Financial Considerations and Conversations Before Marriage

Scott Glasgow is the Founder of FinMango, an international program making financial literacy and inclusion universally accessible and useful to 1,000,000+ youth per year. He has received international recognition in dozens of media articles, including a U.S. News & World Report Op-Ed, CNN, The New York Times, NBC, The Daily Beast, and TIME Magazine. He is a 2x TEDx speaker. Mr. Glasgow’s formal education includes the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education: Rethinking Financial Inclusion; an MA in Financial Economics, and BA in Biology and Community Health.

Matt Frey is the Communications Director and Policy Advisor for Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball. Before joining Treasurer Ball’s staff, he was the Executive Director of the Kentucky Financial Empowerment Commission (KFEC).

At KFEC, Frey started the Kentucky Financial Educators Network, the Kentucky Bank On Network, and the Financial Empowerment for Commonwealth Employees program. Each of these programs helps improve the financial literacy and financial education of Kentuckians.

Matt Frey has five years of experience researching financial literacy and financial education. This was done most recently with Dr. Annamaria Lusardi at the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center in Washington, D.C. Frey is a native of Melbourne, KY, and a graduate of Northern Kentucky University, as well as George Washington University.

Questions answered in the podcast:

• Can you each take a moment to walk us through your career journey, beginning with college, to provide context for our listeners? Let’s start with you Matt, and then Scott.
• How to start the conversation of what your finances really look like? (commonality of not even knowing yourself)
• What are common financial pain points for pre-marriage couples? (e.g. student loans, credit card debt, investment decisions and goals, family planning, life planning goals)
• What is your plan to handle conflict (around money or really anything) when it does arise?
• What are your views on premarital therapy?
• During the pre-marriage planning process - how do you negotiate finances around the wedding planning vs. long-term financial planning? 
• People are waiting longer to get married. What are the hesitations for adults in their 20s and 30s from getting married? 
• This day in age, it is common for people to move for work/jobs, how do you negotiate that process when you have a spouse? 
• How do you know when to stay or take the new opportunity when the other has a career already set where you are currently living? (especially with young professionals) 

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