I’m Dylan. I’m a financial coach and here are a few things I’d like to share about myself.

1. I love spending money. You may think being a financial coach is about pinching pennies or being 'frugal,' but really, life is about spending money on what you love. That means cutting out the stuff you don’t care about, the impulse shopping at Target, or from those sneaky Instagram ads. Instead, I put cash towards my family, clothes, community, vacations, and more clothes because my small children love to throw food and ruin my clothes.

2. I was a TV writer and am familiar with inconsistent income. When TV paychecks came in, it felt great. But there were always slow months or years. I realized that the successful way to live that lifestyle is ensuring the big money lasts when work slows down and still making room for fun.

3. My partner and I think about money differently, and that’s great. What is key to our success is that we both have the same goals with our money. We look at money because of our different backgrounds, but we’re working towards the same destination (retirement money, decent food for our kids, trips to hot springs!).

4. Outside of coaching, my partner and I opened Perkins Public Prints in 2020, a print shop in Sacramento that uses screen printing to engage our neighbors in conversations about inequality and racial justice.

5. We are raising two small children who love to run around for 20 hours a day. When they are not running, they are jumping.