Financially Inclined: Going green with your money

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Hey Smarties! Make Me Smart is taking a short break while Kimberly and Reema cook up something good for you!

In the meantime, we’re bringing you an episode from “Financially Inclined” a podcast from Marketplace that helps families learn more about money. It turns out where you park your money can actually make a difference in the fight agains climate change. Today, host Yanely Espinal speaks with author and financial educator Kara Perez about how you can spend, save and invest your money in a way that aligns with your values, without sacrificing your financial goals. Plus, they share practical tips for how to use your money to make a real impact.

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0:00.0	Hey parents and teens. This episode of Financially Inclined is presented in partnership with Greenlight, the debit card and money app for teens. Having green and being green don't have to be mutually exclusive. Today, we're learning about the ways in which you can align financial behaviors like spending, saving, and investing with environmental values.
0:22.8	Greenlight can make it easy to manage your finances in an eco-friendly way.
0:27.6	Take control of your money journey. Get $10 by signing up at greenlight.com slash inclined.
0:34.9	Hey all, it's Kimberly. As you know, we're taking a short break while our team works on some new ideas for the show. We're going to have something good for you. In the meantime, we still want to hear from you. What do you want to hear more of? What do you want to hear less of? What would make you most excited to tune in? Let us know. We want to hear from you so we can all get
0:55.3	smarter together. 508, you be smart is how you get a hold of us. We'll be back with brand new
1:00.7	episodes starting June 9th. Can't wait to share what we've been working on. And for now, I'm going to
1:05.7	leave you with an episode from Financially Inclined, which is our podcast from Marketplace that
1:10.2	helps families learn more about money.
1:13.1	This one is all about aligning your money with your values and how you can actually do good in the world and make money in the process.
1:22.3	All right, here's host Janelli Espinal.
1:26.2	What's up everybody?
1:27.7	I'm Janelli Espinal, and this is financially inclined for Marketplace.
1:31.7	We're sharing money lessons for living life your own way.
1:49.2	There's a lot of talk out there about living your life according to your values.
1:51.8	But what does that mean for your money?
1:55.2	How can you use your money to make a difference in your community?
2:02.6	Today, I have writer and financial educator Kara Perez here with me to explain her take on how you can spend, save, and invest your money in ways that matter to you.
2:07.7	As an environmentalist, her work is all about making financial choices to support a greener
2:12.8	and more sustainable future and not sacrifice profit while doing it.
2:18.2	She recently wrote a book called Money for Change, How to Reduce Waste, Build
2:23.0	Wealth, and Create a Better Future for All.
2:26.6	That's why I knew she'd be the perfect person to ask about this topic.
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