Simple Rich People
Simple Rich People teaches you how to think, act, and grow like the financially free — with simple, human-centered insights you can use today.
Episodes
35 episodes
Episode 35 - You Are the CEO: Building Your Personal Enterprise
What happens when you stop treating your job like a routine and start seeing it as a revenue engine? In this episode, we explore the mindset shift of running “You Inc.” and set the stage for a deeper dive into the financial metrics that drive r...
Episode 34 - Running Your Life Like a Business: The Household Metrics Framework
What if you managed your life the way great companies manage their business? In this episode, we translate key corporate metrics into personal finance, helping you bring structure, clarity, and control to your financial life.
Episode 33 - The TMV Framework: Making Better Decisions with Time, Money, and Value
The Time-Money-Value (TMV) framework helps you evaluate decisions with clarity and intention. In this episode, we explore how aligning your time and money with what truly matters leads to better choices, greater freedom, and a more fulfilling l...
Episode 32 – Where Your Energy Goes: The Hidden Power of Strategic Decisions
Not all decisions deserve equal attention. In this episode, we explore how simple rich people conserve willpower, focus on high-impact choices, and use long-term thinking to design a life of freedom, clarity, and purpose.
Episode 31 - Beyond Budgeting: The Next Level of Financial Thinking
Budgeting builds financial awareness, but the real power of money emerges when that awareness shapes life decisions. In this episode, we transition from managing expenses to using financial clarity as a strategic tool for designing a life of fr...
Episode 30 - Budgeting as Experimentation: The Maze of Habits
Budgeting is both science and art—grounded in numbers yet shaped by personal values. In this episode, we explore how experimenting with habits and designing meaningful spending categories helps people navigate the maze of life with curiosity, g...
Episode 29 - Painting Your Budget: The Art of Spend Categories
Spend categories are the color palette of your financial life. In this episode, we explore how thoughtfully designed spending categories reveal habits, align money with priorities, and transform budgeting into a flexible tool for personal growt...
Episode 28 – Tracking Your Spending: Turning Awareness into Habit
Tracking your spending turns budgeting from a plan into a powerful habit. In this episode, we explore simple ways to record expenses, understand your spending patterns, and build the awareness that leads to lasting financial empowerment.
Episode 27: A Balanced Budget in Motion
In Sunnyville, Ms. Thyme discovers how budgeting allows life to evolve without losing financial balance. When a Labradoodle named Mara enters her life, a few thoughtful adjustments keep her goals—and her umbrella fund—on track.
Episde 26 - Budgeting: Reinforcing the Map
In this episode, we reinforce the foundation of budgeting by exploring what happens when you review your spending closely—how truth emerges, forecasting improves, and expense categories evolve to better reflect your priorities. This process tra...
Episode 25 – Creating a Budget: The Map Before the Journey
Budgeting isn’t about restriction or perfection—it’s about awareness. In this episode, we walk through how to create simple, flexible spending categories and use real data to build a fact-based map that helps you understand your money, align it...
Episode 24 - Budgeting in Action: From Awareness to Choice (Sunnyville Edition)
This episode brings budgeting to life through two real-world examples from Sunnyville, showing how clear numbers turn everyday tradeoffs into confident, values-aligned decisions.
Episode 23 – Why Most People Don’t Budget (And Why You Will)
In this episode, we explore why most people don’t budget—examining common misconceptions, overconfidence bias, fear of numbers, and the illusion that budgeting is only for the financially gifted. By confronting these barriers with honesty and ...
Episode 22 - Why Budgeting Changes Everything
Budgeting is not about restriction—it’s about clarity. In this episode, we explore how measuring your spending transforms financial anxiety into control, turning money from a source of stress into a tool for intentional living.
Episode 21 - From Awareness to Action: Your Simple Rich People Roadmap
Episode 21 brings everything together—mindset, net worth, metrics, habits, automation, and BHAGs—into one clear Simple Rich People roadmap. This integration episode sets the stage for our next chapter: budgeting, where awareness turns into alig...
Episode 20 - Your Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) – Designing a Financial North Star
Episode 20 invites you to define your BHAG and step into a bigger version of your future. Learn how bold goals, paired with simple habits, create financial clarity, confidence, and long-term momentum.
Episode 19 – Automation, Big Goals, and the Quiet Power of Consistency
In Sunnyville, we follow a married couple using simple automation, a clear BHAG, and steady habits to build toward financial freedom and retirement. This episode shows how consistency—not drama—creates calm, choice, and long-term progress.
Episode 18 - Station Z in Real Life: Mr. Cardamom & Ms. Clove and the Power of Financial Clarity
In this episode, we follow Mr. Cardamom and Ms. Clove as they navigate career change, family pressure, and uncertainty—showing how financial awareness and simple habits expand your options and help you move through life from Station Z.
Episode 17 — Habits, Automation, and Financial Empowerment
In this episode, we explore how everyday habits shape financial freedom—breaking time into three simple buckets and showing how awareness, automation, and intentional choices help Simple Rich People reclaim control and reduce stress, and l...
Episode 16 - The Economics and Evolution of Habits
In this episode, we explore how habits quietly shape time, energy, and long-term outcomes—and why intentional habits, not dramatic actions, form the foundation of sustainable wealth. Simple Rich People understand that habits are an economic for...
Episode 15 - Who are Simple Rich People
Simple Rich People aren’t defined by how much they have, but by how clearly they understand and use what they have. In this episode, we explore the mindset, behaviors, and quiet choices that separate financial noise from lasting calm.
Episode 14 - Net Worth in Motion – A Two-Generation Case Study
Net worth isn’t static—it moves with life. In this episode, we walk through a two-generation case study of Ms. Pepper and her daughter, Ms. Tobasco, to see how assets, debt, and liquidity shift over time, and what that teaches us about financia...
Episode 13 - What is Your Wealth, Really?
A clear, hands-on look at debt, loan types, and net worth in action—brought to life through the case of Mr. Chili, and why these numbers matter more than most people realize.