Market MakeHer Podcast

106. Growth, Income, and Value Stocks: What’s the Difference?

April 09, 2026

We’re back from spring break! 😎 Lately, we keep seeing posts on social media that say something like, “If you want $100,000 a year in passive income, you just need to own (X) much stock.” That sounds simple… but it left me wondering: what does that actually mean?Jess Inskip already taught us what stocks are and helped break it down by starting with the basics back in the first few episodes. We’ve briefly talked about when a company makes a profit, they have a choice: reinvest profits into the...

105: The Ghost of Dot-Com Past is Haunting AI Investors (Part 2)

March 19, 2026

We're continuing our deep-dive into one of the most fascinating moments in market history: the dot-com bubble - and what happened after it burst. [This is part 2; listen to episode 101 for part 1!]   You’ve probably heard of companies like Pets.com, the infamous dot-com failure, and Amazon, which somehow survived a 90% stock collapse and went on to become one of the most powerful companies in the world. But what actually separated the companies that failed from the ones that survived?Jes...

104: Okay, But What Even Is an Index Fund?

March 12, 2026

Don’t Beat the Market; Be the Market. You hear about index funds everywhere…on TikTok, from your finance friends, even on our Market MakeHer merch (yes, the “Index Funds and Chill Shirt” is real). But what are they, really? And why do people say we should have them in our portfolio?In this episode, I asked Jess to break it all down for us, starting with the jargon. We dig into why index funds are the simplest way to invest and why they’re considered the foundation of most long-term portfolios...