Episode 6: Holiday Shopping Mania

Episode 10: The Fail Fast Hustle Culture Can Die

Today's podcast dives into toxic hustle culture. Caroline discusses the inherent privilege in the fail-fast mindset, how to avoid burnout, and shares tips on setting healthy boundaries to help achieve work-life balance.

Episode 9: Health Insurance Explained

This week on It Doesn’t Have to be Terrible, Caroline dives into the health insurance marketplace and explains how health insurance works, how to get health insurance, understanding premiums, deductibles, and how to deal with huge medical bills. For more, check out Finance Friends Forever, Caroline's collaboration with ilovecreatives: "A Personal Finance course made for Creatives. From getting out of debt to retirement planning to investing — we’ve got you covered." https://ilovecreatives.com/finance-friends-forever https://verdiadvising.com/ https://carolinesnyder.substack.com/ https://www.instagram.com/verdidaily/

Episode 8: Credit Scores Explained

In this week’s episode of It Doesn’t Have to be Terrible, Caroline explains what makes up a good credit score, shares tips on how to improve your credit rating, and dives deep into the flaws and problems with the credit score rating system itself.

Episode 7: Money Dates are the Best Dates

In this Episode of It Doesn’t Have to be Terrible, Caroline details one of her favorite personal finance systems to manage money. Money Dates help create a positive, healthy relationship with personal finances. Caroline teaches how to budget in a way that builds good money habits.

Episode 6: Holiday Shopping Mania

In this episode of It Doesn’t Have to be Terrible, Caroline explores the capitalistic norms of the ever expanding holiday shopping season. For many, this festive time causes a lot of financial stress over consumerism, gifts, family dynamics, religious expectations, and cultural norms. And that’s not even including the Elf on the Shelf and all the nonsense he’s up to this year.