The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi started Clever Girl Finance as a blog and grew it into one of the largest personal finance platforms for women in the U.S. The podcast is the audio arm of that mission, and it's built around a straightforward idea: real women talking openly about their actual money situations. No shame, no judgment, just honest conversation. Episodes feature Bola interviewing women at different stages of their financial lives. You'll hear from a teacher who paid off $80,000 in student loans on a modest salary, a single mom who built an emergency fund from scratch, or a woman in her 40s who started investing for the first time. The guests aren't financial celebrities. They're regular people who made specific changes and saw specific results. Bola has a warm interviewing style that gets people to share details they might normally keep private -- the exact numbers, the mistakes, the moments of panic. She asks the follow-up questions that matter, like how someone actually stuck to their debt payoff plan during the holidays or what they told their partner when they wanted to overhaul the family budget. The show drops weekly and episodes run about 30 to 45 minutes. Beyond the interviews, Bola occasionally does solo episodes breaking down topics like high-yield savings accounts, how credit scores actually work, or the basics of index fund investing. With over 420 episodes and a 4.8-star rating, the back catalog is deep. The companion website offers free budgeting worksheets, a financial roadmap, and debt prioritization tools that pair well with what you hear on the show.