Because Money Podcast
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Because Money Podcast
Real conversations about money in Canada. For more information visit us at http://www.becausemoney.ca
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85 episodesS6 E05 | Welcome To Parenthood
Listen, It's impossible to accurately imagine how your life will be different after you welcome a new human into your it, so there's no such thing as...
S6 E04 | But The Economy!
Are you as tired as we are of "the economy" being trotted out to support every tax and social policy argument? Do you wish that people who use the phr...
S6 E03 | The Surprising Costs of Medical Care
Yes, we have socialized medicine here in Canada (and are grateful for it!) But if you or someone you love needs to travel somewhere for treatment, or...
S6 E02 | Better Conversations with Ian McNaughton
We truly believe that real conversations about money have the power to improve how we make decisions about our finances. In this episode, we're joined...
S6 E01 | Transitions
Welcome back to season six of Because Money! Since we last spoke, the show itself and each of our co-hosts have experienced transitions - some minor,...
S5 Ep15 | Season Finale
Impostor syndrome, squishy soft skills and the importance of real hard data... we talk about why we think the bigger conversation around money is so i...
S5 Ep14 | Talking about Money by Yourself
How do you talk about money when you're by yourself? We didn't even know this was a question you could ask... but John does in a solo episode.
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S5 Ep13 | Dangerous Defaults
John leads the charge on challenging some of the defaults we have in the financial world... and why they're sometimes complete phooey.
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S5 Ep12 | Breakups
Breakups suck and money doesn't make them any easier. We talk about how to talk about money in yet another situation where that's the last thing you...
S5 Ep11 | Money & Mental Health
Mental illness and money: both things that people don't talk about and both things that are really really important things to talk about.
S5 Ep10 | In A World Where Rules of Thumb Rule the Day
The world of finances has so many 'rules of thumb'. Most of the time they're pretty useful, but in some cases they can be really dangerous.
S5 Ep9 | How We Plan
Setting goals matters, both in our finances and in our general lives... but there's tons of ways to go through that process. We talk about personal go...
S5 Ep8 | Death And Taxes... Well, Just Taxes
The expectation is that we all understand taxes as soon as we start making income, but that's not what happens for most of us. We talk about weird tax...
S5 Ep7 | Retiring On A Low Income With John Stapleton
It seems like retirement is the same for every one... but it's really not. John Stapleton joined us to talk about why retiring with low income is very...
S5 Ep6 | Couple Money: Owen & Susan
We dearly love to interrogate couples about how they negotiate money, and for this latest round we caught Owen and Sue just before they went on a date...
S5 Ep5 | Does Everyone Need Financial Advice
Does everyone need the kind of comprehensive financial planning advice that Chris and Sandi offer their clients? We think not... and spend some time r...
S5 Ep4 | Ethical Investing With Tim Nash
We're big fans of Tim Nash, and you will be too! Tim is the founder of Good Investing, an advice-only investment coaching practice that helps folks cr...
S5 Ep3 | Affording Ethics
Inspired by a conversation about shampoo, this one gets deep: what's our responsibility to make ethical choices if we can't afford them?
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S5 Ep2 | Planning To Get Sick
Inspired by a conversation Chris had at a recent workshop, we explore whether there's a financially optimal way to handle illness and catastrophe if y...
S5 Ep1 | I Know What You Did on Your Hiatus
We're delighted that Kate is joining the show as a co-host, delighted to see each other again after a few months of summer break, and truly delighted...
S4 Ep13 | The One Where Kate Is Making Space for Conversation
Hey, fellow money nerds: how do you talk to people who don’t know or don’t care quite as much as you do? Kate Smalley is our guest this week because A...
S4 Ep12 | The One Where RESPs are Between 3 and 24 percent complicated
We’ve been angling to get our friend MYD on the show for a long time. If you don’t remember, he’s the nice guy who offered to convert the show to audi...
S4 Ep11 | The One Where We Plan to Plan for Emergencies
While smack-dab in the middle of an emergency is kind of the worst time to start preparing for one, for most of us it’s the upheaval and chaos of just...
S4 Ep10 | The One Where We Talk About Our Aging Parents
Listen, somebody is going to cry over socks in this episode, just so you’re prepared. We’re talking about how to have the conversations we need to hav...
S4 Ep9 | The One Where Insurance is Important But the Industry Sucks
So...did Chris get disability insurance since episode 4, or did he write a letter to Aunt Beatrice? Do you want to know how long it took and what happ...
S4 Ep8 | The One Where Shannon Lee Simmons is Amazing
If you’ve never met Shannon Lee Simmons before, hold onto your hat, because there’s no one else like her. Founder of The New School of Finance, and au...
S4 Ep7 | The One Where Seth Comes to Call
Sandi and Seth talk about money a lot, and it's interesting to hear about how they manage that. Of course Sandi lives in the world of personal finance...
S4 Ep6 | The One Where There’s a Difference Between Expecting and *Expecting* an Inheritance
None of us are ready to imagine a future without our parents in it. Full stop, fingers crossed, wood knocked, etc, etc. We’d all prefer to have our pa...
S4 Ep5 | The One Where Robo-Advisors Haven’t Saved the World Yet
You might remember from our episode on robo-advisors in Season Three that Sandi and John have spent abnormal amounts of time thinking about robo-advis...
S4 Ep4 | The One Where No One Has the Right Disability Insurance
What does Chris need but doesn’t want, Seth doesn’t need but Sandi wants, and John’s family want and need but couldn’t have? (It’s not Nanny MacPhee,...
S4 Ep3 | David O’Leary and John from Burlington: One of these guys is going to change the world
You don’t want to miss the story of how David O’Leary started out as an English Literature major, got into the market as a newbie leveraged investor j...
S4 Ep 2 - Mimi comes to call
If you’re an opera fan (and who’s not?), you probably know Mireille Asselin, and if you don’t, you should. She’s also Chris’ Number One Favourite Pers...
S4 Ep 1 - Why talking about money is an absolute game changer
It’s Season FOUR of Because Money, can you believe it? Even more surprising: all three of us were in the same room together to record this episode, an...
S3 Ep14 - Season Finale with Preet Banerjee
It's the last episode of Season Three, and because we don't want to see you fall victim to the summer slide, we're talking to Preet Banerjee about en...
S3 Ep13 - Chris and John Talk Rent vs. Buy
Chris knows all the buttons to push to get John, our resident housing bear, to pull out his rent vs. buy calculator:
1:37 - How should we...
S3 Ep12 - Communal Living with Rob Bancroft
This episode has everything: a quiz that Sandi spectacularly loses, a guest that digs into the nitty gritty of communal living, and a fight with a (ho...
S3 Ep11 - Your Magic Number with Avraham Byers
It's the one, the only Avraham Byers, Personal Financial Trainer, here to ring your doorbell every morning with $150, make awesome beard jokes, and ta...
S3 Ep10 - Can Regulation Make Advice Better?
Can Regulation Make Advice Better?
"How can you be certain that the advice you're getting from a professional (an accountant, a lawyer, a...
S3 Ep9 - Chris and Sandi Think Through RRSP Loans
In a departure from our normal format, Chris and Sandi spend this episode talking through their thoughts about RRSP Loans…twice. Why twice? Turns out...
S3 Ep8 - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria
Change is hard, and since it’s just about time for all those resolutions to start making you feel guilty, we’ve put together an episode that includes...