It’s not every day you come across someone who can guarantee seven figures in your bank account. Rachel Rodgers’ goal is simple – she wants everyone to be a millionaire. Girl, where do we sign up? As the founder and CEO of Hello Seven , Rachel helps historically marginalized groups build million dollar businesses and achieve financial freedom. So if you’re tired of overworking, under-earning, and hella stressing, you might want to consider joining Rachel’s millionai...
Apr 17, 2025•38 min
Roses are red, violets are blue, let me put you on someone whose palabras make you feel true. Yesika Salgado is a Salvadorian poet and the author of Corazón , Tesoro and Hermosa . Her work carries the kind of power that can change perspectives, break barriers, and make you feel like you aren’t alone in your struggles. Plus she’s relatable af (take that, Edgar Allen Poe). In this episode, we talk about her long, messy journey with self-love, speaking to the hearts of a new gene...
Apr 10, 2025•41 min
We’re all going to leave behind something when we pass, be it $1 million or a damn good story. It all counts, especially to your loved ones. But don’t worry, you don’t have to figure out how all of that works by yourself. Jini Thorton is a financial expert who helps families in estate planning. We’re talking about writing wills, for sure, but also things like creating a trust or assigning someone to take care of your minor children. Oh, and she helps Ludacris with his fin...
Apr 03, 2025•46 min
DESCRIPTION Our plus size girlies deserve better than frumpy clothes or clothes that are gonna fall apart the moment you walk out the door. What we need is luxury, honey. That’s where our hero, Lauren Chan comes in. She is the founder of Henning, a luxury clothing brand for women sizes 12 and up. Oh, and did we mention she was Sports Illustrated’s first plus size queer model? Uh huh. Icon. Lauren pulls back the curtain on the business of fashion. While other companies complain about ...
Mar 27, 2025•40 min
I’ll take an Uber Eats order with a side of guilt, please. Actually, hold that because according to millionaire mentor Bernadette Joy y’all should stop feeling bad about ordering food if you’re simply conserving energy. Honey, we’re booked and busy so if your money habits are in service of your wealth, health or mental wellbeing, what’s the problem?! BernaDEBT is a nationally recognized finance expert who personally paid off over 300 thousand dollars in three years....
Mar 20, 2025•39 min
Listen, we gotta disagree with Kermit the Frog here. It’s actually easy being green. Financial entrepreneur Kara Perez is here to show us how. She’s the author of “Money for Change: How to Reduce Waste, Build Wealth, and Create a Better Future.” Doesn’t that get you excited? Kara tells X why we should be using our personal finances to create a more sustainable world. It’s not just for the rich, either. Kara has the antidote to overconsumption, and shares why c...
Mar 13, 2025•36 min
We believe everyone has a right to feel good, especially in these times. Mama Sue Taylor built a whole business off this belief. At 77 years old, Mama Sue is thriving and running a successful cannabis business helping elders take their life back. But she wasn’t always so weed positive. She tells X how she went from being a retired Catholic school principal to being the first Black woman in the Bay Area to open a dispensary. In a truly intergenerational conversation, they discuss the import...
Mar 06, 2025•35 min
This week, we’re introducing you to Ask Iliza Anything. Comedian Iliza Shlesinger delivers brutally honest, hilarious advice you didn’t know you needed—covering everything from nightmare coworkers and psychotic bridesmaids to genuinely heartfelt life advice. Iliza loves nothing more than giving incisive life advice to total strangers, sometimes with a celebrity guest in tow. It’s always entertaining. Today, we’re sharing an episode of Ask Iliza Anything . In t...
Feb 27, 2025•50 min
Capitalism won’t love you back so you might as well stop overachieving, right? You don’t have to tell me twice to work less! Money coach and award-winning journalist Leo Aquino is uninterested in helping the rich get richer. He specializes in anticapitalist personal finance for queer and trans folks and believes in leaving behind the economic systems that don’t serve us (we never liked the game Monopoly, anyways). So whether you need help getting off the hamster wheel of emotio...
Feb 20, 2025•35 min
Putting your job before your health? In this economy? No, baby. What you actually want is love, security, safety and personal fulfillment. Amina AlTai is a holistic career coach extraordinaire, and she’s here to help us figure out how to live with work, not for it. After overworking herself and developing two chronic illnesses, Amina had to stop and reevaluate WTF she was doing. She was killing herself for her job – and for what? She shares her lessons learned and how we can identify...
