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Hello and welcome back to It All

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Adds Up the podcast where we chat about money,

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how to get it, how to save it and how to

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invest it. I'm Jess Irvine, a

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senior economics writer at the Sydney Morning Herald

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and The Age newspapers.

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And I'm Don Powell, money editor at those very

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same papers. We hope you all had a lovely

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break and enjoyed our summer series Re Heat of the

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best hits from our first season. We're

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back and raring to go, but we've decided to kick off 2023

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with something a little different.

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Yeah, that's right. With the cost of living

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crisis really biting now. We've

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decided that we want to talk to you, our

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listeners, about how you are coping.

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Do you have a budget? Do you know how much

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you're spending? Dom Do you know how much

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you're spending?

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No, no, not at all.

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That does not surprise me. For some reason I

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definitely know how much I'm spending because

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I write down every single dollar and highlight it.

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But I thought we could actually start

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this series by calling you

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across the coals and seeing

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if you know where your money's going. Are you up for

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it?

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Look, I think for the good of the listeners,

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for the good of the pod, I'll do it.

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You'll expose your finances.

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I will expose my finances. But for

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everyone else, we're here to help. And we're

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setting the call out for you to send us your numbers.

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They don't have to be in a fancy spreadsheet like Jess's.

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They can be completely unorganized like mine.

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And in return, we'll take a look, and

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we can see if we can find you some obvious

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ways to save some cash or achieve a

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financial goal or two.

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Yeah. You can think of us as your friends

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down the pub having a chat, you know, to help

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you get to grips with this tricky subject of

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money and hopefully put you on a

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better path to make some good money decisions

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in 2023.

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Can we actually go to the pub?

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Yeah, Dom, if you're buying.

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All right, maybe not then. But anyway,

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this is where we want you to get involved.

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Whether you're a spreadsheet wizard or have no clue at

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all where you're at. We'd love you to get in touch. You

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can email us at it all. Adds up at

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9:00 pm to you with your name and

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contact details and a little bit about you, such

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as where you live and how much you think you spend.

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Yeah, we personally monitor that email

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inbox, so if you do email us

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a promise that one of us will be back in touch

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with you. We'll be dropping our episodes

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in this new series from next week, so

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do stay tuned.

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And I can't wait to be grilled live on air. So

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I'll see you then.

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Yeah, I can't wait to grill you on it. See

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you all then.