So Money episode 867 Ida Rademacher, vice president at the Aspen Institute

and executive director of the Aspen Financial Security Program.

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I'm a horse person. I grew up in a very rural part of California. All my babysitters were, you know, rodeo

Queens. One of my favorite heroes is Connie Reeves, who was a great horsewoman who taught probably

60,000 girls in Texas how to ride horses. Her mantra, I have adapted to my money philosophy,

which is always saddle your own horse. It's a little bit about self-reliance, how that translates into this concept that I think you've talked about a

ton of times with great people on your podcast, which is nobody cares as much about your

money as you do. That is Ida Rademacher, our guest today,

but the irony there is that she cares a lot about our money

and trying to help close the gaps, the wealth gaps in America.

Ida Radamacher is the Vice President at the Aspen Institute as well as the Executive Director

of the Aspen Financial Security Program.

The Aspen Institute, you may have heard of it, is an

educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. and

through Ida's work, she tries to create nonpartisan solutions to improve financial challenges that are facing

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