Episode
Solving the Financial Misalignment in Your Marriage featuring Doug Boneparth
- Podcast
- The Dad Edge Podcast
- Published
- Apr 27, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3381
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://thedadedge.com/1470
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/episodes/solving-the-financial-misalignment-in-your-marriage-featuring-doug-boneparth/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dad-edge-podcast-522814/solving-the-financial-misalignment-in-your-marriage-featuring-doug-boneparth.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Doug Boneparth — CFP, founder of Bona Fide Wealth, CNBC and Investopedia financial advisory council member, co-author of Money Together with his wife Heather, and one of the most refreshingly honest voices on money, marriage, and family I've ever had on this show. We open with a fact that stops most people cold: billionaires get divorced at the exact same rate as everyone else. More money does not solve the problem. The problem is the practice — or the complete lack of one. Doug breaks down why money fights in marriage are almost never actually about money. They're about the stories, traumas, and scripts we bring into the relationship from our upbringing — the dinner table conversations we absorbed as kids, the financial trauma we never talked about, and the values we've never stopped to examine. He shares his own story of a scarcity mindset rooted in coming home at 16 to find his mom sitting on a bare floor — and how not sharing that story with your spouse quietly poisons your financial partnership. We get into the quarterly money date, the invisible labor problem, why "just tell me what to do" is not helpful, what fairness really means in a marriage, and how to teach your kids about money through curiosity instead of shame. Timeline Summary [0:00] Introduction to the Dad Edge mission and the movement to raise leaders of families and communities [1:02] Billionaires divorce at the same rate as everyone else — and what that tells us about money and marriage [6:28] Why financial literacy in schools is still nowhere near where it needs to be [10:52] "Mom goes on that train every morning so we can have fun on the weekends" — how to explain work to a four-year-old [14:06] The self work that comes before the teamwork — understanding your own…