LATEST POSTS FROM THE BLOG

• How to Combat the Negative Financial Attitudes We Learned in Academia and in Childhood
  In this episode, Emily interviews Cortnie Baity, a doctoral candidate in Human Development and Family Sciences at Florida State University and licensed marriage and family therapist […]
• Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Choose a PhD Program That Will Support Your Personal and Professional Development
  This episode comprises seven audio clips from PhDs and PhD students who are advocates for PhD students’ professional and personal development. They each answer the prompt: “What aspects of a PhD […]
• How Winning Fellowships Forced This Grad Student to Take Out Student Loans
  In this episode, Emily interviews Dessie Clark, a doctoral candidate in Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. In 2018, Dessie received a few small fellowships for conference travel […]
• Fellowship Income Is Now Eligible to Be Contributed to an IRA!
  In this episode, Emily explains the new legislation that allows non-W-2 fellowship income to be contributed to an Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA). Up until 2019, fellowship or training grant […]
• How Effective Presentations Advance Your Career and Improve Your Finances
  In this episode, Emily interviews Dr. Echo Rivera, a PhD in community psychology and founder of Creative Research Communications. Echo is an expert in effective presentation, and she teaches these […]
• How This Graduate Student Financially Manages Daycare Costs, Debt Repayment, Saving, and Side Hustling
  In this episode, Emily interviews Aubrey Jones, a PhD candidate in social work who lives in Tennessee. Aubrey is married and has a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old, which means childcare is their […]
• Can and Should an International Student, Scholar, or Worker Invest in the US?
  In this episode, Emily interviews Hui-chin Chen, a Certified Financial Planner specializing in advising globally mobile professionals through her business, Pavlov Financial Planning. In the […]
• This Soon-to-Be PhD Is Facing Debt and Underemployment as He Goes on the Academic Job Market
  In this episode, Emily interviews Chad Frazier, a graduate student in history at Georgetown University who is about to complete his PhD and go on the academic job market. Chad’s career plans […]
• This Part-Time PhD Student Needs Her Full-Time Income for Her Financial Goals
  In this episode, Emily interviews Patrice French, a PhD student in adult education at Texas A&M. Patrice has a full-time position at her university and is pursuing her PhD part-time. She is […]
• This PhD Compares Her Experiences at a Unionized University and a Non-Unionized University
  In this episode, Emily interviews Dr. Carly Overfelt. Carly received a master’s from Purdue University, which does not have a graduate student union, and a PhD from the University of […]