Personal Finance Podcasts

Budgeting shows succeed on specifics. In The Expense Audit | Ep 586, the ChooseFI hosts build a household spending list line by line. They debate whether streaming belongs under housing, insist that payroll-deducted health premiums still count, and point out that the subscribe-and-save order arriving every six months deserves a look. Their credit card rule is blunt: if you can pay in full every month, do that. It suits anyone heading toward the FIRE & Financial Independence page. One disclosure is worth keeping in mind: ChooseFI keeps its feed ad-free by asking listeners to open travel rewards cards through its site.

Check Your Balances, with planner Ross Anderson and his co-host Dan, lets disagreement do the teaching. In Does Your Money Need Spring Cleaning?, Ross says he hates monthly subscriptions and pays annually so he stops re-judging them. Dan prefers seeing each monthly charge, because annual ones are the ones he forgets. Both positions hold up, and hearing them side by side helps you choose your own.

Financial Feminist, hosted by Tori Dunlap, brings a feminist frame and a coach's push. Budgeting For Summer Travel starts from the line that "summer travel is only stressful when it's treated like a surprise." It then orders the steps: checking balance, savings and fixed expenses come before any flight search. The instruction is clear, and the sponsor reads are long.

The Ramsey Show Highlights stays closer to crisis. In I'm 58 And Drowning In Debt, a single mother weighing bankruptcy describes $60,000 in state tax debt and $60,000 in credit card debt. She traces the spending to guilt after a divorce, and her candour is the reason to listen. The Budgeting, Saving & Debt Payoff page goes further.

Some shows name their lens outright, which helps you weigh what they say. Fixing The Money Thing with Gary Keesee ties household finance to scripture. 10 Things You Need to Know About Finances begins with getting out of debt and restructuring it, then suggests adjusting tax withholding rather than waiting for a big refund. Near the end, it appeals for ministry partners.

Beyond the Spectrum.. every age, every need comes from caregiving. In Sum Day is Today, the host says financial services is his primary work. He wants to connect caregiving families with financial literacy, and he describes an industry built on quotas, single-company agents, account minimums and assets under management. That is a useful map of incentives, offered by an insider who is also promoting an event.

As the timeline lengthens, the claims need more care. In Will Social Security Go Bankrupt? | The Dale Buckner Podcast Ep. 273, Dale Buckner and guest Tom Clark sketch a worst case. With slow growth and no change from Congress, they say, there is enough money to pay all promised benefits for about 10 more years. Buckner adds that his 98-year-old mother calls claiming at 62 her biggest mistake. The episode also advertises free consultations.

Retire For Less With The Annuity Expert is most useful when it turns suspicious. In Stop! Listen To This Before Letting Your Advisor Sell You an Annuity, the host takes apart an advisor's illustration for a 71-year-old client with $1.2 million. The host says the illustration promised beneficiaries a guaranteed $1,260,000 but omitted the effect of withdrawals, even though the client planned to draw income immediately. The host recommends annuities himself, so his preferences deserve scrutiny.

The Legacy and Faith Show, with estate and tax attorney Paul Grant, makes trusts concrete. In 04/08/26 - Beneficiaries pt.2, Grant illustrates how $50,000 for a church becomes $5,000 a year through a 10-year trust. Grant also warns that most trusts he reviews do not work this way.

Check Your Balances covers a risk the hosts think many workers ignore in What Might Bust Your Bracket?. The hosts use a surgeon with a hand tremor to show how a disability policy's definitions decide what it pays. On Money Guy Show, Die With Zero? Watch This First. pushes back on a popular book: "a warning against over-saving is not the message that most people need."

The investing shows worth trusting explain what could go wrong. Money for the Rest of Us is hosted by J. David Stein. In There Is No Perfect Portfolio. Just Good Enough, he reviews risk parity funds, cites one with a 2.6% annualized five-year return, and lists complexity, leverage costs and fees among the drawbacks. Near the end, he says he has not provided investment advice. In Burnout, Breaks, and the Courage to Spend with David Bach, he says he didn't necessarily agree with his guest's flat-tax proposal, and he lets the disagreement stand.

Canadian Wealth Secrets, from former math teachers Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr, takes on borrowing to invest in How Risky Is Leveraged Investing? Have Canadian Investors Been Thinking About Risk All Wrong?. Borrowing at 4.95% to aim for 7% "sounds like free money," one host says, before the two separate the math from the risk of a falling market. The material is Canada-specific, and the episode offers a strategy call near the end.

Goldrichtig investieren - Ersparnisse absichern, Vermögen aufbauen & für die Rente vorsorgen is German-language, crisis-minded and published by a precious-metals seller. #162 - Aktien vs. Gold-Performance: Das haben Lars Erichsen und ich in 20 Jahren Krisen beobachtet pauses for a gold-card promotion while the guest defends stocks. The Investing page and the Real Estate Investing page continue from here.

Frequent Miler on the Air treats rewards cards as arithmetic. In Rove Miles: Transferable Points without a credit card | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep349 | 3-13-26, the hosts work out that an extra 1% on dining, capped at $50,000 of spending, won't cover a $695 annual fee. In Fine Hotels + Resorts® vs The Edit by Chase Travel℠ | Coffee Break Ep93 | 2-17-26, a host books one hotel back to back through both programs. Both stays were supposed to include an upgrade, and neither did. It is best for listeners who already play the points game.

Cost of Living (CBC), hosted by Paul Haavardsrud, connects household prices to larger forces. How does all the weird food end up at Winners? includes a segment with the founder of the National Day Calendar, a database of more than 3,000 holidays. The segment's point is that National Pizza Day exists to sell more pizza.

The CU2.0 Podcast looks from the lender's side. In CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 397 Union Credit's Dave Buerger on Consumer Confidence - and How to Strengthen It, Robert McGarvey cites a survey from Buerger's company in which 54% of respondents felt cautious and 45% anxious. Buerger's firm sells lending technology to credit unions, so he has a stake in the story. The Economics page, the Finance page and the Business & Finance category guide widen the view.