Financing Ambition℠ – A Personal Finance Podcast from Laurel Road

Rachel Brief, a Registered Dietitian based in New York City, joins us to kick off Season 4 with a conversation about three important topics: Food, friends, and finances. Listen as she shares her dietitian’s wisdom about these intertwined aspects of our lives, and hear her advice on how to set wellness goals – the SMART way – for the year ahead.

In our Season 3 finale episode of Financing Ambition, financial experts from the Laurel Road team respond to questions submitted by our listeners. Listen as Diana Welch Howell, Shan Agish, Cassandra Hume, Sarah McClutchy, and Dr. Chirag Shah provide answers to five top financial questions from 2024.

In this special Halloween episode of Financing Ambition, listen to seven spooky stories of money mishaps that will shiver your wallet's spine – from mortgage nightmares and haunted credit scores to ATM machines that feast on debit cards in foreign lands. Hosted by Eric Sutton, with stories contributed by Laurel Road member advocates and team members.

In celebration of Parents Day on July 28th, Child Psychiatrist Dr. Linda Drozdowicz joins Laurel Road's Cassandra Hume for a wide-ranging conversation on the challenges of balancing parenthood with a career in medicine. Listen for Dr. Drozdowicz's expert advice on childcare, time management, financial considerations, and more.

In our Financial Literacy Month episode, Laurel Road's Director of Credit and Operational Strategy, Jessica Agnello, and Laurel Road's Product Operations Manager, Cheryl Forth, join the podcast for a conversation about financial fraud and scams – a growing problem in our increasingly cashless world. The discussion covers how to identify the red flags of a scam and best practices for protecting your money.

Our recent Love + Money survey found that romance and finance aren’t always a perfect match. To break down the survey results and share their own relationship’s financial journey, Drs. Joshua and Nicolet Hernandez join us for a wide-ranging discussion on financial compatibility in romantic relationships.

Ted Kane, Partner at Brown & Brown and employee benefit industry veteran, joins us to discuss trends in hospital employee benefits and shifting expectations that medical professionals have of their employers. Ted shares how healthcare systems can leverage flexible employee benefit plans to attract and retain top healthcare talent and stay competitive in a challenging environment.

In this episode, we're joined by Kimberly McClellan, EdD, Adjunct Clinical Professor at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, to discuss student loan forgiveness for nurses. Kim had $69,000 in student loan debt forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, and she shares how our student loan specialists helped her get there.

In this episode, GradFin Senior Manager Joseph Price-Gault (aka JPG) joins us to unpack a summer of back-to-back student loan news, including a big SCOTUS decision, recent changes to income-driven repayment (IDR), a lawsuit against the one-time IDR account adjustment, and the return of student loan payments this Fall.

Listen to an in-depth conversation between two residents, Dr. Nicolet Finger and Dr. Shiv Vyas, about the financial challenges they've had to overcome during residency and the strategies they use to find financial peace of mind.

In this episode, three doctors talk about how they each achieved student loan forgiveness – ranging from $44,483 to more than $416,000 – through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and how a GradFin student loan specialist helped them get there.

In part two of I'm Also a Doctor, Drs. Risa Ravitz and Hanan Atia  talk about how their ocean-related passions help them find balance, disconnect, and become better doctors.

Learn what you need to know about student loan forgiveness in 2023, the current status of student loan relief, and how to get help with Laurel Road and GradFin founder, Chris Walters.

Doctors share their Resident Match Day experiences, and what fourth-year med students should consider financially before starting residency.

Following Laurel Road’s I’m Also a Doctor  docuseries, three doctors share their inspiring passion projects and how their interests outside of medicine help make them better doctors.

Financial Therapist Aja Evans joins Laurel Road’s Chief Marketing Officer Kaitlin Walsh-Epstein have a timely conversation about the connection between student loan debt and mental health, including the meaning of financial wellness, how to manage stress, and the challenges student loan borrowers will face when the federal student loan payment pause expires.

Laurel Road’s Head of Mortgage, Eileen Derks talks with Dr. Sanjay Juneja and Dr. Chirag Shah about the advantages of a physician and dentist mortgage, as well as the unique challenges doctors face during the homebuying process in today’s real estate market.