Money might be the only subject more taboo than death, and Emily Bingham brings both to the same table this week with Jess McKinley Uyeno, a mentor to women who went from being a broke single mom to buying mansions and working 10-hour work weeks. Jess teaches women how to master their money in a playful yet financially literate way through what she calls the six money games. She and Emily met on a two-hour bus ride in Puerto Rico, and the connection was immediate: a shared, visceral gratitude for existence that Jess traces directly back to contemplating her own mortality.
This conversation lives in duality. Life is only sweet because of the promise of death. Money both totally matters and totally doesn't. Jess walks through the metaphysical death that reshaped her, the dissolution of her marriage and the future she thought was guaranteed, and how facing that loss forced her to confront a financial life she had quietly handed over to someone else. Out of that isolation came an obsession with financial literacy, an unwillingness to identify as a broke single mom, and the radical practice of believing in a future with zero evidence it was possible.
Together Emily and Jess unpack the subtraction effect, the difference between needs and wants, the six money games (earning, spending, saving, investing, net worth, and giving), and why selling is serving. They get honest about scarcity, plan A versus plan Z, and the deathbed question that cuts through it all: what is a life well lived. It is fierce, funny, financially literate, and unafraid to say the quiet part out loud, that money matters, and that remembering you are not promised tomorrow is the fastest way to live like it.
Key Takeaways
● The opposite of a universal truth is also true: money both matters and doesn't matter, and you get to hold both at once instead of toggling between them.
● Contemplating your mortality is the easiest, fastest path to presence and gratitude, no loss required to start the work.
● There are more money games than earning. Master all six: earning, spending, saving, investing, net worth, and giving.
● Refuse to identify with where you are financially. You cannot out-action an identity you believe is who you are right now.
● Believing in a future with zero evidence is the most underrated skill there is, and community makes it contagious.
● Distinguish real needs from wants, never take on debt you have no plan to eliminate, and put your full energy into plan A before you reach for plan Z.
Connect
Host, Emily Bingham
● Podcast Website: https://iamemilybingham.com/
● Emily on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamemilybingham/
● Join the YOLO Year Waitlist: https://iamemilybingham.com/yolo-waitlist
● Emily on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/i-am-emily-bingham/
Guest: Jess McKinley Uyeno, Mentor
● Website: https://www.sincerelyfutureyou.com/
● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessmckinleyuyeno/
● LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manningjessica/
● Podcast: Fun Money Podcast: https://www.sincerelyfutureyou.com/podcast
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