All Episodes

#178 The Four Elements of Situational Agency Shaping Your Financial Destiny

#177 Grit Is Not Enough: Lessons From Angela Duckworth’s Situated

#176 The Well-being Wheel of Life

#176 A Mom Asks About Gifting Her Teenager A Gift That Keeps on Giving

#175 The Privilege of “I Don’t Need To”

#174 How to avoid Isang Kahig Isang Tuka

#173 Are You Guilty of Phubbing? (A Podcast Episode on Cellphone Addiction and Digital Sobriety)

#173 Are You Guilty of Phubbing? (An Article on Cellphone Addiction and Digital Sobriety)

#172 The ROI of Celebrating Milestones (6.5 Events to Mark 6.5 Decades)

#171 Is Your Tithing an Act of Faith or a Lotto Ticket?

#170 What The Odyssey Teaches Us About Human Nature and FQ

#169 Redesigning the Machine: Why Integrity Needs a System

#168 Is Corruption Really the Cause of Our Economic Anemia?

#167 Are Wedding Costs Delaying Your Marriage

#166 Design! Design! Design! (Why Traditional Financial Tips Fail)

#165 Financial Feng Shui: The Art of Keeping Your Wealth in Motion

#164 Investing in the Ultimate Guidebook: My Third Act Bible Journey

#163 Episode 3/3 How to Avoid Financial Infidelity

#162 Episode 2/3: Signs To Look For

#161 Episode 1/3: What is Financial Infidelity?

#160 The Invisible Tax on Trust: Why Financial Infidelity Costs More Than Just Money

#159 The "Someday" Trap

#158 Rethinking Employee Loans: From Relief to Resilience

#157 Beyond the Biopic: FQ Lessons from Michael Jackson’s Estate

#156 Discipline is Overrated: Blue Zone Choice Architecture for a High FQ

#155 The Secrets of the Blue Zones

#154 Before They Enter College: Equip Them With High FQ

#153 300 Billion Clicks: The High Price of Female Shame (Women’s Month Reflection on the Architecture of Power)

#152 Why you’re always TIRED and UNMOTIVATED with Burnout & Sleep Specialist Dinah Salonga

#151 Are you Pagod to the Bones and Puyat to the Max? (When the pursuit of success starts to cost us our health)

#150 The Next Chapter: Why Your Investment Benchmarks Must Go Global

#149 EDSA at 40: The Pyramid We Never Dismantled

#148 Forty Years After People Power: Why is Prosperity Still Elusive?

#147 How Poetry Heals: A Conversation with Bestselling Author Michelle Ayon Navajas

#146 What Poetry Can Teach Us About Love, Money, and the Things That Last

#145 Let’s Talk About the Demographic Sweet Spot (again?) Will our country “get old before it gets rich?”

#144 One Money Habit That Beats A Dozen New Year’s Financial Resolutions

#143 The Opportunity Cost of Skipping Christmas Parties and Reunions Because of Traffic

#142 Rekindling What Matters: Reflections on the 2025 SAGE Homecoming

#141 December Triggers (Why We Overspend, Overeat, Overcommit, Get Emo, and How to Re-center)

#140 The Invisible Currency: Trust

#139 When Everything Feels Down — Market, News, Energy

#138 Tony Talks Cancer Courage Country

#137 How to Avoid Being Sucked Into the Confusing KurakotSerye

#136 Nepo Babies, Philippine Culture, and Money Values

#135 Sweet Sixty the Life story of Joanne Zapanta-Andrada

#134 Still the Sick Man of Asia? A Probe into the Philippine Economic Puzzle

#133 (Video) The Story of Eugene Dela Cruz (From street beggar to Ateneo honor graduate)

#132 (Video) Lessons from Meir Statman (one of the Founding Fathers of Behavioral Finance)

#131 The Disposition Effect: Why we sell our winners and keep our losers

#130 When Paychecks Aren’t Enough: How low FQ fuels work demotivation

#129 “Always Invert” “Baliktarin Mo Baby!” (Applying this mental model for a high FQ)

#128 The Way You Vote Reflects Your Money and Other Beliefs

#127 Your Network is Your Net Worth

#126 A Practical Guide to Reflecting on Your Financial Life This Holy Week

#125 Financial Valor: Lessons from the heroes of Bataan applied on money

#124 The Financial Superpowers Women Have That Make Them Great Wealth Builders

#123 How Can Women Build a Strong Retirement Fund Despite Gender Pay Gap, Career Interruptions, and other Challenges?

#122 How much is enough?

#121 What are Heuristics?

#120 Why Is My Forever Taking Forever

#119 The Three Human Limitations That Get in The Way of our Rational Decision-Making

#118 Let's Talk About D.I.N.K.s and S.I.N.K.s

#117 A Fireside Chat with My Sons on the Power of Design

#116 Do you treat your bonus as “house money?”

#115 FQ Trilogy (Book Trailers)

#114 Do you want to design your financial life for the better? (FQ Book 3 Is Here!)

#113 An Intimate Dinner with Former VP Leni Robredo

#112 Marriage is a HUGE Commitment Device

#111 Of Pre-nups and Balance Sheets

#110 FQwentuhan with Rhoda Castro-Caliwara

#109 It’s time to place our bets on women entrepreneurs!

#108 Make Everyday Things as Teachable FQ Moments

#107 The Knowledge-Behavior Gap

#106 How To Avoid Giving Up On Your Resolutions So Easily

#105 Ninang Advice For Robi and Maiqui Domingo and Other Young Couples

#104 Christmas Cramming and Deadlines

#103 SAGE and the importance of understanding Economics

#102 That Elusive Progress

#101 Are You Fund of Funds?

#100 The Way Out Is In (Solving Your Money And Other Problems By Being Mindful)

#99 What is the Ostrich Effect?

#98 Are you ready for an All-Weather Fund?

#97 Are you caught in the Sandwich Generation? (or are you among the lucky ones?)

#96 What “Money Scripts” do you consciously or unconsciously subscribe to?

# 95 Let's talk about INVESTMENT with Mike Raz of BDO Securities

#94 Insights from the Curriculum Review of Cha-ching

#93 Money and Happiness (Lessons from Build the Life You Want by Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey)

#92 Health is indeed Wealth! (Lessons from my recent hospital confinement)

#91 A Millennial Asks How to Avoid Being Envious

#90 Ego Depletion and Your Life Choices

#88 Romance and Finance

#87 Availability Heuristic, Closet, and Retirement

#86 Is home ownership overrated?

#85 Understanding Evolution for a Physically and Financially Healthy You

#84 Beware of the Diderot Effect (Note: We have all been afflicted with this.)

#83 Your Future Self with Hal Hershfield

#82 Understanding Our Three Selves for Better Saving and Investing

#81 Help I want my husband to earn more!

#80 Are you ready for an empty nest? (Steps to prepare for it)