The Link Between Money, Meaning, and Happiness

In The Trenches

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* Today I am thrilled to welcome Carl Richards to the podcast. Carl has spent decades as a Certified Financial Planner, is the creator of the Sketch Guy column (which appeared weekly for a decade in The New York Times), is a best selling author (most notably of The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money), is a podcaster (most recently, the host of 50 Fires: A Podcast About Money and Meaning), and is a frequent contributor to countless financial and other publications, including Morningstar Advisor, Marketplace Money, Oprah.com, and Forbes.com, among others. In our conversation today, we cover: How in some instances money can indeed buy happiness; Why money is like alcohol; Why you should aim to “die with zero”; How to run small experiments to see what types of spending are likely to produce happiness for you; Why you may want to think about money as you would gathering firewood in a remote cabin in the wilderness; And much, much more.