Bad With Money With Gabe Dunn

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Twice a week, Gabe Dunn (they/them) brings you a money show for the queerdos and weirdos -- with an unabashedly radical point of view about finances that will help you fix your life. You won't get rich, but you will feel seen. Gabe, a queer and trans writer and New York Times best-selling author, and their guests take down out-of-touch money movies, TV, and books, listen to your personal financial wins and woes, try to better the world for the not-billionaires, and laugh because they just can't cry about this shit anymore. Leave Gabe a voicemail at 844-474-4040 or send a question or voice memo to [email protected]

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Tipping with Tipped Finance...

11.16.2022

Barbara Sloan, author of "Tipped: The life changing guide to financial freedom for waitresses, bartenders, strippers, and all other service industry professionals," joins Gaby to talk about a topic we've wanted to cover for a while: tipping and working for ...

Bad With Money With Gabe Dunn episodes:

11.16.2022 Tipping with Tipped Finance's Barbara Sloan Barbara Sloan, author of "Tipped: The life changing guide to financial freedom for waitresses, bartenders, strippers, and all other service industry professionals," joins Gaby to talk about a topic we've wanted to cover for a while: tipping and working for ...
11.11.2022 Mailbag: American Healthcare Is A Mercurial Elderly Aunt Gaby steals from women... just like Don Draper. Lily updates us on her workplace accommodations situation re: ADHD and capitalism. Mal corrects their history of school accommodations based on new information from their mother. A transfemme listener named Claire writes ...
11.09.2022 The True Costs of Abortion: Stephanie Dworak's Story This week, Gaby has the honor of speaking to Stephanie Dworak about the costs of her abortion and the emotional and financial stress of going out of state for the procedure on a child she desperately wanted. In a follow ...
11.04.2022 Mailbag: Should A Partner Pressure Another Into A Vasectomy? A couple of listeners write in about budgeting apps and combining finances with their partner requiring weekly pizza and beer budgeting meetings. How can a listener now become a financial role model for their young daughter and their young co-workers? ...
10.31.2022 Cheap Horror and The Shining With Maggie Mae Fish and Mal Blum Maggie Mae Fish, comedian, horror fan, and descendant of serial killer Albert Fish, joins Gaby and Mal for a special spooky Halloween money episode. We talk about the origins of cheap horror and how it became one of the most ...
10.28.2022 Mailbag: Should A Doctor Tell You If They Recognize You? This week, the trans femmes finally write in with costs of transition! Gaby learns in real time that trans surgeries are often denied to fat people. Cooper has three very specific things she wants to better herself. Kate and Caroline ...
10.26.2022 Set It Off: Black Women Robbing Banks with Melisa Monts Gaby and iconic podcast producer, writer and friend Melisa Monts break down one of the best bank robbing blockbuster films, Set It Off, starring Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise, Vivica A Fox, and Jada Pinkett. How were Black women portrayed in ...
10.21.2022 Mailbag: Should A Teacher Give Money To A Trans Student With Transphobic Parents? A listener writes in to praise the basics and Mal gives a very good simple investing tip. Then, Jude has a wonderful reaction to hearing their name for the first time on the podcast. A voice teacher writes in wondering ...
10.20.2022 Mal Goes Undercover: Testing Which Banks Are Trans-Inclusive In this incredible and vulnerable coming out-inspired episode, co-host Mal Blum contacts banks to test which ones allow trans people to change their names on their accounts without paperwork. They ask about: changing deadnames on accounts to shortened versions, opening ...
10.14.2022 Mailbag: Listeners Criticize Our IUD Comments Gaby tries to guess what instrument Mal is playing. A listener/teacher writes in to ask for an episode about incarcerated persons. BecBecMuffin explains Brazilian healthcare and the finances of moving there from the US with her husband. A former devout ...
