Queer Money®: How Gay People Do Money

What is a robo-advisor?

Scared of investing because you don’t know how to invest or what to invest in? Consider getting a robo-advisor.

No, not Wall-E's long-lost cousin, but a financial ally that's part tech wizard, part financial genius, and maybe a dash of R2-D2.

You’re listening to Queer Money episode #482. And today, we’re sharing how a robo-advisor might turbocharge your wealth-building game to secure your ideal retirement.

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What is the most affordable LGBTQ+ friendly city in Alaska?

It’s the most seismically active state in the US, has more coastline than the rest of the US combined and has a state flag designed by a 13-year-old.

Its population density is 1 person per square mile, and a majority of its residents are men - oooh! - and it’s where you can see Russia from some people’s backyards.

This is Queer Money episode #481. And today, we’re sharing the most affordable, LGBTQ+-friendly city in Alaska. Now, on with the show.

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Statistics reveal alarming disparities in healthcare access, treatment, and outcomes for LGBTQ+ people.

From discriminatory practices to inadequate cultural competency, our healthcare system often needs to improve in providing equitable care for this community. 

This is Queer Money episode #480. And today, we’re talking with Alex Sheldon (they/them) of GLMA: Healthcare Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality. GLMA is the world’s oldest and largest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied healthcare professionals.

Alex is the Executive Director of GLMA and a professional researcher, strategist, and advocate with over 15 years of experience in the field of human rights with a concentration in LGBTQ+ rights.

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What is the most affordable LGBTQ+ friendly city in Arizona?

It’s home to 22 Native American Tribes, including the Hopi, Navajo, and Apache. It’s also the home to Jake Shears the lead singer of the awesomely queer band The Scissor Sisters

It’s known for the Sequaro Cactus, Antelope Canyon (one of the most IG-worthy picture locations in the world), and where about 65% of all Copper in the US is mined

This state flipped from Red to Blue in 2020, helping Biden beat the Orange Bozo, and is one of the fastest-growing states due to retirees and folks leaving California to lower their cost of living

This is Queer Money episode #479. And today, we’re sharing the most affordable, LGBTQ+-friendly city in Arizona. Now, on with the show.

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Taxes in retirement are one of the biggest considerations for where and how we may want to retire.

Whether capital gains are taking a dip or Social Security benies are serving the drams, we've got the hot takes to make your retirement tax strategy as flawless as Madonna’s Vogue routine.

Grab your bedazzled calculators and get ready to sashay your way through the fabulousness of our ongoing retirement 101 series.

This is Queer Money episode #478. And today, we’re sharing the 7 most significant taxes you’ll deal with in retirement.

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What is the most affordable LGBTQ+ friendly city in Arkansas?

If you’re a hillbilly you might reside in this state, since it’s where the term was originally used by CFM (no not the high heels ladies) rather authors CFM Noland and Opie Read began using it in the 1800s

It is one of the largest producers of chicken in the US, where Walmart got its start and is home to Crater of Diamonds National Park, where over 75,000 diamonds have been found laying on the ground, including the Esperanza diamond worth over $1mm after it was polished, cut and mounted on a pendant.

You’re listening to Queer Money episode #477. And today, we’re sharing the most affordable, LGBTQ+ friendly city in Arkansas. Now, on with the show.

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Do gays deserve to be rich?

One of the missions of Queer Money is to help build a community of one million LGBTQ+ millionaires.

Guess what? We're not the only ones who want to do this. So does our guest this week.

The founder of the $20MM venture capitalist firm, serial entrepreneur, author, podcaster, speaker, and social media influencer Arlan Hamilton also wants to see more queer millionaires.

She says so in her new book, Your First Million, and shares it on this week's Queer Money episode # 476.

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What is the most affordable LGBTQ+ friendly city in California?

It has more people than Canada has Canadians, in the summer it produces “watermelon snow” and its where the Great Depression of 1929 - 1939 was more of a recession thanks to its thriving agricultural production.

If you were a Windows XP user, you saw one of its mountains every single time you turned on your work computer, it’s home to “gravity hills” - places where gravity doesn’t quite act as it should and its where the fortune cookie was born.

You’re listening to Queer Money episode #475. And today, we’re sharing the most affordable, LGBTQ+ friendly city in California. Now, on with the show.

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What can I do with my 401(k) if I worked in the US as a non-US citizen and have either stopped working or moved back to my home country?

We got a question from an attendee of our talk at the Reaching Out MBA conference in Chicago. They lived here while going to school and worked. While working they opened up a 401k. Now they’re living back in Italy and want to know what their options are to invest or withdraw the investments.

I’ve worked with contract workers who are here from Asia and India as well as students who are here going to school but also working while attending university. Maybe you have too. What are their options if they have were auto-enrolled or chose to enroll in a 401(k) or 403(b)?

You’re listening to Queer Money episode #474. And today, we’re sharing some options for folks who have a 401k but are nonresidents of the US and no longer residing in the US. to help if that is you, or if you have a colleague or employee who may be in this situation.

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What is the most affordable LGBTQ+ friendly city in Colorado?

It’s where the oldest recorded rodeo took place in 1869, part of its state capital is made from material found nowhere else in the world - a rare deposit of a marble-like stone with pink hues.

It’s where the cheeseburger was born at Humpty Dumpty Drive-in in 1935, it’s the only state that told the US Olympic Committee to “talk to the hand” when it was offered to host the 1976 Winter Olympic Games and its home to the highest tunnel, the highest paved road and the longest street in North America.

This is Queer Money episode #473. And today, we’re sharing the most affordable, LGBTQ+ friendly city in Colorado.

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