Hi, I'm Jeff Sickinga, executive director of the Ashbrook Center, and this is the American

idea, where we discuss the ideas, people, and events that have made America what it is today.

We believe that by understanding our history and our principles, we can better

live up to the promise of the American family and preserve our ongoing experiment in self-government.

Welcome to the American Idea. Thank you for joining us today for the American Idea. I am Kara Rogers Stevens,

Associate Professor of History here at Ashland University. Our topic today is an appropriate one for tax

season. We are going to be talking about money. Now, since I'm a Jefferson scholar, the topic of money and how important

it is to handle money well has come up quite a bit in my own historical research. Today, I'm

thrilled to get to speak to an author whose new book is entirely devoted to investigating how

presidents have the same financial concerns as the rest of us.

Debt, investing, how to create financial stability. Although, of course, the presidents are also dealing

with, you know, the unique issues of running for office and leading the nation. My guest for this

conversation is Megan Gorman. Megan is a founding partner of Chekker's Financial Management, a San Francisco-based firm

specializing in tax and financial planning for high net worth individuals.

She holds a BA in history from Bryn-Mauer College.

Am I pronouncing that correctly? Bryn Mauer College?

Bryn Mare, yes.

Bryn Mare.

I just had a conversation with somebody yesterday about how to correctly pronounce this.

You can do the Catherine Hepfram version, which is Bryn Maw.

But yeah, Brin Maw is perfect.

Oh, I like that.

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