How to Do a Money Date Night That Actually Works (and Keeps You on the Same Page)

Talking about money with your partner doesn’t have to end in a fight, it can actually bring you closer.

In this episode of Get Rich, Molly Benjamin chats with dream team Sammi and Nathan Jaeger, co-hosts of the Date Forever podcast and authors of The Fueled Up Life. Together they unpack how they’ve built a 17-year relationship filled with shared goals, champagne celebrations, and totally transparent money conversations.

You’ll learn:
💑 How to set up your own weekly money date night (and make it fun!)
🍾 Why celebrating wins together keeps you motivated
📊 Their simple system for tracking goals, budgets, and shared savings
❤️ How to get your partner involved - even if they hate spreadsheets

Whether you’re loved-up or flying solo, this episode will inspire you to create a healthy, exciting relationship with money.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 – Welcome to Get Rich
01:16 – Transforming your relationship with money
02:40 – Meet Sammi & Nathan Jaeger
03:16 – What gets celebrated gets repeated
04:45 – Nathan becomes the household CFO
05:58 – Building financial clarity & confidence
06:42 – Creating an annual game plan
07:03 – Seasonal & monthly money check-ins
08:14 – Weekly money date nights
09:29 – Combining income & managing cash flow
10:27 – The champagne goal system
12:12 – Shared vs individual goals
13:15 – Systems & tools that keep them organised
15:30 – Bringing your partner on the money journey
17:13 – It’s not about money — it’s about life
18:21 – Tracking progress & staying motivated
19:05 – Making money conversations fun
20:37 – Letting air out of the balloon
21:23 – Changing the environment for money chats
22:22 – Sharing the mental load
22:44 – Doing money date nights solo
23:39 – About the Date Forever podcast
24:42 – The Fueled Up Life book
25:01 – Shared goals = happier couples
25:41 – Closing thanks

CONNECT WITH SAMMI AND NATHAN JAEGER 

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Book: https://www.sammijaeger.com/fuelleduplife
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TAKEAWAYS

• What gets celebrated gets repeated.
• Intentional life catch-ups are essential for financial clarity.
• The role of the household CFO can evolve over time.
• Regular check-ins help maintain financial goals.
• Transparency in finances fosters trust in relationships.
• Celebrating achievements can be as simple as a bottle of champagne.
• Individual goals are just as important as shared goals.
• Making money conversations fun can reduce tension.
• Building a relationship with money is crucial for financial success.
• You don't need a partner to hold you accountable for your finances.

SOUND BITES

"What gets celebrated gets repeated."
"We do a few things once a season."
"What do we want out of this life?"

TRANSCRIPT

[00:00:00] Molly: Welcome to Get Rich, the podcast that helps you do just that. Get rich and stay rich. Hey, I'm Molly Benjamin. I'm the founder of Ladies Finance Club, one of Australia's largest financial education platforms for women. But before I started helping thousands of women take control with their money, I was a hot financial mess when it came to my own finances and not the fun kind of hot, more like crying in a supermarket, wondering where all my money went kind of hot.

[00:00:29] But here's the thing, if I can go from financial mess to owning a share portfolio, investing in property, and building wealth. Then you can too. My mission is simple to make women rich because when we have financial freedom, we have choices, confidence, and control over our future. Every week on Get Rich, I sit down with some of the best experts in the industry to break down how we can all start investing, growing our money, and creating long-term financial security without the jargon, boring bits or overwhelm.

[00:01:02] Because when women get rich, we don't just change our lives. We change the world. So if you're ready to start making some smart money moves, hit that subscribe button and let's get Rich together.

[00:01:16] Hello and welcome back to another episode of Get Rich, the podcast that helps you do just that. Get rich and stay rich. I'm your host, Molly Benjamin, and today we are talking about something that can. Transform your relationship, whether that's with your partner or with your money. Now, if you've ever found it tricky or just a bit awkward to get on the same page financially as your partner.

[00:01:39] Or you've been meeting to check in with yourself about where your money is going. I think you'll enjoy this episode. So I'm joined by Sammy and Nathan Jaeger, co-host of the Date Forever podcast, and they've been together for 17 years and have built a system that keeps both their finances and relationship.

[00:01:58] Sink from weekly money date nights to quarterly check-ins, to even champagne celebrations. When they hit those goals, they're showing us how to make talking about money feel easy, open, and even fun. And here's the thing, research shows that couples who set shared goals are happier. And the same goes for anyone who checks in with their own goals regularly.

