Other People's Pockets

Maya Lau

otherpeoplespockets@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

Other People’s Pockets is a human, financially focused interview show where guests unpack the lived, messy realities behind money decisions and wealth-building. It’s especially appealing for brands and PR teams looking to spotlight authentic personal finance experiences (career pivots, disability costs, raises, home life) with real-world context.

Metrics

Episodes: 52

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 1.7k followers

Contact Information

otherpeoplespockets@gmail.com

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Host

Maya Lau - Journalist and host of Other People’s Pockets. The show features intimate interviews with real people about personal finances, including how they earn money, feel about money, and navigate major fi...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Real people with distinctive, lived financial experiences (e.g., major career/earning changes, disability or accessibility-related financial shifts, parenting through financial strain), often with the ability to communicate their story as an author/speaker/essayist
Required Achievements:  
Published books/essays, Public speaking or media presence (speaker authors), Notable personal career transformation tied to finances

Recent Guest Discussions

Jessica Slice - How Disability Changed Her Career Trajectory; The Cost Of Being Disabled; Forging An Alternate Work Path; Advice On Paid Speaking Gigs

Recent Topics

Personal Finance, Wealth, Disability, Career, Parenting

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Other People's Pockets
:

Housing & Healthcare: Money Talk With My Husband

June 16, 2026

Today I’m bringing you mini episode — a conversation my husband and I recently had about some aspects of our finances.I love knowing about how couples talk about money, or about how any two people navigate their spending together. Because at the end of the day, finance is not something we manage in a vacuum — it’s almost always an exchange and a representation of a relationship of some kind.Find all of Maya's socials at: mayalau.comSend guest ideas, questions, or suggestions to: otherpeop...

Maya is Secretly Sporty (in a dance way!)

June 04, 2026

Today I’m bringing you a look into a side of my life that is exercise and dance.This episode is actually not about personal finance … there is more of that coming very soon.Instead, I’m featuring an episode from the podcast Secretly Sporty, where they interviewed me about why I dance and how that informs my life.Secretly Sporty is a new podcast hosted by writer and academic Sebastian Langdell about the way that exercise can inform our creative output, even if our workouts don’t necessarily ha...

Jessica Slice on the Finances of Being Disabled

May 14, 2026

Today we're featuring Jessica Slice, a disabled author, speaker and essayist. Her book, “Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World,” is an amazing look at how her experience in her body — which more often than not needs to be in a reclining position — has been an unexpected asset in her ability to parent & connect with her children. She also writes about the challenges it brings and the very diverse experiences of other disabled people in their lives as parents....

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