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Lillian tackles your money overwhelm with practical, approachable financial advice with a dash of glitter. She will teach you how to reduce your money stress, budget, get out of debt, plan f...

Episodes

20 of 137 episodes

How to care about money when nothing is okay

How the heck do you pick financial goals when 1 in 4 people are unemployed, there are murder hornets, police are battering people in the str...

29:56Jun 5, 2020

Can they take back your unemployment check and what to do with $1,200?

Three questions that didn't make the livestream this week: what to do with your $1,200 if your job is stable right now, can they take back y...

16:24Apr 14, 2020

Freelancers and Gig Workers Can Get Unemployment Now + It Pays

Freelancers and gig workers (and musicians and more) can file for unemployment now for the first time ever. And for the moment, it actually...

24:56Apr 8, 2020

How get health insurance when you lose your job + those $1,200 checks

How do you get health insurance if you lost your job? Are we all really getting 1,200 extra free dollars from the government? what is the ca...

28:33Apr 1, 2020

How to Meal Plan

This is episode touches on everything you need to know to get started meal planning. If you have a question for the Special Financial Chaos...

23:36Mar 27, 2020

Track your time to enjoy life more ft. Laura Vanderkam

Time is money! But many of us know exactly where our money goes, but have no idea where our time goes. Once you know where the time goes, yo...

33:35Mar 13, 2020

The March of Time Challenge and The Flu

We're off this week due to mysterious flu-like illnesses BUT never fear, we have cool OMD things coming up this week. Tomorrow (leap day, Sa...

3:28Feb 28, 2020

Job-hopping isn't bad & how to beat the job-stealing robots ft. Nicolle Merrill

We all know careers aren't the same as they once were. Nicolle Merrill joins us to discuss why job-hopping is actually an advantage, how to...

48:35Feb 14, 2020

Listen Before You File: US Taxes 101

Lillian is joined by Nina, who asks questions about taxes and we cover what you need to know about witholding, saver's credit, and more. Che...

48:09Feb 7, 2020

How much should you put in an emergency fund

Lillian talks about how much you really need in your emergency funds in response to a listener question from Ken, and she tries to get Chase...

31:05Jan 31, 2020

Why You're Failing at Your Budget + Getting Rid of the Financial Shame

Sometimes it's hard to stick to a budget. But that shouldn't make you feel ashamed. How to get over feelings of shame and deprivation when t...

38:09Jan 24, 2020

Great Work Benefits You Might Actually Use

What work benefits might you actually want to use and negotiate for? We asked the Oh My Dollar! community for the work benefits they actuall...

30:41Jan 17, 2020

What is worth doing yourself vs paying someone else?

What is worth paying someone else to do and what is a waste of money? I asked people what they outsource due to health, disability, time, qu...

18:13Jan 10, 2020

When to Give up on Goals this Year

How do you know when to quit a project, a goal, or something similar? And how does a to-do-list role playing game teach you about financial...

24:42Jan 3, 2020

All that money you didn't save: Opportunity Costs

What's the real cost of choosing one path vs another? What happens when you could've bought a house instead of spending your money on scente...

25:09Dec 14, 2019

How to Balance Being a Human and an Employee

When you're an employee, you're also an employee with health needs. How do you balance both? We talk with Mac Prichard about how to bring up...

12:45Dec 6, 2019

What the heck is a co-pay vs co-insurance?

Untangling the difference between a co-pay vs co-insurance and which kind of health care plan is better. Plus, depressing health care headli...

22:08Oct 11, 2019

What you can pay for with Health Savings Accounts, ft Jean Chatzky

It's health care month on OMD for the third time and we're kicking it off with Jean Chatzky and talk about why Health Savings Accounts are r...

22:42Oct 3, 2019

The Real Cost of Will's Cross-Country Move

It's Will's final Oh My Dollar! episode and we talk about how much it cost for him to move cross-country - and also about our halloween them...

23:26Sep 25, 2019

California is about to change the gig economy for everyone

California just passed legislation that will require gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft, and Amazon to classify workers instead of contra...

22:13Sep 18, 2019