Best Jesse Mecham Podcasts (2025)

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Money Doesn't Have to Control You 7:03

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When you don't have a plan for your money, it can feel like money is in control of your life. That can be a terrifying feeling! YNAB can not only help you set a plan for your money, but reclaim control of your money, and control over your life. Watch The Jesse Mecham Show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jessemechamshow Got a question for Jesse…

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ADHD Meets the Budget Nerds: Give Every Dollar with a Job with Ben and Ernie 50:32

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! Money and ADHD: two words that often stir up stress, shame, or avoidance. But what if we stopped thinking of planning as punishment and instead saw it as a path to clarity, confidence, and even peace of mind? This week, Pete and Nikki welco…

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ADHD and that Side Hustle Life 39:25

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! Side hustles can be exciting, creative, and empowering—especially when you have ADHD. But they can also be overwhelming, unsustainable, and, let’s be real, joy-draining if you’re not careful. In this kickoff to our new series on ADHD and mo…

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Ever Thought About Money at 3AM? 5:55

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Money shouldn't keep you up at night, and it doesn't have to! Giving every dollar a job and asking yourself five questions about what your money needs to do not only grows your bank account, it gives you peace of mind (and better sleep) Watch The Jesse Mecham Show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jessemechamshow Got a question for Jesse? Send h…

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The Science of Sound and Focus with Brain.fm's Dr. Kevin J.P. Woods 48:46

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! Music isn’t just background noise—it can be a tool. This week, we’re joined by Dr. Kevin J.P. Woods, cognitive neuroscientist and Director of Science at Brain.fm, to explore the science behind audio designed to do something: improve focus, …

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How's That "No Buy Year" Going? 6:30

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Did you make a resolution to have a "no buy year" this year? How's that going? While Jesse loves the idea of a no-buy year, mainly because he loves to experiment with money and behavior, he admits the concept of it is flawed. A "no buy year" typically means you refrain from making any non-essential purchases so that you can save more money. As Jess…

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Making it Stick! Memory and ADHD for College with Daniella Karidi, Ph.D. 56:24

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! Memory isn’t just about recall — it’s about learning, encoding, storing, and retrieving information in ways that actually work with your brain. In this conversation, Pete Wright and Nikki Kinzer continue the ADHD in College series with retu…

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Run Your Money Like a Football Team 6:17

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Football season is nearly upon us, and Jesse is thinking about the pigskin again. And money, of course. When you look at the great sports movies, they usually revolve around a struggling team -- often a team of stragglers and dubious athletes -- and a great coach who motivates them, helps them find their desire to compete, and puts them in position…

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ADHD College Planning • Office Hours for Your Brain 28:03

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! Welcome to Season 31 of Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast! In this episode, Pete and Nikki kick off the Back-to-School Series for college students with ADHD by tackling one of the most essential—and overwhelming—skills for academic success: …

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Why Is It So Freaking Hard to Save Money? (And How to Make It Easier) 6:38

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Saving vs spending... there's no question which one is more fun, right? Obviously, spending! By comparison, saving feels like a chore, something you ought to do, the responsible thing to do, but is definitely less fun. After all, you get something when you spend -- an item, an experience, a service. With saving you get, well, just more money in a p…

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It's OK to Move Your Goalposts 7:57

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You've probably heard the term "moving the goalposts," that is, a deceptive argument strategy in which you change the question, the criteria, or the standard by which you are evaluating something. The metaphor comes from sports, and it's a good metaphor for personal finance. Early in our adult lives we make a lot choices because money is scarce -- …

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Inbox Zero-ish: A Shame-Free Email Update with Melissa and Pete 1:01:08

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! In this bonus drop for all listeners, Pete and Melissa peel back the curtain on their personal email habits—and how ADHD continues to complicate even the simplest message. This is the fifth installment in the ongoing email challenge (the fi…

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Rebroadcast • Breaking the Fear of ADHD Budgeting with YNAB Founder Jesse Mecham 56:47

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! It’s summer rebroadcast season! Ok, let's get this out of the way: We're big fans of You Need a Budget. Like, huge fans. Massive, life-changing kind of product fans. So you can imagine that we're a bit beside ourselves this week. See, for s…

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Change Your Plan, Today! 6:30

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Personal finance is personal, as the saying goes, and the only constant in life is change, to employ another saying. On that note, Jesse issues a challenge in today's episode: change your plan! Add a category, put some money in it, delete a category, shuffle some dollars around... just make a change. This is a reminder to yourself that the beauty o…

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Rebroadcast • Get One More Project DONE — Fight the Dog Days of Summer and ADHD! 33:33

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! It’s summer rebroadcast season! We all have that one project—the thing we swore we’d get done before the end of summer. Whether it’s clearing out a garage, taming your inbox, or finally tackling that closet of doom, this episode is your nud…

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Can You Afford to Make Mistakes? 6:47

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Flying airplanes is serious business. Mistakes are costly, not just because of the cost of the aircraft; if you're flying people, their lives are on the line. Jesse knows this better than most, having two brothers who are pilots. One day he overheard them talking shop and narrowed in on a common occurence they had teaching student pilots to fly -- …

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Rebroadcast • Study Habits For the ADHD Student 35:10

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! It's Summer Rebroadcast Season! If you’re a well-practiced student, you probably have your own system and set of practices for doing that job. Taking notes, studying, preparing projects, taking exams ... you know what works for you, right? …

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Why Buy Now, Pay Later is the WORST Way to Spend 6:00

