Your Financial Maven

About Your Financial Maven

Your Financial Maven®, a Gold Award Winning Podcast, is hosted by Samantha Mittman Besnoff, CPA. It will challenge you to change the way you think about and understand money to be more financially empowered and less stressed. As Your Financial Maven® I will be bringing you my insights and expertise as well as through my guest interviews. It’s important to think about the psychological aspect of how our upbringing and experiences change how we make spending and financial decisions. I’ve spent almost 30 years in the accounting world in various areas and that is why I am known as Your Financial Maven®. Hosted and Produced by Samantha M. Besnoff, CPA Edited by Kris Zarnoch of KMZen Creative Music Written, Composed, and Performed by Daniel Shore

Publisher

Samantha M. Besnoff, CPA

Category

business · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Apr 2023

Latest episode

27 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Aug 2026

   Ep64 Healthcare, Small Business, and the Money Nobody Talks About with Dr. Danielle Miller

   On this episode of Your Financial Maven®, Samantha talks with Dr. Danielle Miller, family physician and founder of Luz Medicine — a practice whose name means "light," fitting for one built on transparency in an industry that often keeps patients in the dark. Together they connect healthcare and financial empowerment, starting with a hard truth: medical bills remain a leading cause of bankruptcy. Dr. Miller shares how she went from reluctant business owner to scaling Luz Medicine to a second L...

2. 

   14 Aug 2026

   Ep63 Level the Field, Change the Future — with Melyssa Jaskiewicz of Leveling the Fields

   After nearly 20 years as a sales and sports-technology executive, Melyssa Jaskiewicz read one statistic on a flight home — only 24% of C-suite executives are women, and 94% of them played sports. From this she decided to leave her career and she became the founder of Leveling the Fields, a Charleston nonprofit removing the cost, options, and access barriers that keep girls out of sports. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about her "money like a river" mindset, why she runs a nonprofi...

3. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Ep62 Control by Design, Not by Accident: Ownership, Succession & Exit Planning

   In Episode 62, I sit down with attorney and founder strategist Scherrie L. Prince — host of the Play Big Faster Podcast — for a candid conversation about what it truly takes to protect a business you’ve worked hard to build. Scherrie advises entrepreneurs and closely held companies at the intersection of business strategy and estate design, and she makes a compelling case that these two disciplines should never live in separate files. Drawing on her own path — from a Mississippi farm, through...

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

13,516

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

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

Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

77