[00:02:20] So whether you're doing this with a partner, a gal pal, or you're flying solo. I reckon you're gonna really enjoy this episode. And as always, if there's a topic you'd like us to cover, just send us a DM on Instagram at Ladies Finance Club. We love hearing from you. Let's jump in guys. Welcome to the Get Rich podcast.

[00:02:40] Thanks. Hey, thanks for having us. Now, Sammy, I saw you do a post on this long before we started working together and you had bottles of champagne, you were celebrating wins, and then you were talking about you do these catchups regularly with Nathan, your partner on your like goals and your money date nights, and I was like.

[00:03:02] Oh my God. I need to get you guys on the podcast to unpack this because I was just like, it inspired me and my partner. I was like, we need to be doing this. So like, yeah, where do we start with this?

[00:03:16] Sammi: Yeah, well, I think we start with my like core belief that what gets celebrated gets repeated. So I have big energy around celebrating anything that is a goal that we are moving towards.

[00:03:28] So about maybe six years ago, I burned my life down. I quit my big girl job with no plan. With Nate's full support and. I went about creating my life again, I guess from a blank slate. And Nathan and I had a lot of conversations about, you know, if we were gonna design our life with intent and not just do it by default, what was that going to look like?

[00:03:54] And one of the things that we, uh, you know, we didn't arrive at a perfect system straight away, but one of the things that we realized was that we needed to embed far more intentional, like life catch ups into our. Into our year. So it started with our annual game plan. So once a year, we get together at the end of November and spend one or two days like reviewing the year that we had and planning for the year ahead.

[00:04:22] So that's kind of where our like rhythm initially started and we've been doing. I don't know. Probably, yeah, at least five years now. Yeah. Um, if not longer. And then our relationship with money has just evolved from that, that catch up, that rhythm, that pulse. So I met hand over to Nathan, our, uh, household, CFO Mac.

[00:04:45] Molly: I was gonna ask who this, the household CFO is. It always seems to be one.

[00:04:50] Nath: Yeah. So I think my role as as CFO started fairly early in our relationships. We've been together for 17 years now. Uh, 18 years. Well, 18 years. We celebrated last week. Sorry. Yeah, we did. Yeah.

[00:05:02] And

[00:05:02] like money was, was not something that either of us were interested in when we first got together.

[00:05:06] Um, so it is definitely been like an evolution. In our relationship is like understanding money, both of our money beliefs and how to manage it as well. And we definitely work good to begin with. We, we went and saw a couple of financial planners and got some really good ideas and that's where I sort of stepped in as CFO to start mapping out all of our bills.

[00:05:27] Like I, for, for two or three years, I kind of had a spreadsheet. Every single bill that, that was upcoming for us. And, and I was basically forecasting two or three years in advance, like what's our expenses gonna be and that sort of thing. And I was tracking it down to the dollar as well, so I was reconciling everything and it was taking a lot of time.

[00:05:45] So

[00:05:46] Sammi: that's the nerdy part. That's the nerdy spreadsheet loving part. I was like, oh, we've got the ballpark. I'm happy with that. I, I feel like our cash flow in our bills account is sorted, whereas this guy wanted to track it to the dollar.

[00:05:58] Nath: Yeah.

[00:05:58] Sammi: Yeah.

[00:05:59] Nath: So I, I think that just set, it, set me up anyway. Uh, and my certainty kind of needs it set me up to know that we've got this.

[00:06:07] Mm-hmm. Like we understand where our money's going and what money we've got left over for other things as well. And I guess that's where our goal setting in our, uh, annual game plan kind of came into it as well, is like, now let's look at the next year ahead. What do we want to be spending our money on?

[00:06:21] What's our priority for the year? Is it travel? Is it trying to like build our investment portfolio? Is it trying to build our savings for a bigger purchase? Like what's our big goal for the year?

[00:06:32] Molly: Love that. And so you've got that annual once a year catch up in the end of November where you talk about the year that's just been, and then the year ahead.

[00:06:42] What other kind of milestones do you have in place to check in and make sure you guys are

[00:06:50] Nath: Yeah.

[00:06:50] Molly: Hitting

[00:06:51] Sammi: roadmap. So we do a few things. So once a season, so that's kind of why we do it at the end of November, like our new year starts on the 1st of December. In line with the season. So when summer starts, that's minor nas like new year.

