Let’s harness the New Year energy and make 2025 a good year for our wealth, shall we? To help you do exactly that, Nicole sits down with Peter Mallouk, CEO of the award-wining wealth management and investment advisory firm Creative Planning. Peter shares what you can do to make your New Year’s resolutions actually stick, and what common investing mistakes we should all leave in 2024.

If you want some help making a strategy for your 2025 financial goals, set-up a free 15-minute consultation with Creative Planning at creativeplanning.com/nicole 

This week, Nicole's favorite episodes of Help Wanted (the podcast she cohosts with Entrepreneur Magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer), take over the Money Rehab feed. This episode turns into a Sliding Doors special; today's helpline caller worked with Jason at a local newspaper over two decades ago. Since then, his career hasn't had the linear upward trajectory he hoped for— which has left him making about half the salary he wants. Today, Jason and Nicole break down how to play catch-up.

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This week, the Money Rehab feed will be taken over by Nicole's favorite episodes of Help Wanted, the podcast she cohosts with Jason Feifer. In this episode, listener Melissa calls the Help Line today because she's experiencing some analysis paralysis (haven't we all). Jason gives her a formula to help her determine which parts of her work she should change; plus, he shares how to failure-proof her pivot by making it into an experiment.

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This week, the Money Rehab feed will be taken over by Nicole's favorite episodes of Help Wanted, the podcast she cohosts with Jason Feifer. This episode is all about this BIG question: When is it a bad idea to bring your romantic partner into your work? That is what Nicole was trying to answer gracefully... until she made a super embarrassing mistake. Jason gives a framework to help you decide when your personal life and professional life should stay in separate lanes, and just for fun, they spontaneously call up a guy at the very center of Nicole's mistake.

Never miss an episode and subscribe to Help Wanted here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/help-wanted/id1456031960

This week, the Money Rehab feed will be taken over by Nicole's favorite episodes of Help Wanted, the podcast she cohosts with Jason Feifer. In this episode, Jason and Nicole explore a taboo topic: the give-and-take struggle between a demanding career and parenthood. Jason and Nicole have noticed a reticence in others to talk about this experience for fear of judgment or misunderstanding, but in this conversation, Jason and Nicole speak honestly. Plus, Nicole uses this episode to tell Jason her big news!

Between remote jobs, social media and new vocabulary to describe burnout, work looks different in 2024 than it did just a few years ago. Today, as a sneak-preview of the guest host for next week, you'll hear an episode of Help Wanted, the show Nicole cohosts with Jason Feifer. In this episode, Nicole and Jason answer questions on FAQs on new work norms, like: should you follow your boss on Instagram? And, when is it okay to turn off your camera on a Zoom meeting?

Today, guest-host Morgan Lavoie follows the money trail of drag with iconic drag queen, Alaska Thunderfuck (RuPaul's Drag Race). Alaska unpacks the business of drag through her own story— how she got started, the big money-makers in drag and the surprising reason it's hard to get a good ROI. Plus, Alaska talks about how she had to redefine success after Drag Race and her newest project Drag: The Musical, on now in New York City, and how the election has changed the stakes of the show.

Find more Alaska here!

Get your tickets to Drag: The Musical here.

In recent years, private equity has taken a special interest in old-school businesses like plumbing, electrical and laundry. Today, guest host Morgan Lavoie talks to someone who saw that potential a long time ago: Ajay Prakash, CEO and co-founder of Rinse, a company that is building the first national brand in laundry and dry cleaning. Ajay unpacks how to find, test and scale those old-school businesses that are ripe for innovation. Plus, he shares advice for anyone who has a New Year's resolution to start a company.

Check out more of Ajay’s work at Rinse here: https://www.rinse.com/

Earlier this month, Brian Thompson, CEO of the health insurance company United Healthcare, was murdered in New York City. In the media, there was an outpouring of support for Thompson's family. On social media, there was an outpouring of support for the shooter. Today, guest host Morgan Lavoie talks to award-winning writer Jia Tolentino about how such starkly different reactions took root, what Thompson's death means to America, and whether the health insurance system can change.

Read Jia's amazing piece here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-murder-of-the-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-means-to-america

Find more of Jia's work here: https://jia.blog/

Resources on navigating medical debt:

How to Appeal an Insurance Claim Denial: https://individual.carefirst.com/individuals-families/health-insurance-basics/health-insurance-costs/steps-to-appeal-claim-denial.page

How Nicole Negotiated Her Medical Debt: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-nicole-negotiated-medical-debt-listen-and-learn/id1559564016?i=1000677593491

How to Get Your Medical Debt Canceled: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/money-rehab-with-nicole-lapin/id1559564016?i=1000641402548

411 on Hospital Bills and Medical Debt: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/money-rehab-with-nicole-lapin/id1559564016?i=1000541579268

This week, Money Rehab is hosted by the Executive Producer of the show, Morgan Lavoie. Today, you'll hear the first episode she was ever featured on: Nicole's guide to finding your missing money. Did you know that there are BILLIONS of dollars in unclaimed money in the US? Want to find yours? In this episode, Nicole shows you how!