How to Align Your Spending with Your Values

Will aligning your spending with your values bring you more happiness and financial well-being?

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Marketing often promises that buying a particular product or service will make us happy. But what if your spending isn’t bringing you any joy? The problem may be that it’s not in alignment with your values. So, how do you determine what’s important to you and adjust your budget accordingly?

On this episode of Queer Money®, Adam Davis, VP of Financial Health and Liquidity at Capital One, joins us to explain what it means to align your spending with your values—and why so many of us don’t do it.

We share strategies for identifying which of your values cost money and explore different ways of cost-effectively doing what’s important to you.

Listen in for insight on talking about money in a way that reduces stress, and learn how Capital One’s Money & Life Program can help you align your spending with your values!

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Topics covered on aligning your spending with your values

What it means to align your spending with your values and why most of us don’t do it
How 2 people might spend differently based on their values around retirement
Why we have to be intentional about aligning our spending with our values
A strategy for reviewing your expenses and rating each transaction on a happiness scale
How Adam defines money values and what differentiates them from our general values
How to identify which of your values cost money and explore ways to do what’s important to you in a cost-effective manner
How to talk about money in a way that reduces stress and increases confidence in your financial decisions
How Capital One’s Money & Life Program helps you align your spending with your values

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We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys (www.debtfreeguys.com), and the Queer Money® podcast hosts. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously, not fabulously broke, by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs and 3) save and invest for retirement.