Pink Tax Podcast

*This is the second part of a two part series on investing!  Investments - Part 2!  We hope you enjoyed our intro to investing in part one.  This next part we chat about higher-risk options that you may have heard about, how investing can be intimidating and the invisible women when we went looking for studies on gender and investing.  We’re looking for your feedback, do you fi...

*This is a 2 part series on investing!  In this weeks episode (part 1) we talk about investment options you have as well as risk.  Tara and I discuss how we got into investing and our journey investing to date.  We talk about the investment gap for women, and how investing means you have to save less money. Should you invest in your TFSA, RRSP, or an unregistered account and when sh...

Divorce. What does a relationship split mean for a woman's financial future? Statistically women are financially worse off and worse off if they divorce earlier. The studies split by gender but a lot of this has to do with the lower income earning partner, and the cost of childcare both in dollars spent and career impact of being the primary caregiver. All studies we found seemed to have a cis-het...

We missed addressing some systemic issues when it comes to housing affordability in Canadian markets. Check out this housing update to talk about the barriers Canadians face when saving for a home, making ends meet, and the generational differences when it comes to home ownership. We touch on the future of home ownership being female, women are the largest upcoming group of homeowners, and these w...

Home ownership. Will you or won't you? This week we chat about everything home ownership. Our own personal experiences and the costs associated with owning a home. We talk about the nitty gritty so you can decide if home ownership is a goal that you even want to have. We talk about the lack of choice on the rental market, especially if you have a family and work near a city centre.  TFSA or R...

This week we dug into what holds us back from saving the money that we earn.  We touched on the different relationships a person can have with money, whether they associate it more with security or status and the importance of saving overall.  Our conversation centered around the wage gap and pink tax and how we can work to overcome those barriers to create a sense of financial security....

Thank you so much for all of the amazing support in our first week of the podcast being live! Over 100 of you tuned in across a variety of platforms and were patient with us when we had a few technical glitches along the way.  Yesterday we recorded a mini episode to address a couple of burning questions including  What Is The Pink Tax? Tune in to this 13 minute episode where we discuss w...

This week we chatted about some common money myths and why talking about money is taboo. Talking to others about your money can make you feel vulnerable and judged. We think that the short term awkwardness is worth the potential long term gains in evening out the gender pay gap and investment and saving differences.