10.12.2022 Selling Sunset and Working On Commission with Allison Raskin Reality TV maven, mental health advocate and author Allison Raskin joins the pod to talk about real estate in reality TV and the controversial and beloved phenomenon that is Netflix's Selling Sunset. How the pandemic launched the careers of "famous ...
10.07.2022 Mailbag: You Gotta Pay Taxes On Your Blood (This is America, Bitch) Gaby details Mal's dip into modeling, meanwhile Mal's been trying to change their psych meds for a month and the bills are piling up. They also deal with their first bit of criticism via email and it doesn't go well. ...
10.05.2022 The Real Costs of Transitioning From hysterectomies to name changes to clothing to voice training to top surgery, welcome to our Costs of Transitioning episode! We hear an email about IUDs and gender dysphoria, a voicemail from Lou about their hysterectomy, the concept of "boy ...
09.30.2022 The Truth About Working At BuzzFeed Gaby and Mal break down and spill the tea on the problems with Gaby's former job at Buzzfeed in the wake of the BIG scandal that broke this week. Plus, a former guest writes in with hot takes and disagreements ...
09.28.2022 Confessions of A Shopaholic with STASH's Lauren Anastasio And you thought Don't Worry Darling had problems!! This week our real life Girl In The Green Scarf Lauren Anastasio of STASH joins Gaby to break down the 2009 "aspirational" and/or "lesson-learned" film Confessions Of A Shopaholic starring Isla Fisher ...
09.23.2022 Mailbag: This Nurse Is Pro Conservatorship! On this week’s mailbag: A nurse writes into the show with an alternate view on guardianships. Also, a listener spots someone reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad on the train. Another listener writes a poignant letter about disability and finances. Gaby ...
09.21.2022 Selling Your Body To Science (Your Stories!) TRIGGER WARNING for medical trauma, abortion, human trafficking and needles. Thank you all for your sharing and vulnerability! In this new listener generated episode, Gaby reads and listens to your varying and harrowing experiences with selling your bodies to science. ...
09.16.2022 Mailbag: Marvel Being Anti-Semitic? On today’s mailbag show, Mal and Gaby read a recommendation for a money game from Amanda, an anonymous email from an ex-plasma donation employee, a flattering FB comment and an email about good vs. bad landlords. Then, they discuss a ...
09.14.2022 OUR BIG BAD DAVE RAMSEY TAKEDOWN with Financial Feminist Tori Dunlap Hello, my sweet Jesus-loving, gazelle-intense debt-free heroes. It's time to talk about finance's big bad Santa, Dave Ramsey, with one of his biggest public critics, HerFirst100K's Tori Dunlap. This week, Gaby and Tori break down and take down Dave's newest ...
09.09.2022 Mailbag: Does Going 'Cash Only' Work? This week, Gaby and Mal discuss a past episode about pet costs that helped a listener with a painful moment, a couple emails about better versions of Batman and recommendations for Batman comics and TV that get Gotham right (cough ...
09.07.2022 Rich Dad, Poor Dad with Christina Catucci (Tiktok's Steen) Christina Catucci aka Tiktok star Steen joins Gaby to break down and take down the 1997 international best seller and abusive Republican fan fiction book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki. One of the most popular financial books ...
09.02.2022 Mailbag: Student Loan Forgiveness Is Radical Communism On today’s mailbag show, Gaby and Mal read Instagram comments about Batman and Elon Musk and about a listener who is angry from our prenup episode with Gaby's divorce attorney mom. Then, some emails about divorce and disability, how money ...
08.31.2022 Bad Contracts, Blu Cantrell, and Beyonce's Power with Symphony Sanders Rob him, sis! Gaby and Welcome To Nightvale's Symphony Sanders break down Blu Cantrell's 2001 girl power hit 'Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops)' which proclaims that if your man cheats on you, you should sell all his clothes and use ...
