Personal Finance for PhDs

Emily Roberts

Booking Overview

Interview-focused personal finance programming for graduate students, postdocs, and PhDs, typically featuring peers who explain their real budgets, savings strategies, and financial decisions. Agencies could credibly pitch graduate students, postdocs, PhDs, or personal-finance educators with practical expertise in stipend management, investing, debt repayment, frugality, or work-life spending; booking difficulty is likely low because the show prioritizes accessible firsthand experience over public prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

emily@pfforphds.com

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Host

Emily Roberts - Personal-finance educator focused on the distinctive money challenges faced by graduate students, postdocs, and PhDs.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Graduate students, postdocs, or PhDs with firsthand experience managing stipends or early-career salaries and practical knowledge of budgeting, saving, investing, debt repayment, or frugal living.

Required Achievements:

Demonstrated success managing graduate-school or early-career finances, Meaningful savings or investing progress, Practical financial strategies applicable to other PhDs and trainees

Recent Guest Discussions

Richard Coca - Managing Housing, Groceries, Dining, Hobbies, Social Spending, Transportation Tradeoffs, Roth IRA Contributions, And Work-life Balance During Graduate School

Michele Remer - Frugal Living, Graduate-student Budgeting, High Savings Rates, Roth IRA Contributions, Taxable Investing, And Student-loan Repayment

Recent Topics

Personal Finance, Graduate School, Investing, Budgeting, Debt Repayment

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Personal Finance for PhDs

The Best Financial Advice for First-Year Funded Graduate Students

August 10, 2026

In this episode, Emily shares the microinterviews she recorded at two conferences this year and solicited from subscribers to her mailing list. The prompt she gave to everyone was "What is your best financial advice for a funded graduate student matriculating in fall 2026?" Emily was curious whether the advice would be timeless or unique to 2026, and you can listen for how the respondents interpreted it. You'll hear first the responses from the conference attendees at the Graduate Career Cons...

Even More Reasons Not to Fund Your PhD with Federal Student Loans

July 27, 2026

In this episode, Emily interviews Janna McKay, a Certified Student Loan Professional (CSLP) who works as a consultant for Student Loan Planner. They discuss the changes to the federal student loan program brought about by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 that were implemented on July 1, 2026. For both continuing and new PhD students, Janna shares the federal student loan borrowing limits in play and the available repayment plans, emphasizing caution for graduate students who hold signif...

This Grad Student's Social Spending in Boston Pays Dividends

July 13, 2026

In this episode, Emily interviews Richard Coca, a 3rd-year PhD student at Boston University. Richard breaks down his budget, detailing his top five largest expenses: rent, groceries, eating out, hobbies, and social spending. He rents a bedroom and private bathroom in a shared home convenient to public transit in East Cambridge, and the higher rent is offset because he does not own a car. Richard has developed two intensive hobbies since starting grad school: running and stand-up comedy. To pa...

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