Rachel Cruze and Dr. John Deloney take live calls about marriage crises, debt, taxes, student loans, housing, retirement decisions, and career choices. Callers wrestle with issues like a 46-year marriage marred by decades of infidelity, large IRS bills, car and student loan debt, an inheritance weighed down by tax liens, and how much to give or save while paying off debt. Throughout the episode the hosts stress values-based decision-making, refusing to borrow, facing financial reality, and aligning money choices with identity, relationships, and long-term peace.
Sean walks through roughly a decade of business attempts-from a sushi restaurant and wristband dropshipping to a biotech venture and a series of social and messaging apps-before finally finding success with a high school Fortnite esports league that was acquired by Twitch. He then explains how his approach to project selection, learning, and risk changed, leading to a streak of more straightforward wins and a portfolio doing tens of millions in revenue. The conversation shifts into money, defining "enough," the idea of a second mountain focused on creative work and meaning rather than more wealth, and ends with a light segment about Halloween, parenting, and family traditions.
Mel Robbins interviews AI expert Allie K. Miller about how everyday people can practically use artificial intelligence to save time, make money, and improve their lives. Allie explains what AI and generative AI are in simple terms, outlines four main ways to interact with AI tools, and shares concrete examples from travel planning and cooking to job searches and caregiving. They also address risks and concerns such as hallucinations, job loss, over-reliance, data privacy, and environmental impact, while emphasizing that learning to use AI now is crucial, especially for women and knowledge workers.
Ryan Smith describes his journey from a 1.9 GPA high school dropout to building Qualtrics from his family basement into a multi‑billion‑dollar company and later becoming an NBA team owner. He recounts being effectively forced out of school, surviving a precarious stint in Seoul as a teen English teacher, founding Qualtrics with his father during a cancer scare, and eventually turning down a $500 million acquisition offer before raising major venture capital and selling the company. He also reflects on focus, long‑term thinking, buying the Utah Jazz, and his personal frameworks for parenting and career decisions.
Mel Robbins guides listeners through a three-question framework called the Odyssey Plan, developed by Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, to rethink their current life trajectory. She uses examples, research, and personal stories to show how visualizing your current path, imagining a forced change, and dreaming without constraints can reveal "unfinished business" and new possibilities. The episode concludes with practical advice on turning these insights into small daily experiments that gradually redesign your life.
Hosts Rachel Cruze and Jade Warshaw take live calls from listeners about insurance, debt, car purchases, student loans, home buying, career changes, weddings, and family financial decisions. They contrast whole life and term life insurance, argue strongly against car loans and other consumer debt, and walk callers through the Ramsey Baby Steps framework. Throughout the episode they emphasize peace and freedom over mathematical optimization, encouraging listeners to live below their means, avoid debt, build emergency funds, and be honest with partners about money.
Hosts Jade Warshaw and George Kamel take live calls about money and life issues including parents overspending on gifts while in debt, job loss and career transitions, caring for aging relatives, and navigating debt as young adults. They also address marital disagreements over cars, career changes, and large inheritances, along with practical guidance on budgeting, housing decisions, tithing, and basic estate planning. Throughout, they stress boundaries, avoiding new debt, increasing income, and making unified, thoughtful decisions within families.
Hosts George Kamel and Rachel Cruze take live calls about money and life decisions, helping listeners navigate issues like credit card use, career changes, relationships, housing, and large debt burdens. They repeatedly reference the Ramsey "baby steps" and emphasize behavioral change, intense debt payoff, and value-driven decision-making over purely mathematical optimization. Callers include people wrestling with credit card rewards, whether to change careers, living with partners before marriage, college savings strategies, upside-down car loans, real estate decisions, massive student loan balances, and the financial fallout of divorce.
This live episode of The Ramsey Show is recorded in Chicago with hosts taking questions from the audience about money, relationships, and life transitions. Topics include setting financial boundaries with parents, resolving spender-saver conflicts in marriage, supporting low-income communities, navigating mid-journey Baby Steps, and finding meaningful work after a military career. The show ends with a collective debt-free scream and encouragement for attendees who are changing their family trees.
Elise Hu introduces a re-released TED Membership conversation featuring clinical psychologist Meg Jay on the concept of the empathy gap between our present and future selves. In her talk, Jay explains how difficulty imagining our future selves can lead us to neglect long-term well-being, and she offers practical questions and thought exercises to build a connection with who we will be at around age 35. She then speaks with Whitney Pennington-Rogers about how these ideas apply not only to people in their 20s but at any stage of life, and how to turn a one-time reflection into an ongoing practice.
Jay Shetty delivers a solo episode about what to do when you feel behind in your career, relationships, or life. Drawing on psychological research, parables, and stories of public figures, he explains how social comparison, comfort, and misunderstood timelines create a false sense of lateness. He offers six key reminders to reframe progress, embrace struggle, and recognize the invisible skills and foundations you are building over time.
This episode of The Ramsey Show features multiple callers seeking guidance on job loss, housing decisions, debt payoff, retirement investing, elder financial protection, and career transitions. Dave Ramsey and George Campbell coach listeners through situations including a sudden firing in construction, living on a tight single income while hoping to buy a home, using a large brokerage account to pay off debts, and handling dementia-related financial chaos for an aging parent. The hour also highlights powerful debt-free stories illustrating the impact of aggressive budgeting, side hustles, and shared spousal commitment to a plan.
The hosts welcome Michelle Pfeiffer for a wide-ranging conversation about her long acting career, from early roles like Fantasy Island and Grease 2 to iconic films such as Scarface and The Fabulous Baker Boys. She discusses how her approach to acting has evolved, learning to let go of perfectionism, the changing landscape for women in film and television, and balancing a busy career with family life and becoming a grandmother. Pfeiffer also shares anecdotes about working with Will on a recent series, her intense experience on Scarface, and her first attempts at acting while working in a supermarket and studying court reporting.
Molly Graham challenges the traditional idea of a linear career "staircase" and argues that great careers are built by taking risks she calls "jumping off cliffs." She illustrates this with her own transition from a secure HR role at Facebook to a risky new project where she initially struggled, then grew into a far more capable version of herself. She outlines three skills needed for successful cliff jumps-learning to actually jump, surviving the emotional fall, and becoming a "professional idiot"-and urges people to question narrow definitions of success and dare to trade the known for the unknown.
This episode features Dave Ramsey and co-host Ken Coleman taking live calls about real-world financial decisions, from handling debt and housing choices to navigating career changes and family dynamics. Callers wrestle with issues like credit card use in marriage, whether to use windfalls to pay off debt or buy homes, job loss and underemployment late in life, enabling adult children, and how to balance generosity and enjoyment when wealthy. Throughout, Dave and Ken emphasize shared vision, personal responsibility, ethical choices, and prioritizing debt freedom and long-term stability over short-term comfort.
Host Shankar Vedantam speaks with organizational scholar Jennifer Tostekaris about the idea of work as a "calling" and how this concept has evolved from its religious roots to a modern secular ideal. They explore compelling examples like Paul Gauguin, Marie Curie, and Oprah Winfrey to illustrate how callings can inspire extraordinary dedication, creativity, and impact. The conversation also examines the psychological and economic downsides of callings, including distorted self-assessment, vulnerability to exploitation, burnout, and the collateral damage to families and other life domains, and concludes with a more tempered view of meaningful work that does not require everyone to have a grand vocation.