Teachers With Money: First in Class is the podcast for teachers who are done accepting the story that financial struggle is the price of a meaningful career. Real money strategies, real talk, no guilt.
How to Make Summer Pay Last: The 12-Month Budget, Money Shame, and Permission to Earn More — with Keina Newell
Keina Newell's Teach For America offer paid about $33,000. Her other job offer paid $50,000, so at first she thought she should decline the teaching job. Then she sat down, ran the numbers, and realized a budget could make the smaller salary work. That budget let her spend years in the classroom doing work her heart was in, and it's the same lesson she teaches today as a financial coach and the founder of Wealth Over Now. Keina has a line she comes back to again and again: managing your mon...
29 Sept 2026
Everything Else Is a Subplot: Imposter Syndrome, Sustainable Pace, and Building Beyond the Principal's Office — with Jason Major
Jason Major has worn a LOT of name tags. Radio sales (he calls it the Monday-through-Sunday scaries), then math teacher, math coach, data analyst, assistant principal, and now principal of Denver Elementary in Chicago, in his 11th year. And somewhere in the middle of running an entire school, he wrote a book! Subplots: Navigating Life as a School Leader opens with a line every educator will recognize: keep kids safe, help them learn, don't let the adults lose their minds. Everything else is...
15 Sept 2026
The Wealthy Teacher Mindset, From a Teacher Turned Financial Advisor - with Jared Nicholson of Confluence Financial Partners
Jared Nicholson taught high school math and business for twelve years before becoming a financial advisor, and he will tell you the two jobs are far more alike than you would guess. Both come down to explaining something complicated without making anyone feel small, and both come down to genuinely wanting the person in front of you to succeed. He did not grow up planning either career. He took AP calculus his senior year of high school, worked harder than he ever had, and walked away with a g...
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