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The Finance Girlies: Money Conversations for Gen Z and Millennial Women
Welcome to the Finance Girlies, a money podcast for the girlies who’ve never felt seen by traditional finance advice.
This isn’t your typical personal finance show — it’s two Millennial friends talking about money the way it actually shows up in our lives.
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.
The Finance Girlies: Money Conversations for Gen Z and Millennial Women
Cassidy's moving budget: The cost of starting over / 35
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Moving across the country is expensive enough — but what happens when you decide to sell literally everything you own and start completely over? That's exactly what Cassidy did when she moved from Washington to Minnesota after her divorce.
Instead of renting a $2,500 pod, her mom had a wild idea: What if she just kept what fits in her car and sold everything else? Three weeks later, Cassidy had somehow turned her stuff into $7,500 cash. But here's the thing — starting fresh meant buying everything new, from silverware to a $1,700 mattress.
This episode breaks down every dollar she spent (and made) plus all the feelings that come with these kinds of major money decisions.
✨ Episode Highlights ✨
- [02:00] Why Cassidy scrapped her original moving plan
- [08:00] Using ChatGPT to price everything on Facebook Marketplace
- [16:00] Moving day disaster: kitchen scissors vs. memory foam mattress
- [20:00] The emergency Home Depot van rental solution
- [23:00] What it actually costs to buy everything new
- [28:00] Why a $1,700 mattress was worth every penny
- [32:00] The psychology of starting fresh and buying intentionally
- [38:00] Would Cassidy do it this way again?
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