I Will Teach You To Be Rich - 95. Where Are They Now? Netflix Reunion with Nathalie

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

In this special limited series, we’re following up with couples from my Netflix show, How To Get Rich. Tune in to hear what’s new, what isn’t, and where their money conversations have gone since... our taping. Today, we check in with Nathalie to learn if she's curbed her spending at all. This episode is brought to you by: Ness Well | IWT listeners can get an extra 5K welcome bonus when they apply for the Ness Card at nesswell.com/ramit. Babbel | Right now, when you purchase a 3-month Babbel subscription, you’ll get an additional 3 months for FREE. Just go to Babbel.com and use promo code RAMIT. LMNT | Right now, LMNT is offering 8 single serving packets FREE with any LMNT order. This is a great way to try all 8 flavors. Get yours at DrinkLMNT.com/RAMIT. Connect with Ramit • Get Money Coaching with Ramit  • Download the Conscious Spending Plan • Get my New York Times best-selling book • Get my no-numbers journal • Other episodes • Instagram • Twitter • YouTube If you and your partner have a money issue and you want my help, I occasionally select a couple to work with, free of charge. Apply for my help here. Produced by Crate Media.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 That had two million left, two point two left. I blew it up, I went shopping. No, are you kidding? I just decided to spend every penny and start from scratch. Like start your wardrobe from scratch? Yeah. Okay, so what'd you get? Everything and anything.
Starting point is 00:00:20 You know, I just realized, you know, like a lot of people have different addiction. I love beautiful things. It makes me feel good and why not? It's not a toxic thing. I'm not using substances. It's just like clothes. What do you mean you spent half a million dollars in one year? Not that bad. In my lifetime, I must have spent, I don't know. You know, it's a beautiful addiction. At least I look in my closet and I have it. It makes me happy. Nothing yours makes me happy.
Starting point is 00:00:53 Welcome to a very special, very surprising edition of the I will teach you to be rich podcast. Today, you're hearing Natalie, who's one of my guests from my Netflix show How to Get Rich. And this is a special follow up episode. I just recorded to show you where she is now after the show. Now I vividly remember meeting Natalie on Rodeo Drive. She came to pick me up in a Ferrari and she told me that she wanted to change her overspending habits.
Starting point is 00:01:24 But along the way, I learned a lot of clues. Before me, she had fired financial advisors. She didn't really have a need to change. And that's why we ended in the last scene at the restaurant the way we did. With me telling her, I was done working with her. Today is the first time we've spoken in a year. A few minutes past when I'm supposed to be talking to Natalie, she has not shown up. I'm gonna text her and see if we're still talking.
Starting point is 00:02:16 Okay, she just wrote back, yes. Okay. We're in the zoom. Uh, uh, center in your link. Okay. There she comes. Natalie! How's it going? Good and you?
Starting point is 00:02:54 Good, it's nice to see you. You too, long time no see, congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Great to see you. Yes, it's been a long time. It's been a year. Yeah. Appreciate it. Great to see you.
Starting point is 00:03:05 Yeah, it's been a long time. It's been a year. Yeah. So I am so interested to catch up with you. First of all, you want to put the phone down so you can move around. How do you feel? Yeah, I cannot put the phone down where I am,
Starting point is 00:03:19 but it's OK. I can hold it. OK. It's OK. I get uncomfortable, I let you know. OK. Well, you sound good. Everything looks good. So fantastic. Thank you. Okay cool. It's like a uncomfortable aletchina. Okay well you sound good, everything looks good, so fantastic. All right so this is not the house that I visited correct. Yes. You sold that.
Starting point is 00:03:33 I sold it. You sold it? Okay congratulations. And where is this house located? Is it close by to the old one? It's in Beverly Hills. Oh, great, great. Is this the one you're renting for 8K a month? Yeah, a little bit more, 8.5. Got it, okay, great. Cool. I have so much to catch up on with you. First of all, what have you heard about the show? What they tell you?
Starting point is 00:03:59 They tell me nothing. They just say, Rami has a show. What do you mean, Rami? Well, you're going to be on the show. It's all about Rami. Okay. So are you, are you excited about the show? What do you think it? Yeah, I'm very excited.
