For The Hayters: The Stories We Survive

Ten Years of "You Don't Have It"

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses weight gain and body image, medical dismissal, infertility, IVF, a failed embryo transfer, a high-risk pregnancy, postpartum anxie

Wallet Therapy: My Toddler’s Net Worth Is Higher Than Mine

My kid is just over one and has about $4,000 in a brokerage account. His net worth might be higher than mine. But it turns out that investing for your kids is only one sm

The Girl Who Looked Too Much Like Her Mother

Trigger Warning: This episode includes child physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence, self-harm, drug use, teen homelessness, parental mental illness, and strong

Turner Syndrome, IVF, and Waiting on a Calendar

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses infertility, IVF, early pregnancy loss, and a family member's dementia. Yvette married Josh in February 2022, and the plan was si

Wallet Therapy: Is the Market Going to Crash? Wrong Question.

Every time I open my phone, someone is yelling that the market is about to crash. And honestly? I get anxious when money just sits there. Alex is the total opposite. She’

Rare Disease, Vision Loss & Raising a Daughter With the Same Diagnosis

Trigger warnings: abortion, miscarriage, NICU and infant medical emergency, pediatric surgery, chronic pain, vision loss, panic attacks and alcohol use, parental infideli

Bows, Hairspray, and Heroin: How a Drunk Driver Took Rachel’s Before

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses traumatic brain injury, drunk driving, substance use and addiction (including heroin), overdose, sexual assault, not caring whethe

Wallet Therapy: My Parents Didn't Save Enough. Now What?

Confession: I took out a personal loan this month. After working SO hard to get where I am, I had to go back ten steps because our old house has not sold and the credit c

A Marine, Twin Mom, and Trafficking Fighter: Raids, Bottles, and a Top Secret Clearance

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses human trafficking, sexual violence, child sexual abuse and exploitation, organ harvesting, ritual violence against children, and d

Cancer, Chronic Illness & Coming Out Later in Life

Trigger warnings: cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy, hysterectomy and invasive medical procedures, brief discussion of intimacy after surgery, chronic illness and chronic

Wallet Therapy: Lease vs. Buy: Would You Still Want This Car If No One Saw It?

Confession: I have never once walked into a car purchase asking "can I afford this car?" I asked "can I afford this payment?" and called it a day. Turns out those are two

The Keeper of Secrets: A Marriage Built and Nearly Lost on Hidden Bills

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses financial trauma, debt, foreclosure and eviction, childhood dysfunction, the death of a family member, substance use, and a dark p

A Parent Worth Mourning: Justine on Abuse, Surrogacy Loss, and Choosing Herself

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, alcoholism, a disclosure that wasn't believed, pregnancy loss, surrogacy, and estrangement

Wallet Therapy: Credit Cards - Are You Using Them, or Are They Using You?

Credit cards are the topic where everyone has an extreme opinion. Either they're a free travel hack or they're evil and you should cut them all up. Alex's take is neither

A Mother, Two Suicide Attempts, and the Marriage That Came After | The Beautiful Disaster

TW: This episode discusses suicide attempts and methods, self-harm, domestic violence and strangulation, psychiatric hospitalization, postpartum depression, and the death

Three Pieces of Salt: A Grandmother’s Fight for Skylar and Gage

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses child death, fentanyl poisoning, overdose, CPR, and suicide in detail. Listener discretion is advised. On a snow day in January o

Wallet Therapy: The Bank Said Yes. Should You?

I had to pull cash out of my savings this week to pay for a patio, because apparently some people still only take cash in the year of our lord. So I am feeling some feeli

32-Year-Old Mom Faces Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

TW: cancer, medical trauma, death of a loved one, grief, body image. At 32, Jess found a lump adjusting a bra she'd bought herself for Christmas. What followed was a year

Hydrocephalus, Brain Surgery, and Building an Ordinary Life Anyway

Val was diagnosed with hydrocephalus before she was born, and the doctors gave her mom a number and a recommendation. She's 27 now, married, teaching special education, f

Wallet Therapy: How Do I Prioritize My Money?

Today’s episode is a little different because Becky is away on her podcast tour, so Alex is flying solo and answering your money questions. From $18,000 in credit card d