The 2 Best The Money with Katie Show Podcast Episodes
1) Rich Girl Roundup: Do You Have Too Much Liquid Cash in Your Emergency Fund? Probably.
Rich Girl Liz H. wanted to know: "How do I know if I'm too 'liquid?'" Chances are, you probably do have too much in your emergency fund—Katie and Henah chat through mental blocks and reframes to consi...Show More
2) The Easiest Way to Build Wealth with JL Collins, the Godfather of Financial Independence
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins is financial independence canon. The premise boils down to elegant simplicity: Spend 50% of your income and invest the other 50% in one specific index fund, VTS...Show More
3) A CFP on Outdated Advice, "Jumping" Social Classes, & Why Money Mindset Matters
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 ho...Show More
4) On Worthwhile Side Hustles, Financial Tradeoffs, & Frustration with American Politicians
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 🏃 Whe...Show More
5) How Other Countries Used Their Darkest Hour to Radically Reform Their Economies
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, ...Show More
6) The Powerful 0.01% Spending Rule, Making Career Shifts, & When to Adjust Your Asset Allocation
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...Show More
7) Understanding the Big Beautiful Bill's Repercussions, with the Highest Ranking Woman in Congress
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 ov...Show More
8) On Moving to Make More Money, the Government’s PE Playbook, & Henah Buying a House
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’...Show More
9) How This "Financial Ethicist" Plans for the Future of Retirement
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 prayin...Show More
10) Ray Dalio on What the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" Means for America's Deficit
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 spiral...Show More