Starting point is 00:04:15 I just hope I look good. That's all. Okay. So let's catch up. If I were to say to you, where are you today versus when we first met, give me a quick update on everything. I mean, everything's great. I mean, I have no complaints. You know, everything's good. The house is gone. So that was a big, like burden of my shoulder because it was like a very expensive house to run. Although I miss it, but with that money I bought a house in Bali and it's a very beautiful house and is making me money. So you're renting it out? Yeah, yeah, Airbnb.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Okay, well, I saw the pictures of of it it looks beautiful. I want to come back to that so congratulations you got the house in Bali and you're renting it out great. You know the most common money dial or thing that we love to spend money on is eating out. The second most common is travel but do you know what the third is? It's health and wellness. That's why I'm excited to partner with this episode sponsor, Ness. With the Ness card, you can redefine how you invest in your wellness. You can earn 5x points for health and wellness spending at grocery stores, pharmacies, salons, spas, restaurant gyms, and more.
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Starting point is 00:09:08 Talk to me about the rest of the money. So you had this house, I think it's sold for like 2.2 million. Yeah. No, no, 4 million. 4 million. Yeah, but I had 2 million left to point you left. Yeah. So what do you do with the money?
Starting point is 00:09:22 I blew it up. I went shopping. No, are you kidding? No. Are you serious? No, are you kidding? No. Are you serious? Yeah, are you sitting down? I'm sitting down, but I don't know if I'm sitting down low enough. What? Tell me.
Starting point is 00:09:34 I just decided to spend every penny and start from scratch. Start your wardrobe from scratch? Yeah. OK, so what'd you get? Everything. Anything. Wait. Yeah, okay, so what'd you get everything? Wait, is this for real or like is there another camera crew around here right now? Is this actually happening? It's happening now and then I thought of you and I say what would Rami say and
Starting point is 00:09:59 What would he say? Go for it Natalie. What the fuck what? Rami would not say that. Rumi says that to some people, not to everybody. Hold on, I have to read this because this is too funny, Natalie. Okay, so, you know, we sent you some paperwork to complete before you get on today's call. Yeah. Some people take this more seriously than others.
Starting point is 00:10:23 So I was very excited to click into yours and take a look Suspecting. Oh, I'll be very interested to see of course. There's zero numbers in this CSP. You just didn't bother. Okay, fine All right, so you didn't fill that out Maybe I didn't get it. No, you got it. All right, and then You had this There's a there's a comment you made. At first, I was more careful about shopping and saving, but then old habits came back.
Starting point is 00:10:54 I go, what habits? And then now I understand the shopping habits. Yes. It's a beautiful addiction. It's at least I look in my closet and I have it. So we met on rodeo drive. I still remember very vividly That was great and then you kind of took me around and showed me you know your favorite source When I saw your closet that was I mean, it's a beautiful clothes no doubt about it when you moved into this place Did you get rid of any clothes?
Starting point is 00:11:27 So I got rid of a lot of clothes, but not the purses and shoes. Well, I did get rid of some shoes. I gave it to my housekeeper, I always gave it to her, all my stuff. Okay. But yeah, the closet, like the, the lucky thing in this house,
Starting point is 00:11:42 the closet is three times the size is the other closet. Your closet in this smaller place is three times the size is the other closet. Your closet in this smaller place is three times the size is the other one. Wow, that's lucky. I'm so lucky. All right, so how much did you spend on the clothes? Oh, I bought everywhere. I mean, not particular store, I bought one I was in Bali, I went to Turkey, I bought in Turkey, I went to Paris, I bought in Paris. I mean, I bought a lot. How much does spend I don't know exactly, but not all the money, but the good news is I'm making money every month. Well, we'll get to the making part. Hold on, I just want to know, like, what, what dimension are we in? Was it 10,000, 100,000? Half a million. Half a million, what?
Starting point is 00:12:24 Is this a joke? No, that's not a joke. It's not that bad. Hold on, Half a million. What? Is this a joke? No, that's not a joke. It's not that bad. Hold on, half a million on clothes. Okay, break it down for me. How much was the most expensive piece? Uh, maybe 20,000? What was it?
