71: Fit Finances-How to Get Financially Healthy on Any Budget
Dr. Jayne Greenberg has spent a career building healthier futures for young people — as a health and physical education executive, curriculum developer, author, and organizational leader. Her résumé includes developing Sports Science curriculums, moderating a Congressional briefing, coordinating Olympic Committee education programs, and serving as an advisor to President Obama's Council for Fitness, Sport and Nutrition. But long before any of that, Jayne was a young teacher figuring out how to make her first paycheck work for her future. In this episode, she trades the whistle for a wallet and joins me to talk about the habits, mistakes, and mindsets that shaped her financial life — and what she believes it takes to raise girls who are truly self-sufficient. In this episode, we cover: How Jayne's path into physical education began, and the career highlights that followed The money lessons (and money silence) she grew up with The people who most shaped how she thinks about money A $50-a-paycheck decision, made at the very start of her teaching career, that changed everything A costly early investing mistake — and the homework she wishes she'd done first Practical advice for anyone starting out or managing on a modest budget The real link between financial well-being and overall well-being What Jayne sees as the biggest threat to youth health today, in the U.S. and globally Her advice for anyone raising kids in today's world
