The FitMoney Podcast
FitMoney, the K12 Financial Literacy Curriculum, explores the financial literacy landscape with special guests to answer the question of why it's so important to become financially literate, and what we need to do to empower all students with the financial skills they need.
Episodes
33 episodes
Encore: Why Do We Need Financial Literacy? Highlights from the Show
This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial L...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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18:31
Encore: How Can We Make Investing More Accessible? with Michael Obucina
This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial L...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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27:16
Encore: Explaining Money to Kids with Jamie Bosse
This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial L...
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21:19
Encore: How We Model Money Habits with Adam Carroll
This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial L...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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26:09
Encore: Fighting Financial Inequities by Building Confidence with Tori Dunlap
This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial L...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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26:15
Encore: How Parents Raise Financially Smart Kids with Bobbi Rebell
This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial L...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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25:15
Encore: Implementing Engaging Financial Education with Jim Curran
This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial L...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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22:13
Why Do We Need Financial Literacy? Highlights from the Show
This year, FitMoney set out to host our financial conversations to inspire you to have ones of your own. Along with leaders across the financial literacy landscape, we discussed why it’s important and how we can all be a part of the mission. We...
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Episode 24
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Improving Our Money Mindset with Tonya Rapley
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Tonya Rapley, an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of My Fab Finance to discuss her work helping others overcome their financial hurdles by sharing stories, resources,...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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23:34
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Overcoming our Financial Fears with Meghan Dwyer
Today, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Meghan Dwyer, a Certified Financial Planner and host of the "Money Isn’t Scary" podcast. Meghan’s on a mission to empower women to take control of their money and make c...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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25:08
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How Can We Protect Our Money from Scams? with Allan Liska
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Allan Liska, a Threat Intelligence Analyst at Recorded Future, to discuss the common financial scams and frauds spenders and savers of all ages come across, how we reco...
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Episode 21
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23:19
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How the Credit for Life Fair is Preparing Students for the "Real World"
On this special episode, we’re talking about experimental learning through the Credit for Life Fair - an immersive experience for high school students to practice budgeting and financial decision-making in the "real world." Teachers and student...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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28:54
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How Can We Make Investing More Accessible? with Michael Obucina
On this episode, FitMoney External Relations Manager Jacob Wittenberg is joined by Michael Obucina, an Options and Education Manager at Robinhood Financial helping educate the current and next generation of investors. Today, Jacob and Michael a...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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26:46
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The Financial Barriers Women Face (and How We Solve Them!) with Women's Money Matters
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Danielle Piskadlo and Michelle Brathwaite from Women’s Money Matters to share their work and programs to amplify and empower women on their financial journey, and...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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26:55
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Understanding and Managing Financial Stress with Robert Farrington
Today, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Robert Farrington, the founder of The College Investor - an online space to help young adults in their personal finance and investing goals. From helping navigate student loans a...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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25:06
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How We Model Money Habits with Adam Carroll
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with professional and financial speaker, author, filmmaker, and podcast host Adam Carroll, to discuss how he’s not only raising kids financially fit kids of his own, but how h...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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25:41
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Curating Education towards Student Interest with Carleen Haylett
Today, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Carleen Haylett, the CEO and Founder of EnrichedHQ - an online marketplace for activities, resources, and more, for children to explore their interests and learn skills. A ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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20:30
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College Athletes and Building Your Financial Muscle with Amy Pridemore
On today’s episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier chats with Amy Pridemore, the Executive Director of the Virginia Credit Union Financial Success Center, on her work to provide financial literacy resources for her community on a...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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19:06
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How Parents Raise Financially Smart Kids with Bobbi Rebell
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Bobbi Rebell, a Certified Financial Planner, podcast host, and author of Launching Financial Grownups - where she helps parents of teenagers and young adults empower th...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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24:46
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Fighting Financial Inequities by Building Confidence with Tori Dunlap
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier chats with New York Times Bestselling author Tori Dunlap, the Founder and CEO of Her First 100K and host of the Financial Feminist Podcast. After saving $100K by the time she turned...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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25:45
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Campus, Careers, and Accounting with Matt Trogdon
This week, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with Matt Trogdon, a Financial Planner and Financial Literacy Workshop Instructor with the Babson Financial Literacy Project. On this episode, Jessica and Matt discuss what the road...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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22:44
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What Does the Debt Ceiling Mean for You? with Taylor Sohns
"Pocket Change" episodes from The FitMoney Podcast are bonus conversations sharing what listeners like you should know about the changing financial and educational landscape. On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pe...
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Season 1
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How to Prepare Students with Career Readiness with John Ganss
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with John Ganss, a business teacher at Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich, MA, to discuss the vocational school model, and how they’re working towards financia...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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19:17
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Building Financially Fit Families with Juhi Dhawan
On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with Juhi Dhawan, a Senior Managing Director and Global Macroanalyst at Wellington Management. Together, they discuss the concerns families may have as they watch global econo...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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21:49
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What Does Financial Literacy in the Classroom Look Like? with Abby Coyle and Katie Gracey
On today’s episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier sits down with Abby Coyle and Katie Gracey, the Founders of Class Equity, a new classroom tool teaching responsibility, saving, and healthy spending through creating your own cla...
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Episode 8
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21:09
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