Wealth gets bigger here, but so do the questions about what success asks you to leave behind.
This episode keeps circling one hard idea: success can ask people to leave pieces of themselves behind. Bricia Lopez makes that point feel concrete.

Her First $100K
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Money advice with a feminist spine.
Financial Feminist treats money as emotional, cultural, and political, not just numbers. Solo lessons and interviews connect budgeting, debt, confidence, career moves, and self-trust to the systems that shape women’s financial lives.
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Financial Feminist frames money as a daily-life problem, not a morality test. It is practical, fast-moving, and openly feminist. The show moves between solo teaching episodes and guest conversations, but the center stays consistent: financial confidence is built through systems, self-trust, and clearer choices. Debt is treated as cognitive labor. Spending is treated as emotional behavior that can be redesigned. Travel is treated as a predictable expense, not a surprise that wrecks September. Career episodes focus on asking for more money, finding better work, and building self-worth alongside net worth. Confidence is not reduced to power poses or hype songs. It becomes a set of thoughts, decisions, and permissions that can be examined. Guest conversations often widen the money conversation beyond individual habits. Bricia Lopez brings in culture, family, restaurants, undervalued labor, and the pressure to define success by someone else’s rules. Dr. Nick connects financial avoidance and impulse spending to neuroscience, ADHD, executive functioning, and modern work. Kara Loewentheil’s episode looks at confidence, intuition, and the flood of messages telling women they cannot trust themselves. Erin Gallagher’s episode points toward friendship, self-talk, and women’s access to human, social, and financial capital. Claire Wasserman brings career strategy, job searching, negotiation, and earning power into the same feminist frame. The recurring move is to name the shame first. Then the show turns it into a plan. That could mean a monthly money date, a souvenir budget, a debt payoff challenge, or a single recurring day to handle payments and subscriptions. The tone is warm, candid, and impatient with advice that blames people for being overwhelmed. Financial Feminist works best for listeners who want money guidance that acknowledges emotion, culture, gender, labor, and ambition without losing the mechanics. It is a personal finance show for people who need both practical tools and a better story about themselves.
Made for: For listeners who want practical money guidance that takes debt stress, confidence, career pressure, spending habits, and gendered expectations seriously. It especially fits women seeking financial independence without being told to erase culture, pleasure, or ambition.
What sets it apart: Financial Feminist combines concrete personal finance tactics with emotional and feminist analysis. It does not separate budgets from burnout, confidence from social conditioning, or wealth from culture and agency.
Fight the patriarchy. Get Rich.™ Join money expert Tori Dunlap every Tuesday as she guides you on how to make more, spend less, and feel financially confident in a world run by rich white men. Through solo episodes and special guest interviews, you’ll walk away with resources to get, save, and grow money to gain financial freedom and kick some patriarchal ass at the same time.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tori connects personal finance mechanics with the habits, emotions, and cognitive strain that often determine whether people can act on them.
Financial Feminist treats money decisions as problems of behavior, confidence, and practical design. Tori moves between solo instruction and guest conversations, pairing step-by-step guidance on saving, investing, debt, and travel budgets with questions about avoidance, impulse…
Financial shame meets a budgeting system here, so you can keep the plan and lose the guilt.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Wealth gets bigger here, but so do the questions about what success asks you to leave behind.
This episode keeps circling one hard idea: success can ask people to leave pieces of themselves behind. Bricia Lopez makes that point feel concrete.
A practical reset for money avoidance, built around systems that still work when willpower runs out.
This episode treats money stress as a systems problem, not a character flaw. It moves through financial avoidance, impulse spending, burnout, and the way motivation drops when goals feel too distant, then keeps circling back to the same practical question: what still works when…
Confidence is treated as a skill, with a clear framework for trusting judgment.
The episode treats confidence as something that can be built, not a trait someone either has or does not have. It moves past the usual confidence hacks and gets more useful when it looks at how self talk can get in the way, then ties that back to trusting judgment instead of…
A practical summer-travel budget guide that turns vague trip anxiety into line items.
The episode treats summer travel like a budget item, not a surprise, and that is its most useful angle. It moves through the costs people tend to leave floating: food, drinks, activities, tips, shopping, and souvenirs. The advice stays practical.
Willpower is not the whole plan.
Thais Gibson treats goal failure as a mismatch between conscious aims and subconscious needs, not as a simple lack of effort. The episode has a clean practical arc, moving from limiting beliefs to subconscious needs, then into reverse-engineering goals into habits, with a…
A blunt, useful reset for anyone who keeps stalling on their first investment.
This episode works as a straightforward starting point for people who want to invest but freeze when they open a brokerage app. It treats that hesitation as something worth clearing away, uses plain language throughout, and lays out the first investment step by step so the…
A clear, shame-free roadmap to a first $100K, with practical steps that make the goal feel reachable.
Financial Feminist lays out a straightforward path to a first $100K in 2026, moving in a clear sequence: build an emergency fund, park cash in a high-yield savings account, tackle credit card debt, then shift toward saving or investing.