Starting point is 00:12:38 A coat? Yeah, how did you guess? You read my mind. Because I like clothes too. I like nice clothes. Okay, so 20K doesn't, 20K being the most expensive is not Did you guess you read my mind because I like clothes too. I like nice clothes. Okay, so 20k doesn't 20k being the most expensive does not get you to 500k unless you bought like 150 pieces. Tell me the truth.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Okay, okay, that might get you there. Yeah, uh, and then you know, a few more here and there. It just adds up really. Add up. Wow. You don't know like slowly, slowly adds up. Well, all right. But I got it better. I used to spend way more. So it's you spent more than half a million on clothes, like in a year. Yeah, in my lifetime, I must have spent, I don't know. Just notice Natalie's phrases, which are very revealing. She knows that a half million dollars a year on clothes in one year is absurd. So how does she justify it? She uses lots of dissonance reduction techniques. She says, it's not that bad.
Starting point is 00:13:40 It could be worse. She's basically comparing herself to someone who might have spent $2 million in a year. She says, I used to be bad, but I've gotten better, yet another clever comparison to make herself feel better. And finally, it's a beautiful addiction. Did you catch that phrase? This is simply taking something and trying to redefine it. Natalie's answers are one of the reasons that I simply told her I wouldn't work with her anymore. And if you want to know more about her story, check it out on the Netflix show. So I took this house. It was horrible. Oh, God. Did you renovate it? Oh, no. I did renovate
Starting point is 00:14:18 it. How much did you spend on that? So I spent a hundred K. My landlord was like, I never had a tenant like you. Yeah. Hold on, Natalie, just a second. You spent 100K renovating a place that you're renting. Yes. I don't mind renovating a place that you rent. I don't even mind it. When I lived in New York,
Starting point is 00:14:39 I did a couple renovations here and there, not 100K, but all right. So you spent 500K on the clothes and you're not kidding about that. No. Okay, 500 plus 600 plus 100 that's 600. What else, how much was all that travel? Because you had some nice videos from Morocco and stuff. Yeah, oh yeah, I forgot that was before. Yeah, what we did the wedding in Morocco. Oh yeah, congratulations. Yeah, we did thank you. Okay, beautiful Yeah, it looked like a royal wedding. Yeah, but actually we managed not to spend too much on the wedding
Starting point is 00:15:13 There was 300 people eight outfits Whoa, and then I paid for everybody to come on the trip like all my kids Okay, you know, okay, and like if you added all that up and like that wedding in the travel and then also all your travel to here. 50k. Okay. Alright, so we have 500 plus 100 plus, let's just say another 100 just to, you know, 700. Okay. What else? Big stuff in the last year. Get a new car. Actually, I got three new cars.
Starting point is 00:15:47 No, you did not. Now, yeah, because no, but wait. Tell me. Wait, I mean, like, I didn't get a Bentley yet. I'm planning on it, but I got basically like 3BMWs. Why three? And also, YPSWs for that matter. Why'd you get that? W's. Y-3 and also Y-P-S-W's for that matter. Why'd you get that? Because well, I wanted a great deal so I thought if I buy all three from the same dealer, I'll get a better deal and they're not all mine. So I bought one for me, one for my son and one for my other son. It's almost sounds fake, but I promise you it's not. I met Natalie. I went to her house. I met her daughter There are actually people who spend money like this And so all right, so you spent like let's just say 750,000
Starting point is 00:16:35 Of the two million Mm-hmm and with the other million or so you bought that place in Bali. Is that right? Yeah, 500,000 years. Wow, so you got a lot of money left over. What'd you do with the rest of it? Well, I'd seen my in my investment account and I make you're paying that quack I know you're paying him like 1.5 percent. That's fine. Yes, my bestie. Yeah, you're I love that you know this we don't agree. I know you love getting robbed every month, but the you know We each treat our money differently. Some of us Don't like to have somebody reaching to our pocket and rob us every single each treat our money differently. Some of us don't like to have somebody
Starting point is 00:17:06 reaching to our pocket and rob us every single month with a big smile, some of us don't mind. Okay, to each her own. I love it. I feel when you give to the university gives back. Blast, you know what he's doing? I don't know what I'm doing in finance, so. Well, we can agree on that.
Starting point is 00:17:22 Natalie makes $8,000 a month from her investment account that a guy who's probably named Chet Manages, and $8,000 a month from her Airbnb. I pulled out the calculator just to make the point again, reminding her that she's paying this financial advisor who manages $1.2 million for her, which costs her $141,000 over 10 years, and $375,000 over 30 years. These are totally unnecessary fees, totally. This episode is sponsored by Babel.
