How would saving $1000, $5,000, $10,000, or more on your medical bills sound to you? This is probably the most important, and most impactful episode I’ve ever done on medical debt and you’re going to want to send this to everyone you know. Over 100 million people are in medical debt and it is the leading cause of bankruptcy. But as our guest, Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington, author of What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to CRUSH YOUR MEDICAL DEBT wants you to know how to not get screwed financially t...
Mar 01, 2023•43 min
Financial generational curses can be at the heart of so many of your money stories and play a huge role in the money decisions you make.Our guest, Cassandra Cummings, Founder of The Stocks & Stilettos Society and author of Fearless Finances says it’s time to flip the switch on financial curses and money mistakes and focus on what you’ve learned. We’re exploring what a financial curse is, how to break financial curses so you can start investing and building wealth, key investing advice for Black ...
Feb 27, 2023•44 min
In this Shannah Shares, Community Q&A episode, I'm sharing the 7 ways to stay focused on your money goals inspired by a question form Amanda: "I love your podcast and have been listening for over a year now being inspired and working towards my goals. Maybe my question isn't really a question, but more like a request for a pep talk. I have 4 main money goals that I've been slowly working towards Paying off my student loans, saving 4 months of expenses in my emergency fund, saving $3,000 in a wha...
Feb 24, 2023•31 min
Money trauma is real and you most likely have experienced a version of it in your life. Ever spend too much on something because it makes you feel better? Ever feel stuck in the same money patterns as your parents? Ever hold on to money tightly out of fear of spending it or just losing it? These are all examples of money trauma that our guest, Christina Foxwell, author of the new book Glass Angel, says we all go through. So how can you deal with money trauma and not let it get in the way of all ...
Feb 22, 2023•43 min
Have you seen the prices of houses lately? Whether you’re in the market to buy a home now or even renting in many markets is really out of reach these days. It’s no wonder why there is a movement towards alternative and more affordable housing, like RVs, campers, yurts, and tree houses, and in this episode, we’ll explore dome homes. Our guest, Whitney Hansen, is a money expert, host of the Money Nerds podcast, and a dome living expert who believes that dome living has a lot to offer. Whitney’s d...
Feb 20, 2023•40 min
What should you do with your money in 2023? It’s a big question but lucky enough Zaneilia Harris, Certified Financial Planner and President of Harris & Harris Wealth Management group and author of Finance’ n Stilettos, and Doug Boneparth, Certified Financial Planner and founder of Bone Fide Wealth both here to share everything you need to know. We dive into how to prepare for a layoff, is 2023 your year to buy or sell your house, how to deal with money anxiety, do we really need to talk about re...
Feb 17, 2023•52 min
When you get married, you want to start your shared life together on the right financial foot. Most people are so involved with wedding planning that they put off having necessary money conversations that always arise after you tie the knot, and those often lead to fights and relationship breakdowns. If I’m honest, even as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, I still had some money fears after saying “I Do.” Based on my years working as a financial planner (AKA a marriage financial therapist) and per...
Feb 15, 2023•39 min
What do you know about the social nervous system? Our guest, Hadley Hagen, a nervous system educator, and money coach explains that she believes your social nervous system is the missing piece in making sustainable changes in your money life. So what does that mean? Think about all those interactions online and offline that influence how you save and spend your money. What’s at play…you guessed it, your social nervous system. Curious, isn’t it? So let’s talk about what your social nervous system...
Feb 13, 2023•43 min
In this episode, I'm featuring a Budget Rescue with Robert who asks: "Hi Shannah, thanks for taking the time to answer my question. BTW I love the new name of the show. This is one of the only places I feel like we can listen to all different types of conversations and you always surprise me with the topics. It’s so cool. I’m writing to see if you would give me some insights into my monthly budget. Here’s my snapshot - I make around $5K per month and have a fairly stable job, at least I think so...
Feb 10, 2023•34 min
Be honest with me, what do you dread worse? Doing your taxes or swimming with sharks? I KNOW, it’s a toss-up. We are headed into the opposite of the most wonderful time of the year… the dreaded tax season is upon us. Dunt, dunt, dunt!! Ok, dramatic SFX aside, it’s time to get our tax season game plan on and have fun learning about taxes with our main man tax expert Carter Cofield. Carter will teach you how to benefit from the tax code, he’ll get to the bottom of the ever-popular question should ...
