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Money Gives You Options: Emily Roberts on Finances in Grad School
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In this episode of Academics and Their Money, Neeka Miremadi and Inga Timmerman sit down with Emily Roberts, founder of Personal Finance for PhDs. Emily shares her journey from pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Duke to building a career as a financial educator for graduate students and postdocs.
She opens up about how saving during grad school gave her the freedom to take career risks, why adopting an “emerging professional” mindset (instead of a perpetual student identity) is crucial for both finances and wellbeing, and how academics can avoid under-earning by…
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