Money talk with sazón and systems.
Yo Quiero Dinero treats money as a family, identity, and power question, not just a spreadsheet problem. Janice Torres leads brisk interviews on budgeting, investing, mortgages, credit cards, entrepreneurship, and the emotional baggage that keeps people quiet about cash.
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Yo Quiero Dinero makes personal finance feel close to home. Janice Torres speaks to money as a lived experience, shaped by culture, family obligation, gender expectations, and the old rule that cash problems are supposed to stay private. The show is practical first. It talks about savings accounts, emergency funds, credit cards, investing, mortgages, entrepreneurship, and financial independence. But it rarely treats those subjects as pure math. A conversation about budgeting becomes a way to say yes with intention. A conversation about bank accounts becomes a way to prepare for surgery, funerals, doctor visits, weddings, vacations, and a house without panic deciding the plan. That is the show’s strongest lane: translating financial systems into everyday family life. It is warm, fast-moving, and direct. The interviews do not hide from shame or fear, but they keep pulling those feelings back toward action. Sahirenys Pierce explains account systems for short-term and long-term goals. Chloe Daniels argues for simple, long-term index investing over stressful stock picking. Jess from The Sugar Daddy Podcast talks through credit card rewards with a firm warning that basics come first. Josie White from Chase Home Lending lays out pre-approvals, mortgage types, and first-time homebuyer programs. Other episodes widen the frame to gold, silver, career independence, and building life outside inherited versions of success. The show can be promotional, with repeated sponsor and course messages in some openings. Still, the editorial center is clear. Money is not treated as a personality test. It is treated as a set of tools that people can learn, question, and reshape. Yo Quiero Dinero suits listeners who want financial education with cultural texture, emotional honesty, and enough practical detail to start changing habits immediately.
Made for: Built for modern Latinas and other listeners who want personal finance explained through family, culture, ambition, and real-life pressure. It especially fits people working on budgeting, investing, homebuying, credit cards, entrepreneurship, or breaking money silence.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by pairing plainspoken financial tactics with culturally specific conversations about shame, control, caregiving, and building options. It turns money lessons into stories before turning them into steps.
"This podcast will leave you feeling inspired to take a more proactive approach to your savings, earnings, & expenses." - BuzzFeed | Yo Quiero Dinero is an award-winning personal finance podcast that empowers listeners on topics like entrepreneurship, investing, financial independence & money mindset. Hosted by Jannese Torres, Latina money expert, award-winning author and serial entrepreneur. Known as “the swaggiest personal finance podcast", each week we drop episodes brimming with POC-friendly personal finance knowledge, served with sazón! Tune in for all the money lessons you never learned. Visit us at YoQuieroDineroPodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded family money episode that links emergency savings to the real costs of care and life.
The episode treats family money as something closer to care than bookkeeping. A hospital bill, a son's surgery, a grandmother's funeral, or the cost of an ambulance can decide whether someone gets help or manages to show up for family.
A practical case for keeping long-term investing simple enough to fit a busy life.
This PlayNext review frames wealth building as something that should not become a second job. It favors broad-based index funds, diversification, and a long buy-and-hold horizon over active trading, winner-picking, or paying someone to beat the market.
A practical rewards-card discussion centered on bonus math, fees, emergency funds, and paying purchases off quickly.
Credit card rewards come through as useful only when the cash is already ready. Janice Torres and Jess look at a 100,000-point bonus tied to $6,000 in spending over six months, then move into the less glamorous habits that keep the deal from turning costly: watching annual fees,…
A candid look at creator identity, motherhood, and the boundary around a child's privacy.
Motherhood and content creation meet in a practical question: what belongs online, and what is better kept offstage. The episode follows how self-discovery as a mother and entrepreneur became a steady content pillar without turning into an obligation to talk about parenting…
A teacher's burnout becomes a grounded case for carrying hard-won skills into a different kind of work.
The episode follows a guest who moves from seven years of teaching in international, public, and private settings into tech, and it gives that shift a clear emotional center: what should work actually cost?
Frugality without the shame spiral.
Money rules for real-life tradeoffs.
Evidence before investing conviction.
Abundance coaching with a devotional pulse.
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If you needed to make $5,000 in the next seven days, would you actually know what to do?
Haley Brown-Woods discusses how to grow a business and a family simultaneously, emphasizing the importance of turning skills into cash quickly.
Hadi Mendez, author of Calladita No More, tells Janice Torres that a childhood of refranes like "en boca cerrada no entra mosca" left her silent in corporate meetings until her 40s.
Janice Torres and Tiffany 'The Budgetnista' Aliche discuss reframing budgeting as a 'say yes plan' and empowering women to create income on demand.
Brandon Thor discusses why gold and silver are forms of currency masquerading as investments and represent financial sovereignty.
Janice Torres interviews Josie White, a Chase Home Lending senior branch home lending advisor with more than 15 years in home lending and 30 years in banking, about preparing to buy a home.
On Yo Quiero Dinero, Janice Torres interviews Dominican American executive and entrepreneur Stephanie Michelle Pimentel about replacing corporate advancement with entrepreneurship and Latino-market strategy.
Vanessa Wachtmeister promotes her Fast Cash Formula Live Challenge, teaching how to turn skills into money quickly.
Sahirenys Pierce of Poise Finance and Lifestyle returns to Yo Quiero Dinero to explain the High Five Banking Method, a money system built around two checking accounts and three savings accounts.
Chloe Daniels tells Janice Torres that her investing framework is “lazy investing”: buy-and-hold index funds, consistent contributions, and less time spent watching the market.
Janice Torres, an award-winning Latina personal finance expert, interviews Jess from The Sugar Daddy Podcast about travel hacking, credit-card rewards, and family wealth.
Dielle Charon discusses how to turn skills into cash quickly and overcome fears of scaling to seven figures.
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