Picking a Babysitter, Friends as an Adult, Password Security, Creativity for Your Health, Paying Taxes, Weekend Review

Picking the Right Babysitter (0:00:00) When date night rolls around with our husband or wife, we often face the daunting task of finding a babysitter. It’s important to spend quality time with our spouses, but it’s hard to leave our kids at home, especially when they’re little. So how do you find the right babysitter, someone you can trust with your kids, so you can enjoy time alone with your significant other? Today we’re joined by Amanda Christian, the Director of External Relations at the babysitting company SafeSitter, to discuss the process of finding the perfect babysitter. Making Friends as an Adult (0:15:49) I think we sometimes underestimate how important friendship is. Especially as adults, we forget about making friends or maintaining our friendships, because we have so many other things fighting for our attention. But, a study at Harvard found that having good, solid friendships is equally as vital to happiness as maintaining good mental health! So if friendship is so beneficial, how do we make good friends as busy adults? With us today is Ken Craig, author and philanthropist, to share his advice on the subject. Password Security (0:36:45) Tech expert and friend of the show Joel Jacobs talks with Lisa about what we should be doing to protect our passwords from being hacked. New Year Check-In (0:50:36) Lisa and Richie check in with each other on their progress with their New Year’s goals for 2020. Paying Taxes (1:06:31) April 15th, the day that taxes are due, is still a few months away. But it’s never too early to get started on your tax prep, because taxes can be confusing and complicated. So today we wanted to start by addressing one question that everyone has at one point or another: Are we paying too much or too little in taxes? It’s important to know if we’re doing it correctly so that we’re not struggling throughout the year or suffering at the end. So here to answer our questions about the amount we’re paying in taxes and help us prepare for Tax Day, is Shanyn Stewart. Shanyn is a feder