Pam & Dyalekt Get Shameless (FKA Brunch & Budget)

We have Stephanie Damon-Moore back on the show (author of AbolishPrisons.org ) to talk about the exciting Department of Justice announcement that they will begin winding down their use of private prison companies to run their federal prisons. While there is nothing set in stone, this is hugely symbolic for the movement to dismantle the prison […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at get...

The rise of b-corps and benefit corporations can’t be ignored. In the last 18 months, b-corp registration has gone from 1,000 businesses to 1,800 businesses worldwide. What exactly is a b-corp? For all us socially conscious folks out there, the b-corp is the antidote to the race-to-the-bottom, anything-for-profit corporations who cut corners on products, employees, […] Get full access to Get Shame...

In recent memory, the Olympic Games coverage seemed to be filled with as much controversy as gold medals, from the corruption-laden Soche Winter Olympics to the most recent summer Olympics in Rio. Articles cropped up everywhere about the economic viability of hosting an Olympic Games and upending a city for two weeks. Are the Olympics […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameles...

You’ve managed to make your dream come true. You’ve done something that few people can say they’ve done – you’ve figured out how to to make money from your passion. How can any day feel like a work day when you wake up getting to do what you love? And yet, you may find yourself […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

Platform businesses are all about bridging the gap between consumer and producer. They’re the middlemen (or middlewomen). Uber/Lyft, Airbnb, Etsy, Ebay, even Spreaker where we upload our show, are all platform businesses. What does it take to create a good platform business? What can you expect a platform business to provide for you, in terms […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at get...

“You don’t need to call something an investment just because you want to buy it. It’s okay to buy something because it’s something you value.” We hear it all the time. “Think of it as an investment in yourself.” But what does that really mean? When you hear someone else tell you that, are they […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

If you legalized all crime for one day, or really one night, would it lead to a better economy? This is the premise of The Purge trilogy of movies, the most recent of which came out this July 2016. The movie’s antagonists claim that the economy is booming and unemployment is at 1%. On today’s […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

Don’t get us wrong. We wouldn’t have it any other way. But there are just some things (lots of things) about running a business that just really suck. From no one caring about your business, to crippling self doubt, to realizing you have to be a salesperson, to comparing yourself to others, it can all […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

Everyone has their opinion and formula for what order to pay down debt. Google it and you’ll get a different answer every time. The problem is, no one approaches debt paydown from both the logical and psychological standpoint. This leads to people paying down debt only to run it back up. In today’s show, we […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

This was a very difficult Brunch & Budget on Bondfire Radio to do. I’m sure you can hear it in my voice. What you don’t see is me freaking out after every segment and Dyalekt having to calm me down. I am so emotionally distraught by all the shootings last week and I can’t even […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

The summer blockbuster may be dying… or being exported. The summer blockbuster has been around since Jaws smashed box offices in the 70’s, closely followed by another film you may have heard of, Star Wars. Since it began, filmmakers and critics have been predicting the end of the summer blockbuster, but lately, it’s feeling all […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.subst...

The European Union – often known as the EU – is an economic and political partnership involving 28 European countries. It began after World War Two to foster economic co-operation, with the idea that countries which trade together are more likely to avoid going to war with each other. It started with 6 members, and […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subsc...

Do you feel like you’re always living paycheck to paycheck, even though your income goes up every year? Do you wonder where you money goes every month? You may be experiencing Lifestyle Creep. We make more money so we can live better lives. The trouble is, sometimes the money controls us more than we control […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

Is travel the new way to show off these days? Before it was an expensive purse or coat, a piece of jewelry, a nice car, the hot new electronic, but now, with social media, it feels like people are showing off in a different way – through experiences. The ability to travel and travel often […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

This show was inspired by a Cracked podcast Dyalekt and I were listening to during our many hours of driving on Famous Sayings (that aren’t true). So many of those sayings were either about taking risks or being really careful, being spontaneous or planning everything. And when we were real with ourselves, we realized that […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.c...

Here’s the big secret – budgeting doesn’t work! At least not in the way we were taught it was supposed to work. When people hear the word budget, they think of it as a restriction, as being limited or denying themselves something. In this weeks’s show, we welcome you to think of it a different […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

Peer to Peer (or p2p) lending is a site that has sprung up since the meltdown. Banks are much more careful about who they give loans to, but people still need them. On one side, there are lenders looking to make more money than they would be able to in stocks, and on the other […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

Uber and Lyft just left Austin because they don’t want their drivers to be subjected to fingerprinting. Some call it a safety issue, while others see it as another way to deny the formerly incarcerated legal work. Regardless of who’s side you’re on, jobs in the area have evaporated instantly because big companies have decided […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substac...

For the last several months, we’ve been using Dramatic Dyalekt as a guinea pig for different investment platforms to see how they feel when you use them in real life. We explore Dyalekt’s trepidation with the stock market in general, how to make it feel less like gambling, and have some practical ideas for how […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

For the last several months, we’ve been using Dyalekt as a guinea pig for different investment platforms to see how they feel when you use them in real life. We explore Dyalekt’s trepidation with the stock market in general, how to make it feel less like gambling, and have some practical ideas for how to […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

We did it. We are aired our 100th Bondfire Radio episode. We recorded it at our Airbnb in CA. It felt like it went by so fast. For the last 100 weeks of our lives, we created something and put it out into the world, never fail. Hopefully we educated and entertained people in the […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

This show was inspired by our financial planner, Sophia Bera, who we met with recently. She stopped us in the middle of our word vomit and said, “I think you guys have decision fatigue.” We were running on empty with all the work we were booking, planning a cross country trip to CA, and, oh […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

True stat – parents are more afraid to talk to their kids about money than they are to talk to them about sex or drugs. At the same time, we have all picked up money habits, lessons, and philosophies from our parents and other influential adults around us and our kids are doing the same. […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

I feel like people toss around the phrase financial literacy and everyone nods along and says, “Oh yeah, I need that.” But what exactly is THAT? How do you know whether or not you’re financially literate in the first place? Do you take a quiz? And if so, which quiz do you take? Is the […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe

What comes to mind when you hear the word bankruptcy? Are you shocked when celebrities file for it time and again? Have you considered it at some point when your debt felt too high to handle? Have you gone through it and feel ashamed to talk about it? Today we talk about the in’s and […] Get full access to Get Shameless about money at getshameless.substack.com/subscribe