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✍🏽This holiday season, consider the gift of a prenuptial agreement!
Season’s greetings,
For all of you soon-to-be-married folks, this holiday season, consider the gift of… a prenuptial agreement! I’m only half-joking, but hear me out.
The truth is, the idea of a prenups have always made me uncomfortable. I think it’s because I’ve always associated them more with divorce than I do with happy marriages. But I’ve just learned that I’ve been thinking about this the wrong way. It turns out prenups aren't just for divorce. In fact, they can be a powerful tool for building a strong and financially secure marriage.
At least that’s what Aaron Thomas, an award-winning divorce attorney, author and founder of Prenups.com has taught me when I interviewed him for the latest episode of the Weird Finance podcast.
I’d love to hear about your own experiences with prenups. Don’t be shy; hit reply.
Your friend,
1. 💸 How Prenups Support Marital and Money Health with Aaron Thomas (Weird Finance) In this episode of Weird Finance, Paco chats with lawyer and financial expert Aaron Thomas to discuss prenuptial agreements. This episode also features a segment called Slow and Steady with Leo by Leo Aquino (@queerandtranswealth), an award-winning author, poet, and anti-capitalist personal finance expert.
2. 🤔 4 Men on Sabotaging Their Relationship After a Promotion (The Cut)
3. 💭 My Sacreligious Personal Finance Beliefs (A Wealth of Common Sense)
4. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - What Are Business Tax Write-Offs and Why Are They Important? (HYG Original)
5. 📖 Has It Ever Been Harder to Make a Living As An Author? (Esquire) “If you're going to make it as a writer today, you have to be compelled to write regardless of how much money it's going to earn you […] because it's probably not going to earn you enough to only do that.”
6. 🏠 Ask These 11 Money Questions Before Moving In With Your Partner (The New York Times) “Approach money questions in a romantic relationship with the same care and consent as you do conversations about physical intimacy and each other’s sexual backgrounds. They can feel similarly sensitive as you move from one stage of reveal to the next, so try to ask each question with an empathetic smile.”
7. 🍲 ‘How do you reduce a national dish to a powder?’: the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours (The Guardian) “Crisp launches can act as a rough timeline of travel and immigration trends – only four Thai restaurants opened in the UK in the 1970s, but by 2003, there were 446. Today, Thai Sweet Chilli is one of the best-selling Walkers flavours in the UK.”
8. 💼 How Politics Became a Business (New Yorker) “No single development has altered the workings of American democracy in the last century so much as political consulting, an industry unknown before Campaigns, Inc. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, political consultants replaced party bosses as the wielders of political power gained not by votes but by money. Whitaker and Baxter were the first people to make politics a business. ‘Every voter, a consumer’ was the mantra of a latter-day consulting firm, but that idea came from Campaigns, Inc. Political management is now a diversified, multibillion-dollar industry of managers, speechwriters, pollsters, and advertisers who play a role in everything from this year’s Presidential race to the campaigns of the candidates for your local school committee.”
If you have a question you’d like me to answer on the Weird Finance podcast, you can leave me a voicemail at 1-833-ASK-PACO. You can also email me your question by replying to this email or emailing us at weirdfinancepod@gmail.com.
The Nerdletter by Paco de Leon
Want money advice that you can actually understand? So much money advice ignores who we are, our background, our values, and our emotions. I’ll show you how to be in better control of your money every week, even if you’re just starting out.
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