[00:07:03] So then come the change of season. So moving from summer into autumn, we have another catch up. So once a season, so four times a year we will get together and like decide what are our priorities for this season, what from the goals that we set at our annual level, like what are the things that we are really the priority this.

[00:07:21] Coming season. And we talk a lot about like the progress that we've made on the big goals that we've set. We obviously check in on our money savings, spendings, investings, our emergency fund, all of those kind of things. And then we look, uh, so that's kind of at the bigger sort of quarterly kind of level.

[00:07:40] And then, um, once a month we have a really intentional money date night. We initially started doing this when we read the Barefoot Investor. Wow. Um, so they. The agenda has changed a little bit, I would say. How long ago did we read Barefoot? Like

[00:07:55] Nath: it was just after moving to Sydney, so like eight years, eight or nine years ago probably.

[00:07:58] Yeah.

[00:07:58] Sammi: Yeah. So we've been doing this a a long time, but I would say the agenda for those money date nights has changed and sometimes we've been in a like really focused plan with our money, and then other times not so much. So the agenda has definitely changed and depending on whether or not we're investing in.

[00:08:14] Learning or whether or not it's just like staying the course. And then at a weekly level, Nathan and I have a catch up on a, normally on a Sunday afternoon or a Sunday evening, we chat through like, how was the week? Was it a good week? Was it a bad week? What would you like to maybe be appreciated for that?

[00:08:31] I perhaps as your partner overlooked, what are we doing in the week that's coming up? Like, what do our calendars look like? How are we feeding ourselves? Like what are we doing with food? How are we feeling about our bodies? Like how are we feeling about sex? And then we talk about money. So we generally just log into our banking app and look at.

[00:08:51] Where we're at, did we stay on track for the week or not? So we run like a bucket system, which I think you advocate for too, Molly. So we have really good transparency of where we are at, and we both have our individual spendings and savings that the other can't see. But everything else we have full transparency.

[00:09:11] Wow. So like our long-term savings, our travel, our bills, our like grocery money, all of that sort

[00:09:16] Molly: of stuff is shared. I was gonna just ask about that because I'm a big advocate for people to always have like their own spending money and then also their own emergency fund in their own name that they can only access.

[00:09:29] So I guess with that, have you guys, with your income, do you combine and then divide or is it mainly on what each other earns if that's not too personal?

[00:09:39] Nath: No, definitely. So we definitely combine everything to begin with. So we've, we've moved through like. A whole heap of different seasons in our life. Like sometimes where, where I've been kind of the, the full time employed person where, where semi's working on different business ventures, that cash flow is more up and down.

[00:09:55] There's other times where we've been both been fully employed and have steady income streams and things like that, so well, and now we're in a season where I'm unemployed and semi's the, uh, the sole breadwinner at this point in time. So, so it is definitely been like swings and roundabouts. So the best way for us to manage our money is to combine it all to begin with, and then we just have automated payments out into each of our different buckets.

[00:10:18] So we basically have artificial paydays, so mm-hmm. All of our money comes in once and then it goes out to all of our things once a week or, or once a month, depending on what, what it is.

[00:10:27] Molly: Awesome. And talk me through the champagne bottles you guys have.

[00:10:34] Sammi: So this was probably like four or five years ago. I think I just saw a TikTok or something about.

[00:10:40] Embedding this idea of what gets celebrated, gets repeated. So when we very first started our podcast date forever, we set a whole heap of goals and were really intentional about what they were. So it wasn't just like, make more money, it was like we have $10,000 in our operating expenses account and we've made certain number of sales or those kind of things.

[00:11:00] So, or a certain amount of downloads on the podcast. A certain amount of downloads on the podcast. Yeah. So we, yeah. Throw out little tags and attached the tag to a bottle of champagne, and then put the bottle of champagne somewhere really visible. So I think we had like six or seven. Yeah. Um, business and like money related goals.

[00:11:18] And then a few that were just like personal things too. So we both, were both big, uh, champagne drinkers and we love that little splurge. And we've been to champagne IRL, well, I've been twice. Nathan's only been once. No, I've been twice, been three times. Oh, I've been three times. I lost track. So that's,

[00:11:34] Molly: you love

[00:11:35] Sammi: it.

[00:11:35] Yeah. Every five years. That's my thing after to Paris and Champagne every five years. Yeah. So that's something that I know it's not, it's not really about the alcohol, it's just something that's really luxurious and really means something to us and we, yeah. We enjoy it. And it is, it's a little treat. It's not something that we Yeah.

