By Paula Pant
Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower when a hijacked plane hit ninety feet above him.
He didn’t see any of it. Michael has been blind since birth.
A few hours earlier, his guide dog Roselle had panicked at an ordinary thunderstorm — pacing, […]
By Paula Pant
“So to me, this is not a money management question.”
That’s what I told a listener partway into this episode — right after she told me she’s 42, makes $140,000 a year, and has $686,000 saved.
She wasn’t asking if she could afford a family gap year. Her numbers already answered […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, I want to first talk about the elephant in the room.”
Before we get into any retirement math today, I need to talk about something personal: the disaster that just hit Nepal, my home country. My family is safe, but I’ve spent the last several days thinking, oddly enough, about why […]
By Paula Pant
Joseph Moore is a crypto billionaire.
That’s technically true, and it means almost nothing. He printed over a billion tokens of his own currency, bought a sliver of the supply for a few hundred dollars, watched the exchange multiply that price by every token in existence, and became a “billionaire” on paper.
He hollered […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, if you had to choose between retiring as soon as possible or paying off a mortgage, what would you go for?”
I ask Joe that right at the top of this episode, and his answer ends up being more prophetic than either of us realized.
Joe and I help […]
By Paula Pant
Jack Raines liked his boss on Hinge.
It wasn’t reciprocal. A few months later, three beers deep at a bar, he told her he was quitting — then found a $250 plane ticket to Barcelona and left the country […]
By Paula Pant
The stock market is near record highs. Unemployment is low. So why does it feel like young people have never been more pessimistic about money?
Beth Kobliner has been writing about personal finance for over 30 years, and she says today’s 20- and 30-somethings have […]
By Paula Pant
She grew up with a Goldman Sachs dad. She still ended up broke in her 20’s.
Haley Sacks—known online as Mrs. Dow Jones—joins us to talk about the five-step financial framework she calls IBIZA.
Despite every advantage, she spent her twenties anxious, financially dependent, and charging dinners to her parents’ […]
By Paula Pant
In this Q&A episode, Joe and I tackle three listener questions that touch on concentration risk, major retirement decisions, and entrepreneurship. We start with a new investor wondering whether the AI-dominated stock market requires rethinking traditional index fund strategies, or if diversification is already built in.
From there, we explore a complex 65-year-old’s situation involving […]
By Paula Pant
Welcome to Greatest Hits Week — five days, five episodes from our vault, spelling out F-I-I-R-E.
Today’s letter F stands for Financial Psychology. And we’re diving deep with a conversation that changed how thousands of our listeners think about money.
This episode originally aired in November 2022, but the insights feel more relevant than […]
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