Rachel and Rebecca Pino are a mother and daughter duo providing women with sound financial advice. Rachel (the mom of the duo) runs her family’s financial firm as CFO. Raising Rebecca, she instilled financial advice in her daughter. In between sharing family money stories, Rebecca and Rachel teach us how to shop for a financial planner and what mistakes to avoid when it comes to retirement planning.
Millennial money coach, Farrah Turcotte, joins The 411k to talk sinking funds. She shared her strategies for keeping her budgets in check while still offering herself the grace to make mistakes. From every day spending to big life event type expenses, Farrah teaches us how planning ahead and using sinking funds can help us take control of our finances.
REPLAY! Check out one of The 411k original interviews! In this episode, we talk with our favorite accountability coach, Shannon McLay, founder of The Financial Gym. She shares her money story and how she started helping clients get “financially fit.” The Financial Gym pairs you with a Financial Trainer to help create a financial plan and hold you accountable to your goals. Are you ready to get financially naked?
In this episode, Bobbi Rebell, a Certified Financial Planner and host of the Financial Grownup podcast, joined us to talk about what it means to be “a financial grownup.” Bobbi shares her money story and the money mistakes that made her financially fragile in her 20s. Now, she is talking money and helping others achieve financial freedom. We recorded this episode with a virtual audience, the BC Women Innovators Network.
Olivia Friel is a mama, birth and postpartum doula, and a holistic pregnancy consultant. She is the founder of Healthy Balanced Birth, a platform for expectant mothers, partners, new parents, and birth professionals. She provides her clients with information about pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenthood that is specifically catered to their individual needs. She is also the voice behind the Healthy Balanced Birth and Beyond Podcast – a safe space dedicated to sharing stories and resources about everything within the birth space, specifically topics that are not talked about enough.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Note: These numbers are averages as of August 2020 and vary by state and hospital.
Having a baby in Massachusetts on averages costs:
Vaginal birth with insurance: $7,741.64 Vaginal birth without insurance: $14,549.03
C-section with insurance: $11,012.54 C-section without insurance: $19,879.60
Hospitals generally charge more! On average, hospitals charge $15,000 for vaginal delivery and $30,000 for a c-section!
Home births range from $1,500 to $3,000 paid directly to the midwife.
On average, other expenses including supplies, labs and doula can add on an additional $2,000. An epidural costs on average $2,100.
Prenatal Testing such as ultasounds cost on average $280. CVS testing for abnormalities and chorionic villus sampling can cost $1,300 to $4,800. For high risk pregnancies, amniocentesis can cost $1,000 to $7,200.
The 411k 