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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
We tried it: Getting reimbursed for travel delays / 63
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We love travel — but we do not love unexpected airport chaos.
On a recent work trip to Mexico, we each faced major delays. One of us was marked a no-show while physically inside the airport because we couldn’t get a boarding pass. The other experienced a domino effect — a missing gate agent, de-icing delays, a missed connection, a four-hour crew delay, and a mechanical issue that led to an overnight stay.
Because these disruptions felt largely outside of our control — and, to some extent, within the airline’s — we decided to advocate for ourselves. We requested cash refunds instead of flight credits, submitted reimbursement claims for meals and hotels, explored credit card trip delay protections, and even filed a DOT complaint.
Some of it worked. Some of it didn’t. We’re breaking it all down so you can feel more prepared if this ever happens to you.
✨ Episode Highlights ✨
- [03:00] Cassidy’s travel mishap: protests, road closures, and arriving late to a delayed international flight
- [07:00] Rebooking, overnight hotel, and initial reimbursement request — and the first denial
- [09:00] Follow-up, second denial, and next steps (escalation and credit card coverage)
- [12:00] Emily’s travel mishap: missing gate agent, de-icing delays, and a missed connection
- [14:00] Emily’s backup plan: buying a last-minute ticket, four-hour crew delay, and mechanical issues
- [18:00] Refund strategy: requesting cash instead of flight credit and submitting expense receipts
- [21:00] A $600 airport hotel surprise, credit card dispute, and goodwill compensation request
- [27:00] Our biggest takeaways: knowing your rights, using the DOT dashboard, credit card protections, and documenting everything
✨ Resources ✨
- Department of Transportation (DOT) Airline Customer Service Dashboard
- Financial Feminist episode featuring former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
- How to Win at Travel by Brian Kelly
- Your credit card’s trip delay / travel disruption coverage (check your card’s Guide to Benefits)
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