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
December 10, 2025 • 69 mins
Rebecca Herbst reached financial independence at age 32 during the tenuous early days of the pandemic, and volunteered shortly thereafter to be furloughed from her job in commercial real estate—and so began her (extremely) early retirement.
But spending her days exactly as she wanted featured an unexpected side effect: guilt. What do you owe to others when you’ve gotten everything you wanted? Rebecca alchemized her sense of duty ...
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December 3, 2025 • 78 mins
How do you solve a problem like the disconnect between “wages employers are willing to pay” and “wages employees need to survive”? If you’re my guest this week, the answer is: a wage subsidy.
Today on the show, I speak with Ben Glasner, an economist with a PhD in public policy and management in search of answers for how to build a fairer economy, about the benefit proposal that he says has two very critical things most proposals ...
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November 26, 2025 • 81 mins
Since I spent last week’s episode detailing the thrilling ins and outs of making your own 2026 financial plan for wealth-maxxing, today I’m taking a hard left turn and interviewing Andrew Hartman, a history professor and the author of Karl Marx in America, a 500-page tome about which he says, and here I quote directly, “My father-in-law told me that he likes the book even though he still doesn’t like Marx.” We talked about:
The...
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November 19, 2025 • 30 mins
At this point, the annual “Plan with Me”-style episode feels like a sacred ritual. In today's show:
Thinking through major tax changes, including why I finally ponied up for a CPA and what they’ll be doing
Estimating and planning with irregular income
Identifying new retirement contribution targets
Revisiting the slush fund concept for covering lean cash flow months
Penciling out a realistic spending plan
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November 5, 2025 • 75 mins
There is perhaps nobody in the financial education space who knows her way around the National Bureau of Economic Research quite like Stefanie O’Connell Rodriguez. If Chapter 2 of Rich Girl Nation were sentient, it would probably sound a lot like Stefanie. Today on the show, I’m picking her brain about the current state of what she calls “the ambition penalty.”
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October 29, 2025 • 79 mins
In today’s episode of Rich Girl Roundup:
👀 A little more about the changes coming at the end of the year
🏖️ Whether mini retirements or “semi-retirements” are unrealistic (and talking through a few remaining tactical questions)
🔥 Some burnout-reduction tips we’ve been experimenting with
📍 Thoughts on shifting asset allocation away from US dominance without jeopardizing 4% rule “eligibility”
🥇 What to make of th...
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October 22, 2025 • 78 mins
I previously joined Kate Kennedy on her show, Be There in Five, to discuss Rich Girl Nation, and we ended up talking about everything from beauty culture to women as breadwinners—enjoy.
Get your copy of Rich Girl Nation, recently named one of Barnes & Noble's Best Business Books of 2025: https://moneywithkatie.com/rich-girl-nation
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October 15, 2025 • 80 mins
Do you frequently find yourself feeling overwhelmed and spread thin? Like you can't catch up with life, no matter what you do? If so, a mini-retirement —or 20 mini-retirements over the span of your career—might help.
(02:20): Introducing Jillian Johnsrud and the idea of mini retirements
(04:00): How to actually structure a mini retirement
(08:55): Why you should practice retirement before you reach FI
(12:30): What do ...
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October 8, 2025 • 94 mins
I sat down with assistant professor of labor studies and author of We Are the Union, Eric Blanc, to discuss: the euphoria and struggle of movement-building as a response to hopelessness, how mid-century suburban development undermined labor power, and why understanding (and wielding) economic leverage is critical.
(05:22): The pushback against unions and why unions are essentially about democracy
(08:55): How worker-to-worke...
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September 24, 2025 • 112 mins
We covered more ground than usual in this Rich Girl Roundup, because a few themes dominated your feedback and questions. On today’s show, in addition to recapping feedback to our last three episodes:
(00:00): Intro
(01:12): Plastic surgeons encouraging young women to set aside money in “face-lift funds” alongside 401(k)s and IRAs
(14:00): Feedback to our episode, "A CFP on Outdated Advice, 'Jumping' Social Classes, & Why ...
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September 17, 2025 • 87 mins
Today, I’m talking with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, a writer and researcher as well as the youngest-ever recipient of the Women’s Human Rights Award by the UN Convention. Her new book, The Double Tax, is out now. We covered:
(00:00): Intro
(07:45): Black women as the group whose economic progress (or stagnation) signals what’s coming for everyone else
(24:20): Beauty spending as an investment in respectability and social ...
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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.
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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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