425: How to Raise Money-Smart Kids with Confidence and Purpose With Jamie Bosse
The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi
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4.8 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we're joined by Jamie Bosse—Financial Planner, author, and mom of four—for an empowering conversation about how to raise financially confident kids and introduce investing early.
Jamie is passionate about helping young families take control of their finances while teaching children practical money skills that will serve them for life. As the author of Investing for Tweens, Money Boss Mom, and the Milton the Money Savvy Pup children's book series, she believes financial literacy should start long before adulthood.
In this episode, Jamie shares simple, realistic ways parents can teach investing, saving, and healthy money habits without overwhelm—while also modeling confidence, balance, and intentionality at home.
What Jamie Discussed on the Podcast:
- Her background and what inspired her passion for helping families raise money-smart kids.
- Why teaching investing and financial literacy early is so important for tweens and young children.
- Advice for parents who feel intimidated teaching money lessons while still figuring out finances themselves.
- The most important financial lessons tweens should learn before becoming teenagers.
- Simple and engaging ways to introduce investing to children.
- Common mistakes families make when teaching kids about money and how to avoid them.
- How to teach delayed gratification and smart saving without creating fear or guilt around spending.
- How being a mom of four shaped her approach to financial education.
- Practical ways to make money conversations part of everyday family life.
- Mindset shifts that help children grow into financially confident adults.
How to Keep Up With Jamie:
- Instagram: @MoneyBossMom
- Facebook: Money Boss Mom
- Websites: CGNadvisors.com
- Personal site: moneybossmom.com
- More of her books: miltonthemoneysavvypup.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I've seen a stat on this that around 60% of parents really don't feel like they are qualified to talk to their kids about money because they don't feel like they've done well with it themselves. |
| 0:08.9 | But what I want to say to parents is that you don't have to be an expert. |
| 0:12.9 | You don't have to have done everything right. |
| 0:15.1 | Mistakes are actually a great learning tool, right? |
| 0:17.3 | So you can talk to your kids about mistakes you've made, decisions you've had to make, |
| 0:22.0 | changes you've had to make because of financial mishaps along the way. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast. I'm Bola Shokunbi, founder of Clever Girl Finance. |
| 0:33.4 | This podcast is your space for real, relatable conversations about money, business, and building |
| 0:39.2 | wealth, without shame, without judgment, and without confusion, especially as women navigating |
| 0:45.0 | real life and real responsibilities. If you're ready to take your finances to the next level |
| 0:50.4 | and build real lasting wealth, my book, Clever Girl Millionaire, will walk you through |
| 0:55.4 | exactly how to do it with Claire Steps, Proven Strategies, and the mindset shifts that make it all |
| 1:01.4 | stick. You can find it at Clevergirlfinance.com forward slash books. Now let's get into the episode. |
| 1:08.5 | Hi, Jamie. Hi, how you doing? I'm doing good. How are you? Doing well. Thank you. Welcome to the |
| 1:15.3 | Clever Girls No Podcast. I am so excited to have you on to talk about how to raise money, smart kids with |
| 1:22.0 | confidence and purpose. You have an incredible book out called Investing for Twins, which I have for my own kids, and I absolutely love it. |
| 1:30.3 | But I'm excited to have you here. |
| 1:32.3 | And before we dive into this topic, please tell us who you are, what you do, and what inspired your passion for wanting to help families, moms, dads, raise financially confident kids. Yeah, so I'm Jamie Bussie. |
| 1:47.3 | I've been a financial planner for just over 20 years. I'm also a mother of four and then author of |
| 1:53.5 | several books about money, the Milton Money Semi Puck Children's book series, the new investing for |
| 1:58.3 | tween's book and then Money Boss mom for the parents that I found in my |
| 2:02.8 | years of working with people is you know money is such a intimidating and complex topic and a lot |
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