Your Parents' Finances with Beth Pinsker
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa talks with certified financial planner, MarketWatch columnist, and My Mother’s Money author Beth Pinsker about the maddening reality of financial caregiving. They cover long-term care insurance, reverse mortgages, and why all this is ultimately about love, not control.
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Our production team is Shoshi Shmuluvitz, managing producer and editor; Lily Houston Smith, senior producer; Ashley Warren, production manager; Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan, studio recordist; and music by Mark McAdam and Amber Devereux.
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| 1:06.0 | So since I started taking care of my mom, the aspect of caregiving that has been the most frustrating, |
| 1:12.4 | the most crazy making, difficult, annoying bane of my existence is the bank. I've had to go find my mom's |
| 1:19.0 | phone to do some sort of two-factor authentication thing that links up with her retirement account. |
| 1:24.8 | And it just sucks. My guest today is an actual genuine certified |
| 1:30.9 | financial planner. She is also a columnist at MarketWatch. She is also the author of an incredible |
| 1:39.1 | book called My Mother's Money, a Guide to Financial Caregiving. And I mean, if that title doesn't kind of |
| 1:47.6 | say it all, it's just amazing. Her name is Beth Pinsker, and she is here to tell us the tips |
| 1:56.3 | and the tricks of the trade. Wonderful to have you on the show. Hi, I'm glad to be here. I want to start |
| 2:04.3 | this by reading a little bit of your book. So your mom became ill. You then took care of her, |
| 2:13.4 | and there were so many ups and downs. But you say that when it was your turn to be a caregiver, you did it out of love, but maybe |
| 2:22.1 | even more out of respect, because your mom was the most competent person you had ever |
| 2:26.7 | encountered, and she used her powers for good. |
| 2:30.1 | She was a public school teacher. |
| 2:31.9 | She helped generations of students. |
| 2:35.8 | She launched her high school's international baccalaureate program long before it became trendy. And even though the school, |
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