Episode 49: Nick Wolny - Content Creator and Author of Money Proud: The Queer Guide to Generate Wealth, Slay Debt, and Build Good Habits to Secure Your Future,

We continue our 2026 Pride Series with this discussion with Nick Wolny who is a managing editor of branded content at Ziff Davis, where he oversees partner content for CNET, PCMag, Mashable, ZDNET, Lifehacker, and ExtremeTech. He is the finance columnist for Out magazine and the author of Money Proud: The Queer Guide to Generate Wealth, Slay Debt, and Build Good Habits to Secure Your Future, which published with HarperCollins in December 2025 and was recommended by The New York Times.Our conversation starts with Nick’s upbringing in rural Illinois and his mastery of the French Horn, which didn’t ultimately present a viable career path. His rural roots also drove him to seek excitement in a larger city and he found himself drawn to journalism, and eventually writing on financial topics. We discuss how his finance column turned into an idea for a book and how his “voice” evolved in the book Money Proud to combine some playfulness with what is ultimately a serious topic – financial literacy, managing debt sensibly and thriving through saving and savvy planning.