Feb 13, 2025•39 min
AI has us freaked out. It’s making videos, pictures and even beats (shout out to BBL Drizzy) but will it replace us? Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, writer and host of the podcast “Living with Machines,” and he’s here to discuss the ethical dilemmas around using AI, especially for creatives. Baratunde shares how AI fits into our history with new tech, how we can put guardrails around it, and how it can actually be useful without being appropriative. Plus, how AI could h...
Feb 06, 2025•56 min
In H.R. we trust. Sike! If you take away anything from this episode it’s that a company’s human resources department isn't here to teach you your rights, and it’s never too early to learn them yourself. As the only employment lawyer in the maternity space, Daphne Delvaux is committed to helping women protect their jobs and get paid. Known as the ‘mamattorney,’ Daphne has an extensive track record of putting big corporations on blast for discrimination and achieving ...
Jan 30, 2025•41 min
What’s wrong with living and spending like a fabulous rockstar? Well, it might get you $51,000 in debt. That’s what happened to John and David Auten-Schneider. The married couple successfully paid off their debt in just three years, and they're on a mission to help others spend, save and retire well. They are also using their platform to provide financial education to the LGBTQ+ community. John and David tell X why personal finance is actually different for queer people and how to ge...
Jan 23, 2025•43 min
Eliza Blank built the million dollar business, The Sill, by giving people what they wanted: plants, right at their doorsteps. No more schlepping to the local store, and no more wondering how to care for your new plant baby. She wanted plants to be accessible to all, not just the Martha Stewart followers of the world. She talks to X about busting her butt to make this happen, from launching her Kickstarter to hand-delivering plants in NYC to pitching venture capitalist funders. Whether you’...
Jan 16, 2025•31 min
There’s a time and place to talk about your vagina. Said no one ever! So say goodbye to those secret google searches, discrete packages, and feelings of embarrassment because Lo Bosworth is here to confidently help us find solutions for our vaginal, gut, and hormonal mishaps. Her brand Love Wellness stemmed from years of struggling with health issues after starring on one of MTVs most popular reality shows. With a little bit of Laguna Beach money and a whole lot of authenticity, Lo s...
Jan 09, 2025•39 min
Why is it so easy to talk about our relationships, mental health and even our sex life publicly… but not how much money we make!? Comedian Fumi Abe is looking to change that with his podcast Cash Cuties, co-hosted by Steffie Baik. You heard the pod on our feed last week but now he’s in the hot seat to talk about overcoming his scarcity mindset, the crazy amount people spend on food delivery apps, and the difference between tech legacy money vs NBA money. Plus, we hear more about why...
Jan 02, 2025•36 min
This week we’re introducing you to Cash Cuties - where each week Comedian Fumi Abe and Steffie Baik analyze their friends’ credit statements and judge their spending habits - with love. In this episode, actor Chinedu Unaka (HBO’s Insecure, Abbot Elementary) dropped by the pod to talk about how you can actually save money by breaking a bunch of traffic laws, his sagacious approach to poker, and how to ensure your kids get money from their rich uncles/aunties. If you love t...
Dec 26, 2024•51 min
Delyanne The Money Coach is here to help us retire early! She wants each and every one of you to live a life where your time is your own! AMEN. Delyanne worked as an employment attorney for seven years advocating for employee rights. But like many of us, she was getting burnt out. That's when she discovered the power of investing and figured out she could stop working at 45 years young. Today, she is living her best life in Portugal, and she’s got tips for us on how to make our money grow ...
Dec 19, 2024•33 min
Don’t go broke trying to make holiday magic this season. Podcasters Kristen Meinzer (How to Be Fine, Daily Fail) and Kulap Vilaysack (Add to Cart) are here to help. They tell us all about their favorite budget-friendly holiday traditions, plus how to make your place look festive on a budget and wtf to feed your guests when you don’t want to spend your whole paycheck. And they have some surprising ideas on how to approach gifts this season. No matter how little or how much you want to...
Dec 12, 2024•30 min
Ricki Lake captured Americans’ hearts as Tracy Turnblad in John Waters’ “Hairspray.” And then she did it again on her talk show in the 90s – all before turning 25. From living in a 400 sq. ft pool house to making bank hosting her talk show, Ricki has seen a lot. In this episode, she talks about where her early money went, and how she nearly lost it all. Plus, why she invested in bitcoin, what she learned from two highly publicized divorces, and how she survived it all to live her dream life in M...