Feb 08, 2023•45 min
Which camp are you in? Money can buy happiness or money can’t buy happiness? I grew up hearing that money can’t buy happiness, but then I saw everyone in my life push hard to make money, hold on tight to money, and not always enjoy money so that all got a bit confusing. Our guest, Jason Vitug, author of the new book Happy Money Happy Life, A Multidimensional Approach to Health, Wealth and Financial Freedom and founder of phroogal.com, believes that money isn’t everything, but it does impact most...
Feb 06, 2023•45 min
What would it feel like to drop the shame and guilt around money in your relationship once and for all? This episode is for you if you're ready to cultivate a healthy money relationship with your partner filled with mutual respect and love. On this special episode, Manisha Thakor from Money Zen is here to share everything you need to know about getting financially naked with your partner. Manisha is the co-author of two personal finance books for young women in their 20s and 30s: On My Own Two F...
Feb 03, 2023•41 min
Have you ever realized the role that scarcity plays in your money decisions? Scarcity is all around us in our daily lives. Whether you’ve stood in line to buy the latest Xbox or scooped up all the toilet paper during the height of the pandemic, you’ve experienced a scarcity mindset. Our guest, Mindy Weinstein, Ph.D. author of the new book The Power of Scarcity, and founder of the digital marketing firm Market MindShift will tell us just how big a role scarcity plays in our daily lives. So scarci...
Feb 01, 2023•42 min
What does a rich life look like? Our guest, Scarlett Cochran, founder of One Big Happy Life and author of the new book, It’s Not About The Money: A Proven Path to Building Wealth and Living the Rich Life Your Deserve, argues that a rich life has to be about more than the amount of money you have, the car you drive, and the house you live in. A rich life starts by asking yourself some powerful questions. Armed with the answers to those questions, you can then start to fill in the money part. And ...
Jan 30, 2023•44 min
Why the f*!k are eggs so expensive? Eggs are being smuggled from Mexico and the U.S. government wants to start imposing fines. For eggs. So what does all this mean for your wallet and how can you keep on track of your goals when things like eggs literally are putting a crack in your spending? I'll cover it all in this Shannah Shares episode. LINKS Bloomberg Beyond Meat article CNN Soaring Egg Prices article How to Create an Annual Spending Plan podcast episode SPONSORS Thanks to ShipStation for ...
Jan 27, 2023•32 min
At this point, who knows if we’re actually in a recession, and how big that recession might actually be. But that doesn’t change the fact that Wall Street is on pins and needles and the stock market has seen a fair share of ups and downs in the last 6 months. According to the Wall Street Journal, Despite signs that inflation has started to recede, economists still expect higher interest rates to push the U.S. economy into a recession in the coming year. On average, business and academic economis...
Jan 25, 2023•41 min
What does it take to live an abundant life? That feels like a pie-in-the-sky question to ask, but I want you to just entertain the thought for a moment. What does abundance look like to you? While money might be the first thing that pops into your head, I challenge you to think about abundance not simply as a dollar amount, but as a way that you want to live your life - what you want to do, where you want to work, how you want to spend your time and how you want to feel. I’ve been super interest...
Jan 23, 2023•47 min
Want to know what the biggest budget buster is almost unanimously…it’s the money you spend eating out. We all know that January is always a time when you’re trying to figure out how to do a lot of things differently, maybe even better. And money, of course, is always at the top of the list. It’s been said that the only two ways to better your money situation are to 1) earn more, or 2) spend less. Easier said than done for sure. But I thought it was time to dive into eating out to understand why ...
Jan 20, 2023•41 min
Are you ready to build a side hustle empire this year? It's a fact, side hustling has been around for centuries. Whether it’s investing in real estate or building a business or flipping houses there are a ton of ways to side hustle. The idea of making extra or passive income is in fact one of the key pillars of wealth building. So the side hustle is here to stay. The trick is to figure out how to make money with your side hustle. Enter Nicaila Matthews Okome. You may know her as the host of the ...
Jan 18, 2023•36 min
A new year always brings on new hopes, goals, ideas, and thoughts about how you want to make this year your best year. But, it’s not always easy to stick to all the promises you make yourself each day. There are distractions, stress, fear, doubt, and all sorts of emotions that come into play. And then there’s money. That big ol’ 800 lb gorilla. If you’ve been listening to this show for a while now you know that money touches every aspect of life, however, the tricky part is that money can’t be e...