Paul Haavardsrud unpacks Canadian money stories, from ski-hill VIP pricing to French butter tariffs.



Real-estate freedom, taught in plain numbers.

Success can feel like a betrayal.
Why can't you just do it?
Confidence is not a pep talk in a mirror.
Summer travel is not a surprise bill.
This episode addresses the emotional and psychological burden of debt, offering encouragement and practical resources for those struggling with the mental load of debt repayment.
This episode explores how women's inner critical voices (the 'inner mean girl') negatively impact their finances, relationships, and happiness, featuring Erin Gallagher of Hype Woman discussing strategies for transformation.
This episode explores how adopting a millionaire mindset involves parenting yourself through self-trust, structure, and basic self-care rather than relying on motivation or self-criticism.
This episode features Claire Wasserman discussing practical strategies for finding fulfilling jobs and negotiating higher salaries, with a focus on empowering women in their careers.
This episode provides a practical roadmap for quitting your job to build a sustainable business in 2026, featuring lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Sam Vander Wielen discussing legal, financial, and mindset aspects of entrepreneurship.
Tori Dunlap teaches how to prioritize, delegate, and protect time like a millionaire to transform work, time management, and money.
This episode features Mimi Bouchard discussing how to shift your money mindset to overcome financial anxiety and achieve greater earnings in 2026 through psychological insights and practical strategies.
Tori Dunlap and Vivian Tu discuss why paying bills and saving is just the starting point, and how to shift from financial freeze to financial fearlessness.
Financial expert Jean Chatzky shares her personal story of starting over at 40 and offers practical advice for women who feel financially behind in their 40s and 50s.
Tori Dunlap interviews family finance coach Andy Hill about managing money with a partner, invisible labor, and building financial freedom for families.
Willpower is not the whole plan.
Investing is not a rich-person club.
Tori Dunlap introduces a series on actionable budgeting and debt payoff strategies from a feminist perspective.
Tori Dunlap introduces a new series on getting a fresh financial start, discussing common self-sabotage and offering a free money personality quiz.
This episode features a replay of a popular conversation with Chris Hutchins sharing practical money-saving hacks for 2026, covering everything from travel to groceries.
Your first 100K is not magic.
Tori Dunlap offers a free money personality quiz and discusses finding hope after a difficult year, focusing on financial empowerment.
Tori Dunlap introduces a series on passive income, promising the easiest way to earn money without extra skills or hours.
Tori Dunlap interviews Neha Roosh about how women can navigate career breaks with financial confidence and reenter the workforce successfully.
Tori Dunlap interviews Jen Hatmaker about rebuilding financially after divorce and overcoming the ostrich effect with money.
Tori Dunlap answers listener questions about scarcity mindset, saving for retirement, and balancing financial goals with enjoying life.
Tori Dunlap interviews Sophia Amoruso about building and losing a brand, embracing failure, and redefining success on her own terms.
Tori Dunlap interviews Tia Leavings about her memoir on escaping Christian fundamentalism and an abusive marriage, emphasizing financial independence.
Tori Dunlap interviews Chris Hutchins about practical hacks to save money on travel, groceries, and everyday expenses, and how to think strategically about spending and time.
Financial activist Daisha Kennedy discusses overcoming financial hardship and systemic barriers to achieve financial confidence.
Tori Dunlap interviews Amanda Littman about how Gen Z and millennials are redefining leadership and building inclusive workplaces.
Tori Dunlap interviews Deja Fox about staying politically engaged and hopeful amidst frustration with the current political climate.
A conversation with trans filmmaker Ash Perez about the financial and personal costs of gender-affirming care and navigating life as a transgender man.
Tori Dunlap interviews Katie Gaddy-Taw-San about building wealth while maintaining class consciousness and challenging capitalist norms.
Tori Dunlap interviews sex therapist Casey Tanner about how capitalism and religious trauma affect sexuality, pleasure, and money.