How to Rebuild Your Credit and Improve Your Credit Score with Chelsea Fagan

It's our 50th episode of the podcast! Thanks for listening! Maybe you dream of starting your own business, but you don’t know exactly how to break out of cubicle culture, or your current job. On this episode of Teach Me How to Money, we talk to Stash CEO and co-founder Brandon Krieg about how he got the idea to launch a new kind of financial services company, and how the best businesses—including Stash—help to solve customer problems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You don’t need a huge stack of money to start planning for retirement. On this episode of Teach Me How to Money, personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi walks us through the steps of saving with retirement goals in mind. Even if you can only save small amounts of money at first, it all adds up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Buying a home is the biggest purchase that many of us will ever make, and it usually involves taking on lots of mortgage debt. On this episode of Teach Me How to Money, real estate pro Natali Morris sheds some light on the home buying process, and why it might help to purchase property that produces income. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Teach Me How to Money, financial advisor Winnie Sun teaches us what it means to be mentally strong, and why getting creative about making money can help you gain confidence and help you take control of your financial life. She’ll also talk about why you should try to increase your financial knowledge every day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learning to balance risk with reward in the stock market, starting your own business, and sorting out how much debt you should take on for home and college loans are just a few of the things we talk about on this episode of Teach Me How to Money, with guest Joe Saul-Sehy. In addition to his podcast Stacking Benjamins, Saul-Sehy has advised people about money for decades. His big advice: be sensible about risk when investing, but don’t avoid risk completely. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re all used to mom and dad having serious talks with us. But how do we turn the tables and have that all-important talk with our parents about their own financial lives as they get older? On this episode of Teach Me How to Money, financial columnist Cameron Huddleston gives us advice about how to tackle one of the hardest money topics there is--the financial future of your parents, and why we have to do it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Life’s all about the choices you make and on this episode of Teach Me How to Money, financial expert Paula Pant talks about how you can afford anything, if you make the right choices, and prioritize saving. Also, she’ll tell us all about the time she continued to live with roommates, even after she became a millionaire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey, it’s a fact: Women do money differently than men. In this episode of Teach Me How to Money, financial educator Bola Sokunbi talks about how she addresses women’s needs when it comes to personal finance—and why it’s okay to get emotional. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you know that part of how everyone deals with money is inherited psychology from our parents? To overcome bad money psychology, it helps to open up with people about what your financial situation is really like. On this episode of Teach Me How to Money, we talk with media personality Gaby Dunn about what it really means to be bad with money. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you’ve been avoiding your lender, and all those calls from creditors, this one’s for you. Chelsea Fagan, the founder of The Financial Diet blog, sits down with us on Teach Me How to Money to talk strategy for rebuilding credit and improving your credit score. She shares some tips from her own life about how to make your phone stop ringing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.