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Gay money talk with real retirement stakes.
Queer Money® treats money as both a practical system and a quality-of-life question for gay people. Recent episodes move between retirement abroad, portfolio concentration, healthcare access, and the spending habits that quietly drain financial freedom.
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Queer Money® is a personal finance show centered on how gay people build, protect, and use money. It is practical first. The show talks about retirement accounts, investing, housing costs, healthcare, and spending habits, but it keeps returning to the same deeper concern: financial security means something different when community, safety, politics, and belonging are part of the calculation. Recent episodes lean strongly into retirement planning and international living. Chile, Croatia, Mexico, Portugal, Buenos Aires, Cuenca, Lisbon, and Mexico City appear as more than travel fantasies; they are treated as possible answers to high U.S. costs, healthcare anxiety, and political unease. The show asks what happens when rent drops, healthcare becomes less frightening, and a retiree can find both legal residency and some version of queer community. It also looks hard at the numbers. Gen X retirement shortfalls, inflation assumptions, Social Security, account withdrawals, and the risk of running out of money are explained in plain language, often with examples that make the abstraction feel personal. Investing episodes widen the lens. They cover tariffs, trade wars, treasury dumping, U.S. debt, dollar depreciation, strategic de-dollarization, and the case for diversifying beyond one market or currency. The show can be blunt. It also has a lifestyle edge, especially when talking about status spending, phone upgrades, luxury pricing, and the difference between looking successful and buying actual freedom. Its rhythm is conversational and a little insistent, with points repeated and sharpened until they land. The hosts are comfortable being funny, worried, practical, and politically aware in the same stretch. For a finance show, it spends a lot of time on where life happens: the city, the apartment, the healthcare system, the beach walk, the retirement account balance, and the community around it. That mix gives Queer Money® its shape. It is not generic money coaching. It is a long-running attempt to make financial planning answer the actual questions gay people ask when they imagine a safer, freer future.
Made for: Queer Money® is for gay people thinking seriously about retirement, investing, spending, healthcare, and where life might be more affordable or secure. It especially suits listeners weighing U.S. financial pressure against the appeal of living abroad.
What sets it apart: The show ties personal finance to gay identity, international mobility, healthcare access, and political risk in a way most money shows avoid. Its strongest episodes combine concrete numbers with lifestyle choices that have real emotional and practical consequences.
Queer Money is a bi-weekly show dedicated to creating desperately needed generational wealth within the gay community because we deserve to sleep better at night and we must stand up to the anti-LGBTQ+ industrial complex. Listen and watch regularly to eliminate financial insecurity and generate personal wealth, prepare for a secure and fun retirement, find the most affordable, LGBTQ+-friendly cities in the US to live in or travel to, grow your stock portfolio to $1,000,000+, build a real estate empire and start a small business. Your hosts are husbands and money experts David & John Auten-Schneider who have been the leaders in LGBTQ+ finance since 2015. With nine seasons, nearly 500 episodes…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Queer Money makes retirement choices more legible by connecting financial mechanics with LGBTQ people's concerns about safety, place and long-term independence.
Queer Money turns retirement planning into a conversation about how LGBTQ people might build security without separating money from the lives they want.
David and John put your fabulous retirement through an age-85 stress test.
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A clear look at currency risk, bond duration, and how geopolitics now shapes investing.
Queer Money centers this episode on geopolitics and retirement math, as David and John ask Optimize Investment Partners CEO Pedro Lino how investors should think about tariffs, trade wars, treasury dumping, and even real war when blind confidence is no longer enough.
A practical look at how retirement math can catch Gen X off guard.
Queer Money treats retirement as a Gen X issue through a queer lens, focusing not only on whether the money exists but on how long it can last once inflation and withdrawals keep pressing on it.
A grounded mindset reset for listeners who want retirement planning to reflect the life they actually want.
Retirement planning is treated less as a math exercise than as a question of identity. Queer Money starts from a future-facing vision of December 31, 2026, where money feels intentional and life feels designed, then uses the idea of a "wanted identity" to make financial change…
A grounded look at why affordability and quiet community can matter more than familiar gay-city shorthand.
Retirement abroad comes across here as a queer quality-of-life decision, not a postcard fantasy. The episode walks through five surprising cities without ranking them, using a clear set of criteria: affordability matters most, with LGBTQ plus friendliness, healthcare access,…
A grounded look at solo 401k options and real estate syndicates for retirement dollars.
Retirement accounts can feel boxed in when the usual mix is stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. This episode turns toward real estate, with Christopher Price discussing how money from a previous employer can move into a solo 401k and then into real estate syndicates.
A practical retirement ranking where HIV care, legal residency, queer community, and cost all have to line up.
Retirement abroad is treated here as a practical question, not a fantasy. For an American gay retiree living with HIV, the episode weighs legal residency, lower monthly costs, community, and reliable access to medication across Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Ecuador, with…
Paul Haavardsrud unpacks Canadian money stories, from ski-hill VIP pricing to French butter tariffs.
Real-estate freedom, taught in plain numbers.
Queer Money episode 636 addresses where American gay retirees living with HIV can move abroad for affordable healthcare and legal residency.
The Queer Money Podcast hosts Christopher Price to discuss investing retirement funds in real estate through self-directed IRAs or solo 401ks.
This episode discusses the results of a Queer Money poll about retirement confidence and shares the hosts' personal financial transformation over the past year.
A gay couple shares their journey of retiring in their early 50s without inheritance or high salaries, aiming to help others achieve financial independence.
This episode addresses financial disparities faced by LGBTQ people, responding to criticism with data-driven insights and outlining seven ways to educate others on these differences.
David and John of Queer Money® argue that wages rising 3.4% while inflation reaches 4.2% leaves households using credit cards to cover basic costs, contributing to balances above $1.3 trillion.
David and John open with the noise around tariffs, trade wars, treasury dumping, and real war.
This episode discusses the best countries for gay men living with HIV to retire abroad, focusing on visa options, access to healthcare, and affordability.
The hosts start by calling out how boomers and millennials tend to dominate the retirement conversation while Gen X gets left out.
This episode discusses five Chilean cities that offer affordability and LGBTQ+ friendliness for gay retirees looking to retire abroad.
This episode discusses 11 things gay men should stop buying in 2026 to achieve greater happiness and financial freedom by avoiding wasteful spending on luxury items and distractions.
This episode highlights five gay-friendly international cities with affordable rent under $800 per month, focusing on LGBTQ+ rights, safety, and cost of living for retirement planning.
The hosts picture December 31, 2026, with money feeling intentional and life feeling designed.
Zaragoza is Spain's biggest LGBTQ+ retirement sleeper hit, with nightlife that goes until 6 a.m.
This episode features tax expert Michelle Miele discussing how US retirees living abroad can navigate potential double taxation issues with Social Security, retirement accounts, and foreign income.