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Fagan: Heterosexual women still rarely handle long-term household financial planning
“On average, women are still not the financial decision makers. They make day-to-day decisions in the household generally, but they're not the long-term financial planners of heterosexual couplings.”
Fagan: Outside investment would nuke The Financial Diet's editorial and labor practices
“And I think what I learned from all of those experiences is that there's no iteration of TFD that takes on investor money that doesn't kind of nuke the editorial and labor practices to some extent.”
Fagan: Complex personal finance advice is usually an attempt to extract money
“Anyone who's trying to make finance, personal finance, sound complicated, or like if there's a lot of math in it or things like that, they're probably just trying to get money out of you. Because there's really not that much to know, honestly. Spend less than …”
Fagan's CEO salary sits in the middle of the company pay range
“The range of compensation in the company is pretty narrow. I'm smack in the middle of it, so I'm not even, like, paid more than everyone else. Not by far.”
Fagan: The Financial Diet has never had a layoff or unpaid intern
“We've never laid off a
A single employee.
And we've never had an unpaid intern.”
Fagan: The Financial Diet has never taken outside investment
“We've never taken on any investments you know, outside investors because what they want is growth.”
Fagan: The Financial Diet refuses weight loss and cryptocurrency sponsorships
“There are hard lines for us. We don't do weight loss stuff. We certainly don't do crypto even though they flooded our industry over the past year with crazy ad dollars.”
Fagan: The Financial Diet implemented a four-day workweek without reducing pay
“We also recently implemented a four-day workweek without a pay cut, so that's effectively a 20% bump for everyone.”
Fagan: The Financial Diet projected $1.5M to $2M in 2022 revenue
“Well, we took a big ol' hit during COVID, but this year we're probably gonna end up somewhere between 1.5 and two million dollars in revenue.”
John and Hank Green gave The Financial Diet a $5,000 grant
“A few months later, John and Hank Green, who are authors, YouTubers, they have a very, very large YouTube video production company mostly in the educational space. They reached out to us because they have a kind of like a, it's like a foundation essentially th…”
Fagan: Live events are The Financial Diet's largest product revenue stream
“The largest segment of our business by sort of product or platform are our events. So that's classes, workshops, conferences, things like that. It used to be all in person. We did all digital for the pandemic. Now we're doing kind of a mix. And within that, th…”