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Starting point is 00:22:34 paying 141,000. How do you feel about that? The price from you, be nice. Oh, I'm a nice guy, I'm nice in telling you just the facts, as I'm reading them here. What's the money? Just think about how many BMWs you could lease for that price. Yeah, but think think how much money I could lose if I did it on my own. Okay. So just so I get the numbers, you have 26,000 a month still coming in.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Correct. Yeah. Okay. Plus 8,000 investment returns per month plus approximately 8,000 from the Airbnb. Yes. Okay. So that's more than you were making when we worked together, correct? Yes. Okay. That's a lot more money, like 16,000 a month more than you were made. So what are you doing with the extra money now? Shopping. Okay. Rodeo, what else? Anywhere it could be like online.
Starting point is 00:23:33 There's always something to buy. You care about the fact that you are shopping more than ever? No, I don't. As long as I can afford it, I really don't. Okay. It makes me happy. I mean, nothing else makes me happy. Okay. And when you say, I can't afford it, what does that mean? How do you decide if you can afford something? I mean, I see the bills and I see how much I've left every month and I see what I can buy and what I cannot buy. But I must say, my habit of shopping is not as bad as it used to be.
Starting point is 00:24:05 What do you mean you spent half a million dollars in one year? Not that bad. Oh, and I had a facelift. Oh, okay. Oh, great. It's great. I mean, did you do that here? Did you go abroad?
Starting point is 00:24:17 No. So here they wanted 200,000. Or a facelift? What kind of facelift? Wait, what? Yes! So you said, you said, listen, I'll buy $500,000 worth of clothes. No problem.
Starting point is 00:24:34 But that price for a facelift is outrageous. Outrageous. I prefer to spend it on a birking bag than a facelift. Okay, so how much did you end up paying for this? 18,500. And I had the best facelift in the world. You know, I just realized, you know, like a lot of people have different addiction.
Starting point is 00:24:54 And I just realized come to term that I love beautiful things. And it makes me feel good and why not? It's not a toxic thing. I'm not using substances. It's just like close Here's the key Natalie makes $26,000 a month from child support that amount right there Subsidizes her entire world view with money. She knows that's the floor of what she will make. So if she's ever motivated to change, it's very tempting to simply look back and say, well, I make $26,000 a month. Why would I change? What's my motivation? And if you know anyone who has some sort of funding like this. It could be Alamoney. It could be an inheritance. It could be
Starting point is 00:25:47 parents paying for your housing. Sometimes this can produce very unrealistic views of money. For some people, this is essentially a subsidy and they are subsidized. And when you're subsidized with something, you often get an unrealistic view of reality. Now, thing is if the subsidy disappeared, most people in a situation like this would immediately change the way they live. But if there's no reason to change, why would they? I want to ask you some questions about the show, okay? What surprised you about working together with me? It was a good experience. I think driving of the Ferrari on Rodeo was fun. That was cool.
Starting point is 00:26:31 That was cool. And then, yeah, I mean, like, I realized, like, by my daughter talking that she had a little bit of problem with me, spending that much, I never realized before. Really? Yeah. Yeah. So what do you remember about that moment? Because I remember it vividly. That was the last time we talked. Okay, tell everybody what happened.
Starting point is 00:26:52 So we get there and then like you were talking to her about how I'm giving too much money to my financial advisor. And then I realized that he was bothering her that I was spending that much like she never voiced it out It's just I think he was bothering her not because I was spending but she just wants to make sure I don't end up broke Which she knows I don't and now she realizes like That I always know how to make money somewhere or another. Okay. So I remember that because we had talked a lot, right, over a long period of time. And I think we made some progress. Initially, you were planning to open another restaurant. Then I remember we talked on the phone and you decided not to do it.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Things got really expensive. I thought that was a great decision. And then then I discovered that you sold your house without talking to me at all. It's your house, your money, but okay. And then you did not want to switch away from the financial advisor. So I have to tell you, I was shocked. I was shocked that that was your reaction.
Starting point is 00:28:04 And I was shocked that I was showing you, look, this money is literally being taken out of your pocket with no benefit. In fact, you're actually getting worse results. And that was why I said, you know what, Natalie? I wish you the best, but we are done. Yes. Did that surprise you? No.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Yeah. I can handle it. Mm-hmm. Yes. Did that surprise you? No. Yeah. I can handle it. Yeah. And all you guys at the show, you run me as well, you know, even if you had, we didn't see eye to eye on some stuff, we still had a good connection. And it was a very nice experience.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Yeah. I'm a stubborn person. And I always do what I want. I could take advice, appreciate it, kind, thank you. You know, appreciate. I don't get offended by it. But at the end of the day, I'm going to do me and what I feel is right in my heart. And I always go with my gut feeling.
