One of the fastest ways to make extra money, just stop spending as much. It goes straight to your

bottom line. Hey, and you didn't even have to come up with a new business idea. Today, we're talking

tactical and creative money saving hacks with a longtime listener, a serial side hustler. She's the co-host of

the Fugel Friends podcast and co-author of the new book, Buy What You Love Without Going Broke.

Jen Smith, welcome to The Side Hustle Show.

Nick, thanks so much for having me.

This is for sure a full circle moment for me.

Well, it's been a long time coming.

Appreciate you joining me today.

I think we both are in agreement that it's important to take a holistic view of personal finance,

thinking of

yourself as the CEO or the CFO of your own life, and really taking charge of your personal

profitability, which of course includes the revenue side, which we've got hundreds and hundreds

of episodes about increasing your income, but it also includes the expense side, which we typically

don't talk a lot about. And with that,

I want to tee it up to you for suggestion number one on how to spend less money or start

saving more or maybe a foundation that you need to lay on this mission to get the spending

in check. Yeah, I love side hustling, but you're right. When you focus on the

expense side, that's the lowest barrier to entry. And you can start seeing more margin between

your income and expenses faster when you stop spending money than if you're just focused on

side hustles. So what we tell everyone to do is, yes, first,

track every expense, but not just your current expenses and your future expenses. First,

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