And it’s just stressful, like a constant stressor. They’re just so overwhelmingly positive because I think money is such an integral part of everyone’s lives and it’s so entrenched in like, emotion and your history and your past and your future. What’s been the most rewarding part of creating Bad With Money ? Well, you told me and I’m going to write about it. I wrote that in the book but my editor took it out because she was like, “You can’t tell people to do that!” Can I look in your lost and found?” And then every hotel has a million umbrellas and phone chargers in their lost and found and you can just take one! You never have to pay for an umbrella or a phone charger. I said that you can go to a hotel, go to the front desk, and say, “Hi! I lost my umbrella in the lobby. I wrote this in the book but it got taken out. In Bad With Money, you share your experience hitting rock bottom in New York City with practically zero dollars to your name. And it’s embarrassing to be like, “Hey, when did we learn this?” and everyone’s like, “Well, we learned it like 100 years ago, ya dummy!” and then you go, “Oh, yeah, no yeah, I was there for that, absolutely, yup, same!” So I think it’s like, no one wants to look stupid.

I feel like there was some class that everyone took and I just wasn’t there that day at school. Why are millennials afraid to ask questions about money?Įveryone wants to feel like, “Yeah, yeah, I already know that.” It’s like this type of thing where everyone wants to seem like they’re in the know. We caught up with the New York Times bestselling author to chat about her new book Bad With Money, what’s inside her nightstand, and her epic bat mitzvah.

“Money and intelligence are too tied up with each other and they shouldn’t be.”įed up with managing her personal finances blindly, Dunn launched a podcast to get her “financial shit together.” After two seasons of bringing her queer, feminist perspective to conversations about money with celebrities, journalists, and “fellow deadbeats” on “Bad With Money,” Dunn wrote her second book (mazel tov!) to compliment the podcast. “No one wants to seem stupid,” the 30-year-old told Alma.

Bad with Money by Gaby Dunn