Rachel Webster

It's a simple freaking formula, damn it. Yeah, dummy.

It's a simple freaking formula, damn it. Yeah, dummy.

Don't spend more money than you make. It's just math. Actually, you know what? This podcast is over. That's a wrap.

Don't spend more money than you make. It's just math. Actually, you know what? This podcast is over. That's a wrap.

Why don't we go grocery shopping? Okay, perfect. Just kidding. I think there's more to the story.

Why don't we go grocery shopping? Okay, perfect. Just kidding. I think there's more to the story.

I thought so too, but I was too embarrassed to ask. You and everyone else. Because we all seem to think that everyone else just knows personal finance by osmosis from just, like, living in the world. But we don't know. And we don't know what we don't know.

I thought so too, but I was too embarrassed to ask. You and everyone else. Because we all seem to think that everyone else just knows personal finance by osmosis from just, like, living in the world. But we don't know. And we don't know what we don't know.

And just like a part-time Orange Julius employee who protects her virginity as carefully as her summer wages and then gets stuck in the middle of a tea party of friends sharing salacious stories of their summer camp sexcapades, we're too embarrassed to admit what we don't know. Now it's just about finances, not fellatio.

And just like a part-time Orange Julius employee who protects her virginity as carefully as her summer wages and then gets stuck in the middle of a tea party of friends sharing salacious stories of their summer camp sexcapades, we're too embarrassed to admit what we don't know. Now it's just about finances, not fellatio.

But women need to be talking about finances more than any of the other sometimes hard things in life because women have a particularly fraught relationship with money.

But women need to be talking about finances more than any of the other sometimes hard things in life because women have a particularly fraught relationship with money.

So over the last year, we interviewed women from across the country to better understand their experiences with debt and money.

So over the last year, we interviewed women from across the country to better understand their experiences with debt and money.

And after we began speaking with these women, we started to notice many similarities in their experiences. One of the most astounding patterns is that they all thought that they were the only ones in debt.

And after we began speaking with these women, we started to notice many similarities in their experiences. One of the most astounding patterns is that they all thought that they were the only ones in debt.

And without fail, they all had the same story about money, which is that they didn't know anything about it.

And without fail, they all had the same story about money, which is that they didn't know anything about it.

For American millennials in the public school system, personal finance classes were few and far between. Of course, even if they had been more ubiquitous, it probably would have sounded something like this scene from Ferris Bueller.

For American millennials in the public school system, personal finance classes were few and far between. Of course, even if they had been more ubiquitous, it probably would have sounded something like this scene from Ferris Bueller.