[00:11:51] Enjoy in our day-to-day life. Like it really is for special occasions. Yeah. And sometimes that special occasion is not planned. And it's kind, exciting happens. But yeah, so we, we are really intentional about the goal setting and then celebrating it and making sure that we get to share it together and acknowledge like, oh, we worked really hard to hit that savings goal or that milestone, or whatever the thing is.

[00:12:12] Molly: Yeah. And do you do your personal goals? Do you kind of, when you have those annual long quarterly reviews, are you just looking at your goals together or are you also looking at your individual goals of what each other are achieving separately?

[00:12:24] Nath: No, we definitely do both. So is in our. Like life together, we basically look at eight different areas of our life and set goals intentionally in each of those different areas.

[00:12:35] Yeah.

[00:12:35] But then we also individually have some goals. Like, so one of my goals a couple of years ago was to do the the gong ride. So ride from Sydney to Wollongong, and that wasn't on Sammy's radar. It wasn't something that she wanted to do. So that was definitely a personal goal that I was doing. Yeah. But Sammy wanted to do a triathlon in that same year, so we were still able to do some training and things like that together.

[00:12:55] Even though that we'd set individual goals,

[00:12:58] Molly: amazing. And Sammy has been doing a bit of work with Ladies Finance Club and she is just like next level organized. Her systems are amazing. She's helped us so much. So I was just wondering when it comes to like your annual, quarterly, those weekly date nights.

[00:13:15] What do you keep that all on? Is it like an Excel spreadsheet? Is it like a Monday board? Like how do you chat's Both.

[00:13:23] Sammi: It's both. So we have a reoccurring calendar invite, so it is in the diary, it's blocked out. We're not staunch about it, like, but it goes in there and you know, if we're not gonna miss a friend's birthday or something like that to for the sake of our money date night, but.

[00:13:37] We can't delete it. It has, it just has to be moved. So Google Calendar, we have a shared calendar ecosystem where we can both see each other's, um, like shared commitments. We then have a couple of different spreadsheets that, again, are live in the Google ecosystem. So we have, both have visibility, but so things that track our, like long-term net worth, our future lifestyle calculator.

[00:14:01] So when we started to get really intentional about the life that we were creating, we were like, okay, well what. What are we shooting for? What does success and our field up life really look like? Yeah. And what will that cost? You know? And for us, like travel and experiences is really important. So we've got line items in there, like how much would we love to be able to spend on our anniversary weekend, our wedding anniversary weekend, our birthdays Valentine's Day?

[00:14:29] Like what would be a really. You know, our ultimate weekend away for those kinds of things, as well as like w. In the future lifestyle calculator, like what we're shooting for is like, how much would I like to be spending on self-care? Like how much, how often would I like to be going for a massage or facials and those kinds of things.

[00:14:48] And then what are we spending on clothes and how much support do we have in our home? Because there's things that we would like to invest in, like just, just buy back our time too. So we have a spreadsheet that kind of helps us track like, well, between now and our. Ideal future fuel up life. Where are we tracking to that?

[00:15:07] Nathan has his, I don't know, allocations calculator. Is that kind of the way? Like Yeah. What comes in and where it needs to go. And then we have a Trello board for our goals. Ah, okay. So we, that's where we kind of come back to and then, then we make it visual too. So we have a couple of posters printed and stuck up in our home that reflect our 2025 goals.

[00:15:30] Molly: Awesome. I love that. And I You are the CFO. Yeah. For people out there who may be listening who are like the CFO and they're like, I'm trying to get my partner on the bandwagon, because we do hear that there's generally one who's quite enthusiastic about the finances and another one who's maybe not as enthusiastic about the finances.

[00:15:50] Any advice or tips for bringing that person on the journey and actually getting them? Excited about the goals too. I know that's a bit of a tricky question.

[00:16:01] Nath: Yeah, it is a bit tricky. I think it's probably not about, well, it's about not going into too much detail, like, because I love tracking everything down to the dollar and the cent.

[00:16:11] I was doing that in my own time, and so I was, I was kind of doing all of the, let's say, hard yards or the

[00:16:18] Sammi: Yeah, he was coming to the meeting prepared. Yeah. Oh yeah. I was coming to be prepared, like I, it, I would've. Been stabbing my eyes out. If I had to watch you enter data into a spreadsheet, that was like at a granular level.

