What’s your favorite thing to listen to while commuting? I listen to the So Money podcast with Farnoosh Torabi. For 30 minutes every day, Farnoosh interviews entrepreneurs, thinkers, and people of all walks of life about their financial philosophies, triumphs, and fails. Farnoosh also answers listener questions and shares money suggestions herself.
Money is more than dollars and cents. It impacts our daily lives, yet many people feel paralyzed when it comes to managing it. It’s a concept and a system that emotionally and psychologically affects all of us, yet many people are uncomfortable talking about it. It’s a taboo topic, and there is a dearth of good financial education.
Enter So Money. A daily dose of financial not-awkwardness, frank advice, and humor. My favorite parts of the podcast:
Everyone makes mistakes. We know this so well it’s a cliche, but the space between knowing it and knowing it is wide. So Money guests share their own financial fails and what they learned, reminding us that even successful, money-savvy people have struggled with consumer debt, missed opportunities, fear, or greed.
What’s your Money Mantra? Farnoosh asks guests if they have a money philosophy, a keystone phrase or habit they use to keep their financial life in line. The mantras show the sheer variety of ways to think well about money.
Highlights from my So Money listening:
“Generous people have more to give.” – Danielle LaPorte
“Money is a stand in for what we value. If I get off track, I come back to what are my values? What’s important to me? What matters to me, and how can I get my financial life in alignment with that? ” – Kate Northrup
“There’s nothing wrong with saying, ‘I want to do something different,’ or ‘Hey, this isn’t working, I’m going to pivot and I’m going to try something new.” – Laura Adams
“I wish that I had known there was so much opportunity. I think that as a child I was very focused on ‘what’s my career going to be, what’s the one thing that I’m going to do?’ and it stressed me out. I wasn’t one of those people who said ‘I want to be XYZ” as soon as I was seven or eight years old…. I think if I had realized back then that it was okay to do a lot of different things, and it was okay not to have one specific career, I didn’t have to be a doctor or a dentist, that it was okay just to not know and see where things go, I would have felt a little more at peace.” – Laura Adams
(This last one’s my favorite!)
Check out Farnoosh’s podcast to make every day #SoMoney.
