Episodes

  • Brain biases, tiaras and talking money
    Nov 17 2025

    For the final episode of Minted Kids for Season 1, Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon takes the hot seat herself and submits to a grilling by her daughter, Darcy, and her friend, Evie, about how a money educator teaches her OWN children about money… and some secret (questionable) spending!

    Guess what? Nicole owns a Tiara – that she’s never even worn!

    But there were some brain biases at play in that joint purchase with her daughter, of which kids – and adults! - need to be aware.

    And her “Future You” approach is working wonders with her kids’ savings habits.
    “I loved recording this episode with my wonderful girl,” Nicole says. <3

    Enjoy Brain Biases, Tiaras and Money Talk!

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    23 mins
  • Ep 7: Pocket money and little Aussie savers
    Nov 10 2025

    How much pocket money do Aussie parents pay? Do you pay more or less than average?

    And how are families making their kids work for it??

    Yish Koh has special insight, being both a behavioural finance expert and the founder of pocketmoney app Kit… and we asked her to mine the usage data for this episode of Minted Kids.

    It reveals how Australian families apply this most vital of money lessons – kids’ first ‘salary’… AND how they spend it.

    Yish believes it’s never too early to start teaching kids the finance fundamentals and we also go behind the scenes with her – AND her 5-year-old son, Tristan – to hear the clever money conversations that happen in THEIR household.

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    17 mins
  • Ep 6: Board, chores and vital life skills
    Nov 3 2025

    Dr Justin Coulson is parenting expert extraordinaire… but did you know that he’s kind of bred his own parenting experiment??

    He has no less than SIX DAUGHTERS and we kick off the conversation on Minted Kids by talking nature versus nurture… he’s very well qualified to comment!

    Most importantly, Justin divulges fantastic, practical tips and tricks - personally tested six times! - for how to ‘nurture’ fabulous money habits in your kids.

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    25 mins
  • Ep 5: Taking pressure off "growing up"
    Oct 27 2025

    Sean Szeps has built an enormous online audience impersonating his children and making us laugh about the messy realities of modern parenting.

    But that ‘job’ didn’t even exist when he was growing up. And naturally, one of his eight-year-old twins now wants to be a KPop demon hunter… who doesn’t?
    In this episode of MINTED KIDS, we talk about prepping your kids for the future… with FUN at the fore.

    Sean – who is originally from the United States – also shares his insights about how Aussie parents can temper the very different money attitudes that can (maybe worryingly) seep through to our kids from exposure to American TV and culture.

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    29 mins
  • Ep 3: From laptops to small businesses
    Oct 13 2025

    Apparently money experts are pretty strict on their kids!

    The household we go behind-the-scenes with in this episode – where national finance commentator Sarah Megginson is the Mama – pays pocket money in 10cent units. Yep, 10cents!

    AND the kids have to make installments to cover the cost of their own school laptops!

    But the three Megginson children also know – already – how they could turn $1000 into $35,000 by working the superannuation system.

    Now, THAT’s an early money education!

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    22 mins
  • Ep 2: The first property... properly young
    Oct 7 2025

    At 24 years of age, Effie Zahos’s daughter has just bought her first home, a small city apartment.
    The money guru clearly imparted some incredibly effective money lessons to Nicky throughout her childhood!
    In this episode, we hear EXACTLY what those were… so YOU can do the same.
    And we hear that not just from Effie but from the very impressive Nicky herself…

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    25 mins
  • Ep 1: 'Influencing', shopping and investing
    Sep 29 2025

    How a 13-year-old influencer is learning - thanks to her parents - to grow her earnings. (Guess what: she’s hoping Tesla shares will help her buy a Jeep as her first car in three years.) Come behind-the-money-scenes with one of the Gold Coast’s most famous families and hosts of the fabulous teen podcast, Move Over Mama.

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    21 mins
  • Introducing... Minted Kids.
    Aug 22 2025

    Ever wondered how people in-the-know teach their kids about money?

    How do high-finance experts – and prominent and higher-paid Aussies – make their kids money smart?

    Well, Minted Kids goes behind the scenes – WITH their kids – to reveal what works (and sometimes doesn’t work!) for them.

    So you can see how to set up your own kids for success.

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    1 min