Jan 16, 2023•46 min
This Ask Shannah episode was inspired by a question from Bri: "Thank you for being the FIRST person to support me through my financial journey as an adult. I’m currently healing from many different emotions surrounding money. My question for you is about credit cards with perks. I got a few cards totaling 4,000 that I’m paying down but I didn’t realize I was doing a disservice to myself by not utilizing cards with perks (travel, rewards). Should I be moving toward paying off and closing 2/3 of t...
Jan 13, 2023•31 min
Did you know that passive income is one of the best ways to build wealth? It sounds pretty good, but passive income also has some flaws. The problem is when most people talk about passive income it isn’t actually passive income, like buying a business where you actually have to work. The true definition of passive income is to have money coming in when you aren’t working, aka when you’re sleeping money is flowing into your bank account. That sounds pretty great to me. But how do you actually bui...
Jan 11, 2023•46 min
Let me tell you an investing story that makes the hairs on my arms stand up. I had been great at investing in a 401K from age 24 to 34. It was my ex-husband’s 401K, but he was the one with the great company match (aka free money). That account grew to $150,000. But then we got divorced and that account vaporized. Get this though, if we had kept that account, and contributed just $15,000 each year over the last 10 years, earning 10% on average that account would be worth close to $800,000 now. He...
Jan 09, 2023•43 min
How much do you hate budgeting? A lot, I know. In this Ask Shannah episode, I’m breaking down how you can create an annual spending plan with ease and ditch your budget altogether. We've got an Ask Shannah question from Michelle that has inspired this episode. Michelle says, "Hey Shannah, thanks for this podcast. It is such comforting to hear your voice each week and I love all the different topics you cover. The episodes always make me think about my money and life from a different perspective....
Jan 06, 2023•34 min
How do you blast away debt? I’ll give you a hint, it is not about paying the minimum payment on your debts. That just keeps you spinning the wheels. Our guest, Adam Carroll has something called The Shred Method that is going to revolutionize how you think about debt and how fast you can get out of it. Adam paid off his home in record time saving over $180,000 in interest in the process and realized he had something he needed to share with everyone. In this episode, Adam shares how you can be com...
Jan 04, 2023•41 min
What does it take to set and achieve your money goals in 2023? Hint, it requires new intentions, habits, rituals, systems, and a good money mindset to make it work. You and I both know that it is easy to set goals, but super super super hard to actually achieve them. Between your mind talking you out of the possibility to achieve a goal and factors in life that we can’t control like the economy it can feel like you’re swept up in a tornado and you can’t get your footing. Let’s change that! Andre...
Jan 02, 2023•46 min
From the crypto crash to painfully high inflation to everyone’s starting to travel again to work from home here to stay. In this episode, I’m sharing the biggest money lessons from 2022, my opinion of course, and how they can help you think differently about your money in 2023. LINKS Current Inflation Rate Work From Home Trends SPONSORS Thanks to Ka’Chava for sponsoring the show. Ka’Chava is offering 10% OFF for a limited time at Kachava.com/mymoney. LEAVE US A REVIEW Leave us an honest rating an...
Dec 30, 2022•47 min
It's that time of year again to set your money intentions for 2023. What do you want next year to look like? Do you have specific goals you want to achieve, and if so, why do they matter to you? Unlike resolutions, intentions are all about progress, rather than pass or fail. It’s time to set some money intentions for the year that you can achieve, that will change your life, and that will have you looking back at next year in awe of all the amazing things you’ve done. I'm walking you through my ...
Dec 28, 2022•36 min
Best Of Episode #4 - The average American has 5-7 accounts and that can be a lot to remember, as our guest Brian Hamilton says, it's a cognitive load and creates financial anxiety. However, when it comes to saving money, the secret is to work with what you have and create some healthy savings habits You know how important saving money is but when it comes down to the actual act of saving, it can be a tricky thing to master. Our guest Brian Hamilton, is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer ...
Dec 26, 2022•39 min
Best of 2022 Episode #3 - Are you ready to get out of debt? If you’ve ever tried it you know it’s tricky. You have to work on your relationship with money, be willing to change habits, and look at your money in a whole new light. Our guest, Erin Skye Kelly wrote her new book, Get the Hell Out of Debt, rooted in her story of getting out of over $2.1 million dollars in debt. Her book and this episode is a judgment-free zone jam-packed with tips to revolutionize your relationship with money and com...
Dec 23, 2022•40 min
