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AOA 035: How to Turn Your Kids into Smarter Shoppers – With Consumer Expert Guest Trae Bodge

You’ve taught your child to save and share … but how about to spend smart? Trae Bodge can help you tackle this important step in any money-smart journey! An accomplished lifestyle journalist and television commentator, Trae specializes in smart shopping, personal finance, parenting, and retail.

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AOA 034: Is there a case for tying chores to allowance? — With Guest Cameron Huddleston

“I think it’s okay to let your kids make mistakes because that’s how we learn.”— Cameron Huddleston Is there a case for tying chores to allowance? If so, then Cameron …

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AOA 033: Merging Personal Finance and Hip Hop to Help Children Define Money Values and Encourage Entrepreneurship — With Guest Andrea Ferrero

“Learning about money has the power to transform lives.” — Andrea Ferrero How do hip hop and financial literacy go hand-in-hand? Andrea Ferrero will gladly explain! Andrea is a co-founder …

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Start an Allowance to Begin a Lifelong Money Conversation with Your Children

An allowance can help your child develop many skills: learning the difference between needs and wants, setting and saving for goals as well as making smart money choices. Perhaps, though, one of an allowance’s less obvious benefits is that it prompts a hopefully lifelong money conversation with your child.

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AOA 031: Cultivating Intentionality and a Growth Mindset in Your Allowance Program – With Guests Mark and Kimberlee Barnes

Are you looking for ideas to incorporate into your allowance program? Then you’ll enjoy my conversation with Mark and Kimberlee Barnes, “The Not So Perfect Parents.” Mark and Kimberlee are …

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AOA 030: Personal Finance Education Program Efficacy and Student Loan Debt Perspective — With Guest Carly Urban

“Instead of just thinking about student loans at once, in a vacuum, as […] one issue, we need to think about it in the greater perspective of everything that these …

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Why Is Financial Literacy Important and What Every Parent Needs to Know About It | Hint — Starting Early Matters

Parents can and should begin teaching their kids financial literacy before they enter kindergarten. Every parent can and should take an active role in teaching kids financial literacy.

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AOA 029: Raising Money-Smart Kids by Giving Them Total Control of Their Money — With “First National Bank of Dad” Author David Owen

“Kids need control over their own money.” — David Owen Do you fret about giving your kids too much autonomy when it comes to money and allowance? In this episode …

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How an Allowance Can Help Us Teach Our Kids (and Ourselves) to Experience More Gratitude

You can use your allowance to help instill values you’d like to see in your kids.

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AOA Small Change 002: What Does the Term “Money-Empowered” Mean to You?

In this second installment of our shorter-format episodes — which we call “Small Change” — I explore the term “money-empowered.” This concept is a stated goal of The Art of …

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