124: How to Take the Stress Out of Money Management with Dana Miranda

In this episode of Saving With Steve, host Steve Sexton is joined by Dana Miranda, who is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® (CEPF®), an author, a personal finance journalist, and the founder of Healthy Rich, a platform for inclusive, budget-free financial education.

Dana joins us today to talk about how to take the stress out of money management, and Steve will be talking about 2023 tax scams to avoid.

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® (CEPF®), an author, and a personal finance journalist. She operates from a fundamental belief that work should be fun and money should be easy.

Dana grew up in a working-class family in a small town in Wisconsin. When she joined the ranks of personal finance media in 2015, she found the niche led mostly by advice (and admonitions) from middle-class white men, ignoring the broad diversity of our relationships with work and money.

After leaving a leadership position with a popular financial media startup and spending 2 1/2 years as a freelance writer, Dana founded Healthy Rich to change the way we talk about money.

Healthy Rich is a platform for inclusive, budget-free financial education, where Dana works with organizations, schools, and companies dedicated to making money better for folks who are often left out of the conversation about money.

She is the author of the forthcoming YOU DON’T NEED A BUDGET: How Toxic Budget Culture Ruined Your Relationship With Money—And How To Fix It, where she gets to spend a whole book diving deep into the ills of budget culture and lay out in-depth the EASY approach to budget-free money management.

Dana has also written about work and money for Forbes, Insider, The Penny Hoarder, Culture Study, the New York Times, CNBC, The Motley Fool, NextAdvisor, USA Today and Inc. magazine, among others.