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Welcome to Too Good to Be True, an investigative podcast about exposing the scams, schemes,

and financial cults trying to separate you from your money.

I'm journalist and editor Ryan Hulahan.

And I am Julia Lorenz Olson.

I'm the co-host of PBS's Two Sense and an accredited financial counselor.

So lay it on me.

What are we talking about today?

So this is a deeply personal subject for me.

We are going to talk about the financial culture within the evangelical community.

And even more specifically than that, the prosperity gospel movement within it.

So for this first episode, we're in fact doing a two-parter special. Yes. We are covering the

evangelical church and the prosperity gospel philosophy. And I think it's just such a

big topic and there was so much to say on it that we thought, let's use it to kick things off.

Absolutely. And you know we're also going to be talking about Dave Ramsey. Whenever we talk about

this topic, you know he's going to come up. All I know about Dave Ramsey is he's highly controversial and he loves mixing religion and money.

We're going to dive in deep there for sure.

Just for context, like I was a very committed member of an evangelical megachurch for over a decade.

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