The Fiscal Firecrackers The Fiscal Firecrackers

Hang on to your purses, everybody!  We got ourselves a real live guest!  Susan and Galia shake it up by inviting Kay, aka @themomtrotter onto the podcast.  Kay downsized her and her family’s life to pay off their debt by leaving their home and moving into an RV.  Now, just a few years later, they’ve skyrocketed to being debt-free and growing their savings + investments beyond their expectations.  Join us for an honest conversation and RV home tour with The Mom Trotter as she shares what it is like living life as a family on the road, her fabulous money-saving travel tips, parenting her son to be a future Fiscal Firecracker and overall money goals.

As we begin a new year and take stock of behaviors we’d like to change in ourselves for the better, let’s reflect on our e-commerce shopping habits.  We’ve become a culture that craves instant gratification with one click though services like Amazon, Instagram shopping and more.  
 
If you are looking to save more money (and who isn’t?), Galia shows you how you don’t have to stop cold turkey with online shopping, but instead - give yourself some financial guardrails by checking how much you spent last year online, setting a monthly spending limit, creating a designated day to shop and more.  Susan shares some of her recent crazy purchases and gives us a mnemonic device we can all live by - “CAN SHEEP EAT PIZZA?”

Just like an annual physical to care for your body’s health - it’s time to review your financial health with Galia’s Year-End Money Checklist.  Listen as Galia guides us through all the ways to make sure our assets are up to snuff - saving money on taxes, cleaning out both our clothing and money closets, polishing up our investments and taking advantage of IRAs - all before December 31. 

Ever feel like talking finance is like speaking a foreign language?  Not anymore!  Galia teaches us the words we need to know right now to kickstart our best money habits.  
 
And just to keep things spicy, Susan surprises Galia by asking her to define non-financial words completely out of her wheelhouse.  What’s a “meat-n-three”?  What’s “spacework”?  Tune in to find out!

Inflation is an all time high, so what should you do with your money now? Interest rates are higher than ever- so what should you do with your money now? Stock market is volatile and lower than a year ago - so what should you do with your money now? 
 

The Fiscal Firecrackers have got your answers! Galia shares what to do with your cash, where to invest right now and more ways to take advantage of these unsteady areas in our financial lives today to make a volatile market work for YOU.  Susan suggests we get financially educated and also find ways to ground ourselves personally by employing self-care such as seeing theatre, taking a hike or what Susan's mom does - doodling a sketch of Elvis.

The Fiscal Firecrackers are back at it - talking about how best to navigate uncomfortable, confusing or sticky money topics in Episode 30 - “Awkward Money Moments 2.”
 
Galia and Susan trade experiences and give guidance surrounding personal and professional financial situations that get awkward like paying for college, parents prying about finances, salary comparisons, picking up a group coffee tab (or not) and much, much more.  They even define what the hell “leaf-peeping” is!