Financial Planning
3 Retirement Curveballs to Watch Out For
Once you ease past age 55 or so, retirement planning hits a new phase where you are actively thinking about the timing of when you might stop your full-time career work.
Podcast Episode - Ask KT & Suze Anything: Why Am I Anxious About Retiring?
For this Ask KT & Suze Anything episode, Suze answers your questions about couples combining finances, capital gains tax, staying financially secure and so much more!
How You Can Make 2024 Less Stressful
The recent economic news that inflation has now slowed down is indeed great news, but it doesn’t erase all the pain that sharply rising prices in 2021 and 2022 have caused.
Podcast Episode - Suze School: Your Financial Armour
On this episode, Suze helps you prepare for this new year with a lesson on current interest rates, why the stock market is taking a break and how you can keep your money safe and have it grow at t
Podcast Episode - Ask KT & Suze Anything: Answering Your I Bond Questions
This Ask KT & Suze Anything episode is all about Series I Bonds. KT asks Suze 12 of your pressing I Bond questions, so get out your Suze Notebooks for this important lesson.
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything: Where Does It Really Begin
For this episode of Ask Suze Anything, Suze takes on the role of reading the questions and answering them. She’ll help one listener determine if she’s being taken advantage of and then share a heartwa
Podcast Episode - The Big Idea for 2024
On the last new episode of 2023, Suze talks about how to start 2024 by breaking the silence around money, so that these candid conversations about finances can empower you to be secure.
How to Create a Four-Part Financial Plan
According to a recent survey by Northwestern Mutual, people who invest time in financial planning are happier than those who don’t.
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything : May 9, 2019
In this episode of Ask Suze Anything, we hear updates from two Women & Money listeners, plus Suze offers advice to Julia, Judy, Terry, and Chris.
Podcast Episode - Don’t Turn Your Back on Yourself
On today’s episode, Suze discusses why our negative thoughts, fears and actions limit our potential and prevent us from being safe, strong and secure.
How to Become a Financially Smart Entrepreneur
During the pandemic, plenty of women decided to launch their own businesses. The number of women who used IncFile to set up their business (registering as an LLC for example) grew by 48%.
What You Should Anticipate After You Retire
If you’ve been with me for a while, you know all about the potential to live a very long life. A woman who is 65 today and in average health has a 50% probability she may still be alive at 88.
Build Your Financial Security Before It Is Too Late
When you’re busy raising kids, it’s all too common to fall into a financial trap. While everyone knows it is best to prioritize saving for retirement, many parents struggle with that strategy.
Trust vs. Will - The Difference Between a Will and Trust
When it comes to protecting your loved ones, having both a will and a trust is essential. The difference between a will and a trust is when they kick into action.
Podcast Episode - Revisiting The Biggest Little Farm
Suze and KT are still experiencing some weather related issues, so we’re going to revisit part of an episode from July of 2020.
Podcast Episode - Revisiting: You've Earned It, Don't Lose It - 296
For this podcast, we’re going to revisit an episode from February 2020, where Suze shared stories of different correspondences she had with listeners about the importance of how to manage our money.
Podcast Episode - Financial Danger Signs
On this podcast, Suze shares some lessons on why we should not make emotional financial decisions. Then, Suze walks us through investing in crypto and planning your retirement.
What Parents Must Do Better
I hope we can agree that sending a young adult out into the world with a solid grounding in how to make smart financial choices is a core requirement of good parenting.
Podcast Episode - Are You Financially Free or Independent?
To celebrate the 4th of July, Suze talks about what you need to do, now, to insure your own financial independence.
This Question is the Secret to Financial Success
We all have opinions. Hopefully when we are making money decisions we have informed opinions based on facts, not emotions, or what someone else says
Podcast Episode - Revisiting "Let's Talk About Money"
Today, KT is taking Suze on a special adventure, so we’re revisiting an episode from November, 2019 called “Let’s Talk About Money.”
The Retirement Risk You Must Stop Overlooking
After last year’s wild ride in the stock market, I know all of you who are near retirement or in retirement don’t need to be reminded that market risk can create problems for your long-term security.
