This week, Certified Financial Planner® Adrianna Adams joins us to answer six questions pulled from last year’s final round of listener submissions. After poring over hundreds, I selected these for how they captured themes that find their way into our inbox frequently. 

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits will be available within a week at: https://moneywithkatie.com/cfp-answers⁠⁠⁠.

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In today’s Rich Girl Roundup, we’re discussing a wide range of alternately nerdy and controversial (sometimes both) topics:

🩹 The role of insurance around the fear of impending doom

🏃 When side hustles are worthwhile

🧮 How to calculate opportunity costs when you have both savings and loans as options on the table

🤑 The theoretically rigorous case for wealth taxes

👀 Where the current economic discussion about Trump’s immigration policies is self-defeating

⚖️ Why my perspective on state-run universal services has become complicated by the last six months 

…and more, including a temporary and especially thrilling new segment called “Airing Your Grievances.” 

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits will be available within a week at: http://moneywithkatie.com/side-hustles-tradeoffs.

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Why don’t things in the US feel like they work the way that they should? Why does life feel so much harder than it would need to be, between exorbitant costs of housing, draining healthcare expenses, and inequitable access to education?

But the problems that plague us aren’t unsolvable, and in fact, other places have solved them with tactics that are within reach. So this episode, featuring the author of Another World is Possible, Natasha Hakimi Zapata, is all about solutions and hope.

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits will be available within a week at: https://moneywithkatie.com/another-world-is-possible⁠.

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In today’s episode with fellow money nerd, Nick Maggiulli, author of The Wealth Ladder and writer of Of Dollars & Data:

🫐 Why you might be spending too much time agonizing over small consumption choices

🤔 How to approach a risky career shift when you’ve already built financial momentum

📈 What the largest risks and opportunities are once you’ve eclipsed the $100,000 net worth mark—and how they shift after you pass the $1 million threshold

You’ll walk away with at least two handy new tricks for quickly gut-checking your spending and income opportunities.

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits can be found at: http://moneywithkatie.com/wealth-ladder.

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Amid the heat of recent legislative chaos, I got the opportunity to briefly sit down with the House Democratic Whip, Representative Katherine Clark, to ask what your average American can anticipate over the coming years—from the downstream effects of Medicaid cuts on rural and low-income communities, to the fourfold expansion of the ICE budget.

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/big-beautiful-bill.

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In this week’s Rich Girl Roundup, my executive producer Henah and I talk through a variety platter of feedback, questions, and reflections—from being “in” but not “of” a certain group, to whether you’d make different career choices if you knew you’d be working long beyond “retirement age,” to the idea that American politicians are hamstrung by their constituents. Plus, we answer some show-agnostic audience-related questions.

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/rgr-moving-more-money.

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Today's guest, financial professional and author of The Future Poor, Jonathan Grimm, believes the post-1945 version of retirement planning (stockpiling as much cash as possible for 40 years and praying you can leave paid work) isn’t going to work for much longer.

But as a financial “ethicist,” Grimm's unique approach centers the social determinants of health and begins from the belief that we should figure out what’s best for people—and work backward from there.

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/future-of-retirement.

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Hedge fund founder, author, and one of the top influences in the financial world, Ray Dalio has written about how countries (or, in his parlance, “empires”) find themselves in irreversible doom spirals, covered in depth in his new book, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle.

So, I wanted to talk to him about the fiscal hot potato being passed back and forth between the House and the Senate that threatens to explode our deficit past the point of no return. His message is clear: “I don’t care who’s right or wrong, but this is what needs to happen now if we want to avoid disaster.”

Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits can be found at: ⁠https://moneywithkatie.com/status-power-economy⁠

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Sometimes you encounter a person whose brain is such an effective X-ray for the world that you can’t help but spend 90 minutes working through a backlog of all the topics you’ve ever wanted to ask her about.

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is one of America’s foremost sociologists, a 2020 MacArthur Genius, a New York Times columnist, and author of Thick: And Other Essays.  I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.

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Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/status-power-economy

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We’re back with a particularly spicy Rich Girl Roundup—this time covering the absolute barrage of feedback on the last three episodes ("Student Loans, 50% Save Rates, and Being a Capitalist" with JL Collins, "How to Use Economic Uncertainty to Get Closer to Your Dream Life" with Amanda Holden, and Rich Girl Nation's Ask Me Anything conversation). Plus, a few clips from the Rich Girl Nation launch party.

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Transcripts, show notes, resources, and credits can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/monopolies

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