[00:16:30] Yeah, but I think like for the buy-in, for like the conversation. I mean, we were lucky that we're both willing to have the conversation. Yeah. We're both open to having more conversations about money, both open to learning more about money, and we've both invested in like our mindset around money and moving from like real scarcity to having a far more abundant mindset.

[00:16:53] But I, I think that. Money is a, as a vehicle for whatever we wanna do in life. So I think when there's resistance to having conversations about money, generally there's like a belief or a mindset thing that's sitting behind it, so, mm-hmm. As much as you might. Be frustrated with your partner who doesn't wanna participate in the conversations.

[00:17:13] Like why, why don't they wanna participate? Have they, has there been some trauma around money? Have, was money something that caused a lot of fights or tension in their family home? Can they not see the pathway to how money is gonna impact other goals and things that they maybe do care about? So I think it's often the conversation about getting excited about money is not even about money.

[00:17:34] Yeah. It's about. What do you want out of this life?

[00:17:37] Nath: Mm-hmm.

[00:17:38] Sammi: Yeah. So

[00:17:38] Nath: I think there's like that two part thing. It's about removing the resistance to having the conversations. Yeah. But then also getting excited about the goals that are coming up because like, yeah, I think so much about money is, can be the dollars and cents, but it's also about like, yeah, what exciting opportunities can this bring us?

[00:17:53] Or, and, and so I, I think that's a good way of Yeah. Trying to bring someone along that journey and be like, well, yeah, what do we really want out of life? And then how are we gonna make that happen? Yeah.

[00:18:03] Sammi: Yeah. And in our experience, this being able to see a sense of progress is super motivating. So I think if you're sitting down and having money meetings that aren't taking you anywhere, like you, you're not able to track towards a goal or you're not able to see any kind of progress, like that can be pretty deflating.

[00:18:21] So for us, like being really intentional about, okay, well what are the targets or what are the goals? Or what are we, uh, are the aspirations for different parts of our money, like whether or not it's our investment portfolio or our. Emergency funds like Nathan talked about, like we've had periods of time where one where not both of us have been earning and we've tapped into and used that emergency fund and that's been available for us to be like, okay.

[00:18:44] Rip the exit cord or the eject cord from a, a career or a business or a workplace thing because we've had the emergency fund there. So being able to track that and understand the progress towards it. I think, yeah, having conversations with our. Understanding that you're making progress, you're moving towards something can be pretty deflating

[00:19:05] Molly: and that exactly is what the emergency fund is there for.

[00:19:08] It's for those. Those periods of times you guys always look like you're having so much fun when you are doing your quarterly catchups and your money date nights. So how do you make it fun?

[00:19:20] Sammi: It is fun. I mean, like you already touched on Molly. I'm already a planner so I don't find that part of it like draining to get organized and get the notes and everything all in the same page.

[00:19:30] But when we started out the barefoot date night thing, I think Scott paid like really advocates for people to like go out to a restaurant and do the thing. So we initially did that. I reckon our first like six or eight. Money date nights. We did actually go out to a restaurant and have the conversations and look at our super accounts and all those things that we were really bound building, like foundational financial skills.

[00:19:52] Whereas now we recreate that kind of date energy at home. So we'll sit on the couch, we'll put. The spreadsheets up on the tv. Sometimes we'll have a really nice platter. Sometimes we'll use that opportunity to open one of those bottles of champagne. Like

[00:20:06] Nath: if pit a goal or if pit a goal. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:20:09] Sammi: Otherwise, if there was no goal, it's just regular one.

[00:20:11] Nath: Yeah.

[00:20:13] Sammi: Not the fancy and stuff. Yeah. So for me, I love talking about my life and what I wanna get out of it and where we are going. So for me that is fun and I think that's a choice. Like you get to choose how your relationship is with both your person, if you're sitting down and doing it with your romantic partner, but your relationship with money too.

[00:20:37] Like there's a lot of energy around that and some people have really hard or injured or damaged or dysfunctional relationships with money. So I think working on that part too has made it way more fun. The more that we've done it, the less conflict that there has been around money and opening up the banking app and seeing the reality, like it just is what it is and we've built that muscle to, so there's no resistance around it.

[00:21:04] There's no awkwardness around it. There's no tension around it. Whereas I feel like when you're not having those conversations regularly, it's almost like the balloon just fills up and up and up and up and up. And then the tiniest little bit of air into it can make up. Pop, whereas we let air out of the blue every single week in regards to talking about money and our life.

