Brunch & Budget

Before you can even get your money stuff together, you need to understand your relationship with money first, and to do that, you’ll need to know what your money personality is and how your personality affects every aspect of your finances. We’ve spent the last two years honing and refining the money personalities we discussed […]

Welcome to the #DeadDayJobArmy, a monthly Brunch & Budget series where entrepreneurs and freelancers of Color share their stories and talk about the real. We ask folks to leave their shiny pictures and instagram highlights at the door and tell us what it’s really like to do the work, put in the time, and devote […]

As we continue our coverage of CFED’s 2016 Assets Learning Conference, we go deep on another critical topic for People of Color and closing the racial wealth gap. Entrepreneurship is another form of ownership and a way to build wealth in the US. While certainly more risky than homeownership in some ways, it is also […]

In Part 3 of our coverage at CFED’s Assets Learning Conference 2016, we explore one of the quickest ways to close the racial wealth gap – increased homeownership for People of Color. Funny story, we almost did a show on race and homeownership right before we found out about the Assets Learning Conference and as […]

In part 2 of our coverage of the CFED’s Assets Learning conference, we talk about some of the solutions that are in motion or being proposed by the CFED to make strides on closing the racial wealth gap, from savings programs, college savings, homeownership, tax law changes, retirement programs, etc. Take a listen and see […]

Dyalekt and I had the honor of attending CFED’s Assets Learning Conference this year, where a group of policy makers, researchers, and non profit direct service providers come together and share their best ideas and best practices on how to lift people out of poverty. This year, the theme of the conference was how to […]

This is it, y’all. Welcome to the Dead Day Job Army, a monthly Brunch & Budget series where entrepreneurs and freelancers of Color share their stories and talk about the real. We ask folks to leave their shiny pictures and instagram highlights at the door and tell us what it’s really like to do the […]

We could not be more excited to have student loan expert, Heather Jarvis of AskHeatherJarvis.com on our show!! After taking her 8-hour student loan intensive a few days before we recorded this show, I knew we had to have her on to help you navigate through the confusing world of your student loan debt. We […]

It’s the last thing you want to think about happening, but also can happen at any time. This week, we talk about what do when you lose your job, from severance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance, to how to deal with the emotional rollercoaster, to how to handle the dreaded interview question, “so why did […]

We have Stephanie Damon-Moore back on the show (author of AbolishPrisons.org) to talk about the exciting Department of Justice announcement that they will begin winding down their use of private prison companies to run their federal prisons. While there is nothing set in stone, this is hugely symbolic for the movement to dismantle the prison […]

The rise of b-corps and benefit corporations can’t be ignored. In the last 18 months, b-corp registration has gone from 1,000 businesses to 1,800 businesses worldwide. What exactly is a b-corp? For all us socially conscious folks out there, the b-corp is the antidote to the race-to-the-bottom, anything-for-profit corporations who cut corners on products, employees, […]

In recent memory, the Olympic Games coverage seemed to be filled with as much controversy as gold medals, from the corruption-laden Soche Winter Olympics to the most recent summer Olympics in Rio. Articles cropped up everywhere about the economic viability of hosting an Olympic Games and upending a city for two weeks. Are the Olympics […]

You’ve managed to make your dream come true. You’ve done something that few people can say they’ve done – you’ve figured out how to to make money from your passion. How can any day feel like a work day when you wake up getting to do what you love? And yet, you may find yourself […]

Platform businesses are all about bridging the gap between consumer and producer. They’re the middlemen (or middlewomen). Uber/Lyft, Airbnb, Etsy, Ebay, even Spreaker where we upload our show, are all platform businesses. What does it take to create a good platform business? What can you expect a platform business to provide for you, in terms […]

“You don’t need to call something an investment just because you want to buy it. It’s okay to buy something because it’s something you value.” We hear it all the time. “Think of it as an investment in yourself.” But what does that really mean? When you hear someone else tell you that, are they […]

If you legalized all crime for one day, or really one night, would it lead to a better economy? This is the premise of The Purge trilogy of movies, the most recent of which came out this July 2016. The movie’s antagonists claim that the economy is booming and unemployment is at 1%. On today’s […]

Don’t get us wrong. We wouldn’t have it any other way. But there are just some things (lots of things) about running a business that just really suck. From no one caring about your business, to crippling self doubt, to realizing you have to be a salesperson, to comparing yourself to others, it can all […]

Everyone has their opinion and formula for what order to pay down debt. Google it and you’ll get a different answer every time. The problem is, no one approaches debt paydown from both the logical and psychological standpoint. This leads to people paying down debt only to run it back up. In today’s show, we […]

This was a very difficult Brunch & Budget on Bondfire Radio to do. I’m sure you can hear it in my voice. What you don’t see is me freaking out after every segment and Dyalekt having to calm me down. I am so emotionally distraught by all the shootings last week and I can’t even […]

The summer blockbuster may be dying… or being exported. The summer blockbuster has been around since Jaws smashed box offices in the 70’s, closely followed by another film you may have heard of, Star Wars. Since it began, filmmakers and critics have been predicting the end of the summer blockbuster, but lately, it’s feeling all […]