Introducing: What We Spend

Campus Files

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Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial spectrum are opening their wallets—and their lives—to tell you everything: what they make, what they want, and—for one week—what they spend. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Margo. On campus files, we dive into the complicated realities of life at American
0:06.8	colleges and universities and bring you the stories that often go unspoken. Today, I'm excited to share
0:13.9	a preview of a new Odyssey original podcast called What We Spend. This series also explores a topic that many of us tend to avoid.
0:23.3	Personal finances.
0:25.4	Each episode follows one person over the course of a week,
0:28.8	documenting the ways money influences their daily choices.
0:32.5	People from all over the country and all walks of life
0:35.7	share how much they earn, how much they spend,
0:38.8	and the thoughts and emotions they have along the way. In today's preview, we meet Kelly,
0:44.5	who's navigating life under the weight of student loan debt. To hear the full episode,
0:49.6	search what we spend on your favorite podcast platform.
0:57.9	You know how you always want to know about everyone else's money?
0:59.6	You do, right?
1:04.6	Like, you'll see someone buying something you want or taking some amazing vacation and you think,
1:06.6	how can they afford that?
1:11.4	Or you meet your friend's new girlfriend and she has some very impressive job and you think how much money does she make?
1:14.5	I think when it comes to money, even if you don't want to admit it, we're all a little nosy.
1:20.9	But I don't know, I actually think that's good.
1:23.7	I think we should be talking about money more.
1:26.9	And all the ways big and small that it impacts our
1:30.5	lives. On this show, we are actually going to do that. We are going to go somewhere that we
1:39.8	almost never get to go deep into the heart of someone else's finances.
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