Women on the Verge of a Financial Breakthrough

• Season 4, Episode 12: *Mini* Getting Back into the Workforce

  Two episode drops in one day?? What the what??This special mini episode is a quick (but mighty!) follow-up to Season 4, Episode 11 about stepping out of the workforce to care for kids. What happens when you’re ready to work again (or just need to for $$$)? You might not be sure how to start. What is a TPS report again?Pulled from our conversation with career development expert Susanne Aronowitz, Sara, Caitlin and Susanne brainstorm practical ideas for rebuilding your network (even if all your old work contacts were handwritten in a 1997 Filofax), translating the skills you developed during your “break” into powerful professional strengths, and finding small opportunities that can lead to bigger roles.It’s short! (ie. mini) but might spark some of your own ideas and gives you full permission to start exactly where you are. You can do it!Ask us your dumb investing and finance questions, or just say hi! on our Ask Us page! We have the social medias!! Here’s our Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn.This episode was edited by our co-producer Kelly West. Music by Bad Bad Hats and Devmo.

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• Season 4, Episode 11: What to Consider When You’re Leaving the Workforce

  What’s the point of having a salary if the whole thing goes to paying for daycare?The back-of-the-napkin math for many couples says that it’s “cheaper” for one partner to stay home and take care of the kids because childcare is so freaking expensive. Because statistically women earn less than men (how is this still true??), in heterosexual couples, it often “makes more sense” for it to be the woman who steps out of the workforce in the child-chasing years until some undetermined “later”.In this episode, Caitlin and Sara get help from pod favorite Kacie Swartz to lay out all of the questions women and couples should ask and answer while making that decision, and what financial and professional decisions might protect the financial and emotional well-being of the family during and after that transition.“There’s a math answer and there’s a heart answer - and they are not always the same.” said Yoda. Or, whoops, Kacie. Kacie said that. And also she and Sara talk about how that math answer might only be a short term one, and the longer-term math equation is totally different. There’s a lot to consider here. And Kacie is hella funny so it’s fun to consider.As always, you can find fan favorite podcast guest Kacie Swartz at Black Barn Financial.Ask us your dumb investing and finance questions, or just say hi! on our Ask Us page! We have the social medias!! Here’s our Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn.This episode was edited by our co-producer Kelly West. Music by Bad Bad Hats and Devmo.

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• Season 4, Episode 10: Money Attachment Styles

  Hello and welcome to all of you anxious/avoidant attachers out there! And a shout out to you secure attachment weirdos, too!On this episode, Sara and Caitlin talk to New York-based financial advisor Rebecca Pino about how our relationship to money is like any other relationship we have. Uh oh.Don’t worry - there’s a financial strategy for all of us, no matter how much or little we ghost our retirement accounts and emergency savings funds.Much like our romantic attachment styles, patterns in our behaviors around money have to do with messaging we received in childhood, but also societal scripts and a little thing called capitalism. You should look it up - it’s like, a big deal.And OMG - come for the attachment styles and stay for Rebecca’s mind-breaking insight about how our money decisions are actually more important that the amount of money we might have. Call back to compounding interest!You can find Rebecca here, and subscribe to her Money Her Way Substack to learn more about her money behavior theories. Ask us your dumb investing and finance questions, or just say hi! on our Ask Us page! We have the social medias!! Here’s our Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn.This episode was edited by our co-producer Kelly West. Music by Bad Bad Hats and Devmo.

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• Season 4, Episode 9: Financing Effing Fertility

  When a man loves a woman very, very much….lol. Baby-making / family-creating can be hella expensive and complicated. Is egg freezing tax deductible? Can my partner’s FSA pay for my fertility shots? Is IVF a legit topic to bring up with a financial advisor?Our guest Anna Bell Gall, Austin-based financial advisor, has the answers to all of these questions and more. All the single ladies, LGBTQ pairs, cancer survivors, military couples, tech career powerhouses, fertility-challenged straight couples and a million others facing creative family-making, you know that the price tag can be one of the major planning and pain points. This episode is a place to start. Anna Bell is not only experienced and knowledgeable, she’s really nice and friendly and handles all our dumb questions with grace.Here are some of the fertility info resources Anna Bell mentioned:SART (Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology) data portal – Publicly available clinic success rates for egg freezing and IVF outcomes.Baby Quest Foundation - Offers financial grants for fertility treatments.The Cade Foundation - Provides grants for fertility assistance and adoption.And here’s where you can find Anna Bell herself!Ask us your dumb investing and finance questions, or just say hi! on our Ask Us page! We have the social medias!! Here’s our Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn.This episode was edited by our co-producer Kelly West. Music by Bad Bad Hats and Devmo.

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• Season 4, Episode 8: WTF is a CD Ladder? Money Market Account?

  Back to the basics, Women on the Verge! WTF is a stock??? LOL. Jkjk. (But that’s a totally legit question - find the answer here!)If you thought the annuities episode was boring, come on back for a real snoozer. This time Sara explains WTF CD ladders and money market accounts. Are you still awake? What’s wrong with you?!Poor Sara. If you have a bunch of money you can’t invest because you might need it sooner rather than later, you should probably pay attention here. CD ladders and money market accounts seem to be the kind of “safe” options that drive real investing people (Sara) crazy, but might have their place in a fully diversified money-type situation. Don’t worry, we cut her off before she tried to explain the “yield curve”. There’s only so much stimulants one can take before a podcast episode recording session. You’re gonna have to find out what that is on your own time.But, as usual, Caitlin learns 1/10th of what Sara explains, and you might, too! Fun!Ask us your dumb investing and finance questions, or just say hi! on our Ask Us page! We have the social medias!! Here’s our Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn.This episode was edited by our co-producer Kelly West. Music by Bad Bad Hats and Devmo.

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