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The Financial Diet

YouTube show · in 8 videos (2015–2023)

The Financial Diet is a website and YouTube channel about personal finance and living well young without ruining your future. Hank announced it in 2015 as one of his team's new video projects, backed by Vlogbrothers ad revenue, and later listed it among past grant recipients.

Videos by year: 2015: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2023: 1

Threads

Also named in the threads: Vlogbrothers pre-roll ads and the Vlogbrothers Creator Grants (2014) · John: keep Nerdfighters up to date on how the vlogbrothers pre-roll money is spent (2014)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

YouTube (4) · Crash Course (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2015

  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — John: Bank of Nerdfighteria update: Vlogbrothers ad revenue is split in half between the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and a fund sponsoring online educational content such as Physics Girl and The Financial Diet. — 00:02:05
  • 2015-10-02 · Awkward Stranger Conversations — announcement: Hank announces two of 'our newest video project things': Engage by Uplift, on abuse and sex in virtual spaces, and The Financial Diet, on living well young without ruining your future. — 00:03:18
    • Hank asks interested viewers to click on the two new shows around him and check them out. — 00:03:45
  • …and 1 statement more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

2016

  • 2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank says his team helps some creators get a leg up through shows like The Financial Diet, Healthcare Triage, Sexplanations and Animal Wonders. — 00:01:34

2017

2019

  • 2019-05-14 · An Open Letter to Professional YouTubers — recommendation: John: Though aggressively bad at math, John recommends learning personal finance from Gaby Dunn's book Bad with Money, the Planet Money podcast, and the YouTube shows Two Cents and The Financial Diet. — 00:00:58

2023

  • 2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank names past grant recipients: Alexis Nikole, Answer in Progress, The Financial Diet, Wendover Productions, Real Engineering, and Kurzgesagt in the first year. — 00:07:20