Parenting in the Age of the Cashless Kid: Reza Aslan & Jessica Jackley

Money, parenting, religion … oh my! Any one of these is tricky to navigate on its own. But how do we weave them all together?



How can we leverage our faith traditions to teach kids about money?

Money, parenting, religion … oh my! Any one of these is tricky to navigate on its own. But weaving them all together? Leveraging faith traditions to inform how to teach kids how to think, talk and act with money?


Amber and Tom chat with interfaith couple Reza Aslan, a bestselling author and renowned scholar of world religions, and Jessica Jackley, an entrepreneur and investor, about what they most want to teach their kids about money — and how their respective faiths shape the values they hope to instill.

GUESTS:

  • Reza Aslan is a recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award and the author of three internationally bestselling books, including the No. 1 New York Times Bestseller “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.” He’s also co-host of “Metaphysical Milkshake,” a podcast with Rainn Wilson.
  • Jessica Jackley is best known as a co-founder of Kiva, the world’s first crowdfunding site for microenterprises, and is the author of “Clay Water Brick.”

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