NEW David and John Auten-Schneider are a married couple who have branded themselves the Debt Free Guys, and host a popular podcast and website full of tools to help listeners and clients to “live fabulously, not fabulously broke”. They have a proprietary Wealth Builder’s Pyramid tool that they use as a multi-pronged approach to financial freedom, a solid credit score and debt-free living. Their mission is to help their clients particularly, but not exclusively, members of the LGBTQ+ community to live happy, healthy and wealthy.
Our conversation takes a quick tour through the background of each of David and John, which was quite divergent in its inclusiveness and tolerance of LGBTQ+ lifestyle, and we hear about David’s strict relious upbringing in which coming out was not at all easy. We hear how they met, and the epiphany around sustainable spending that led them to pay down their combined $50,000 in debt and commit to doing the same for other members of their community.
Our fourth Pride series is supported by JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Chase has long been a supporter of equality in all forms, including for the LGBTQ+ community. Starting with the very first PRIDE business resource group in 1996, they recently strengthened their commitment by creating the Office of LGBTQ+ Affairs and a full-time, dedicated team to deliver on a global LGBTQ+ agenda.
