So what’s going on with this GameStop thing? Did Reddit take down a multi-billion dollar hedge fund? What’s a hedge fund? If you’ve been hearing about GameStop nonstop for the last few days and want to know all the drama and what it might mean for the stock market as a whole and your personal investments, join us today at 2pm EST to learn all about it. We invited back Kevin Matthews of Building Bread to help us break down what the heck happened, all the investment terms you need to know and disc...
Feb 07, 2021•58 min
We don't know about you, but we're tired of hearing out of touch celebrity millionaires (looking at you, Diddy) who keep telling us we should have been hustling even harder in the middle of a global pandemic. We are TIRED! But more importantly, hustle culture prevents us from interrogating the system of oppression it was built upon. Instead of advocating for our own labor/worker rights, we're pitted against each other. Instead of giving ourselves space to rest and recharge, we fee...
Feb 03, 2021•54 min
Music Feature in This Episode Payroll Taxes by IM-POWER-MEANT ENT PRESENTS $HO Montega Stimmy (Stimulus Checks)- by Stimmy Gawd feat L'Daialogue DiCaprio Living Wage by Aveli Amun Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 1 min
As part of our COVID-19 relief and business saving efforts, DAWI is launching a hotline this month for small businesses, especially in communities of color, interested in converting to worker ownership, and we're doing it in partnership with NYC Department of Small Business Services. Music Featured in This Episode: Better Together by Liberty Jones Cooperative DVA by cooperative DVA Workers United (will overcome) by Eve Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.co...
Oct 03, 2020•59 min
How many of us really love our bank? It feels like an entity that we have to do business with but always begrudgingly and always with a hint of how are they going to screw me over this time? In this episode we talk about this history of banking and how it got to be this way through various acts of deregulation and how we can ask our banks to do better. Music Featured in This Episode: Better by Sivion, Dre Murray, Sojourn Make It Better by NjBred Better Business by Blickaz Get full access to Get ...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Parisian poet Anatole France said "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” He was poeting about how laws penalize desperate actions borne of need while largely ignoring crimes inspired by greed. We've all heard stories about people spending years in prison or being killed for stealing food, while corporations that rob employees of breaks and overtime pay get off with a fine. We always assum...
Aug 26, 2020•42 min
We are talking about how to invest in yourself without spending money and what is investing in yourself vs. self care? Where do we start with investing in ourselves and what does that even really mean? Music Featured in This Episode: In Yourself by Zo! + Asylum 7 Believe In Yourself by SisterSara featuring Awa Fall Free Yourself (extrait) by NY.KO Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min
MJ from Advisory Avenue joins us for this episode to talk about knowing your worth, how, why and when you should go to HR, approaching and preparing yourself to have "the raise" conversation and really proving and showing your value to a company during a pandemic! Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 5 min
We were so happy to have Kevin Matthews on the show to explain how to think about investing during the pandemic and create an investment plan that weathers all uncertain times. Music Featured in This Episode: Making Bread by Xi Basty & Farky-Investitii (Investment) by Basty Makin' Bread by Sir Kn8 Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 2 min
One more episode on PPP and EIDL loans before the PPP loan deadline passes. Take a listen! Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 22, 2020•50 min
We're going to talk about how to talk to your parents about money for real. I think it's something that I know has been on a lot of our clients minds. Especially with COVID, especially with parents getting older, we work with a lot of millennials who have found themselves having to not only adult for themselves, but also adult for their parents. Music Featured in This Episode: Parents by Smokey the Ghost Parents by Christopher G. Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshame...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Music Featured in This Episode: When I Die by Sound FX Estate Echos feat Saint by PROFIT Last Rights by Proxy Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The prison industrial complex is basically the privatization of prisons. The government and prisons are working together to expand the prison population for the sake of profit. And that's basically what it is. What they've done is prisons have been cited as job creators and the use of inmate Labor has kept costs down. That is what they said and they created jobs by imprisoning people and paying slave labor wages. Music Featured in This Episode: A Letter to The Judge by Taurus Get full ...
