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From “Careers” to “Callings”: When Work Becomes Your Identity

From “Careers” to “Callings”: When Work Becomes Your Identity

If you consciously or subconsciously derive your identity from your work, what happens when that work goes away? Moreover, how do we reconcile the ad…

Confessional: Materialism, Worthiness, and Financial “Discipline”

Confessional: Materialism, Worthiness, and Financial “Discipline”

The central thesis for this episode is that when you think you have a spending problem, what you probably have is a purpose problem.  This week, we’r…

How to Set Up Money Management Systems for Short-Term & Long-Term Goals

How to Set Up Money Management Systems for Short-Term & Long-Term Goals

This episode is a logistical examination of how to put systems in place that help you balance your short-term and long-term spending goals—after all,…

To Lease, Buy, or Have No Car at All? How 2022’s Used Car Market Shifts Things
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To Lease, Buy, or Have No Car at All? How 2022’s Used Car Market Shifts Things

I sold my car in March 2021 and have (mostly) never looked back as part of a one-car couple, but my husband and I have been dabbling with the idea of…

Wedding Confessions: Budget, Who Paid, and Biggest Learnings

Wedding Confessions: Budget, Who Paid, and Biggest Learnings

Ah, the long-awaited deep dive is finally here! As someone who got married in a courthouse and in a big, traditional ceremony (to the same person, do…

Why I’m Not Buying I Bonds, the “Flight to Safety,” and Optimism

Why I’m Not Buying I Bonds, the “Flight to Safety,” and Optimism

Something I had never even heard of a year ago has been front and center in the financial news for the last few months: I Bonds. But I suppose it mak…

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Salary Transparency with Jason Tartick

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Salary Transparency with Jason Tartick

Nothing excites millennials and surprises baby boomers quite like our penchant for sharing how much money we make with one another.  But salary trans…

$40,000 to $200,000+ in 5 Years: Don’t Quit Your Day Job with Cinneah El-Amin

$40,000 to $200,000+ in 5 Years: Don’t Quit Your Day Job with Cinneah El-Amin

This episode was inspired by a Medium article about a woman’s nine side hustles that replaced her full-time income. After reading it, I couldn’t help…

Is Now a Good Time to Pick Stocks? The Pros & Cons of Active Investing with Jack Raines

Is Now a Good Time to Pick Stocks? The Pros & Cons of Active Investing with Jack Raines

Given current market conditions, it seemed like a good time to revisit the age-old temptation for investors: Should I…try to stop the bleeding and ma…

The Bear Market, Future Returns, and the History of Low-Cost Investing with Eric Balchunas

The Bear Market, Future Returns, and the History of Low-Cost Investing with Eric Balchunas

Every time the market experiences a drawdown, it feels like the echoing chorus of, “This time, it’s different,” gets more deafening. As the history b…

Money Mindset: How the Victim vs. Victor Dynamic Shapes our Financial Outcomes

Money Mindset: How the Victim vs. Victor Dynamic Shapes our Financial Outcomes

One of the single-most impactful determinants of our outcomes in life is our self-concept: Our identity. Whether we see ourselves as the victims of c…

Building a Six-Figure Side Hustle, Monetizing Content, & Budgeting with Variable Income

Building a Six-Figure Side Hustle, Monetizing Content, & Budgeting with Variable Income

If you've ever wondered how Money with Katie went from a $0 side hustle to a half-million venture in two years (and if you can do the same!), then th…

To Prenup or Not to Prenup? with the Fiscal Feminist, Kim Davis

To Prenup or Not to Prenup? with the Fiscal Feminist, Kim Davis

Let’s kick this off with an admission: We don’t have a prenup. In today’s episode, I’ll tell you why—and why we probably should’ve gotten one. We als…

Buying Small Businesses: Is Investing in One Worth It?

Buying Small Businesses: Is Investing in One Worth It?

A couple months ago, I got really anxious about income.  Aside from ~lite paranoia~ being one of the core tenets of my personality, my concern was (p…

How to Start Investing Successfully with Just Two Funds

How to Start Investing Successfully with Just Two Funds

The best part about living in 2022 is the fact that you don’t have to know anything about investing to be a successful investor thanks to products li…

The Myth of the "Dream Job" and Expanding Your Earning Potential

The Myth of the "Dream Job" and Expanding Your Earning Potential

Lauren from Career Contessa joins me this week for a revelatory conversation about the myth of the elusive “dream job.” Ironically, it took getting m…

BONUS: The SHEcession, Childcare, and Modern Motherhood in the US

BONUS: The SHEcession, Childcare, and Modern Motherhood in the US

...because who's more qualified to talk about the challenges of being a mother than someone without kids, right?! Right?! 3.5 million women were push…

The Most Dangerous Misconceptions about the 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate

The Most Dangerous Misconceptions about the 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate

So much of personal finance and early retirement #literature is predicated on the 4% safe withdrawal rate that it’s easy to forget that the “rule” wa…

Why Owners & Renters Alike Would Benefit from a Housing Market Cooldown

Why Owners & Renters Alike Would Benefit from a Housing Market Cooldown

Today's episode is about the current reality of the US housing market (and stock market, to some degree) and how it's—paradoxically—not actually good…

How to Buy Back Your Time: Outsourcing Tasks with Farnoosh Torabi

How to Buy Back Your Time: Outsourcing Tasks with Farnoosh Torabi

Today's episode is all about outsourcing, a topic around which my views have evolved over the years. (Read: As you get older and busier, you're less …