EP 41: Making Your Home Meet Your Couple Goals with Rebecca Brooks & Dylan Pollock

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What you’ll learn in this episode:

  • The importance of examining your specific goals and how your home fits into them.

  • The difficulties couples have when navigating financial decisions together.

  • Different elements that should influence your decision on how much house to have.

  • How downsizing can drastically affect your lifestyle.

  • The value of looking past your current timeline and making temporary changes.

  • The impact alleviating the debt load can have on a relationship.

  • Why paying off debt is the training ground for personal finance success.

  • How Dylan and Rebecca help couples get started in uniting on their financial plan.

  • How to have those tough conversations about money and budgeting.

Rebecca Brooks & Dylan Pollock are a couple/financial coaching team that helps other married couples navigate their finances in an effective and low-stress way. In this episode, they share how they’ve been able to get themselves (and others) out of debt and the role that housing has played in that area of their finances. They also talk about how to decide how much house to have and ways to balance your current and future goals.

Money can be a difficult subject to talk about, and we often have different ideas on how we want or need to spend our money. Listen in to hear how Rebecca and Dylan help couples get aligned with their financial goals. You’ll hear about their own downsizing journey and gain key insight into how to maximize the efficiency of your funds, ensure your finances are in line with your goals and relationship needs, and more.

 

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Quotes from the episode

“We saw our home as a landing pad. We saw it as a place that we could just sleep, and then go do the next thing, because we like to travel a lot.” - Dylan Pollock

 

“There’s more when we come together—that’s really transformative.” - Rebecca Brooks

 

“As you make these changes and simplify things, you really notice how little you need to be happy—and that’s a pretty powerful thing.” - Rebecca Brooks

 

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