Jun 24, 2020•58 min
Put your money where your mouth is! In this episode we talk about dismantling systemic racism with your dollars, ways to support POC businesses and also some great recommendations on POC businesses. Music Featured in This Episode: What's Important by LMNZ What's Important by Z.O What's Important by Dialectrix Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr 11 min
This episode is ALL things PPP loan! We answered 106 questions. We also touch on EIDL loans. Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 9 min
In this podcast we will tackle the different ways to approach that tricky "money" conversation with you partner. Music Featured in This Episode: Communicate by ANGLLS Love Hate Relationship feat. A Jones by Conz Long Distance Relationship by imperfekt Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
May 29, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Managing Credit In A Time Of Crisis. This topic is on a lot of people's minds. I think that when it comes to our debt, especially during this pandemic, it can feel like even more of a burden. It can feel even more like something that we feel like is an even bigger mistake. Something we wish we got rid of sooner. Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
May 20, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Questions answered: I'm wondering if you have advice for me or others in my situation. I have a small business as a sole proprietor LLC (I'm the only employee) and just received a SBA PPP loan on Friday. AND I also had applied for PUA early April as a freelancer and the partial unemployment just went through and was accepted. Any ideas of what to do? I imagine I can't take both — I had a quick question about PPP loans now that I've been offered one: From what I've read, ...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Our first IG Live! Today we're talking about how the CARES Act wasn't made for us, as usual, but what you can do within it anyway. Questions answered: Did anyone in there bring up the subject of being asked to come back in to work or have you discussed with others what to do in that situation?? I'm working remote now but they're telling me I have to go back to the office with no real substantive reason -- I have been freelancing- I usually get paid via payroll and receive a W...
May 06, 2020•54 min
Bring your meal and mimosas and come chat with us about how we can master our personal finances. We’re offering bottomless budgeting tips.About this EventNever eat alone. We’re here for you. We are offering bottomless budgeting tips as we take brunch digital. In this online event, Brunch & Budget will share a meal while exchanging […] Music Featured in This Episode: IM TRYING WHERE MY STIMULUS CHECK by Fountaine American Pimp by PPP Land of the Loopholes by 4Mative Get full access to Get Sha...
Apr 30, 2020•2 hr 34 min
Our first of a number of episodes on COVID19 and the racial wealth divide, our first impressions on how Black and Latinx communities are affected, how to navigate the stimulus package, how have artists like Dyalekt been affected, small businesses like Brunch & Budget, and why neoliberalism won’t save us. Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Apr 15, 2020•34 min
In part two of How the Racial Wealth Divide Affects Your Wallet Pamela and Dyalekt continue the conversation on how the racial wealth divide affects your wallet, financial resilience and the policies that have led to the racial wealth divide and dive deeper into how those policies actually were perpetuated by art media and culture.Music […] Music Featured in This Episode: Chicken & Watermelon feat JAMPoet by PRODUX Dorsia by Uncle Tom, and Associates Who Will? by Phynite Get full access to G...
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Music Featured in This Episode: The Buy In by Hech Rhymes Advocate by Spoken Phor overstand FT. Rswift by Overcome In part 1 of Financial Resilience and The Racial Wealth Divide Pam and Dyalekt dig into the five steps to financial resilience: Buy In Systems Habit Advocacy Values Episode Highlights: Dyalekt: I know it starts […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Mar 04, 2020•58 min
Music Featured In This Episode: Credit Scores by J.A Bad Credit by Siras WorthDMention and DJ FenixFly Episode Highlights: Pam: On our back to basics episode today we are going to be talking about understanding your credit score. Dyalekt: Well, the thing about credit score is like, credit is such a pervasive thing that I’ve […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Feb 26, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Pam and Dyalekt tackle taxes with Marci Blackman and Diana Greiner of Treehouse Taxes in Brooklyn, New York. The crew breaks the process down for every type of earner and explains why doing your taxes is an act of social justice in this annual tax episode. Music Featured in this Episode: Theme Music by Jon […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Music Featured in This Episode: My Own Boss by SMCity feat. Pro’verb Free Your Body Free Your Mind by Patterns of Chaos MARV – My Own BiZness Episode Highlights: Pamela: I feel like that so much about personal finance is based around personal responsibility. And what I mean by that is that people will say, […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Jan 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min
In this week’s episode Brunch and Budget takes it back to the basics of investing. Dyalekt and Pamela speak with Caleb Silver, Editor in Chief and Senior Vice President of content at Investopedia, about the basics of investing and how to get started. Music Featured in This Episode:Heavily Invested – Spaceman Jones and The Motherships […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Nov 05, 2019•59 min
In this second back to basics show Pam and Dyalekt revisit the spending values matrix and discuss the importance of aligning your spending with your values. Dealing with money is emotional and Pam and Dyalekt encourage you to think about how you spend your money and how it represents what you value. ———————— Music Featured in […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Sep 29, 2019•58 min
In this episode we discuss the Equifax breach, the settlement, and what you can get out of it. Pamela and Dyalekt discuss the pros and cons of choosing the cash settlement versus the credit monitoring option. Music Featured In This Episode: Equifax by Pounds Minimum Rage by Gone Ghastly My Generation by Broken Episode […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr
In this week’s episode we are going to go back to basics. We want to update the concepts, because our understandings of these concepts have evolved. We wanted to start with show #1: What is Your Money Personality? Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe
Aug 20, 2019•1 hr 6 min
