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BiggerPockets Money Podcast

Money with Katie: Breaking Free from the Middle-Class Money Trap

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

BiggerPockets

Investing, Education, Business

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Katie Gatti Tassin from "Money with Katie" escaped the middle-class wealth trap of endless working and spending by having her "financial awakening" early. Through just a few years of self-education she more than doubled her income, built a profitable business, and mastered retirement investing and passive income strategies. She's documented all of these wealth-building strategies in her new book "Rich Girl Nation: Taking Charge of Our Financial Futures," which you can pre-order today.  You'll learn the exact mindset shifts and actionable steps that transformed Katie's financial life and how you can replicate her success to break free from the cash-gobbling cycle and skyrocket your own net worth. In this episode, you'll learn: The “financial awakening” that’ll have you saving more and spending less Tracking spending in real-time is crucial for financial awareness.  Financial “truths” that could destroy your wealth if you follow them Earning more money requires smart strategies, not just hard work. And SO much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What if the biggest threat to your financial independence isn't market crashes or job loss,

0:05.5

but the mental traps that sabotage you before you even realize it?

0:10.0

Today's guest has cracked the code on the psychological and strategic mistakes that derail

0:15.5

most people's FI journey, and she's here to share mindset shifts that could save you years of frustration and get

0:22.6

you to financial freedom faster than you ever thought possible.

0:30.7

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast. My name is Mindy Jensen,

0:34.9

and with me as always is my fire fanatic co-host, Scott Trench.

0:38.8

Thanks, Mindy. It's great to be here with my rich girl co-host, Mindy Jensen. We're talking about that all day. believe financial freedom is attainable for everyone no matter when or where you're starting or whether you're held back by the dreaded pink tax and some of those items that I know Katie is

0:58.2

super our guest today is super familiar with today we are so excited to welcome katie gotty tassin

1:03.3

back to the bigger pockets money podcast as you may know katy is the founder of money with

1:08.3

katy all of her content there focuses on building wealth,

1:11.1

questioning conventional wisdom, and creating a great life. Katie is a genius, a thought leader,

1:15.6

a writer. She loves to put in these really long form posts on Instagram that go into,

1:21.0

that go into philosophizing. I'm usually there deep in the comments arguing with someone on there.

1:26.6

And you can order her book, Rich Girl Nation,

1:29.4

rewriting the Rules of Wealth for a new generation that is focusing a lot of those same

1:33.5

concepts she talks about all the time in her content. We can't wait to discuss this with you.

1:38.0

Welcome to the show, Katie. You know what? It is so great to be back. Thank you for having me.

1:42.4

And I just have to say, I love your mission,

1:44.7

a million millionaires. That's so inspiring and very empowering. I love it. Thanks. We just did an

1:50.3

analysis and we're actually going to have to update the goal now because we think we've achieved it.

1:55.0

No kidding. We did the math. We said, you know, right behind me is the number of people who've

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