Money is essential, but there's so much we aren't taught about it.

In fact, while I was in college, I've racked up $20,000 in credit card debt on top of my student loan.

That was all before I actually learned anything about money.

I'm Janelia Spinal, an online new podcast financially inclined from Marketplace.

I'll teach you simple money lessons so you don't make the same mistakes I did.

Listen to financially inclined wherever you get your podcasts.

These things shape the way we live and the decisions we make.

Some of our guests are famous, some not, and very often they're from the community of listeners,

all talking about what we're figuring out as we go along.

Join in and find death, sex, and money from WNYC Studios,

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

In my high school yearbook, my superlative was most dramatic female,

which in retrospect is kind of rude, but it's because growing up, I was just that obnoxious

drama kid. Always rehearsing lines and sappy monologues.

Oh yeah, definitely.

But seriously, you were upstairs in your own practice room.

You loved it.

That's my mom who endured a lot of after-school rehearsals.

My first big break was Peter Pan in sixth grade, which I took very seriously.

And then in high school, I went all out as Rizzo in Greece.

I'm Sandra D.

Yeah, I don't remember you singing, which wasn't...

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