Getting to Know Us

Episode Description

Ten episodes in, Kim and Emily celebrate with something a little different—a get-to-know-you speed round where neither host knows what the other is going to ask. Expect real talk about childhood money lessons, early financial regrets, the habit that changed Emily’s spending, and what financial success actually feels like when you stop trying to attach a number to it.

Episode Summary

For their tenth episode milestone, Kim and Emily swap questions they selected in secret, covering everything from the money lessons their parents drilled into them early to the financial mistakes they’d undo if they could. Kim reflects on starting work at fourteen and learning to use credit responsibly through a coupon-book personal loan her dad co-signed. Emily comes clean about cashing out a $5,000 IRA in 2009—and what that account would be worth today. They discuss the habit of mindless online shopping and how Emily broke it, why parents shouldn’t feel guilty prioritizing their own retirement over funding a child’s education, and what financial success really means when you define it as a feeling rather than a figure.

“Whatever that looks like for you—that’s where your success is. If you want to put a number on it, fine. But for me, it’s just like: I went half the month without checking my bank account every single day. I exhaled.”