08.26.2022 MAILBAG: A Listener Steals A Toilet Seat From Her Landlord Oh boy, this is a funny one. We have fun here. On today’s show, Gaby and their fiance and co-host Mal read your emails and hear your voicemails about egg freezing, adoption costs, Batman vs. Punisher, plasma sales, and needing ...
08.24.2022 Prenups: Gaby and Mal Interview Gaby's Divorce Attorney Mom Gaby's mom, Caryn Grainer, premiere divorce attorney, joins the podcast to grill Gaby and their fiance Mal about prenuptial agreements. Caryn shares her four decades of marriage, divorce, child custody and legal advice and expertise. She tells stories of undercover ...
08.19.2022 Mailbag: The Big Gay Landlord This week, listeners give Gaby and Mal more ADHD budgeting tips, leading Mal to explain why "set it and forget it" works for their ADHD brain. Then, Gaby reads the best email about an older gay landlord they've ever heard. ...
08.17.2022 Every Film Portrayal of Batman and Billionaire Bruce Wayne with Andrew Ti Holy right-wing propaganda, Batman! It's another break down and takedown -- and Gaby has lost their mind AGAIN! In just 48 hours, Gaby watched SIX Batman movies to deep dive into how the films have historically portrayed Bruce Wayne's massive ...
08.12.2022 Mailbag: Do Singles or Couples Have It Better Financially? Ok on today’s show, Gaby and Mal read emails from Katie and Jessica about ADHD budgets, an email from Ally about After The Rapture Christian pet insurance, and one about ESA letters and the realities of being a therapist and ...
08.10.2022 Gaby Forces Mal To Play Weird "Money Videogames" In our first "Mal Blum, Professional Guinea Pig" episode, Gaby makes their partner and co-host Mal play Investopedia's "Stock Market Simulator" and The Financial Times' Uber game. Mal flounders on what to do with 100,000 dollars in risky stocks. (It ...
08.05.2022 Mailbag: Should Vets Tell You Prices? This week, you all wrote in loving the "boring episode" which is shocking to Gaby. Then, a couple of listeners' battle it out over the price of pet's end of life care and Gaby and Mal have differing opinions. BB ...
08.03.2022 Your Emotional Stories of Pregnancy, IVF, Abortion, Miscarriage, and Childcare Costs This week is a super emotional and educational episode! Darien talks about how disorganized and exploitative egg donation is. J shares about owing her company thousands for her maternity leave. Jennifer exposes the toddler and baby care crisis. Aurora gives ...
07.29.2022 Gaby And Mal Elope, Scary Plasma Side Effects, and Knowing You're Gonna Be Fired New co-host Mal is in a defeatist mood that Gaby has to pull them out of. First, a listener writes in, confused as to whether or not her and her partner's marriage would be repealed if the Supreme Court overturns ...
07.27.2022 Black Monday: The Mysterious 1987 Stock Market Crash with Cerise Castle This week, Gaby and journalist Cerise Castle explain the real life unexplained and mysterious 1987 Wall Street crash and the TV show based on it, Showtime's "Black Monday." To this day, the events surrounding the complete global stock market decimation ...
07.22.2022 MAILBAG: THE LOST CAT RETURNED! In the beginning of this episode, Mal laments losing the cat they’ve been taking care of — and after the episode was recorded, the cat returned! This is a mailbag all about your replies to our pet insurance episode with ...
07.20.2022 A Listener Begged Me to Cover These Money Topics So I Invited Her On The Show Bad With Money listener and tax expert Stephanie Lee both wrote in AND called in to gently nudge Gaby into covering more "boring" but very important topics they have messed up by not covering on the show. In response, Gaby ...
07.15.2022 Reading #GirlBoss Made Me Lose My Mind with Chelsea Devantez In a COMPREHENSIVE Breakdown and Takedown, Gaby and Celebrity Book Club podcast host Chelsea Devantez read Sophia Amoruso's 2014 memoir #GirlBoss so you don't have to. Gaby lost their GODDAMN mind at some of the anecdotes and cluelessness of the ...
