Choosing Financial Contentment

The Money Fit Show

Season 2: Episode #8

Choosing Financial Contentment, Scott LaPierre

Washington pastor, Scott LaPierre, and his wife, Katie, focused together on paying off their debts on just one income while also raising 9 children. Scott shares their experiences, believes, decisions, and approaches to how they’ve achieved their financial balance despite the obvious challenges.

1. Challenges to living on a single income
2. Not letting your possessions possess you
3. We begin to take things for granted when they become too frequent
4. Dealing with vehicle, mortgage, and consumer debt after getting married on a single, modest income
5. Our culture’s income problem
6. Justifying lots of small, “useless” purchases
7. The needs of housing, clothing, and food
8. What the growth in storage units says about our society
9. Spending our two most valuable resources: time and money
10. Sacrifices, satisfaction, and contentment
11. The power of generosity in life
12. Wealth is a magnifier of who we are
13. The stewardship of money and possessions
14. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment and self-control

 Links referred to in the episode, and how to connect with the guest, Scott LaPierre:

ScottLaPierre.org

Scott on Amazon

Scott on Twitter

Scott on YouTube

Stanford Marshmallow Test

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