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The “Passion Planner” was first sucked into the gravitational force field of my striving at an internship in 2016, thanks to a young colleague who reeked of competence. She represented the sort of high-achieving twenty-something I was desperate to become, and she was always toting around her leatherbound daybook. In morning meetings, I’d ogle as […]
A few weeks ago, I watched The Substance through my hands. During particularly bloody scenes, I would study Thomas’s face as he grimaced, attempting to judge when it was safe to look at the screen again. The film—which interprets the violence of body modification and our cultural obsession with youth through a campy lens—hits a […]
As a pathologically ambitious college junior a few months into my first real internship, a generous, well-regarded full-time employee on my team pulled me aside after my #grindset and I handed in an assignment early. You’re doing a great job, she whispered, but I’m going to let you in on something: Don’t work so fast. […]
The other day, a friend asked me what I thought of the “money manifestation” courses she keeps seeing online. Maybe you’ve seen their ads, too: Relatable-feeling, straight-to-camera videos featuring people who promise to rid you of your “money blocks,” using scientific-sounding language and vague assurances about forthcoming abundance. This type of material usually triggers my […]
On May 6, 1954, a British man named Roger Bannister did what was formerly considered unthinkable: He ran a mile in under four minutes. Runners had been chasing this elusive goal “seriously” since 1886, and for 68 years, the most talented athletes around the world slowly convinced themselves it wasn’t physically possible. Then Bannister proved […]
We recently conducted a survey with the Money with Katie audience on Instagram, and the results shocked us. We had asked for a handful of economic data points, like age, location, what people spend money on, and how much their household earns. I’m not sure what we were expecting to hear, but it wasn’t this: […]
Last December, I took three of my best friends on a trip to Tulum, Mexico. It was the first time I had ever done something so grand, and a few days ago, I woke up thinking again of Tulum. I navigated to our choice hotel’s site to check booking availability, making a mental note of […]
In January 2021, search volume for the term “should I invest in Bitcoin” hit its highest peak, and remained a popular search term through early summer. Bitcoin—and cryptocurrency more generally—was everywhere you looked, infiltrating even the most staid of personal finance domains online (yours truly’s included, as I wrote my first and only cryptocurrency explainer […]
A two-year collective existential crisis birthed an interesting phenomenon in 2022: quiet quitting. While the term primarily began proliferating around the recesses of TikTok, it didn’t take long for quiet quitting to catch fire in the mainstream media. Publications breathlessly debated the topic and took pretty predictable stances: Gallup asked if it was real, the […]
As we near the end of March, I know what you’re thinking: Q1 is almost over! (No? Just me?) This year I decided to try something a little different when thinking about my 2023 ambitions. And while I’ve usually long defected from my best Jan. 1 intentions by the time we’re pulling up on the […]
The glorious TikTok algorithm served me a video the other day. It was from a sex therapist who opened with, “Most couples who come to me say, ‘Our marriage is perfect, except for our sex life!,’ and it’s almost never true.” She goes on to explain how—much of the time—when a couple believes they’re no […]
I know what you’re thinking: Madam, you’d better not tell me I’ve been wasting away hours of my life reading and consuming your opinions for you to tell me that it was all bollocks. (Yes, in this hypothetical, you’re British.) But if you exist in the physical realm, you’ve probably noticed something: We don’t live […]
“Millennials are entitled to a good life!” claims the entitled millennial, immediately drawing criticism from older readers who fire off short, snarky messages from their Galaxy Tabs. (Shout-out to Jim, an angry man with a Galaxy Tab who told me I’m a “woman who overcomplicates everything” and “a young person who has no common sense.” […]