What People Get Wrong About Credit, and Self-Employed Budgeting

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Do you know the right way to manage your credit? To kick off this episode, Sean Pyles and Sara Rathner dig into a few common credit myths — and how people can confidently raise their credit. Then Sean and Sara answer a listener’s money question about how to get a grip on their budget with an irregular income. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Timestamps: This Week in Your Money segment: 0:00-9:15 Money question segment: 9:16-24:40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast, where we answer your personal finance questions
0:38.4	and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money.
0:41.8	I'm Sean Piles.
0:42.7	And I'm Sarah Rathner filling in this week for Liz Weston.
0:45.3	To send the nerds your money questions, call or tax us on the nerd hotline at 901-7306373.
0:52.0	That's 901-730 Nerd. Or email us at podcast at nerdwollet.com and hit that subscribe button to get new episodes delivered to your devices every Monday. And if you like what you hear, leave us a review.
1:04.4	This episode, Sarah and I answer a listener's question about managing their budget while self-employed. But first, an hour this week in
1:11.6	your money segment, we are digging into a new nerd wallet study about what people get wrong
1:16.4	when it comes to managing their credit. Sarah, can you give us a rundown of the study?
1:20.8	We wanted to find out how Americans were managing their credit during the pandemic, so around
1:25.4	March 2020 till now, we conducted a study
1:27.9	online with the help of Harris Poll and asked 2,000 adults, age 18 or older, about their
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