Beyond The Dollar - Deep and Honest Conversations On How Money Affects Your Well-Being
Host Sarah Li-Cain wants to make money more approachable by having frank and honest conversations. Each episode, her and her guests candidly discuss a topic at the intersection of money and life. It becomes a space where wins, failures, happiness, shame and everything in between gets its turn. Come learn about how topics like financial independence, frugality, budgeting and other major life transitions and events affect your money.
Episodes
119 episodes
Going Back to a Full-Time Job With Candice, Chonce, and Joshua
In this season finale, we’re going to dig deeper into the idea of what it means to go back to a job after taking a stab at entrepreneurship. How can someone accept the fact that they’ve “failed”, how does one deal with a bruised ego, and well, ...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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30:27
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Checking into a Mental Health Facility with Julianna Estall
Julianna Estall, a DCR, or designated crisis responder, comes on to talk about the time she checked herself into a mental facility (she suffers from dehabilitating mental illness at times), and how much it really cost her. We also discuss h...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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25:08
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Communicating Your Financial Needs and Beyond
This week episode recaps last week's conversation with Maggie Germano on motherhood versus ambition. It'll to dive into the “conflict” that is parenthood and your career, why it’s more important than ever to communicate our needs, and why under...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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17:10
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Ambition Versus Motherhood With Maggie Germano
Maggie Germano comes on the show to talk about the perceived conflict that is motherhood and ambition. She shares how she’s embrace the uncertainty as to comes to her income and business goals, emotions she’s facing, and what’s she’s not wi...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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26:07
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Consequences of Financial Stress on Our Bodies
This week's episode recaps Sarah's conversation with Jen Smith (episode 105) where she shares the story of being laid off at 37 weeks pregnant, and her body going into a seizure as a result of the stress. This episode dives into how your body c...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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17:46
Losing a Job at 37 Weeks Pregnant With Jen Smith
Jen Smith comes on the show to talk about the time her and her colleagues experienced a massive layoff at her former job, a few weeks before she was to give birth. She shares her experience navigating healthcare insurance, how she grew her inco...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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25:13
Managing Emotional Triggers For Impulse Shopping
This week's episode recaps Sarah's conversation with Alyssa Davies last week, which dives into what really might be going on when you are shopping impulsively, even if it’s not a full-fledged addiction. Plus you'll learn how to recognize your e...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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16:03
Overcoming a Shopping Addiction With Alyssa Davies
Alyssa shares her experience of being addicted to clothes shopping in her early 20s. She goes into how she knew it became a problem, the emotional triggers leading her to spend all that money, and what she does now to ensure she has balance and...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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25:16
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Spending Money Out of Love
This week's episode recaps a conversation with Kassandra Dasent last week, where she shared her experience flying to another country to be at her mother's deathbed before she died of COVID-19. It'll dive into what it means to be a financi...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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13:13
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Quarantine, Spending $10,000+ (USD) and Grieving Her Mother with Kassandra Dasent
Kassandra Dasent shares her harrowing experience flying from the U.S. to Canada smack dab in the middle of the COVID pandemic to be by her mother’s death bed. She also goes into detail exactly how much she spent, how she was able to pay for it ...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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29:10
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How To Use Money as the Final Filter
This episode dives deeper into the phrase “use money as the final filter” and how last week's guest, Jason Vitug uses this to make his money decisions. A lesson learned where he regretted not so was pushing off a flight to save money, onl...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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20:55
Using Money as the Final Filter with Jason Vitug
Jason decided to save a few hundred dollars (even though he could more than afford it) back at the end of 2019 on flights to the Philippines to see his 97 year old grandmother and pushed the trip to the spring of 2020. Well, we all know what ha...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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27:30
Introducing Season 8 of Beyond The Dollar
Join host Sarah Li-Cain as she previews stories and topics of humans who've navigated around life through the lens of money. Season 8 premiers June 16, with honest conversations and questions designed to get you to ask how you can trust y...
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Season 8
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2:17
ENCORE: The True Cost of Sexual Trauma With Amanda Holden
***ENCORE EPISODE***Amanda Holden, founder and investing teacher at Invested Development came on to chat about her sexual assault while on a greyhound bus on the way to a work presentation, why she regrets not reporting the incident to ...
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33:52
ENCORE: Adopting Kids Overseas With Andrew Wang
***ENCORE EPISODE *** Andrew Wang shares the time he and his wife decided to adopt a child overseas. He shares the financial and emotional journey they went through, including why him and his wife decided to adopt overseas, how much...
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39:54
Giving Up Alcohol With Friends of Beyond The Dollar
This season finale looks at how alcohol affects your financial life (it's not what you think) and how giving up our vices offers us one of the biggest opportunities to learn about who we are and what we need to thrive. This episode featur...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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38:50
Recovering from Addiction Within a Relationship With Brianne Davis-Gantt And Mark Gantt
Brianne is a recovering love addict, and one of her beliefs was that her prince will come and take care of her - to the point where she would hoard her money instead of spending it. Mark, well he happily took on this role, even in the midst of ...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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35:51
Managing Finances as an Orphaned Teen with Carter Colfield
Doing internet searches can literally save your financial life. That's what happened to Carter. At 16, he was more concerned about where he was going to live, how to pay for college with no financial help from his parents, and the biggest one o...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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27:00
ENCORE: Forming a Supportive Mastermind
ENCORE EPISODE: Host Sarah brought on her close friends and money mastermind group, Jackie Lam – an advocate for freelancers, Kate Dore, a Certified Financial Planner candidate, and Taylor Milam, and English teacher who freelances o...
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36:33
ENCORE: The Myth of Success
Rich Jones and Marcus Garrett, hosts of the popular podcast Paychecks and Balances join me to chat about the differences between the idea of outward success and how it’s not always cracked up to be. We also get candid about our feelings on how ...
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52:26
Don't Be a Burden on Your Kids with Rosemary Bointon
Rosemary is a UK citizen who has lived in over 13 countries and retired in Portugal. She’s very well aware that there are lots of issues to worry about, like healthcare and contingency plans if something were to happen to her, and her children ...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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23:25
Releasing Your Inferiority Complex with Eugenie George
Learning how an inferiority complex manifests itself into some negative behaviors when it comes to money. Eugenie George, author of Our Money Stories: A Six Week No B.S. Holistic Financial Wellness Plan comes on the show to talk abo...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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22:29
Moving Out of a Gang Infested Neighborhood with Hazel Ortega
Hazel comes on the show to talk about how she grew up in poverty in a gang infested neighborhood in LA. Yet despite experiencing trauma like seeing her best friend being killed at a bus stop, she went on to graduate high school (yes, even...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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37:03
How You Can Break The Cycle in Your Financial Life
Breaking the cycle in your life isn’t supposed to be easy or fun all of the time. So let’s take a short break from the stories and do a recap - what does breaking the cycle mean? What are some ways to recognize your life isn’t working? What are...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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20:07
Recovering From a Major House Fire with Jackie Lambert
#91: One night, Jackie's house burnt down through a freak accident. Jackie and her husband had nowhere to go — thank goodness the firefighter staff called the Red Cross for them, got a few hundred dollars so they could go stay a hotel. She come...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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29:32
