Today we discuss money and budgeting!! Karen brings a unique take on taking the stress out of your budget! We are John and Karen, parents of two incredible kids, who love family time, especially time spent walking on the beach or hiking in the backcountry, enjoying the beauty of the world around us. We are on a mission to show other family’s how they can achieve more, live more, be more, have more. Right Now. With the income you currently have. We were just like you, living a “normal” life: House, cars, kids, vacation once or twice a year, sports, grocery shopping… We would commute to work and then rush home to have dinner with the kids, play outside for a bit and then watch a show and get ready for bed to do it all over again the next day. So what happened? After one of our vacations, we woke up and realized that we wanted more out of life. We wanted to spend more time with each other and our kids. So we had this Crazy idea… What if we travel the world? With our kids? Before they grow up? Once this idea was spoken, we couldn’t stop thinking about it. Was it the “right” choice to make for our family? Did it make sense to even think of this as a possibility? Hours upon hours, upon weeks, upon months of conversation, we came to the conclusion that this was something that we HAD to do. Only ONE BIG PROBLEM: We didn’t have the money! Despite all of John’s experience as a Financial Advisor and later a Wall Street trader for a small company, we had never “hit it big”. We had kept our heads above water through 4 job losses (within seemingly stable careers), multiple out-of-states moves, and a failed real estate flip. So how could we possibly make this happen without jobs that could be done remotely? Without a pile of cash? Fast Forward 7 "short” months. We boarded a plane with one-way tickets to begin our new traveling journey. Our first destination? Bali. We had gone from $0 to having 1-year’s worth of expenses saved up. The process that we discovered became the foundation for our Financial Alignment Program. We realized that our passion was in sharing this process with other families just like you, so you have the ability to DO MORE with your own family — whatever that may look like for you! InspireMyMoney.com https://linktr.ee/inspiremymoney