Chatting with The Reddell's

in this episode Shay and I talk about why we decided to go with a school bus instead of another tiny house project. We also let you know what some of the trials have been, and how we have worked with them or around them. Overall doing a bus is stressful and scary, especially when you don't have all the knowledge of how to proceed. But even with all that it will be worth it in the end, because you have persevered through it. Follow our bus project on...

So we recently took a personality test. The results where AMAZING!! If you haven't heard about the Enneagram test you should totally take the free version here. After taking the test we couldn't realize that A. We have pretty close to the same main personality. B. WoW our main personality is a jerk. C. This explains so much. Basically, we loved this taking this test. And we are having our friends/co-workers/family taking this test and seeing what they are. Shay can't get enough with...

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In this week's episode we dish out all the money advice we have for newly engaged or married couples. We have no qualifications to be given out advice, other than pure experience of us doing some things right and other things wrong over the last 8 years of our marriage. We wish that we had someone to shove some good money advice into our faces so that we could have done all the right things from the start. More in depth show notes with all links to resources mentioned in the episode: Check...

Being a couple who is always looking for the next idea that might help us live the life we really want, we have come up with a few ideas. In this episode we get into details about how we have started, dreamed, took a leap of faith to help achieve our dreams. Sadly none of these ideas, besides the photography business, actually became a reality. But we still continually write down our new ideas as we go on so that maybe one day we can reverse engineer one or two of them and actually live the...

We struggled when it came to our name of the podcast and were super excited when we came up with BLAH. But we realized a little too late that Colby failed on the name of the podcast. See, he was the one who researched if there were any other podcasts with that name. Somehow we missed it and after publishing, found that there were several other podcasts with the same name as us, or a different combo. We want people to be able to find our podcast easily. We don't want any confusion if you...

This week's episode is a follow up from episode #6 where we talked about what our goals where, and now how we plan to make that happen. We walk you guys how we use a tool called reverse engineering to help us define the steps that we have to take in order to make those goals a reality. More in depth show notes with all links to resources mentioned in the episode: Check out our website at https://thereddells.com Our podcast page is at https://thereddells.com/podcast/ Please leave a...

Recently, we've been discussing about the idea of our clothes situation that desperately need an upgrade. Colby is really interested in the concept of decision fatigue and loves the idea of a monochrome, almost uniform type wardrobe. Rather Shay is all about the colors and wants a capsule wardrobe. This doesn't mean that Shay has her opinions about what Colby's clothes should look like. Colby finds a kickstarter campaign selling these amazing pants that he is interested in, and can't...

What you believe about money and the way you spend or save it comes from beliefs about money that starts when your a kid. The people around you help shape your beliefs, whether those are good or bad or not. In the episode Colby and Shay share their own personal money stories from childhood and what they believed about money when entering their marriage. Since money is one of the top reasons why marriages fail, we believe that it's best for couples to openly talk about their finances....

We couldn't be more excited that next year, 2020, we will finally be debt free! It feels so freeing and such a huge weight off our shoulders to finally accomplish this goal that we have been working on for the last 4 years. But now that the end is in sight, we are ready to start to think about what's next for us? What are the goals that we want to work on next? 1. Our income source 2. Finding a home More in depth show notes with all links to resources mentioned in the episode:...

Please leave a review, subscribe and share with a friend! We are Colby and Shay, a married couple just doing our best to make our dreams come true as we document our journey, what we have learned, things we are going through currently and what the future holds. We want to bring the spotlight to other people crushing it at working hards towards making their dreams a reality. Check out our website https://thereddells.com for more information on who we are, what we are up too, the podcast and...

Please leave a review, subscribe and share with a friend! The first of the 3 categories is our personal fears that come up about the goals that we are trying to achieve. The second is our personal limiting beliefs that we all have that hinder us. Finally the 3rd category is broken down into time, money and skill. These are the easiest excuses for us to use to prevent us from taking action. Check out our website at https://thereddells.com Our podcast page is at...

Please leave a review, subscribe and share with a friend! Here are the 9 tactics we are using: 1. Total up debt 2. Come up with a game plan 3. Make a budget 4. Find things you can make a change in your budget 5. No-spend challenge 6. Monthly budget parties 7. Change up lifestyle 8. Make principle payments 9. Use tax refunds More in depth show notes with all links to resources mentioned in the episode: https://thereddells.com/getting-out-of-debt-9-tactics-we-are-doing/ Check out...

Please leave a review, subscribe and share with a friend! After you make your budget, it's time to look over where you can make changes to save more money. This usually requires you to make changes in your lifestyle, it did for us anyway. One of the biggest categories that most people can cut down is their food budget. Another part of your budget is your utilities bills. Finally maybe consider looking at ditching the tv service, changing up phone plans, and choosing to have date nights at...

Please leave a review, subscribe and share with a friend! We are sharing a Q & A style on how our lifestyle has shifted and embraced a more minimal feel to it. For Colby his word to describe it would be freeing rather for Shay it would be intentional. We haven't always been like this and we share how both of journey's have taken place, completely differently even though we are married. Our kids have embraced this lifestyle whole heartedly with us and all of us notice a significant amount of...

Please leave a review, subscribe and share with a friend! This week, we decided to drop the kids nap time because it just wasn't working for them. With this new change, some challenges have come up for Shay specifically as she has to create new daily routines. The biggest challenge has been that she is so tired lately that her productive habits that she has created have gone out the window and we are in survival mode. Shay fears that this little hiccup will destroy these habits that she has...