The Money with Katie Show
Finance bros are out, #RichGirls are in. Join Money with Katie and her guests for conversations about where the economic, cultural, and political meet the practical personal finance education that everyone needs. Listen weekly on Wednesdays.
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April 2, 2025 • 60 mins
When I met Véronique Hyland, author of the bestselling book Dress Code and ELLE’s fashion features director, about how fashion intersects with politics, gender, and class (and the person who coined the term ‘millennial pink’!), I wanted to talk to her about:
👊🏼 The role of aesthetics in labor movement-building and persuasion campaigns, from tradwife influencers to union leaders
🎽 Why one-size-fits-all flammable crop top brand...
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March 26, 2025 • 85 mins
2025’s financial news cycle feels like a broken wind-up doll, where recession indicators, unemployment numbers, inflation data, and tax cuts are #JustTheTip of an unsettling iceberg. So, this week, we’re joined by economist Kathryn Edwards (aka “Keds Economist”), and I got to ask her about:
🧠 The no-brainer policy with a huge ROI that nobody’s talking about
✂️ The fundamental flaw with using tax policy (read: tax cuts) to stim...
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March 19, 2025 • 89 mins
It’s easy to point out that wealth inequality in America is a problem. It’s much harder to identify realistic fixes. But what if there were a simple, elegant solution? In today’s episode, I’m speaking with Matt Bruenig, a former National Labor Relations Board lawyer and policy expert who’s one of the brightest minds in this space. This conversation will get you thinking differently (and bigger) about money, the economy, and wealth—...
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March 5, 2025 • 93 mins
It’s hard to believe, but somehow it’s already time for another Rich Girl Roundup about our last three deep dives:
The Real Cost of Being a Working Parent, to which Rich Dad Nation had a decidedly mixed response
How Home Insurance and Climate Change are Upending the Real Estate Market, which introduced some good questions about the role of everything from technology to sabotage in effecting change
The Truth About “Government Wa...
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February 26, 2025 • 78 mins
For years, I’ve referenced the book The Privatization of Everything as a seminal work in my understanding of the relationship between government and the private sector. So given the recent DOGE of it all, it seemed like a great time to revisit this conversation—now with one of its authors, Donald Cohen. We discuss the role privatization plays in government waste, and who stands to gain from the transformation of public funds into p...
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February 19, 2025 • 68 mins
The average middle class family has 67% of their net worth tied up in its primary residence. But there’s one looming issue: Rising insurance rates and climate change are threatening those property values—and they might be the canary in the coal mine of the American Dream.
We’re joined by Dr. Jeremy Porter, author of the First Street report at the center of most recent insurance analyses. We discuss insurers pulling out of “high-ri...
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February 12, 2025 • 67 mins
In the past, we covered the national average costs for different types of child care and how it may be directly related to the gender wage and wealth gap. But Eryn Schultz, a CFP known as Her Personal Finance online, reached out to say the data was vastly undershooting the realities of working parents she works with. She joins us today to share the real costs of childcare and what working parents in the US contend with.
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February 5, 2025 • 78 mins
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—...
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January 22, 2025 • 72 mins
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 agonis...
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January 15, 2025 • 74 mins
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 r...
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January 8, 2025 • 47 mins
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.
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January 1, 2025 • 79 mins
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 mi...
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December 30, 2024 • 48 mins
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 Hena...
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December 18, 2024 • 71 mins
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.
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December 16, 2024 • 51 mins
"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 quest...
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December 11, 2024 • 69 mins
In 2019, I read Ramit Sethi’s bestseller I Will Teach You to Be Rich for the first time—and it was nothing short of revelatory for me.
Since then, Ramit’s work has focused more directly on a specific aspect of money management: couples. I’ve always found navigating this topic to be a challenge, because the most common problems are relational questions, not financial ones. Ahead of his new book release, Money for Couples (out 12/31)...
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December 9, 2024 • 32 mins
Rich Guy Ryan's girlfriend just got a raise, and they're interested in opening an IRA for her to begin investing—but stocks keep hitting new all-time highs, making him nervous that a correction is coming. Should they wait it out for the next bear market to start investing, or get in now? Plus, how to check your investments for weapons manufacturers and privatized prisons, and a wheels-off job posting that launders unrealistic expec...
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December 4, 2024 • 73 mins
How have the last 40 years of American history—starting from the Reagan era—delivered us to where we are today? Today, we'll explore Reaganomics and its continued implications on the economy, what Bidenomics really was (versus what it attempted to be), and what we’re likely to see over the next four years under a second Trump presidency. I also wanted to dig into some of the questions I’ve received since the election about whether ...
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December 2, 2024 • 32 mins
Every year, we share the books that gave the Money with Katie team a new perspective or changed our minds on a topic—here are the top mind-expanding books that Katie read in 2024. (To find all books covered before across Money with Katie, check out our Books page.) Happy reading!
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...
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November 20, 2024 • 38 mins
Financial independence calculators allow us to understand the path we’re on—so we can either feel good about proceeding, or get on a different one. So, using the new features we added to the 2025 Wealth Planner, we’ll explore all the considerations that might impact your own projections—from temporary expenses you won’t need to support forever (like childcare) to future pension income that’ll lower your investment needs.
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