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.
Episodes
September 10, 2025 • 79 mins
My guests this week, economic professors John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai, argue that the financial system itself is a powerful contributor to wealth inequality, and that there are ways to improve it. Their new book, Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone (out October 21), addresses how the bulk of our financial issues are downstream of poor structural design, not personal shortcomings—and what ...
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September 3, 2025 • 51 mins
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.
(00:00) Intro
(03:40) Outdated personal finance advice
(07:53) How health diagnoses could impact your FI plans
(15:57) What grad students can do befor...
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August 27, 2025 • 96 mins
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 discus...
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August 13, 2025 • 77 mins
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,...
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August 6, 2025 • 46 mins
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 pas...
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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...
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July 23, 2025 • 123 mins
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.
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July 16, 2025 • 79 mins
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 peo...
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July 2, 2025 • 62 mins
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 pa...
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June 25, 2025 • 90 mins
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 e...
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June 18, 2025 • 68 mins
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.
Get your copy of Rich Girl ...
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June 11, 2025 • 88 mins
In honor of Rich Girl Nation's release, today’s episode has a Q&A featuring your questions about:
💰 The finances of writing a book with a publisher—like advance payments, proposals, and negotiating
✍🏼 The process—how long it takes, lessons learned, and the surprising prevalence of ghost writers
📇 The subject matter of Rich Girl Nation—what’s in it, who it’s for, and why it’s different from other books in the genre
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June 4, 2025 • 80 mins
The economic uncertainty of March 2020 inspired me to think about what I really wanted to do with my life—and Money with Katie was born. Now in the midst of another bout of uncertainty, I wanted to cover the fundamentals of financial planning and the flexibility that can unlock for you to get closer to your dream life.
I invited investing educator Amanda Holden (aka Dumpster Doggy) to talk about the slow-but-necessary process of ...
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The last time JL Collins joined me on the show (our most popular episode ever), we covered everything from millennial challenges, to his “VTSAX and Relax” approach, to lessons from his 2015 best-selling book, The Simple Path to Wealth. Now re-released a decade later with new insights, JL joins us again and we talk about:
If the US Dollar still holds its reserve currency status—and what it means if it doesn't
America’s st...
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May 14, 2025 • 66 mins
In this Rich Girl Roundup review: We’re discussing a uniquely challenging crop of feedback, critiques, and questions about…
the episode that generated some rousing back-and-forth about American exceptionalism
the conversation that prompted some of you to reach out and share your successes and horror stories
one writer’s work that elevated my understanding of the relationship between our material conditions and family plan...
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May 7, 2025 • 79 mins
Can you pay people to have kids? On one hand, countries that have beefed up social safety nets and pay people to procreate often see short-term success. But long-term results have been remarkably consistent worldwide: It’s very hard to pay people to have children.
My guest, writer Meagan Day, joins me today to discuss the recent birth rate data, the growing appeal of opt-out fantasies proffered by both tradwife influencers and th...
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April 30, 2025 • 55 mins
Given private equity’s reach (1 in 25 work for a business owned by a PE firm), the industry has the power to shape work culture at scale, for better or for worse. And ironically, that’s exactly why Pete Stavros, co-head of global private equity for KKR, thinks he’s in a unique position to bring employee ownership to the mainstream.
Pete’s goal? To dramatically expand the number of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) that grant...
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April 23, 2025 • 70 mins
Two of our most popular guests—economist Kathryn Edwards (aka Keds) and writer Grace Blakeley—return today for a timely conversation about tariffs, trade wars, and damaged trust. See how they weighed in on the big-picture ideas I couldn’t stop thinking about in this expansive roundtable.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/tariffs.
Money with Katie’s mission is to be t...
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April 9, 2025 • 92 mins
In this week’s Rich Girl Roundup review—joined by a special surprise guest—we’re discussing your feedback, critiques, and questions about…
The episode which generated the most fascinating follow-up questions of this batch
Perhaps the most popular interview we’ve produced in the last year
A conversation which generated a few messages about the power of design that I can’t stop thinking about
Transcripts, show notes, productio...
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April 2, 2025 • 59 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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