Season Five Finale: Why Podcast About Money? Why talk about money on a podcast? We've all got our reasons, and we learned a bunch in this episode about each other's. Imposter syndrome, squishy soft skills and the importance of real hard data... we talk about why we...

Talking About Money by Yourself How do you talk about money when you're by yourself? We didn't even know this was a question you could ask... but John does (and does it well, naturally) in this solo episode...aka when your co-hosts don't show up on your recording...

Dangerous Default John leads the charge on challenging some of the defaults we have in the financial world... and why they're sometimes complete phooey   You can help make Because Money happen for as little as $1 a month through Patreon. You can also support the show...

Breakups Breakups suck and money doesn't make them any better. We talk about how to talk about money in yet another situation where that's the last thing you want to talk about. You can help make Because Money happen for as little as $1 a month through Patreon. You...

Money & Mental Health Mental illness and money... both things that people don't talk about and both things that are really really important things to talk about. And in all that talking, sometimes the best kind of help you can give is saying "I'm sorry, that must...

In a World...Where Rules of Thumb Rule the Day The world of finances has so many 'rules of thumb'. Most of the time they're pretty useful, but in some cases they can be really dangerous. (If you're looking for a new drinking game, try counting how many times we say...

How We Plan Setting goals matters, both in our finances and in our general lives... but there's tons of ways to go through that process. We talk about personal goals, income goals, and the structures and tools we use to reach them. You can help make Because Money...

Death And Taxes...Well, Just Taxes The expectation is that we all understand taxes as soon as we start making income... but that's not what happens for most of us. We talk about weird tax stuff, our past mistakes, and what we wish was different about the system. You...

John Stapleton on Retiring with a Low Income It seems like retirement is the same for every one... but it's really not, and John Stapleton joins us to talk about why retiring with low income is very different and requires a very different set of advice. John is a...

Couple Money: Owen & Susan We dearly love to interrogate couples about how they negotiate money, and for this latest round we caught Owen and Sue just before they went on a date and forced them to tell us how they talk about money with each other. Well, we say...

Does Everyone Need Financial Advice? Does everyone need the kind of comprehensive financial planning advice that people like Chris and Sandi offer their clients? We think not...and spend some time revisiting last season's finale about being the ones to encourage open...

Ethical Investing with Tim Nash We're big fans of Tim Nash, and you will be too! Tim is the founder of Good Investing, an advice-only investment coaching practice that helps folks create low-fee, diversified portfolios around their ethical values. You can help make...

Affording Ethics Inspired by a conversation about shampoo, this one gets deep: what's our responsibility to make ethical choices if we can't afford them? (We stopped recording the video, but if you loved watching us on YouTube and have some Patreon bucks to throw our...

Planning to Get Sick? Inspired by a conversation Chris had at a recent workshop, we explore whether there's a financially optimal way to handle illness and catastrophe if you're caught before you're fully prepared. (If you remember being able to seeing us talk instead...

I Know What You Did on Your Hiatus We're delighted that Kate is joining the show as a co-host, delighted to see each other again after a few months of summer break, and truly delighted to start having real conversations about money again. So much delight. ALL the...