Episode 1 of The Unofficial History of Personal Finance. In this new series, Beau goes back 12,000 years to the beginning of human civilization to attempt to answer the question: "How did we get here?"

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Bob Lai (https://www.tawcan.com/) joins Beau at a conference in Washington, D.C. to share his personal finance story.

(Recorded in-person on September 6th, 2019 before the pandemic. Published on April 11th, 2021.)

In this solo episode, Beau attempts to answer the question: How does someone get into debt?

Week 18 of the COVID-19 series features Acquania Escarne.

Acquania is the creator of The Purpose of Money which is a podcast and an online community for women building generational wealth for their families one dollar at a time.

In this episode we discussed Acquania's COVID-19 experience so far and how as a US diplomat responsible for Asia, she has been working on COVID-19 related matters since January 2020.

Acquania will be back to tell her full personal finance story on a future episode(especially how she started saving at 16 and lived in many places around the world), but in the meantime, if you want to hear more about her background, please check out her podcast:

https://thepurposeofmoney.com/podcast/

https://thepurposeofmoney.podbean.com/e/how-i-saved-80k-for-retirement-in-2019/

Week 17 of my COVID-19 series is a solo episode where I talk about my experience being a parent during a pandemic.

I don't pretend to know what it's like to be a single parent, have more than one child, or have older children, but I go through what it's been like for me since Henry was born almost 18 months ago.

Links to the podcast episodes about parenting that I mentioned:

Debt Free in 30 Episode 307 with Julie Wildman: https://youtu.be/pj2K5v5jMpo

Because Money Podcast S6 Ep5 - Welcome to Parenthood: https://becausemoney.ca/s6-ep5-parenthood/

Not directly connected to parenting, but something I mentioned in the episode, here's Alan Whitton aka Big Cajun Man on the Maple Money Podcast talking about the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan: https://maplemoney.com/podcast/disability-tax-credit-rdsp/

Week 16 of the COVID-19 series features my friends Brynn Byrne and Aaron Yeger, co-hosts of the new podcast "That Was a Show?".

We talk about Brynn and Aaron's COVID-19 experience and how the pandemic has affected their personal finances, but mostly I wanted them on to talk about their awesome new podcast. I can't explain it better than them so here's the summary direct from their podcast page:

The podcast about failed or forgotten sitcoms from the 80s and 90s. Many sitcoms have stood the test of time and have millions of adoring fans—but those shows were diamonds in the rough. This podcast is not about those diamonds, it's about the rough. Some sitcoms were briefly popular in their time, some were cancelled almost immediately. You probably won't recognize most of these, and you'll say 'that was a show?'

As I said in the episode, it's important that podcasts promote other podcast, especially those of a different genre. I listen to a lot of personal finance shows but I also listen to shows like This American Life, Invisibilia, "How Did That Get Made?", and other non-financial podcasts. These podcasts are doing fine on their own but there are some podcasts that are excellent but people just don't know about them yet. If you are a child of the 80s and 90s and enjoy talking about television, you will love this show like I do.

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Click below to listen to the first 4 episodes and subscribe today so you get the new episodes that are planned to drop every 2 weeks:

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Week 15 of the COVID-19 series features my friend Rubina Ahmed-Haq.

Every Sunday for the last 15 weeks, right before I record The Personal Finance Show, Rubina and I record an episode of the Dear Rubi podcast. Dear Rubi is a column podcast where we take questions from listeners and discuss the personal finance issues of the day that concern most Canadians. So if you like the conversation that Rubina and I had today on the show, search for Dear Rubi wherever you listen to podcasts and click the subscribe button.

For Rubina's full personal finance story, check out episode 68 from back in February 2019: https://www.thepersonalfinanceshow.com/e/rubina-ahmed-haq/

Dear Rubi Website: https://dearrubi.com/

Rubina's website: https://rubinaahmedhaq.com/

Week 14 of the COVID-19 series features Danielle Desir.

Danielle is the founder of WOC (Women of Colour) Podcasters, travel and personal finance blogger, podcaster, and author of 2 books (with a 3rd on the way).

In this episode we discussed Danielle's COVID-19 experience so far, starting with her trip to China in December 2019 just before the pandemic; her level of anxiety about leaving the house (which I understand well), let alone travelling anywhere during this time; and, why it's more important now than ever to have a space for women of colour podcasters.

Danielle will be back to tell her full personal finance story on a future episode, but in the meantime, if you want to hear more about her background, please check out this episode of the Money Nerds podcast (hosted by my pal Whitney Hansen):

https://www.themoneynerds.com/danielledesir/

Danielle's Blog: https://thoughtcard.com/

Danielle's Podcast: https://podcast.thoughtcard.com/

WOC Podcasters: https://wocpodcasters.co/

Danielle's Book about Iceland: https://thoughtcard.com/iceland-travel-guide/

Danielle's Book about affording travel: https://thoughtcard.com/affording-travel-book/