Episode 026 - Chase Valentine on Money, Decision Making, and Parenting the Next Generation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We had a great time speaking with the Valentine boys a couple weeks ago, and as a follow up we decided to bring them both on one by one to share with us a little more of their own point of view and personality. Chase is joining us again to talk about how he thinks about his life as a teenager and his relationship to his jobs and money, and how he feels that contrasts with his friends that are the same age as him.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>Life as a Teenager in 2021</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chase is 16 years old but talks like someone who’s more introspective than you would expect from someone his age. When asked about what kind of advice he’d give to people his age, he explains about being connected with the world and yet understanding that while he may be thinking about the world, the world hasn’t necessarily caught up with him yet. “This is one of the things that I've struggled with the most: don't overthink every decision that you're going to make. I'm 16 years old. There's no standards I'm trying to meet and there’s nothing that you really can't do. So just go and just make the best out of the years that you still can before you have all of this stress of ‘adulting.’”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although the term ‘adulting’ is not one that he likes, it represents to him a time when he’ll have to be more serious about where his money goes and what his future holds. For him right now, he’s grown up knowing that time is an investment, but as a kid that investment looks different. “Money is money, right? And it can always be earned back, especially as a teenager. It's not like there's a lack of jobs to get that that money so you can enjoy those times. So, keeping that money and putting it away where it needs to go is not as important as making those memories as a teenager, because I know I'm not going to get these years ba