Women on the Verge of a Financial Breakthrough
Episodes
Season 4, Episode 14: Women Talking About Money
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
And Other ScandalsWomen getting together to talk about money is totally radical. In that, it used to not be…encouraged?…so it breaks societal norm...
Season 4, Episode 13: Financial Division of Labor in a Partnership
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most of this episode is about what both partners should know - or at least be able to know - in a romantic partnership where one person does all the m...
Season 4, Episode 12: *Mini* Getting Back into the Workforce
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two episode drops in one day?? What the what??This special mini episode is a quick (but mighty!) follow-up to Season 4, Episode 11 about stepping out ...
Season 4, Episode 11: What to Consider When You’re Leaving the Workforce
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the point of having a salary if the whole thing goes to paying for daycare?The back-of-the-napkin math for many couples says that it’s “c...
Season 4, Episode 10: Money Attachment Styles
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to all of you anxious/avoidant attachers out there! And a shout out to you secure attachment weirdos, too!On this episode, Sara and ...
Season 4, Episode 9: Financing Effing Fertility
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a man loves a woman very, very much….lol. Baby-making / family-creating can be hella expensive and complicated. Is egg freezing tax deductible?...
Season 4, Episode 8: WTF is a CD Ladder? Money Market Account?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back to the basics, Women on the Verge! WTF is a stock??? LOL. Jkjk. (But that’s a totally legit question - find the answer here!)If you thought the...
Season 4, Episode 7: Love, Logistics and Long-Term Care
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ugh. This is hard. So many of us are sandwiched between our kids and our aging parents with difficult decisions coming down the pike. We invited Julie...
Season 4, Episode 6: Money and the Feelings Wheel (send help)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Women on the Verge fan favorite Kacie Swartz returns, arms in the air, to hold forth on another man money myth. Money shouldn’t be emotio...
Season 4, Episode 5: Too Much Stuff?
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve bought six pairs of cheap, mediocre black leggings instead of one quality pair to “save money”, this episode is for you. Caitlin invi...
Season 4, Episode 4: WTF is an estate plan?
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another buzzkill week here on the Women on the Verge pod! Close your eyes and think of the adult task YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD’VE ALREADY DONE...
Season 4, Episode 3: How to Negotiate Salary and Benefits
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the career class you should’ve gotten in college. This week, Sara and Caitlin ask Susanne Aronowitz, career and executive coach, how to t...
Season 4, Episode 2: Financial Trauma and Therapy with Dr. Shay
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turns out money baggage isn’t suitcase jammed with hundred dollar bills - it’s the stuff we drag around from childhood that sneaks into every tap ...
Season 4, Episode 1: Travel Hacking with Credit Card Points
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back for season four, and ready to sneak into business class to live our best lives. Climb aboard!Caitlin’s friend Katherine Fan is a credit...
Season 3, Episode 14: WTF is personal bankruptcy?
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know anything about personal bankruptcy? Us neither. I mean, we knew the rumor that it ruins your credit and should be the OPTION OF LAST RESOR...
Season 3, Episode 13: WTF is an annuity?
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hey - if you’re super risk-averse (despite listening to our very soothing risk-encouraging podcast), this episode is for you!Caitlin learns that her...
Season 3, Episode 12: When do you sell a stock? (And how?)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can’t I just sell some stocks to make a bunch of money and then use that money to make more money and then I’ll be rich?Um. Sort of? Sara explains...
Season 3, Episode 11: WTF is the “Fed”?
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you listen to Season 3, Episode 1 where Caitlin grilled Sara about whether anybody ever knows if we’re in a recession or not, and Sara said we d...
Season 3, Episode 10: Will the election F up my investment strategy?
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The wrong guy* is gonna win so the economy is going to go to hell in a hand basket and the stock market will tank and we’ll need our savings in the ...
Season 3, Episode 9: How Do I Pay For a Car?
