Episodes

  • On "Dangerous" Financial Advice, Downsizing, and Dying with Zero

    On "Dangerous" Financial Advice, Downsizing, and Dying with Zero
    Feb 5 2025
    It's our first newly revamped Rich Girl Roundup of 2025, and we’re taking you on a scenic guided tour of the chatter spurred from recent episodes: our most contentious episode to date, one that generated moving revelations from listeners, and the two-part series that ended up being less polarizing than we expected. We also discuss how to jerry-rig your Wealth Planner to project a “Die with Zero”-style drawdown, by popular demand—as well as the potential for a book club or community. (00:00) Introduction to the new Rich Girl Roundup format (03:59) General feedback we've heard recently (12:55) Feedback on the "You Don't Need a Budget" episode (28:27) Amending your Wealth Planner to "Die with Zero" (34:45) Two moving emails from a listener, several years apart (41:19) Feedback on the "What's Next for Money with Katie" episode and downsizing (47:29) The possibility of a Money with Katie book club or community (50:37) Feedback on the GLP-1 weight loss drugs series Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/dangerous-advice. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • “You Just Have to Keep Buying”: How Diet Culture Profits from Fatphobia

    “You Just Have to Keep Buying”: How Diet Culture Profits from Fatphobia
    Jan 22 2025
    Welcome back to Part Two of our series, the Economics of Weight Loss Drugs. (If you haven’t heard Part One, listen here!) Today, we’re picking back up where we left off in our conversation with Lili Zarghami, a writer who got on (then off) a weight loss drug. Then we’ll talk with Dr. Mara Gordon, a weight-neutral physician who deals with GLP-1s. Finally, I’ll share my final thoughts and analysis on where the world of GLP-1 agonists is all headed and what it says about health, wealth, stigma, and class. Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/diet-culture. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • The Economics of Weight Loss Drugs, Thinness, and Class Signaling

    The Economics of Weight Loss Drugs, Thinness, and Class Signaling
    Jan 15 2025
    We’ve all heard about Ozempic. But there are the GLP-1s we colloquially call “Ozempic” (see also: Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound) and then there’s the cultural role of Ozempic. Given the price of these drugs, barriers to access, and class implications of weight stigma, this topic presents a unique opening to talk about inequality in health outcomes and the profitable business of individualizing social problems. In part one of this rare two-part series, we’re covering: The wage penalties associated with (and relationship between) weight and women, and the parallels between the American attitudes about thinness and wealth The Danish pharma company that put Europe’s entire economy on its back A conversation with a 12-year veteran of drug and device advocacy who said some of the surrounding issues represent, and I quote, “everything wrong with health policy in our country,” especially given the shortages, costs, and online pharmacies springing up to bridge that gap with non-FDA-approved solutions Let’s take a peek at the inside the business of weight loss drugs, and join us here next week for part two. Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/weight-loss-drugs. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • What's Next for The Money with Katie Show

    What's Next for The Money with Katie Show
    Jan 8 2025
    After three years and 255 episodes, we take a walk down memory lane to reflect on some of our top episodes of The Money with Katie Show thus far—and where we're going from here. We're excited about what’s to come, and we hope you are, too. Preorder Rich Girl Nation: https://moneywithkatie.com/rich-girl-nation Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/whats-next. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • Why This Finance Expert Says You Don't Need to Budget

    Why This Finance Expert Says You Don't Need to Budget
    Jan 1 2025
    Most personal finance advice falls into one of two camps: one that implicitly assumes that humans need discipline, control, and punishment, and the other that says people are fundamentally good, reasonable, and worthy of trust and confidence. So when I read Dana Miranda's You Don't Need a Budget and realized her system was in that latter bucket, it challenged my own ideas of "budget culture" and what trusting yourself with money might actually look like. Dana joins us on the show today to talk through it all. Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/budget-culture. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Chelsea Fagan & Berna Anat on Building Resources with Community, Taking Action Offline, and Consumerism

    Chelsea Fagan & Berna Anat on Building Resources with Community, Taking Action Offline, and Consumerism
    Dec 30 2024
    Chelsea Fagan of The Financial Diet and Berna Anat of New Dimes join us for our last Rich Girl Roundtable of the year. We cover everything from women and first-gen communities' relationships with money in 2025 and beyond, to building coalitions in "real life" for the futures we want to see. Tune in to this episode...then head offline. Rich Girl Roundup is Money with Katie's weekly segment where Katie and her Executive Producer Henah answer your burning money questions. Each month, we'll put out a call for questions on her Instagram (@moneywithkatie). New episodes every week. Transcript, show resources, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/community-action. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 mins
  • The Biggest Healthcare Myths, with an Insurance VP Turned Whistleblower

    The Biggest Healthcare Myths, with an Insurance VP Turned Whistleblower
    Dec 18 2024
    The recent coverage around the healthcare industry from major media outlets has left me...wanting. So given this news cycle, I wanted to talk about some of the most relevant misconceptions around healthcare (and what they teach us). I'm joined by Wendell Potter, an ex-Cigna VP-turned-whistleblower and healthcare reform advocate, and he shares some eye-opening insights from his time in the space. Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/healthcare. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • The F-150 is the Best-Selling Car in America. Most of Us Can't Afford It.

    The F-150 is the Best-Selling Car in America. Most of Us Can't Afford It.
    Dec 16 2024
    "Who can afford all these $75,000 Ford F-150s?" asked Rich Girl Ally—so we decided to dive in. We're looking at the cost of cars today, "big car" culture, and how to actually go about purchasing a vehicle without putting your budget in financial jeopardy. Rich Girl Roundup is Money with Katie's weekly segment where Katie and her Executive Producer Henah answer your burning money questions. Each month, we'll put out a call for questions on her Instagram (@moneywithkatie). New episodes every week. Transcript, show resources, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/cars. Money with Katie’s mission is to be the intersection where the economic, cultural, and political meet the tactical, practical, personal finance education everyone needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 mins