Welcome back to Don’t Retire... Graduate! Today’s guest is a comedian, best-selling author, and activist who turned being told they are bad with money into a success career in finance media. Gaby Dunn hosts the Bad with Money podcast, which talks about money in a way that is raw and honest, and the author of Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your S*** Together. We are so excited to have them here to talk about the taboos and baggage around money and how humor may be able to change it.

In this episode we’ll talk about:

• How to get YouTube famous and be broke at the same time
• Gaby’s journey as a content creator and how they got started in personal finance
• The shame and embarrassment we feel about our net worth, whether its high or low
• The relativity of wealth 
• Investing and finance apps gamifying investing and the danger it can impose on users
• Getting addicted to stock trading and checking the markets
• Student loans and the debt crisis
• Student loans vs medical debt vs other types of debt
• The difficulties that Millennials and Gen Z face that is different than any generation before them
• How paying attention to your finances is the first step—and maybe the hardest—to being good with money

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About Gaby Dunn:

Gaby Dunn (they/them) is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian and LGBTQ advocate living in Los Angeles. Gaby has served as a writer on BIG MOUTH (Netflix) and has developed original television pilots with MTV, 20th Century Fox, YouTube Originals, FX and Netflix. Gaby is the host and creator of the podcast, Bad With Money with Gaby Dunn, now in its eighth season, where they have interviewed guests like Suze Orman, Andrew Yang, and Elizabeth Warren. A non-fiction book based on the podcast was published by Simon & Schuster in 2019. Gaby co-wrote the novels I Hate Everyone But You, a New York Times bestseller in 2018, and the sequel Please Send Help… published in 2019. Gaby’s debut original graphic novel, Bury The Lede, in partnership with BOOM! Studios is currently being adapted as a television series and both of Gaby’s latest novels garnered a placement on The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019 list by Harper’s Bazaar. Most recently, they created, and starred in the Audible Original series Apocalypse Untreated. They are also the co-host of the Just Between Us podcast on the Forever Dog network.    

Links:

• www.gabydunn.com
• Bad with Money podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-with-money-with-gaby-dunn/id1144712710 
• Instagram: @GabyRoad 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/398914378105641 

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