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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast Vivian Tu may have worked on Wall Street, but she is not the enemy. In fact, she is known on the internet as Your Rich BFF. Why? Because like a true friend, she’s sharing her money expertise for free AND she’s funny as hell. She joined us to answer questions from folks on how to use credit cards without sliding into debt and what percentage of our income we should be saving instead of spending. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm b...
Sep 24, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re excited to tell you about a brand new storytelling show – hosted and produced by the amazing Lupita Nyong’o – that we are just loving. It’s called Mind Your Own, and it’s about navigating what it means to belong, all from the African perspective. Lupita Nyong’o knows what home feels like. But where exactly is it? In Mexico, where she was born? Kenya, where she grew up? Or the States, where she’s spent the past 20 years? Like Lupita, millions of Africans are spread out across the globe foll...
Sep 19, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we are airing one of our favorite episodes! Michelle Young was an elementary school teacher in 2020 when she received a mysterious invitation to audition for The Bachelor . Four years later, she’s practically a household name. And she’s here today to spill the tea about the dollars and cents of reality TV. From how much she got paid to a certain $200,000 check! This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm backing mission-driven entre...
Aug 29, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast 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 as she continues her lifelong journey of self-reinvention by talking to friends and experts in the realm of healing, health and wellness such as Olympian Alexi Pappas, journalist and psychedelics expert Ernesto Londoño, and death doula Alua Arthur. She’ll...
Jul 16, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve got a special treat for you today. We are going to be sharing an episode of The Deep Dive with June Diane Raphael and Jessica St. Clair with you as a part of our Lemonada Book Club series, a first-of-its-kind audiobook club powered by Lemonada Media and Apple Books. “The Art of Small Talk” by Casey Wilson and Jessica St. Clair, who is one of The Deep Dive’s co-hosts, was selected as our Lemonada Book Club’s June Book of the Month. This audiobook is a hilarious how-to for making chit-chat l...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast 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 17, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast From season 2 of Netflix’s hit show Love Is Blind , Iyanna McNeely sits down with X Mayo and gets real about the money talks happening in the infamous pods. Iyanna reveals just how much contestants made during the intense love experiment, who pays for what, and which money questions she asked her ex-husband Jarrette. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm backing mission-driven entrepreneurs and industry influencers working toward a f...
Jun 06, 2024•29 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Dough, we have a special guest: X’s business manager Belva Anakwenze! If you’re a longtime listener of the Dough, you know how much X loves Belva. She’s the perfect money mentor - her client list is a who’s who of Los Angeles celebrities, and she’s won awards from Variety, Hollywood Insider, Billboard, and more. Her and X have an awesome chat about their working relationship, X’s money skills, and why you should never let a basketball star start a rap career. This series was cre...
May 30, 2024•35 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, X Mayo sits down with her friend, actress, and author, Julissa Calderon. Julissa gets candid about how she became a viral sensation overnight and scored a lead role on Netflix using her manifestation techniques. Join these two friends for tips on how to overcome systemic barriers, take control of your money goals, and successfully manifest your wildest dreams. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm backing mission-dri...
May 23, 2024•30 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Gael Aitor knows how to build a community. His podcast, Teenager Therapy , amassed over 600k subscribers and Gael was literally a teenager making the show. Now he’s grown and making communities digitally and IRL. This week, we get his take on making friends in your 20s, the value of virtual community, and how to get creative with your free hangouts. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global investment firm backing mission-driven entrepreneurs and indust...
May 16, 2024•35 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 
