Teachers With Money: First In Class
Teachers With Money: First in Class is the podcast for teachers who are done accepting the story that financial struggle is the price of a meaningful career. Real money strategies, real talk, no guilt.
Episodes
21 episodes
The Wealthy Teacher Mindset, From a Teacher Turned Financial Advisor - with Jared Nicholson of Confluence Financial Partners
Jared Nicholson taught high school math and business for twelve years before becoming a financial advisor, and he will tell you the two jobs are far more alike than you would guess. Both come down to explaining something complicated without mak...
How I Save Money on Groceries and Online Shopping (Part 2): Cash Back, Grocery Games, and the Stuff I Happily Overspend On
Last week (Part 1) was the monthly recurring bills. This week is my half, and it's the one I've been most excited about!Part one was my husband, Grant's, territory. Insurance, escrow, internet, the subscription graveyard. One-time fixes ...
How to Lower Your Monthly Bills (Part 1): The Escrow Move That Dropped Our Mortgage Payment by $151 a Month, and more tips!
Last spring Christa and her husband Grant went through every single thing that automatically comes out of their account each month. Every bill, every subscription, every auto-draft they set up once and never looked at again. The question they a...
Money Anxiety for Teachers: The 5 Numbers You're Avoiding and How to Finally Face Them — with Neva Bowers
Neva Bowers spent years not looking at her own money. She was twenty-two, teaching high school French, and mostly just trying to survive the school day. Retirement accounts, spending, the future, all of it felt like one more thing she could not...
The Virtual Assistant Side Hustle for Teachers: How to Get Paid for the Skills You Use Every Day — with Nikol Toteva
Not every side-hustle story starts in a classroom. Nikol Toteva's starts at the front desk of a language school in the south of France. She has spent nine years as a fractional chief of staff and senior virtual assistant, the right hand who run...
Get Paid to Write: The Teacher Who Grew a Side Hustle to Match Her Whole Salary — with India Amos
India Amos is a passionate teacher who turned the skills she used in the classroom every day into a freelance writing business—and grew it on nights and weekends until it matched her entire teacher salary. She started as an Appalachian healthca...
How to Start a Teachers Pay Teachers Store: The First 3 Steps for Beginners
A few weeks ago, Christa sent listeners on a "resource hunt"—dig through your files, find the things you've already made from scratch, and drop them in a folder called "TPT Ideas." A lot of teachers did it, stared at a folder fuller than they e...
Money Blocks & the Subconscious: How Hypnotherapy Rewrites Your Money Story — with Christy the Hypnotist
Christy Nguyen is a teacher first—the kind who played “school” with her nieces and nephews as a kid and never lost the calling. She’s also a hypnotherapist who helps women clear the subconscious self-sabotage running quietly underneath their co...
Building Wealth on a Teacher’s Salary: Budgeting, Compound Interest & 403(b) Retirement Fees — with Danny Kofke
Danny Kofke spent 18 years in the classroom — first grade, kindergarten, and severe-profound special education — and did something the salary supposedly doesn’t allow: he raised a family of four on about $42,000 a year, helped support his wife'...
From Teacher to Author, Speaker, and Founder: Building a Calling Beyond the Classroom — with Rochelle Wilson
Rochelle Wilson was a sixth-grade ELA teacher who saw a problem she couldn’t look away from. When a student she was mentoring through a painful season needed someone in her corner, Rochelle showed up — and one lunch period turned into fifteen g...
Get RICH on Your Terms: A New Definition of Wealth — with Jenn Jamali of First Jenn Money
Jenn Jamali spent years in tech — at companies like Indeed and Spotify — negotiating other people’s salaries for a living. Then, at eight weeks pregnant, she was laid off. Instead of scrambling, she leaned into a plan she’d already started buil...
Teacher Boundaries and Knowing When to Say No: Union Work and Online Summits — with Bryson Tarbet of That Music Teacher
Bryson Tarbet is a former PreK–6 music teacher and the founder of ThatMusicTeacher.com and Tarbet Education Network, where he builds content-specific professional development for music and arts specialists. He's also one of the earliest support...
Teaching Abroad and Building a Side Hustle as a Financial Strategist — with Kennedi Crosby
Kennedi Crosby is a secondary math teacher with six years in the classroom, and a journey most teachers don't get to live. She has taught in New Orleans, Washington D.C., Kuwait, and now China. Somewhere along the way, she also became a financi...
From Credit Card Debt to Financial Confidence: An Educator's Story with Rose Mendonca of Teacher Talks Money
If you're a teacher carrying credit card debt right now — the kind that sits in your chest at 2am — this episode is for you. Rose Mendonca is a 26-year educator, school counselor, and the founder of Teacher Talks Money, a financial education pl...
Side Hustles for Teachers: Why You Shouldn't Need One — and Why You Deserve One
If you're a teacher and you're tired — bone-deep, paycheck-to-paycheck tired — this episode opens with the sentence you need to hear: it's not your fault. The math hasn't been mathing for a long time. The system that's supposed to support the p...
Career Growth for Teachers Who Want More Options: Teacher Career Cheat Codes with Courtney Johnson
Courtney Johnson is a career content creator, personal brand strategist, and the author of Career Cheat Codes. She's also Christa's personal brand mentor, business coach, and the person who helped her build the thing you're listening to right n...
First-Gen Millionaire on a Teacher Salary — with Davy Yap
Davy Yap is a full-time middle school teacher in California. She's also on track to retire at 45 as a millionaire on a teacher's paycheck. As a teacher who got specific about money and made moves most teachers haven't been told they're allowed ...
How to Start a Teachers Pay Teachers Store: Breaking Through the Excuses Holding You Back
Christa waited ten years to open her Teachers Pay Teachers store. Ten years of “I’ll do it this summer” and “the market is probably too saturated.” Sound familiar? In this episode, she dismantles the three biggest lies keeping teachers from sta...
The Real Cost of “Teachers Don’t Do It for the Money”
“Teachers don’t do it for the money.” You’ve heard it a thousand times. You’ve probably said it yourself. But what if that sentence isn’t a compliment... it’s a contract?In this episode, Christa names the martyr script that runs quietly ...
Teacher Side Hustle: How a Viral TikTok Made Me Feel Guilty (Not Rich)
A Teachers Pay Teachers product went viral on TikTok. The money hit. And instead of celebrating — I felt guilty. Like, stomach-drop, something-is-wrong guilty.In the very first episode of First in Class, host Christa Jones unpacks the mo...
