Cash Confident with Brie Sodano

Brie approaches the topic of money in a refreshingly unique way, setting herself apart from many financial planners. She humanizes finances by connecting them to our daily actions and habits, breaking complex concepts into simple, relatable terms. Truly one of my favorite podcasts!

I love Brie’s approach - it’s the perfect combination of traditional financial advice plus the often overlooked psychology of our relationship with money. It’s changed my perspective in so many ways and my life is better already because of it. Please keep it coming Brie!

I love that her approach to money is more about solving the problem by getting to the root issues! I’ve done some of her free workshops and gotten so much out of them and this podcast is no different. Lots of juicy nuggets to be learned :)

I don’t know where to start. This episode is SO WRONG! Every financial planner will tell you - you need a 3-6 month emergency fund. This is 3-6 months of your monthly expenses to get you through a job loss, illness, whatever! You don’t want to go back to using credit cards!!! If you are debt free and have a 3-6 month emergency fund you have peace and can financially ride out a storm. The purpose of the $1000 baby emergency fund is to keep you from using credit cards while you are working like a crazy person to eliminate your consumer debt - of course $1000 isn’t going to work long term. After your consumer debt is paid off you then get the REAL EMERGENGY FUND IN PLACE! This podcaster is totally off base - a car oil change is not an emergency! It is part of your monthly budget! You need to sit down every month and look at your needs and budget for them! Things like annual expenses (insurance, taxes, Christmas) these need to be saved for in a sinking fund so the money is there when you need it - the month it is due. I thought I would like this podcast after listening to this woman on another podcast which I find helpful but this lady has it all wrong! Not only that she rants on and on and often makes no sense. Just shows anyone can do a podcast - but not everyone can do them well.