Choosing Financial Contentment, with guest Scott LaPierre
Washington pastor, Scott LaPierre, and his wife, Katie, focused together on paying off their debts on just one income while also raising 9 children. Scott shares their experiences, beliefs, decisions, and approaches to how they’ve achieved their financial balance despite the obvious challenges.
- Challenges to living on a single income
- Not letting your possessions possess you
- We begin to take things for granted when they become too frequent
- Dealing with the vehicle, mortgage, and consumer debt after getting married on a single, modest income
- Our culture’s income problem
- Justifying lots of small, “useless” purchases
- The need for housing, clothing, and food
- What the growth in storage units says about our society
- Spending our two most valuable resources: time and money
- Sacrifices, satisfaction, and contentment
- The power of generosity in life
- Wealth is a magnifier of who we are
- The stewardship of money and possessions
- The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment and self-control
