Jesse Mecham: With employees living and working worldwide, You Need A Budget has been a remote company since the beginning. How the Coronavirus Pandemic affects your Business, and how are you coping? Regarding our design, updates, and education, we always go back to our customers, as they inspire our next innovations.

We spend everyday talking to them, learning from them, and obsess over creating a budgeting platform that quite simply is the best solution to meet their needs – no matter what those needs are. We listen carefully to our customers and community, as they are our number one focus and priority. Jesse Mecham: The number one way we innovate at You Need A Budget is by listening. We hear reports every day of lives being changed: debt paid off, marriages saved, opportunities seized, stress eliminated, and sleep rediscovered! When you gain control of your money, you gain control of your life, and it feels great. We are building the best budgeting software out there. Today, You Need A Budget is driven by a growing and passionate team. So, in an attempt to make an additional $300/month to cover rent, I sold the spreadsheet online, and in September 2004, You Need A Budget was born. Living this way, and seeing how absolutely invaluable the Four Rules were, we wanted to spread the word.

We only spent money that was at least thirty days “old.”.

We broke up larger, less-frequent expenses into manageable “monthly bills.”.

We decided what we wanted our money to do before we spent it.

It really boiled down to four simple rules: So, I began developing a system that grew into something quite useful. (Yes, we were still in school.) I knew we would need to watch what little money we had very carefully.

Living on love was great and all, but we still required food, shelter, and school textbooks. Jesse Mecham: Early in 2003 Julie and I (Jesse) married. Tell us about you, your career, how you founded You Need A Budget Like many experienced, the year has brought daily pivots and a total (and sometimes uncomfortable) change in pace and routine. This meant that we had a full house with seven children (plus myself and my wife, Julie) all at home.

My family was already hunkered down when stay-at-home orders were put into place as we had welcomed a new baby at the beginning of the year.

This coincidentally is a budgeting lesson we teach at You Need A Budget, which has also lent well to navigating the hurdles of 2020 (funny how these things work out). Requiring a willingness to adjust in real-time, and roll with the punches. For my family, like many others, it has brought disruption to everyday normalcy. Jesse Mecham: There is no doubt that 2020 has been a year that no one has experienced before. First of all, how are you and your family doing in these COVID19 times?

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