IRS problems, small-business tax tips, scams and the money side of life, from a tax resolution specialist.
Back from a month-long break, Agnes and Ryan react to widely shared photos of a public figure’s extreme weight loss and talk about the health risks of losing too much body fat, GLP-1 drugs, and the pressure on women to look younger and thinner. They then turn to the new Trump Accounts for children a
Agnes returns from a trip to Poland and Europe, where she and her husband marked All Saints Day and visited family, and Ryan updates her on the news at home, including the hurricane damage in Jamaica. They discuss Agnes’s book Hearts and Chains, which helps readers recognize toxic relationships, and
Agnes and Ryan introduce the book Secrets of a Retired Tax Pro, a collection of Agnes’s tax and money advice built from episodes of the show. They walk through chapters on filing on time, innocent spouse relief, retiring abroad, and why couples may want to file separately when one owns a business, t
In a satirical skit, Ryan pretends to call in from a bleak imagined 2035 and describes an exaggerated future of political upheaval, climate trouble, collapsing public services, AI control and a bribe-driven tax agency, while Agnes plays along. Midway the hosts talk about real delays in the IRS offer
Agnes and Ryan discuss the January 2025 TikTok ban ruling and what data apps can collect, then spend most of the episode on scams: fake IRS calls, celebrity romance scams, phishing emails, marketplace overpayment tricks and spoofed email addresses. They explain how to verify a caller, why the IRS st
Agnes and Ryan go through the news of the week of January 19, 2025 in a quiz format: the inauguration falling on Martin Luther King Day, the TikTok shutdown and sale deadline, record cold in the South, Thailand recognizing same-sex marriage, the border emergency, birthright citizenship and dual pass
Agnes and Ryan react to the Supreme Court upholding the TikTok ban and use it to talk about how much personal data apps and scammers can collect. They cover phone and text scams, fake business-listing calls, social media impersonation, spoofed emails, tax scams that pose as the IRS, data breaches an
Agnes and Ryan open 2025 with reflections on the Los Angeles wildfires and the legacy of former President Jimmy Carter, then talk about leaving a lasting mark, including Agnes’s book project. They spend most of the episode on setting goals by starting with the end in mind, treating failure as part o
On Christmas Eve, Agnes and Ryan compare Jamaican and European Christmas traditions and then run through nine ways to get into trouble over the holidays. The list covers gift mistakes, last-minute plans, family arguments, bottling up grief, burning yourself out over cooking, and overspending on gift
In a multiple-choice edition of Ask Agnes, Ryan reads listener questions with four AI-written answers, some sensible and some silly, and Agnes picks and explains. The questions cover a couple struggling with debt, grieving together after a parent’s death, a partner who spends too much time on social