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Jesse has ranted about credit cards and their pernicious way of separating you from your money, both literally and metaphorically -- obfuscating the way you spend and distancing your priorities from the point of sale. Today he warns against the newest form of this pernicious spending: buy now, pay later programs. It's like a credit card you don't h…

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Rebroadcast • Unapologetically ADHD: The Planning Workbox 38:13

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! Join Pete and Nikki this week as they dive into the world of planning tools, focusing on the concepts of "inboxing" and "workboxing” from their new book, Unapologetically ADHD. They explore the challenges of managing the constant influx of …

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These 5 Simple Questions Beat Your Spreadsheet 7:30

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For some reason when the topic of money comes up, many people immediately want to jump into Excel and start exercising the so-called rational part of their brain. Money seems to demand sober, quantitative analysis, devoid of emotion which obfuscates the mathematical truth of the situation. Yet we rarely make decisions in a purely rational manner; e…

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Rebroadcast • Unapologetically ADHD: Understanding the ADHD Time Zone 35:18

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! Time and ADHD, they’re just not great bedfellows Just as soon as time’s wind is at your back and you feel like the world is opening up to you, it can turn and make hours feel like days. We’re talking about the messy and inconsistent nature …

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You Can Stop Second Guessing with Money 6:18

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We talk about how YNAB is the ultimate weapon against money stressors -- as you gain control over your spending, learn to give every dollar a job, and bring your spending in line with your priorities, the stresses decrease and are replaced by a growing confidence. There are other psychological "costs" of money, such as the anxiety and mental overhe…

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Rebroadcast • The Margins of ADHD 31:50

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! We spend a lot of time building gates and systems to protect ourselves from distraction of ADHD. But, what might we be losing at the expense of saying No? This week on the show, Pete talks about control and ADHD. Spinning off of the concept…

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Fan Fest Reflections: Spendfulness Is About More Than Just Stuff 4:53

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Jesse reflects on his interactions with YNAB'ers at the recent Fan Fest in Minneapolis, and how spendfulness manifested in many different ways. One important takeaway for Jesse was that while practicing spendfulness could mean taking a cool international vacation, or buying something fun and interesting (and those are totally valid things to spend …

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Rebroadcast • Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: Dr. William Dodson brings new insight to Emotional Regulation 47:24

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! There aren’t many practitioners writing about today’s topic. Unless, that is, you look up the collected works of Dr. Bill Dodson. Dr. Dodson is an award-winning board-certified psychiatrist and specialist in adult ADHD and his contributions…

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We Stopped Eating Out for Three Months. The Result Was Interesting... 9:53

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In 2017 the Mecham family decided to live in Manhattan for three months to experience the city, soak up the food and culture, and just have fun doing something different. While they were there they chose to maximize their opportunity to eat out -- Jesse went back and counted over 140 different establishments during that 90 day stay! After that expe…

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Rebroadcast • Email is Not Precious! — and other stress-relieving axioms to save you time 56:11

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! As we kick off our summer break, we’re re-releasing a few classic episodes that still hit home—like this one on email from way back in 2017. Yes, some of the tools we mention (hello, Evernote) have aged out of our workflows, but the core id…

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There Is No Such Thing as Savings 8:18

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It seems obvious that you should save money. It's the right thing to do, after all! But even the words that we use talk about saving money have problems -- should, ought -- loaded with moral baggage. Jesse reminds us that even money earmarked for savings is still spending, just spending that has been deferred to a later date, retirement for example…

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The Impossible Opportunity Cost of Doing Everything 32:03

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! We all know the moment when we realize we’ve said “yes” too many times. Maybe it’s a blinking cursor. Maybe it’s a half-warm cup of coffee gone cold. Maybe it’s your third attempt to open the same email. But in that moment, something tilts:…

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What I Do When I Really Want to Buy It 7:38

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When you really want to buy something, what do you do? Do you wait for 48 hours to cool off a bit and think it over? Or perhaps do you create a category for it in YNAB and fund it with a few dollars, just to see how it feels? Having the urge to buy something is not a bad or shameful thing, but there should be a process for weighing that purchase ag…

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The Fragile Dance of Memory and ADHD with Daniella Karidi, Ph.D. 45:23

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! We tend to think of memory as a vault—something that, if built correctly, should always open on command. The vault metaphor is tidy, satisfying, and wrong. In truth, memory is more like a three-legged stool balanced precariously on a floor …

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Money Stress Wrecking Your Health? Here’s How To Fix It! (Rebroadcast from The Art of Being Well with Dr. Will Cole) 1:13:14

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This week Jesse and the rest of the YNAB team are working hard prepping for the upcoming Fan Fest in Minneapolis, so today we are rebroadcasting an interview that originally appeared on Dr. Will Cole's Art of Being Well podcast. In this interview, Jesse talks about how money stress not only leads to poorer mental health, it has real physical impact…

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Hormones, ADHD & the Chaos in Between with Dr. Dara Abraham 42:14

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GPS is Now Open! Visit https://takecontroladhd.com/gps to learn more and take control of your planning today! In this episode of Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast, Pete and Nikki sit down with Dr. Dara Abraham—board-certified psychiatrist, women’s mental health expert, and founder of Dr. Dara Psychiatry—to explore the complicated and under-discussed…

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4 Ways to Start a Fight About Money 8:39

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It's no secret that money is a major factor in relationship conflicts. Whether it's misaligned values, a feeling that one partner is sabotaging the other's goals through their spending, or a desire to keep up with the Jones'... money has the potential to start or fuel a lot of conflict. But it doesn't have to! Often money arguments belie fundamenta…