Dec 05, 2024•34 min
Hosted by Emmy-winning talk show host Ricki Lake, The High Life brings us into Ricki’s blissed-out world of joy and pleasure, featuring conversations with compelling guests who have cracked the code to living a full and vibrant life. Join Ricki in her best phase of life — midlife — as she gets into sex, menopause, weight, energy healing, and all things wellness. The High Life will elevate your spirits so you can discover how to live a life filled with calm, ease and a lot of f*cking fun. This we...
Nov 28, 2024•42 min
Want to figure out how to manage 10 jobs at once, live in your dream home and not even worry about money? Nicole Byer is a self-made comedian and actress who is surviving and thriving in Hollywood, and she’s here to tell us all about it. You’ve probably seen her on Nailed It, Grand Crew or her standup special “Big Beautiful Weirdo.” And she also hosts FOUR podcasts. X and Nicole take us back to their UCB roots, and then go even farther back to a time when Nicole was young and had to figure out t...
Nov 21, 2024•40 min
Today is about kicking the patriarchy’s ass. We’re talking about how financial education is a form of protest and actually the best way to empower women to get their [Fendi] bag. Simply put, if you have more money, you have more options: leave a bad relationship, get a sweet apartment or pursue the things that actually make you happy. But what’s the key to making more dough? Tori Dunlap, aka The Financial Feminist, has tips on making more money at work and figuring how to prioritize your spendin...
Nov 14, 2024•40 min
Want to know what the stars say about your career or which astrological sign is the best with money? In this episode of The Dough, X Mayo is getting those answers from Heidi Rose Robbins, who's been a professional astrologer for the last 25 years. Join X and Heidi as they dive into X’s birth chart and talk through the benefits of using money astrology to chart your career. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm backing mission-driven ...
Aug 01, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Once you experience the money running out, that shit stays with you. And sometimes we just need a little encouragement to get us through. This week, X sits down with her good friend and fellow actor Tarek Ali to bring us some good money vibes! Tarek talks about how he’s learned to worry less about money and the sacrifices he’s made to follow his dreams, including the tough decision to sell his hard-earned Tesla! This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global...
Jul 25, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Chaya Milchtein, also known as the Mechanic Shop Femme, is a car whisperer. Having an issue with your brakes? Need to get new tires? Unsure if you need to replace your spark plugs? She’s got you. As an automotive educator, Chaya teaches people how to make sure their cars stay up and running without paying an arm and a leg to shady mechanics. She joins the show to tell X how she can keep her trusted Toyota Sequoia in tip top shape and how we can all take better care of our cars. This series was c...
Jul 18, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Is your relationship to money secure, avoidant or anxious? Financial therapist Amanda Clayman is back this season to break down our attachment styles to money and how they show up in our everyday lives. Plus, Amanda gets candid about her past struggles with debt and tells us how we can all make personal finance decisions from a calm AF headspace. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm backing mission-driven entrepreneurs and industry ...
Jul 11, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Speed skater Erin Jackson was the first Black girl EVER to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics in 2022. But guess what? It's insanely expensive to train and compete as an Olympian and you get paid an annual salary of exactly zero dollars to do it – unless you win a medal and even then you gotta make that paycheck last until the next Olympics. We sat down with Erin to talk about the price of being the best in the world, and how to make a living doing what you love. This series was...
Jun 27, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This week, we’re getting serious. Serious about the price of the prison industrial complex. Fred Bell from The Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtors union, joins X Mayo to unpack each of their experiences with carceral debt. Fred talks about the financial realities of our prison system, the shame surrounding the cycle of debt, and how the Debt Collective is organizing to abolish it all. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm bac...
Jun 20, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 15
We negotiate with each other every day. Where are we gonna go for dinner? What do you want out of this relationship? How long are you going to leave those damn dishes in the sink? But somehow, a lot of us get tongue-tied when it comes to asking for more money and better benefits at work. So we brought in an expert! Mandi Woodruff-Santos co-hosts the podcast, Brown Ambition Podcast, and she joins X to talk about how to find your next job, why you should always negotiate for more money, and how to...
Jun 13, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 14