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It feels like there are so many financial landmines when we buy a car, but maybe there aren’t as many as we think?Guest star Kacie Swartz from Black...
Season 3, Episode 8: What should teens know about finance?
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us who are only learning about finance and investing as grown ups have one very loud question in our minds: Why don’t they teach this stuff ...
Season 3, Episode 7: WTF is a Roth IRA?
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Should you pay income taxes now or later on all that money you’re earning?Most of us think about putting our money in retirement accounts as a way t...
Season 3, Episode 6: Should We Talk About a Prenup?
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Am I the prenup type? Will my house still be my house after it will be our house if I become a me again? Will I sound shallow/greedy/pessimistic/calcu...
Season 3, Episode 5: How Can We Tell When It's Time to Move On From Our Good Investments?
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the episode where Caitlin exploits having a podcast with Sara to get Sara to tell her whether or not to sell her house. Does Sara take the ...
Season 3, Episode 4: WTF is Crypto?
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The long-dreaded day has come: We try to tackle a tiny bit of crypto, whatever that means.What is the occasion for wading into these bro-infested wate...
Season 3, Episode 3: Are you swimming in a money river or drowning in a shame-saving pond?
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Ramsey and Suze Orman are the elephants in our podcasting Zoom room on this one. Also the trad wife Insta influencers that might con you into thi...
Season 3, Episode 2: Interest Rates, I Bonds and Inflation. An I-motional Roller Coaster.
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just when you think finance talk can’t possibly get more boring…bring in the three i’s. But wait! There’s some stuff you should know, even if ...
Season 3, Episode 1: WTF is a Bull Market?
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: There will be no champagne party in this episode. Last year it was the Bear Market, now it’s the Bull Market. The market goes down, the mar...
Season 2, Episode 16: Don’t Be Fooled By Fancy-Sounding Funds
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For our last episode of Season 2, we talk about, what else??: how index funds are the freaking work horses of building a financial future for good rea...
Season 2, Episode 15: What Kind of Insurance Do I Need?
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know what kind of insurance you need, when you need it and how much you should pay for it? We have no idea!So that’s why we invited certi...
Season 2, Episode 14: What Does an Investment Advisor Actually Do All Day??
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OK, so investment advisors are the people we go to to find out how to turn our money into more money, but how do they know?? Are they on a secret...
Season 2, Episode 13: WTF Is a Bank?
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does a bank run out of money?? Isn’t a bank just a place where it’s safer to store your money than in an empty ice cream container in your fre...
Making Money Lemonade Out of Bear Market Lemons: Rebroadcast
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re rebroadcasting an episode we recorded at the end of last summer in the midst of what one hoped was a temporary bear market. The sto...
Season 2, Episode 12: Women on the Verge of Doing Their Taxes
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Taxes. Ugh. Whoops. I mean: What a great opportunity to save money and pay your fair share! Many of us never learned how to take advantage of differen...
Season 2, Episode 11: WTF Is Wealth?
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The movies tell us one story about wealth and it looks a lot like white men playing golf and drinking single malt whiskey. But is that what we’re tr...
Season 2, Episode 10: Money Sisters
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do you get when two women combine forces to figure out finance, share the mental load and build wealth together? Money sisters!! That’s what yo...
Season 2, Episode 9: How to Make Money in the Stock Market AND Make the World a Better Place
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So many of us want to invest in the stock market to make money for retirement, but feel pretty icky about where our money might be going. Do we just h...
Season 2, Episode 8: Budgeting While Still Getting Takeout
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You can take that takeout pad thai out of my cold, dead hands. If budgeting means not being able to splurge on a stressful Tuesday anymore, then let’...
Season 2, Episode 7: WTF Is a Credit Score and Why Is It So Important?
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Your credit score is one of those things that you don’t have to care about…until you really do. It’s a system that kind of makes sense, but also...
Season 2, Episode 6: How to Pay for College and Still Afford to Buy Nicer Cheeses
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a 4-year-old daughter or 15-year-old niece that you hope to help pay for college, but also would still like to have money for other things...