Starting point is 00:29:01 And what my gut feeling says says never lies to me. Good. I'm glad to hear that. Regardless of what anybody chooses, because different people do different things with their money. Yeah. I can't. It's their money. It's their rich life. It's not mine. My job is to show them different ways of looking at money and life. And ultimately it's up to them. So I respect that you chose your own path. Not what I would have them. So I respect that you chose your own path,
Starting point is 00:29:26 not what I would have chosen, but I respect that you chose it. With all this extra money you're making now, do you have any plans to open that restaurant? I would never open that restaurant with my money. Okay, right. Ever again. I want to agree with people really that are experienced. Somebody that's going to come love my idea
Starting point is 00:29:46 investing it. And I want to be a very, very small percentage in it. Very small. I just don't want to run this business. Well, you're making money. You're making 26 plus 8 plus 8 every month, right? Yeah. That's a lot of money. For some people. How much is a lot for you? Honestly, the way my budget is, I think I need at least minimum 100K a month. 100K a month and then what are you going to do differently? You're going to... It's not doing differently. It's like, you know, the more money you make, the more expenses you have.
Starting point is 00:30:22 So if I made 100K a month, I'd have probably a mortgage, a bigger house, more, you know, more bills. More shopping, nicer cars. More traveling. Okay. I agree. You know, the craziest thing is I partially agree. Like if people make more money, I think they should spend more. Absolutely. Of course, and I do want to invest more. And that's where my mind changed. Because before, I really didn't care about investing so much more. I can't be more about shopping, but now I think what I did learn from the show
Starting point is 00:30:59 and with my mistake for life is I should invest more. Okay. why? Well, it's good to invest and I can make more money too. Okay. That was fascinating. As a reminder, that was Natalie, a guest on my Netflix show.
Starting point is 00:31:17 Now, before I shot the show, I thought a lot about my philosophy on money. I went back, I reread my foundational pieces, I talked to the producers a lot, and I give a lot of thought to how I wanted to show up and really what I wanted to reveal about human nature on this show. And I realized something had changed over time. When I first started out, success for me was being able to get a huge transformation and put up a big photo, a before and after, a testimonial on our website.
Starting point is 00:31:45 You know, this person paid off $50,000 of debt and now they doubled their salary. I still love those things. I put them on my site and social media all the time. But over time, I've also come to realize that not everyone is ready to pay off $125,000 of debt or get a $50,000 raise. In fact, some of them don't even want to.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Many people just want to go from A to B, not A to Z. And so my job is to try to help them as much as they're ready to receive and then to capture that story. Some people will make it. Some won't. People are people. And Natalie is a great example of that. To her, life is great. She buys beautiful clothes, she has a house in Beverly Hills and Bali, and she gets over $26,000 a month in child support, along with approximately $16,000 a month in other income. Why would she change? What's her motivation? The answer, as you can see, is that she really doesn't want to change.
Starting point is 00:32:44 This is typical of a lot of people, but Natalie is just an extreme example of that. Think about it. If you were in a similar situation, do you think that you would be motivated to change? Really think about it. It's easy to say, of course I would, I want a better life, but really think about what having $26,000 a month coming in does to the way you look at money. Now, this is why I don't preach or proselytize about money.
Starting point is 00:33:12 If you want to change, you have to be ready for it, and you have to come to me. And even when people come to me, like Natalie did, who applied to be on the show and went through a lot of hoops, many people are not ready to make changes. I hope that Natalie's example is instructive because each of us, including me, has a part of our lives where we are really not ready to make a change. Sometimes we may actually not need to. Now, be sure to watch her story and others on my Netflix show How to Get Rich. Subscribe to this podcast where you will see more stories about couples, some in $800,000 of debt,
Starting point is 00:33:49 some with $13 million in net worth, and listen to them as they talk about their money challenges. If you want help directly with your own money, you can get my book I Will Teach You to Be Rich. And if you want help directly from me, you can join my money coaching group at iwt.com slash money coaching. Thanks for listening. Thanks for listening to I Will Teach You To Be Rich. I'm Remete Saiti.
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