SASFAA's Swoonpies and Money

About SASFAA's Swoonpies and Money

A podcast for members by members, where financial aid, community, and a little Southern flavor come together.

Publisher

SASFAA

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Apr 2025

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

58 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   S4:E3: OB3 Webinar promo & How the Mercer gang learned to shoot straight

   Season Four is rolling with another guest-loaded week of Swoonpies and Money. For our Teaser Tuesday, we preview the October 20 SASFAA webinar, “OB3 Legacy Deep Dive,” with Brad Barnett and Nick Pruitt from EASFAA. Then Emily Baldwin returns with How I Got Here, featuring Emily Mitchell and Emma Stitch from Mercer University. And on this Friday’s Weekend Edition, Sam Hicks is back with What Keeps You Up at Night? and her review of The Crash, followed by a game-day recipe for Beer, Bacon & Chocolate Chili. Plus, listen for our new Weekend Edition musical intro, created by the fabulous Lou Murray, Mission Upbeat, LLC. OB3, career stories, Netflix, and chili. That’s a pretty full week. As a reminder, we won’t send another announcement through the SASFAA listserv on Fridays; we figure your inboxes already have enough to keep them busy. Besides, if you’re following Swoonpies and Money, you already know where to find us.

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   S4: E2 Surviving Cancer: Healing from the Inside Out

   Welcome to the first Weekend Edition of Swoonpies and Money. In this Swoonpies Health & Wellness segment, our own Samantha Dunman aka Dr. Happy, speaks with fellow yogi, licensed massage therapist, and breast cancer survivor Dawn Coury for an uplifting and deeply personal conversation about healing, resilience, and learning to listen to your body. Dawn shares how her cancer journey reshaped her approach to wellness and led her to explore the connection between physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Together, Samantha and Dawn discuss massage therapy, mindfulness, holistic practices, and the importance of slowing down and paying attention to what your body may be telling you. The main takeaway: healing is deeply personal, and taking an active, mindful role in your own well-being can help you feel more connected, grounded, and supported along the way.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   S4:E1 Introducing The Secret Lives of SASFAA and New Weekend Edition

   Today, with the premiere of Season Four, we are announcing a momentous change to Swoonpies and Money. Starting this week, we’re moving to a twice-a-week schedule—with our regular professional edition earlier in the week and a new Entertainment Edition every Friday. Earlier in the week, we’ll get down to business—SASFAA news and Association highlights, government and legislative developments, professional topics affecting financial aid, conference and training updates, and a look at what’s happening with the states in the region. Then on Fridays, we’ll loosen the seatbelt a little. The Entertainment Edition will focus on the personal, entertaining, and sometimes unexpected side of Swoonpies, including Dr. Happy’s health and wellness series, Sam Hicks’ What Keeps You Up at Night?, and other stories and segments that help us get to know SASFAA members beyond their day jobs. In this premiere episode, longtime Swoonpies contributors Samantha Hicks and Samantha Dunman look back on their contributions over the past three seasons and give us a preview of what they have planned for the season ahead. And we’re also adding some new ways to have fun. This episode introduces one of our newest segments: The Secret Lives of SASFAA. Under our longtime banner of “for members, by members,” Secret Lives gives us an opportunity to discover what SASFAA members do when the workday ends—their hobbies, passions, talents, causes, side projects, and the communities that matter to them. If anyone has a “secret life” your SASFAA colleagues should know about, send us a message at sasfaapodcast@gmail.com. We may just invite you onto the show to tell us about life after five o’clock. Below are the links to today’s Season Four premiere. And this Friday, our first Weekend Edition, S4:E2 will be available on Spotify and Apple. The episode is Surviving Cancer: Healing from the Inside Out. One woman's deeply personal and powerful healing journey. You'll hear her own experience with cancer exploring both conventional and holistic healing approaches. We won’t send another announcement through the SASFAA listserv on Fridays; we figure your inboxes already have enough to keep them busy. Besides, if you’re following Swoonpies and Money, you already know where to find us. Welcome to fall. Welcome to Season Four. And welcome back to Swoonpies and Money.

Who has been a guest on SASFAA's Swoonpies and Money

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Katie Conrad
• Alison Rabil
• Jonathan Ibarra
• Jody Walker
• Kim Gordon

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

47

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Books guests

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