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Guest co-host Georgia Lee Hussey, founder of Modernist Financial, joins to share insights into how to manage your money during an election year and to help answer audience questions about paying off a mortgage early, budgeting for a newborn and investing in your 50s. Links mentioned: wealthramp.com/farnoosh and 36 Questions for Civic Love.

Has your financial anxiety increased with the uncertainties around this year's election? Guest Aja Evans, a board-certified therapist, speaker, and writer specializing in financial therapy, shares insights into how and why election years typically cause heightened financial stress -- and how we can work through economic and political unknowns. Aja's forthcoming book, Feel Good Finance, is a judgment-free book that will help you take control of your money while prioritizing your financial wellness.

Today we have the singular Glynnis MacNicol, journalist, memoirist and author of the new book, I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris. We explore what it means to be a woman untethered, single, child-free and a quest to have fun -- for fun's sake. Gylnnis' memoir takes place during the summer of 2021, as she ventured from NYC to Paris during the global pandemic. We discuss the economics of being Gynnis, how she afforded her time abroad, and how she affords many of her rich experiences (without needing to spend money).

Today’s show: The benefits of credit cards, recommended stock portfolio allocations and resources for helping kids learn about money. Plus: How to execute a rollover or backdoor Roth IRA? (Questions are an encore from April 19)

With a frozen housing market and a lack of housing supply, what's the best way to navigate the housing market? Should you become a lifestyle renter? Guest Daryl Fairweather is a trusted source in the real estate market. As a female, millennial, and woman of color, Daryl brings a fresh perspective to housing topics and economics. She shares insights into what's driving the current housing market, where prices may go in the future and the long-term trends are affecting housing.

We can bury the #girlboss, but what comes next? Guest Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the former executive editor of Teen Vogue and author of the new book The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning, in which she tells her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it.