Your Year-End Financial Checklist
I cannot wait to turn the page from 2020. You? But before we embark on what I know we all hope will be a healthier and happier year ahead, right now is a great time to make sure your finances are in
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything
On this podcast of Ask Suze Anything, Suze answers questions from Women & Money listeners (as read by KT) Marcella, Mahala, Kelly Jo, Christi & Steve, the Boyers, Alana, Lori, Amy, and Nicole.
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything - 136
In this podcast of Ask Suze Anything, we hear questions and stories from Women & Money listeners Kathleen, Tina, Sonja, Leigh, Margaret, Joan, Margaret, Sally, Kiana, Allison, and Anonymous.
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything Special Episode: A Conversation with Mark Kantrowitz
In this special podcast of Ask Suze Anything, Suze interviews the nationally recognized expert on student financial aid, scholarships and student loans, Mark Kantrowitz.
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything
In this podcast of Ask Suze Anything, we hear questions from Women & Money listeners Nadine, Linda, Jocelyn, and Maria.
Podcast Episode - Three Money Moves You Don’t Want To Make
In this podcast, Suze shares three recent conversations she’s had with friends and family about their finances.
Podcast Episode - Survivors of Financial Abuse: A Conversation With Ayanna
One of the focuses of the Women & Money podcast is shining the light on financial abuse. In 2018, The National Domestic Abuse Hotline teamed up with Avon & asked Suze to speak with several survivors.
Podcast Episode - Let’s Talk About Money
Why are we so afraid to talk with our family about our money?
Podcast Episode - Join the FIFF Movement: Part 2
Suze goes further to explore the power of finding the combination of financial independence and financial freedom by answering listener questions.
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything: June 13, 2019
In this Ask Suze Anything episode, we get questions from Shelly, Jackie, Martha, Frannie, Jane, and Alestra. These Women & Money listeners ask about: maintaining financial independence in marriage.
Are You Really Making the Grade in Managing Your Finances?
More than 50% of Americans gave themselves a personal finance grade of A or B in a recent survey. I sure hope you are making the grade, but in the same Equifax survey there were some disturbing facts.
Podcast Episode - The 5 Mistakes You Need To Avoid With Your $
In this episode of Women & Money, Suze describes the five mistakes you need to avoid when dealing with a financial advisor and delves into the topic of how your mind makes you poor.
Podcast Episode - Ask Suze Anything: No Regret
In this episode of Ask Suze Anything, we hear from Cali, Crystal, Rene, Jodie, and Robin.
Podcast Episode - Trust Your Gut
“It is far better to do nothing than something you don’t understand.”
My 10-year financial challenge for you
You may have seen, or participated in, the 10-year challenge that swept through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in January, asking people to post a photo of themselves in 2009 and 2019.
Podcast Episode - Broke No More
This episode explores the true reasons you feel broke regardless of how much money you make.
How to Handle a Rocky Stock Market
The stock markets delivered a lump of coal at the end of 2018. December was one of the worst months for investors in years, and when you take a glance at your year-end statements, you will likely...
The 3 Best Investments for 2019
Happy New Year! I know this is a popular time of year to make resolutions, and for many of you that can include financial goal-setting. It’s also the time of year when we are hit with all sorts...
The Upside of Downsizing Today (Not Later)
For those of you nearing retirement, deciding where to live is a big consideration. Most of you intend to stay right where you are. I get it. The home you are in today is full of memories...
Take Care of Your Family’s Financial Fears
When it comes to ranking financial fears, worrying about how your family will fare if calamity strikes is probably at the top of your list. Yet for some reason, no amount of fear has pushed you to the point of (finally!) taking the steps to protect yourself and your family from the “what ifs” that can strike at any time. I am not here to scold. Or guilt you. I just want you to get past this excruciating fear once and for all. Here’s how:
Beware: 2015 Prime Time for Credit Card Rates to Rise
You know how much I hate credit card debt, given the astronomical interest rates you are stuck paying. Though the average is around 14% I know plenty of you pay more than 20% interest. And next year could be even more expensive for anyone carrying credit card debt.
