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45 million downloads. One question: what does it actually take to build wealth? Each week, Paula Pant brings in economists, investors, business leaders, authors, and researchers to dig into the five pillars of financial freedom — financial psychology, increasing income, investing, real estate, and...
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You Can't Buy Back Your 20’s — with Jack Raines
#740: Jack Raines turned $6,000 into $400,000 trading blank-check stocks during the 2020–2021 bubble — and he says it was some of the least fun money...
Q&A: Should We Retire in Our 40s With $4 Million and an 80% Stock Portfolio?
#740: Paula and Joe rarely butt heads — but a caller's side hustle, which pulled in $5,500 in a single day, sparked their most heated disagreement in...
First Friday: We Lost 23,000 Jobs, Yet Somehow Unemployment is Down?!?!
#739: The U.S. just lost 23,000 jobs — and unemployment fell anyway. The numbers were strange enough that Paula broke a years-long, all-stocks habit a...
Hackers Waited 3 Months for This Couple's $1.2 Million Deal, with Dr. Eric Cole [GREATEST HITS]
#738: Hackers broke into a real estate closing company's servers and waited three months for the right deal — then intercepted a wire and stole $1.2 m...
She's Researched Money for 30 Years—and Never Seen It This Bad for Young People, with Beth Kobliner
#737: Beth Kobliner has covered personal finance for people in their 20s and 30s for over three decades — and she says this is the hardest she's ever...
Q&A: Would You Spend $60,000 on a Wedding Knowing It Could Be $800,000 Someday?
#736: A bride wants to spend $60,000 on her wedding — money that could grow to $800,000 in 40 years if she invested it instead. This week, three very...
He Tried 30+ Side Hustles Before 3 Actually Paid Off, with Cody Berman
#735: Cody Berman failed at more than 30 side hustles — from a disc golf manufacturing company to sweaty bike deliveries in the Australian heat — befo...
Q&A: Her Brother Owns 3 Houses — Is That Why We Have a 'Housing Shortage'?
#734: Depending on which source you ask, the U.S. is short somewhere between 1.2 million and 10 million homes — and the reason for that wild range say...
The Hidden Math Behind Every Venture Capital Fund, with former Wharton Prof. David Bell
#733: Venture fund managers can collect years of fees before a single dollar comes back to investors — and the bar to hand over your money is lower th...
Why The Customers Nobody Wants Are the Best Ones to Sell To, with David Bell
#732: Where you live is already deciding what you'll buy today, before you've even made up your mind. And it turns out the customers your local stores...
Is AI Making You Dumber? With Lorraine Marchand
#731: What if the best way to test a new hire wasn't a resume, but a two-hour breakfast? One CEO built his entire hiring process around it — and it wo...
Q&A: We Have $1.5 Million. Can We Stop Now?
#730: What does it actually mean to have "enough" — and how do you know when it's time to stop optimizing and start living?
AVOIDING THE...
First Friday: Jobs Are Cooling, Prices Are Climbing, and NYC is Freezing the Rent
#729: The U.S. added 57,000 jobs in June. Economists expected 115,000.
Meanwhile, inflation hit a three-year high. The Pers...
Q&A: What $2.4 Million at 37 Actually Looks Like (It's Not What You Think)
#728: What do you do when you suddenly have $850,000 and no idea what to do with it?
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Hope Isn't a Feeling. It’s a Skill. - with Dr. Julia Garcia
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Q&A: She Has $884K Saved — So Why Can't She Retire?
#726: Hey, we're mixing it up today with a super deep dive. We normally go fairly deep on this show, but today we're going even deeper and turning one...
What Most Families Get Wrong About Passing Down Wealth, with Andrea Baumann Lustig
#725: Most people assume their financial advisor is legally required to put their interests first. That's not always true.
...
Why Does Every Good Idea Die in a Meeting? – with HBS Prof Linda Hill and Jason Wild
#724: Linda Hill, a Harvard Business School professor, and Jason Wild, an innovation consultant who has led projects in 40 countries, join us to break...
Six Levels of Wealth, with Nick Maggiulli [GREATEST HITS]
#723: This episode originally aired in July 2025.
Here's the thing about personal finance advice: what works when you have...
