238. How to Be a Rich Girl (Without Selling Your Soul) with Katie Gatti Tassin

Financial Feminist

Her First $100K

How To, Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What does it really mean to be a “rich girl”—and can we pursue wealth without sacrificing our values or our mental health? In this episode, I sit down with one of my favorite personal finance girlies, Katie Gatti Tassin, founder of Money with Katie and author of Rich Girl Nation. Katie and I dive into what it means to define success on your own terms and how to untangle your identity from your income. We talk about the dangers of tying self-worth to productivity, the role of privilege in financial success, and how to build wealth while still staying grounded in rest, joy, and community. This isn’t about toxic hustle or selling your soul for a dollar—it’s about building a life that’s rich in more ways than one. If you’ve ever wondered whether your drive for financial freedom is helping you thrive—or quietly burning you out—this episode is for you. Katie’s links: Website: https://moneywithkatie.com/ To get more resources including any freebies mentioned in this episode, head to https://herfirst100k.com/ffpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Get in financial feminists. We're getting rich. Today we are talking about how to become a rich
0:04.5	girl, but also class consciousness with one of my favorite personal finance girlies, Money with
0:09.6	Katie. Katie Gaddy Taw San is the host of the Money with Katie podcast, and she's the author of
0:14.7	the newsletter of the same name, both acquired by Morning Brew in 2022. We have to remember that a movement
0:20.3	that is predicated on like nobody can have
0:22.6	nice things isn't really going to attract anybody. We need to build a more desirable and exciting
0:29.2	and grand version for the future. And in my mind, I'm like, I want more people to have nice things.
0:35.0	She is one of my favorite personal finance creators out there, but she also does something really, really interesting with her content, talking much more broadly
0:41.5	about the economy, about capitalism, and about class. We're very, very uncomfortable in the United
0:47.9	States acknowledging that the class system that we exist within is relatively calcified.
0:53.2	And the chances of somebody who grows up in poverty, becoming very wealthy, it happens, but it's
1:00.4	certainly the exception to the rule.
1:02.7	So today, we're talking about how to get rich, but also how to get rich without losing your
1:06.4	soul or losing all of the fun you're having.
1:08.9	Katie and I dive into the unique ways personal finance affects women,
1:12.1	including talking about the pressure we feel to uphold beauty standards,
1:15.4	the low-key brainwashing of the American way of doing things, aka capitalism,
1:19.3	and why focusing so much on independent wealth might not be the answer
1:22.6	to the issues of inequality and inequity.
1:26.1	The way that beauty norms work is that the more people that work to
1:30.0	uphold a standard, the more normalized it becomes. It just exerts incrementally more pressure on
1:35.2	each woman that you come into contact with. Katie's work proves time and time again that building
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