Financially Naked

On this episode of Financially Naked: Stories from The Financial Gym, our host is Mike Poulin, DC-based Financial Trainer, and he is joined by David and John, The Debt Free Guys, to talk about the queer community and finances. John and David have been together for 18 years. They didn't have any conversations about money until a year and a half after they were together when they had a financial "ah...

On this episode of Financially Naked: Stories from The Financial Gym, our host is Victoria Sechrist, a Boston-based Financial Trainer, and she is joined by Gym client Samantha Peller, and they are going to talk about saving to be a voice over artist. A voice over actor only uses their voice and includes jobs such as commercials, animated characters, audiobooks, and online trainings.  Samantha star...

On this episode of Financially Naked: Stories from The Financial Gym, our host is Myriam Robinson, Brooklyn-based Financial Trainer, and she is joined by Harper Spero, business coach, to talk about business coaching for small businesses. Harper was born and raised in New York and spent the first 10 years of her career in marketing, events, PR, and digital media. She kept changing jobs trying to fi...

On this episode of Financially Naked: Stories from The Financial Gym, our host is Joy Liu, Level 2 Certified Financial Trainer, and she is joined by her client, Anne Rowell, to discuss cultivating an abundance mindset to improve your finances. Anne lives in a small, rural town in Arizona, about 45 miles west of Phoenix and she has lived there for about 16 years. Her story starts with a huge transi...

Gina started with The Gym two years ago as a client with her now ex-husband. They were managing their student loan debt, credit card debt from the wedding, and also making two salaries which they weren't used to. They wanted to find better ways to manage their money as newlyweds and they were paired with Joy. A year into her membership, March 2020, Gina went through a divorce. Joy helped her handl...

One thing people with ADHD may have is more intense impulse control. Self-awareness and self-acceptance is important, in order to recognize the things that are calling to you.  Take a few breaths and try to stretch out that moment between impulse and action. Institute a waiting period for purchases and having an accountability partner. Make a list of items you are looking to buy and plan for gifts...

On this episode of Financially Naked: Stories from The Financial Gym, our host is Kadri Augustin, Brooklyn-based Financial Trainer, and he is joined by his colleague, Terri Bennett, to talk about parents and finances.

On this episode of Financially Naked: Stories from The Financial Gym, our host is Victoria, Financial Trainer, and she is joined by her sister, Haley, and Haley's financial trainer, Nick, to discuss why it is difficult to take financial advice from family members. Show notes: https://financialgym.com/financiallynakedpodcast/episode69

Victoria Sechrist speaks with her client, Liz Dederer who is the founder and CEO of Selling With Service. She empowers women to use their voice to make money and create change! Liz discusses The Four Currencies of Conversations and the difference between people who are "hard currency" vs "soft currency."  Recognizing your dominant currency is helpful for both business and personal relationships. ...

This episode is hosted by Mike Poulin as he talks with Rebekkah Holleman, Client Experience Associate. March is Developmental Disabilities awareness month, which was started by President Ronald Regan in 1987. Rebekkah previously worked in the disability field and has a brother who lives with her that has an autism diagnosis and he was the reason she joined The Gym as a client originally.   Philip...

Our host is Myriam Robinson, Financial Trainer, and she is joined by FinGym client, Ali Krupnik, founder of MyWellCo, to discuss remote wellness and morning habits. Ali shares the 7 principles for establishing a morning routine and other tips about taking  care of yourself and not constantly feeling like you are burned out. 

Employee #1 and Head of Trainer Development at The Gym, Bridget Todd, is joined by her client, Ben Sargent. He is a CPA and owner of Sargent CPAs. They talk about paying taxes as a someone who is a contractor or a freelancer.  People who are self-employed are more aware of paying taxes than someone who gets a W-2. People who get W-2s tend to do well with Turbo Tax or boxed software, because there...

The biggest thing to helping your children is bringing them into the fold of your everyday finances. Get yourself on track and have good conversations. Break the mindset that money shouldn't be talked about and make good decisions. Financial Trainers Garrett and Randi provide tips and anecdotes about talking to your kids from toddler age to college-aged kids about money.

Financial Trainers London and Bevin have a conversation about creating generational wealth in the Black community. Black people are in a place where they hold less than 15% of wealth as white people, and it is now mathematically impossible for them to catch up without some sort of systemic change. They discuss how an emergency fund is a way to get out of survival mode; the Black Tax as part of sur...

Today our host is Columbus McKinney, DC-based Financial Trainer and entrepreneur, and he is joined by his colleague, Kylie Lipinski, to discuss overcoming debt. They talk about reasons people have debt, tips to get out of it and Columbus talks about his own debt-free journey.  Shownotes: https://financialgym.com/financiallynakedpodcast/episode 62

Today our host is Kadri Augustin, Financial Trainer, and he is joined by Melissa Blatt, founder and CEO of Indipop, to discuss healthshares. In a healthshare, if a medical need occurs, depending on the plan, you have a different responsibility amount. In most cases, this is up to three times for an individual. After you pay your responsibility, the cost is shared with the community. This is more c...

Our host is Ornella Yovo, New York-based Financial Trainer and entrepreneur, and she is joined by Hannah Smolinski, founder and CEO of Clara CFO Group, to discuss the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). 

Our Trainer Mike Poulin is joined by his client, Renee Nguyen, who decided to join The Gym after graduating law school and wanting to get her finances in order.  After doing some research and talking to her coworkers, she realized she wasn't making as much as her peers. She talked to Mike about negotiating her salary and the 2 of them came up with some tactics she could use to negotiate for a rais...

Emily Egan, Business Development Manager at The Gym has been a consistent donator to community fridges during the pandemic and wanted to learn about the upfront costs of starting a community friedges, the benefots (financial and otherwise) of a fridge and what the future of community friedges might be. To answer her questions, she speaks to Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, a fashion and beauty executive and f...

Mellie is a client of The Gym and her paying off her student loans is one of her main goals and main reasons for becoming a client. Mellie talks about her experience managing her under grad and grad school student loans, being the first in her fmaily to graduate from college and what the current student loan pause has meant for her. Terri, a Gym Trainer, is a former teacher and familiar with stude...

If you are trying to make changes in your life, it is important to form new habits and create space for them. At The Gym, Trainers help clients create new financial practices and systems to monitor that the practices are happening. Mike and Terri talk about systems that work for them to create new habits and discuss what to do when you feel overwhelmed by tasks. 

Emily Egan, PR Manager at The Gym is joined by @JohnEFinance to discuss how he grew a following of 800K people on TikTok by sharing personal finance related videos and tips. 

As Trainers, Victoria, Sara and Kadri get asked all the time about their favorite budgeting apps.  There isn't one perfect money management app but the trio discusses a bunch of different apps and their pros and cons. Apps discussed: Mint, TrackIt, Personal Capital,  YNAB (You Need a Budget), Cashflowy, and Dollarbird. 

This week Trainer Kadri Agustin speaks to Dr. Leslie Faerstein Ed. D., LCSW. They discuss worrying about finances during this pandemic; guilt those with jobs may have; worrying about the health and wellness of others. Dr. Leslie Faerstein also discusses the concept of 're-framing' and other tools to assist you during this time.