Q&A: Why Do I Still Feel Anxious When I’m Clearly Doing Well?
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First Friday: Fed Rate Hike Coming? Jobs & Housing News
#721: The US economy showed robust job growth in May, adding 172,000 new jobs, exceeding expectations. This suggests a broadening of economic recovery...
Q&A: When the "Right" Decision Feels Harder Than The Math
#720: At what point does making the “right” financial decision start to feel emotionally harder than the math itself?
Rebec...
Your Office Is Making You Sick, with Dr. John La Puma
#719: Most of us spend 93 percent of our time indoors, and it's making us sicker, more tired, and less productive than we realize.
Dr. Jo...
Q&A: The Goalposts Moved — Is That Actually a Problem?
#718: What happens when the financial strategy that once felt obvious suddenly becomes a lot more complicated?
Les is appro...
The 5 Ways Investors Behave When Things Go Wrong, with Clare Flynn Levy
#717: Clare Flynn Levy was a hedge fund manager in London in the summer of 2007, watching her trading screens turn red — every single day. Merger arbi...
Q&A: Your Kids Just Inherited $350,000 Each. Now What?
#716: When does a financial decision stop being purely about maximizing returns—and start becoming about building the life you actually want?
Mrs. Dow Jones: Your Childhood Is Running Your Bank Account
#715: She grew up with a Goldman Sachs dad. She still ended up broke in her 20’s. Here's what changed.
Haley Sacks - known online as Mrs....
Q&A: Should I Sell One Property to Pay Off Another?
#714: When you’re making big financial decisions, what matters more: optimizing for the best long-term outcome, or choosing the path that gives you th...
BONUS: The Economy Added 115,000 Jobs. Consumer Confidence Just Hit a 74-Year Low. Let’s Unpack This.
The US economy added 115,000 jobs in April -- and the numbers look solid on the surface.
But dig a little deeper and you'll find a tech...
Why Smart People Still Sabotage Their Own Money, with Tiffany Aliche
#713: Tiffany Aliche spent her 30th birthday in her childhood bedroom, $300,000 in debt, unemployed, and freshly foreclosed on. Sixteen years later,...
The Rental Strategy That Survived Every City Crackdown, with Jeff Hurst
#712: Jeff Hurst, CEO of Furnished Finder, joins us to break down what midterm rentals are, who they're for, and why now might be the best time to get...
Is a Computer Science Degree Still Worth the Debt?, with Ron Lieber
#711: A computer science degree used to feel like a sure thing. Job placement rates topped 90 percent. Starting salaries cleared $80,000. You could do...
Q&A: He Wants to Die With Zero – Here’s How to Spend $1M Without Running Out
#710: What does it really look like to balance financial optimization with real-life tradeoffs—whether that’s choosing meaningful work, spending down...
The Financial Reality of Developmental Disabilities, with Keith Wargo
#709: Keith Wargo has spent decades navigating one of the most daunting financial planning challenges a family can face: raising a child with a develo...
Q&A: My Mom Is 73. She Has a House — But It Doesn’t Pay the Bills. Now What?
#708: What’s the smartest way to handle big financial transitions—when the stakes are high and the “right” answer isn’t always obvious?
A...
Q&A LIVE from Texas A&M Texarkana
#707: Joe and I traveled to the campus of Texas A&M University-Texarkana for a very special live recording. We were joined by Jay Davis, the Executive...
Q&A: The Case for NOT Paying Off Your Student Loans
#706: When the numbers look straightforward—but the rules, timing, and future are uncertain—how do you decide what to do next?
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What to Fix First When Everything Feels Stuck, with former Lyft COO and Tesla President Jon McNeill
#705: Jon McNeill, former president of Tesla and COO of Lyft, starts with a simple problem: his teenage son is about to start driving, and he’s worrie...
Q&A: Should I Quit My Job to Be a Stay-at-Home Dad
#704: How do you make smart financial decisions when you’re balancing debt, investing, and big life changes … all at the same time?
First Friday: Jobs Are Up. So Why Does the Economy Feel Worse?
#703: April’s jobs report comes in much stronger than expected, with 178,000 jobs added and unemployment ticking down to 4.3 percent. That headline de...