Paula Pant is an award-winning journalist who has been featured in the New York Times and Netflix.

She's best-known as the host of the Afford Anything podcast, which has more than 25 million downloads (500,000 downloads per month), holds 3,000 ratings on Apple Podcasts, and is regularly ranked as one of the Top 50 Business podcasts by Apple Podcasts. The New York Times described the Afford Anything podcast as one of "seven podcasts your wallet will love."

She's the Editor-in-Chief of Afford Anything, a financial media platform with 75,000 newsletter subscribers.

She stars in the 2022 documentary Get Smart with Money, streaming on Netflix.

She is a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University.

She is frequently quoted in financial media including The New York Times, PBS, Marketplace Money, Oprah.com, The Washington Post, Forbes, Kiplinger, Lifehacker, The Globe and Mail, Inc Magazine, Yahoo! Finance, Business Insider, The Simple Dollar, Get Rich Slowly, AssetBuilder, Wisebread, the Huffington Post and many more.

Her articles appear on dozens of major websites, including MSN Money, AOL DailyFinance, AARP Bulletin, Franklin Templeton, Bankrate, Hotpads, Trulia, Huffington Post, AOL Real Estate, H&R Block, The Balance and the Motley Fool.

She speaks frequently at events, including Talks at Google, guest lecturing at Georgetown University, and keynoting the World Domination Summit.

She's featured in several documentaries related to personal finance.

She is the winner of five Plutus Awards, honoring the best in personal finance digital media, including the prestigious Podcast of the Year Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. (She won Lifetime Achievement at age 34.)

She won a Society of Professional Journalists award for online video reporting and was one of six journalists honored as an SPJ Diversity Fellow in 2010.

She has traveled to more than 45 countries. She graduated magna cum laude from the Honors Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She lives in New York City.