Season 2, Episode 5: Individual Stocks Mess With Your Mind
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back for the real Season 2! When you get a hot tip about individual stocks, can’t you just buy a bunch and get really rich and then laugh at...
Season 2 Episode 4: The Government Might Pay Off Your Student Loans. Act now!
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Sara and I pepper student-loan specialist Danika Waddell with questions about two different student loan programs: the Biden $10,000 debt re...
Season 2, Episode 3: Making Money Lemonade Out of Bear Market Lemons
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do if you actually have money to invest in the stock market but the constantly sinking numbers are scaring the shit out of you? Are you re...
Season 2, Episode 2: Scare Bear Market: Get out! (PLEASE DON’T)
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are we really supposed to stay in the stock market even when it does a bunch of scary shit and our account balances are going down instead of up? Do w...
Season 2, Episode 1: What fresh hell is a “bear” market?
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before the real Season 2 starts, Caitlin drills Sara about what the hell is going on in the economy and why the financial news just keeps getting wors...
Season 1, Episode 15: WTF is inflation and WTF should I do about it?
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the last episode of Season 1, in which Caitlin asks Sara if gas will soon cost $15 a gallon, what is the point of anything? Sara explains how ...
Season 1, Episode 14: What do I do with a big chunk of money and how do I know how risk tolerant I am?
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Getting a whole pile of money is the dream, right? But what the hell are you supposed to do with it? What if you invest it all and the market goes dow...
Season 1, Episode 13: How do I save for my kids’ college education?
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are parents supposed to prepare for their own future financial stability *and* save for their kids' college educations? There is so much conflicti...
Season 1, Episode 12: Should I pay off my debt early?
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some debt is "good" and some debt is "bad", right? But how can we tell the difference? Sara walks us through how to think about debt, and how to decid...
Season 1, Episode 11: How much do I need in my emergency savings account?
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emergency savings accounts are super important, right? Sara agrees, but worries too many people over-emphasize their rainy day fund and under-emphasiz...
Season 1, Episode 10: What to do with all those old retirement accounts?
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WOTVFB listener Carin asks: What do I do with all of the retirement accounts I've accumulated from past jobs? Sara tells us the one thing we have to d...
Season 1, Episode 9: How much do I need to save for retirement?
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's my number? How much money do I need to put into my retirement account between now and when I stop working? Sara and Caitlin walk through an onl...
Season 1, Episode 8: Like, literally, how do I start investing?
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do I actually "get into the market"? Sara tells us how to literally start investing by sharing the first three steps. They're so simple that ANYON...
Season 1, Episode 7: Do I need a financial wing person?
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When does it make sense for a "normal" person to check in with a financial advisor? Do you have to be a millionaire or can you be an aspiring thousand...
Season 1, Episode 6: If gold is the answer, what is the question?
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's so tempting to keep our money in things we can touch like cash or gold - we can use them in an emergency so they're safer, right? Sara says we ne...
Season 1, Episode 5: Like, literally, what is a stock?
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're circling back to the basics: stocks, bonds, index funds and tuxedos. Watch out for a lot of grocery shopping metaphors because it turns out the ...
Season 1, Episode 4: Who the f*ck is Warren Buffett?
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This investing for beginners party is more interesting than you thought, right? Well, just wait til Sara hits you with advice normal people can use fr...
Season 1, Episode 3: How to get rich real slow and boring-like
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The "Let's learn about finance and investing!" party is still going over here at Women on the Verge of a Financial Breakthrough! This time, Caitlin an...
Season 1, Episode 2: Why is it easier to talk about sex than money?
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Talking about money can be awkward, fill us with shame, regret and even panic. So why do it? In this episode Sara and Caitlin talk about what it means...
Season 1, Episode 1: How does a beginner learn about investing?
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a party you probably don't want to come to! In the very first episode of Women on the Verge of a Financial Breakthrough, Caitlin and Sara t...