07.13.2022 Rewatching The Big Short with an ex Goldman Sachs Employee In the very first of Bad With Money's new 'Breakdowns and Takedowns' episodes -- where Gaby and an expert guest review and recap various money media so you don't have to -- Gaby and former Goldman Sachs employee/TV writer Claire ...
07.08.2022 Mailbag: Mal's First Co-Hosting, Ethical Developers & Selling Plasma's Reality Gaby's new co-host Mal Blum joins for their first mailbag episode to react to responses to their joining the podcast and to help Gaby answer listener's questions. Mal shares some deep personal anecdotes regarding caring for someone in hospice and ...
07.06.2022 Our Big Pet Costs and Pet Insurance Episode! It's finally here! An entire episode about pets! You, the listeners, wrote in and called in to talk all about your pets -- their costs, your tips and tricks, budgets, and pet insurances and pet rents. Some of you break ...
07.01.2022 Mailbag: Listener Makes Gaby Cry On today’s show Gaby reads some PRESSING OPINIONS from Facebook, Instagram, and Discord comments. They read two 5 star Apple reviews, and welcome our new Patrons. Then in the second half of the show, a listener makes Gaby cry, as ...
06.29.2022 Gay Marriage after Roe V. Wade ft. my new CO-HOST First, an announcement! A brand new co-host is joining the podcast for a chunk of episodes! They're going to join for some mailbags, answer your questions, become our collective money guinea pig reporting in the field, and learn about financial ...
06.24.2022 HUGE CHANGES to the show and Q&A with Rachel Rodgers Stay tuned for the end of the show when Gaby makes an announcement about some HUGE changes coming to the format of the show -- and maybe an addition of a ...co-host?!? You're not gonna wanna miss this. And then, ...
06.22.2022 Point By Point Breakdown of the Newest LGBTQ Money Study Did you know trans people make more money than other members of the queer community in some cases?? Why do LGB people experience higher rates of financial anxiety when dealing with banks and the government? What is "cascading homophobia?" This ...
06.17.2022 Mailbag: Criticism of Our Medical Tourism Episode This week, we have an in-depth email criticizing our medical tourism email from a Mexican listener, another email about medical liens, and another about doing medical testing studies for money. Then, an email from Mary about being a caretaker for ...
06.15.2022 Business for Women, Lesbians, and Feminists What does it mean to turn a profit when your metric of success isn't necessarily money? This week, Gaby talks to Dr. Alex Ketchum, who studies the queer, feminist and lesbian history of restaurants, about how to run a lesbian ...
06.10.2022 MAILBAG: My New Book, High Childcare Costs & Selling Your Body Ok on today’s show, Gaby reads a 5-star Apple review and some discord comments about our Dan Olson crypto episode and in what order listeners should check out the Part 1 and Part 2 episodes. Then, a funny email from ...
06.08.2022 Medical Tourism: Mexico and The Middle East Gaby dives into the phenomenon of "medical tourism" with Kurt Schaefer of Medical Tourism Mexico who used his own company’s services to find a doctor to save his life. Schaefer and Gaby discuss what traveling for affordable care says about ...
06.03.2022 TikTok RESPONDS to NFT Ep & Mal Replies to ADD Voicemail This week, Gaby reads an email about the financial mistake of becoming a parent, a defense of NFTs in light of our crypto episodes, a listener giving us the saga of their pet insurance woes, and how one fan became ...
06.01.2022 Part 2: Crypto Isn't Punk and NFT Celebs with Dan Olson Creator of the exemplary explanatory video Line Goes Up: The Problem with NFTs Dan Olson joins Gaby to break down the ultimate scam behind cryptocurrency. Where did this whole idea come from? Why are people so evangelical about it? Is ...
05.27.2022 A Fan Wrote A Bad With Money Song! The exciting news of this episode is that a musician wrote a whole song inspired by the show! Gaby plays a bit of the song to their rave review. Then, a couple of short listener emails, five very kind 5-star ...

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