IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Change Your Relationship with Money with Steven Bartlett
04 Jun 2025
Michelle and Craig sit down with entrepreneur and “Diary of a CEO” host Steven Bartlett to discuss what role money should play in your life, why it’s important to be transparent with your kids about your finances, and how Steven went from financial instability to a serial entrepreneur. They also answer a listener's question on how best to deal with financial anxiety and debt.Have a question you want answered? Write to us at imopod.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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I've never actually said this before, but when I got my student loan, I took half of it and I bet it on a football game.
You know, one of the things... What game? What game? Honestly, it wasn't even a good game.
It wasn't a good game. But it was just, it was Stokes. I didn't even like the team.
This episode of IMO is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Progressive Insurance. Hello. Hey there. How you doing? I'm great. We got a good one today. Oh, I cannot wait. I cannot wait. I'm very excited to talk to our guest. But to kick it off, we're going to be talking about finance. Finances. We're going to be talking about how do you manage money.
these economic times are really a little scary out there. And I know a lot of people have questions, but we were talking before the show, just trying to think of how did we think about money when we were growing up? And we talked a little bit about this in some of our other podcasts, but we've said that we grew up pretty, I would say we grew up poor.
Right. But the poor, but not knowing we were poor, that was a, that was a real testament to our parents because we didn't have disposable income and they were managing paycheck by paycheck, but we didn't know that. And, and, When Stephen gets out here, we should talk about how dad taught us the value of money, you know, because that was a real great lesson.
But our father worked as a, he was a city worker for the city of Chicago, worked in the water filtration plant, blue collar worker. He was the sole breadwinner because he and mom made a decision for her to stay home.
Right.
So that- you know, she'd be able to be an involved and engaged parent in our school, which she was. She was very active in the PTA. So we sort of had that typical, we came home for lunch every day. So him being the sole breadwinner afforded her the luxury of being more engaged in our upbringing. But it meant that we were, you know,
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