{"podcast":{"title":"Becoming Financially Confident","slug":"financially-confident-christian-773313","podcast_index_feed_id":773313,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/ask-ralph-podcast/","website_url":"http://www.becomingfinanciallyconfident.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/c17cbaaa-ac0e-40c1-abbe-52b5e2557b3f/BFC-Podcast-Cover-Final-v2.jpg","author":"Ralph V. Estep, Jr.","episode_count":1257,"summary":"Breaking Free from Financial Shame, one conversation at a time. Most money advice assumes you already know what you're doing. This show doesn't. Becoming Financially Confident is a live weekday show for people who want to get their financial life in order without being lectured, judged, or sold something. Host Ralph Estep Jr. is a Licensed Public Accountant with more than 30 years of experience sitting across the desk from real people and real businesses — the shoebox of receipts, the tax notice nobody wants to open, the budget that never quite balances. He has made his own expensive mistakes, and he talks about them openly. This is not a new voice. Ralph has published more than 1,200 episodes across eight seasons, earned national recognition for his work, and written nearly a thousand articles on money, taxes, technology, and small business. Becoming Financially Confident is the next chapter of that same show, in the same feed — sharper, live, and built around one idea: you are capable of figuring this out. Every show opens with Headlines: what happened in the money world, and why it matters to your money and not just somebody's portfolio. From there, the recurring segments inclu…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T10:17:43.701925+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/financially-confident-christian-773313"},"episode":{"title":"What Do You Do When Medicaid Stops Covering Care?","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-medicaid-stops-covering-care","published_at":"2026-05-07T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/financially-confident-christian-773313/what-do-you-do-when-medicaid-stops-covering-care","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/financially-confident-christian-773313","url":"https://www.financiallyconfidentchristian.com/medicaid-stops-covering-care","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fdac583b-5d3d-4752-a844-a7a87513c3ad.mp3","summary":"Navigating the loss of Medicaid coverage requires moving from panic to proactive asset management and professional consultation. 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