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Mar 2023
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The Best Path to Financial Success is Yo...

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Laura interviews Maya Lau, host of Other People’s Pockets, about her journey from award-winning reporting to executive podcast producer. We discuss her guests’ insights, mom’s counterintuitive money lessons, financial mistakes, budgeting tools, and tips for crushing the gender pay gap.  

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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