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Mastering Your Money

Like Duolingo, but for Mastering Your Money. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

24 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Penny the Penguin
Mastering Your Money
with Penny the Penguin
24
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Mastering Your Money

  • Fixed costs are recurring obligations that stay the same month-to-month
  • Tracking reveals where money is going 'invisibly'
  • Variable leaks are small, frequent choices that are easy to overlook
  • Distinguishing between fixed costs and variable leaks
  • Identifying leaks allows you to realign spending with your actual values
  • Identifying the purpose of tracking spending
  • Categorization must happen before you can see the 'big picture' of your habits
  • The final step of tracking is using the data to make a conscious choice
  • The process of categorizing spending to find insights
  • Budgeting happens before spending occurs, not after
  • Every single dollar must be allocated to a specific category or goal
  • Jobs include both monthly bills and long-term savings
  • Allocating for fun in advance removes the guilt from spending it
  • Decision fatigue is reduced when the plan is made ahead of time
  • Knowing exactly what money is for eliminates the 'can I afford this?' panic
  • How to assign specific 'jobs' to income based on timing and priority
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Mastering Your Money the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Spotting the Invisible Leaks

What is the main benefit of tracking every dollar you spend?

Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.

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Where Mastering Your Money takes you

Stop feeling stressed about your bank account and start making your money work for you. Learn how to spend smarter, save faster, and understand the hidden rules of the financial world.

  1. 1

    Take Control of Your Daily Spending

    • Where Does All the Money Go?
    • The Secret to a Stress-Free Budget
    • How to Stop Impulse Buying
    • Finding Extra Cash in Your Subscriptions
    • Setting Your First Savings Goal
  2. 2

    Build Your Financial Safety Net

    • Why You Need an Emergency Fund
    • Understanding Good vs. Bad Debt
    • How Credit Scores Actually Work
  3. 3

    Grow Your Wealth for the Future

    • How Inflation Changes Your Buying Power
    • The Magic of Compound Interest
    • Investing Basics for Beginners
    • Why Banks Pay You to Keep Money There

3 sections · 12 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

Mastering Your Money is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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