Financing Ambition – A Personal Finance Podcast from Laurel Road Laurel Road

Join us for a special Pride Month episode of Financing Ambition as host Eric Sutton sits down with Dr. James Kostek, the medical director of the Baby Siperstein Proud Center in Somerville, New Jersey. Eric and Dr. Kostek discuss the complexities and inequities LGBTQ+ individuals face in seeking medical care, as well as the past, present, and future of LGBTQ+ healthcare. Dr. Kostek shares invaluable advice for aspiring medical professionals and stresses the importance of passion, motivat...

In our Financial Literacy Month episode, Laurel Road's Director of Credit and Operational Strategy, Jessica Agnello, and Laurel Road's Product Operations Manager, Cheryl Forth, join the podcast for a conversation about financial fraud and scams – a growing problem in our increasingly cashless world. The discussion covers how to identify the red flags of a scam and best practices for protecting your money.

Our recent Love + Money survey found that romance and finance aren’t always a perfect match. To break down the survey results and share their own relationship’s financial journey, Drs. Joshua and Nicolet Hernandez join us for a wide-ranging discussion on financial compatibility in romantic relationships.

Ted Kane, Partner at Brown & Brown and employee benefit industry veteran, joins us to discuss trends in hospital employee benefits and shifting expectations that medical professionals have of their employers. Ted shares how healthcare systems can leverage flexible employee benefit plans to attract and retain top healthcare talent and stay competitive in a challenging environment.

In this episode, we're joined by Kimberly McClellan, EdD, Adjunct Clinical Professor at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, to discuss student loan forgiveness for nurses. Kim had $69,000 in student loan debt forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, and she shares how our student loan specialists helped her get there.

In this episode, GradFin Senior Manager Joseph Price-Gault (aka JPG) joins us to unpack a summer of back-to-back student loan news, including a big SCOTUS decision, recent changes to income-driven repayment (IDR), a lawsuit against the one-time IDR account adjustment, and the return of student loan payments this Fall.