quality of Life: Spending on “High ROI” Activities & Experiences
Description: This episode was inspired by a conversation I had with two other financial talking heads about how backwards it is to strip your life of all joy in the pursuit of saving every penny: “I’m not sure what they’re optimizing their lives for,” one said, “But it obviously isn’t ‘happiness.’”Friends, I plunked down in the chair after that and wrote for three hours straight (then decided I hated the first draft and basically rewrote the entire thing)—and the result was this episode.Take a trip with me to the fictional town of Ramseyville...