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Finance Girlies: Money Conversations for Gen Z and Millennial Women
Do you feel like you’re making progress with money, but somehow still feel behind?
Maybe you’re already saving, paying your bills on time, and investing a little.
But you still find yourself thinking:
"Wait… am I actually doing this right?"
And when you try to find the answer, you get even more frustrated because everything online feels like it was made for some Wall Street bro obsessing over his next trade.
If you’re craving money conversations that actually reflect you — an ambitious, vibrant woman using her money to build a life that feels abundant in every sense — come hang with us.
Welcome to the Finance Girlies, a money podcast for the girlies who’ve never felt seen by traditional finance advice.
We’re your hosts, Emily Batdorf and Cassidy Horton. Between the two of us, we’ve spent more than a decade researching and writing for big publications in the personal finance space.
Now, every Wednesday, we’re sharing our financial knowledge, experience, and hard-won confidence with you. (And when it’s helpful, we bring in trusted experts to help us unpack the more complex topics.)
During each episode of The Finance Girlies, we’ll cover topics like:
- Why you don’t have to feel “ready” before you start investing
- How to be a more conscious consumer when you’re constantly being #influenced
- How your career as a freelancer, entrepreneur, or employee affects your financial reality
- How to handle money conflicts in relationships — and strategies to avoid them altogether
- How your money beliefs directly impact your financial habits and choices
Together, we’ll explore how you relate to money: through conversations with your partner, the paycheck you earn, and how you spend your days. Instead of throwing prescriptive advice at you, we’ll give you helpful reframes, mindset tools, and why-did-nobody-teach-me-this tidbits to help you build financial confidence every day.
If you’ve ever felt like personal financial advice was too dry, impractical, condescending — or just too bro-y — we invite you to pop in an earbud and let out a deep exhale.
Finance Girlies: Money Conversations for Gen Z and Millennial Women
Navigating money as a wife, mom, and breadwinner with Jessica Norwood / 45
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What happens when you're the higher earner in your marriage? When your 401(k) keeps growing while your spouse builds their own business? When you're navigating motherhood, career ambitions, and being the breadwinner all at once?
We love talking about money and relationships, and we're not the only ones. This episode features Jessica Norwood, who co-hosts The Sugar Daddy podcast with her financial planner husband, Brandon. What began as an outlet for his expertise has turned into something bigger: a source of honest conversations about money that break down the jargon and shame that usually come with financial advice.
In this episode, Jessica breaks down the reality of out-earning her husband, how they've navigated tricky money conversations, and why they decided to get a postnup after nine years of marriage.
✨ Episode Highlights ✨
- [7:00] Why Jessica and Brandon decided to get a postnup after nine years of marriage — and what changed their minds
- [10:00] The real financial dynamic of being the breadwinner when your spouse is an entrepreneur
- [17:00] How prenups and postnups actually strengthen marriages (not weaken them)
- [24:00] Breaking traditional expectations: What it's like when the woman out-earns her partner
- [29:00] The awkward money conversation about living with Brandon's mom — and why speaking up mattered
- [33:00] How to normalize talking about money with friends without making it weird
- [36:00] Why women who talk about money with other women are 2x more likely to invest
- [40:00] The investing mistake Jessica wishes she could undo from her 20s
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