[00:21:23] Nath: And I think you touched on it earlier as well, Sammy, that just the environment does change, like your mindset as well. Yeah. So quite often, like our, our weekly money catchups aren't sitting down at our kitchen table or our, or sitting at our office and like looking at the spreadsheet. It's normally out on a coastal walk where we're chatting about life or where we're sitting at the beach or, or doing something like that.

[00:21:44] Sammi: Yeah. Cafe

[00:21:45] Nath: or, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't

[00:21:46] Sammi: have to be so icky. It doesn't have to feel Yeah. And it

[00:21:49] Nath: doesn't have to be expensive either. You don't have to go out to dinner or spend $200 to like set, set the right environment. You can go Yeah. Literally to the beach or go for a walk or, or just put on some like good music as well and have, have like some good vibes in the background.

[00:22:03] Yeah. And like set a, set a good positive mood.

[00:22:06] Molly: Love that and I love that you are also sharing that mental load because I do hear like when there is a partner who's the sole CFO, they're not sharing that. They feel like that's quite a heavy burden to carry and they're always. Trying to get their partner involved.

[00:22:22] So whether you are the CFO or you are the other partner guys, like, do a date night. You know, you're not gonna get it right the first time or maybe the second time, but start slowly, take action. And I'm gonna put a bunch of, um, example agendas that you could use in the show notes as well. Obviously we've been talking about couples, but a lot of our listeners are single.

[00:22:44] I guess there's no reason why you can't do this as a single person and, and with a girlfriend as well.

[00:22:49] Sammi: Yeah, absolutely. Like I was saying, like about building your relationship with money, like I, I mean, I have those like clarity break, um, journaling like dates with myself regularly. Sometimes it's about money and sometimes it's about like life or goals or you know, things that I'm trying to work through, but you don't need a partner to hold you accountable.

[00:23:11] Like, no, it's you and your relationship with money and I don't know, it's hard to imagine because Nathan and I have been together for so long, but. I really do think that if we were single and we were not together, I think both of us would probably still have quite an intentional relationship with money and fostering it and focusing on it.

[00:23:30] Molly: Yeah. I love that you guys mentioned before you had a podcast. Can you just give us a little, little brief overview of what that is and and how would you find it? Yeah,

[00:23:39] Sammi: so you can find it wherever you're listening to this podcast. So it's called Date Forever, and we chat with couples and experts about the tips and tricks they found to keep a relationship fueled up.

[00:23:50] It really started because we were looking for relationship education resources that. We're helping couples to go from like good to great. So rather than waiting for a relationship to be in pain or you know, trying to repair something, it's like, oh, where do we go? If we've found our person and we think we, we wanna do life with them.

[00:24:12] Yeah. Where do we learn the skills to do that? So that's kind of where the show was born. There's more than 200 episodes now. It's been such a gift for us to host together and we've, yeah, that's

[00:24:21] Nath: been

[00:24:21] Sammi: had the chance to interview some really cool people who have shared not just the theory of life, but

[00:24:27] Molly: like what does it really look like in practicality.

[00:24:29] Ah, love that. Well, we'll make sure we put that in the show notes. And also, I just wanted to touch on, Sammy, you've written a book, which is very exciting. Congratulations. I know how much effort it takes to write a bloody book. So yes,

[00:24:42] Sammi: huge achievement. Thank you so much. Yes, the fuel up life and you can get it all the good places, Amazon in particular.

[00:24:50] But yeah, this money date night is in there talking about our relationship with money. The rhythm for, uh, those check-in chats and creating your very own fuel up. Life is in there.

[00:25:01] Molly: Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. You two are my pinup couple. Me and my partner will definitely be, um, looking at having that annual, quarterly, and even weekly catch up just because then you've got the transparency as you said, like you are, no one's gonna burst or anything like that.

[00:25:18] You are completely on the same page. And the stats do show that the couples who have shared goals are the ones who are happier. So guys, the research shows it. Yeah, it works. It does. And we've got proof right here. But thank you so much for coming on, sharing, and we'll make sure we pop all those links in the show notes where people can find out more about you guys.

[00:25:41] Thanks for having us, Molly.

[00:25:42] Nath: Thanks so much.

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money management, financial goals, relationship advice, couples finance, budgeting, intentional living, financial planning, money date nights, celebrating wins, household CFO