All Episodes

#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)

#79 Is it true that you will never become rich as an employee?

#78 What is the Cost of YOLO-ing?

#77 Lessons from the Happiest Countries in the World

#76 It's OK to UKAY-IKAY

#75 Why should we buy from thrift shops? (OK ba mag-UKAY-UKAY?)

#74 Money Story of Pia Wurtzbach

#73 Being Organized Saves You Money (and so much more)

#72 Should you leave inheritance to your children?

#71 When Wife Earns More Than Her Husband

#70 Unpaid Work of Women: A Silent Drain on Women’s Finances

#69 Gender Pay Gap

#68 8 Money Challenges for Women (Attention: Men/Women/Family/Employers/Society)

#67 Beware of your “Filtered Self!” Dangerous To Your Retirement

#66 How to avoid scams

#65 10 + 1 Similarities of a Good Valentine and a Good Investment

#64 2023 Investment Briefing by IFE Management Advisers, Inc.

#63 The Joy of Hosting

#62 Please bring back GMRC! (Good Manners & Right Conduct)

#61 Understanding Debt

#60 To win this year, design your environment!

#59 Family Week and Family Meals

#58 Loss Aversion explained with the help of Mak and Emong

#57 Mahilig ka ba sa libre? (Beware of the Price of Free)

#56 Common Cause of Midlife Crisis (Hint: It’s very FQ in nature)

#55 Risk Appetite, Risk Tolerance, Risk Capacity, and Anton’s Story

#54 Why do we need to dig deep into our childhood money memory (Kailangan pa bang ungkatin ‘yan?)

#53 Are you saving aggressively or “petiks lang?”

#52 10 Years!

#51 The Language You Use Affects Your Saving Behavior

#50 7 Signs That You’re Treated Like a Financial Instrument by Family and Friends

#49 Signs That You Need A Coach

#48 10 Signs that one is guilty of FINANCIAL INFIDELITY

#47 MONEY BIASES “Sinong bias mo?” How your hidden biases affect your actual money behavior

#46 Should you invest in art?

#45 “Help! I am about to lose my job because I’m not vaccinated!”

#44 Life Lessons From Top Gun Maverick

#43 Millennial OFW asks, “Is it still worth going back to the Philippines?”

#42 Pinoy Servility and Perpetual Poverty

#41 Never forget the lessons from “The Scorpion and the Frog” Huwag kalimutan ang aral ng “Ang Alakdan at Ang Palaka”

#40 We are suffering from DEMOCRACY DEFICIT

#39 Simple is not always easy! Guidelines in Choosing our Next President

#39 May Plan B ka na ba? Usapang Life Insurance with Malou Samson of BDO Life

#38 Pumili Ka!

#37 My Harvard Professor’s Top Nudges on Saving & Investing

#36 Financial Checklist Before You Say “I do” (applicable also to those who already said the magic words)

#35 Fika (Your Contra-Ego Depletion and Relationship Tool)

#34 Believability

#33 Money & Life Lessons from Anna Sorokin and Tinder Swindler

#32 Teaching about MONEY by being FUNNY

#31 Bangkarote! (Saved by the Yellow Bell)

#30 “It’s the economy, stupid!” (Pinoy Style) Why Pinoy Economists Support VP Leni

#29 7 Signs That You Are Budol-Prone!

#28 Ready, Set… Goals: 2022 Investment Outlook and Goal Setting

#26 Let’s Pause for Gratitude

#25 Quarterlife Marking For A High FQ

#24 What Drives Your Behavior?

#23 Here we go again, let’s examine the elements of a scam!

#22 How Do You Make Your Financial Decisions? (Meet Makatwirang Mak and Emotional Emong)

#21 What is something really expensive you spent on that made you feel on top of the world?

#20 Transition from Kuripot to FQripot

#19 Teaching Kids How Money Works

#18 Can we make money by being funny?

#17 Social Entrepreneurship in the Philippines

#16 The Dilemma of a Wife & Mom Working Abroad

#15 Of Giving Up Half of Family Income

#14 FQ Lessons in Action

#13 What FQ is not

#12 The Power of Habit in our Financial Life

#11 REITs: Your way to earn from prime real estate investments for just a few thousand pesos!

#10 Tunog yayamanin ba ang baluktot na Tagalog?

#9 One Heart, One Soul, One Balance Sheet

#8 Financial Regrets of Senior Citizens

#7 How To Earn From Content Creation

#6 Mahal Kong Anak (The High Cost of Having a Baby)

#5 How To Earn From Side Hustle

#4 What do you own and why?

#3 Financial Stress and Productivity

#2: What is the Snowball Effect?

#1: Money Lessons From My Father