
'Manage Your Money Like a #$%^&ng Grown Up' with Sam Beckbessinger
About this episode
Sam Beckbessinger is the author of the bestselling Manage Your Money Like a Fucking Grownup and the novel Girls of Little Hope (co-authored with Dale Halvorsen). Her interactive story about climate change, Survive the Century, was featured in New Scientist and Gizmodo. She teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University, writes kids' TV and picture books, once wrote for Marvel, and is weirdly obsessed with spreadsheets. Her perimenopausal werewolf novel Femme Feral is coming in summer 2026. She grew up on a farm near Durban with a pet donkey named Mr Magoo, but now lives in London.
She joins us a guest on this episode of The Podcast to chat about her book, Manage Your Money Like a Fucking Grownup .
''In this clear and engaging basic guide to managing your finances, Sam Beckbessinger covers topics from compound interest and inflation to "Your brain on money", negotiating a raise, and particularly local South African phenomena like "black tax". The book includes exercises and "how-to's", doesn't shy away from the psychology of money, and is empowering, humorous and helpful. The book you wish you'd had at 25, but is never too late to read. '' SOURCE: Google Books
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Sound: Sibusiso 'Dust' Nkosi
Editing: Mluleki Dlamini
Co-ordinator: Phumelele Khambule
Host: Nongcebo Vukile McKenzie
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