The FitMoney Podcast

This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial Literacy Month is about building a brighter financial future, so join us in challenging ourselves to get (financially) fit in just five days.  Get started fo...

This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial Literacy Month is about building a brighter financial future, so join us in challenging ourselves to get (financially) fit in just five days.  Get started fo...

This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial Literacy Month is about building a brighter financial future, so join us in challenging ourselves to get (financially) fit in just five days.  Get started fo...

This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial Literacy Month is about building a brighter financial future, so join us in challenging ourselves to get (financially) fit in just five days.  Get started fo...

This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial Literacy Month is about building a brighter financial future, so join us in challenging ourselves to get (financially) fit in just five days.  Get started fo...

This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial Literacy Month is about building a brighter financial future, so join us in challenging ourselves to get (financially) fit in just five days.  Get started fo...

This Financial Literacy Month, join FitMoney to kickstart your students’, your family’s, or your own financial literacy journey! Though financial literacy is a skill we’ll all need for life, the first step is simply getting started. Financial Literacy Month is about building a brighter financial future, so join us in challenging ourselves to get (financially) fit in just five days.  Get started fo...

This year, FitMoney set out to host our financial conversations to inspire you to have ones of your own. Along with leaders across the financial literacy landscape, we discussed why it’s important and how we can all be a part of the mission. We’ve gathered some of our favorite moments, quotes, and advice from this year for one final episode that’ll get you, your classroom, or your family started t...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Tonya Rapley, an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of My Fab Finance to discuss her work helping others overcome their financial hurdles by sharing stories, resources, and collaborating on initiatives to build brighter financial futures. Today, Jessica and Tonya discuss what she notices today around common beliefs and mis...

Today, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Meghan Dwyer, a Certified Financial Planner and host of the " Money Isn’t Scary " podcast. Meghan’s on a mission to empower women to take control of their money and make confident decisions. Together, Jessica and Meghan discuss why logging on to our bank can be intimidating, how we have these conversations with kids, and h...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Allan Liska, a Threat Intelligence Analyst at Recorded Future, to discuss the common financial scams and frauds spenders and savers of all ages come across, how we recognize them, and then protect ourselves from. With the rise of online banking, payment apps, and more digital forms of spending and saving, it’s important we...

On this special episode, we’re talking about experimental learning through the Credit for Life Fair - an immersive experience for high school students to practice budgeting and financial decision-making in the "real world." Teachers and students are sharing how it’s changing the way they’re preparing for the future… for the better. Today, we’re chatting with the Institution for Savings,...

On this episode, FitMoney External Relations Manager Jacob Wittenberg is joined by Michael Obucina, an Options and Education Manager at Robinhood Financial helping educate the current and next generation of investors. Today, Jacob and Michael are leading a conversation on what educators, caregivers, and students themselves should know when it comes to investing. They discuss the misconceptions, ho...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by  Danielle Piskadlo and Michelle Brathwaite from Women’s Money Matters to share their work and programs to amplify and empower women on their financial journey, and also address the systemic barriers women face around their finances. Together, they discuss the role gender plays in how personal financial experiences are buil...

Today, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Robert Farrington, the founder of The College Investor - an online space to help young adults in their personal finance and investing goals. From helping navigate student loans and managing money in a family, today, Jessica and Robert are discussing how we can manage stress around own finances and tune out external pressures that mi...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with professional and financial speaker, author, filmmaker, and podcast host Adam Carroll, to discuss how he’s not only raising kids financially fit kids of his own, but how he’s helping others be empowered and find their own financial takeaways through his own personal stories. Together, they discuss how parents model money beha...

Today, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by  Carleen Haylett, the CEO and Founder of EnrichedHQ - an online marketplace for activities, resources, and more, for children to explore their interests and learn skills. A homeschool parent herself, Carleen is helping families find quality, enriching activities for students however they learn - and sharing how an education outside...

On today’s episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier chats with Amy Pridemore, the Executive Director of the Virginia Credit Union Financial Success Center, on her work to provide financial literacy resources for her community on a college campus, and her history of empowering college athletes not only with the tools to become financially literate, but why they should do so. Stay tune...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier is joined by Bobbi Rebell, a Certified Financial Planner, podcast host, and author of Launching Financial Grownups - where she helps parents of teenagers and young adults empower their kids and own their financial independence. Today, Jessica and Bobbi discuss why talking about money with kids can be intimidating, how to navigate these...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier chats with New York Times Bestselling author Tori Dunlap, the Founder and CEO of Her First 100K and host of the Financial Feminist Podcast. After saving $100K by the time she turned 25, Tori set out on a journey to fight financial inequality and build economic opportunity for women - a goal now impacting millions worldwide. On the show...

This week, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with Matt Trogdon, a Financial Planner and Financial Literacy Workshop Instructor with the Babson Financial Literacy Project. On this episode, Jessica and Matt discuss what the road to becoming a financial planner looks like, along with the questions college students are asking, and what they should know when credit card companies pop...

" Pocket Change" episodes from The FitMoney Podcast are bonus conversations sharing what listeners like you should know about the changing financial and educational landscape. On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier reunites with Taylor Sohns to discuss what the debt ceiling is, why we're talking about it, and what a decision means for you and your family. Sta...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with John Ganss, a business teacher at Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich, MA, to discuss the vocational school model, and how they’re working towards financial education for their students. Today, we’re answering questions around how we can prepare students for employability, how we can practice healthy money ski...

On this episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier meets with Juhi Dhawan, a Senior Managing Director and Global Macroanalyst at Wellington Management. Together, they discuss the concerns families may have as they watch global economics evolve, what those families should know about building financially fit futures for every member of the family, and Juhi’s experience as a woman in fina...

On today’s episode, FitMoney Executive Director Jessica Pelletier sits down with Abby Coyle and Katie Gracey, the Founders of Class Equity, a new classroom tool teaching responsibility, saving, and healthy spending through creating your own classroom economy. Together, they discuss how we can implement financial literacy into what students already understand and the power of giving them control, e...