Child Influencer Scandals with Fortesa Latifi

Child Influencer Scandals with Fortesa Latifi

Author: Gabe Dunn | A Bad With Money Podcast April 7, 2026 Duration: 46:13

In honor of her new book Like, Follow, Subscribe, Fortesa Latifi joins Gabe to talk about something Gabe hates: child influencers and family vlogging.

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Reporter Fortesa Latifi joins Gabe to discuss the origins of mommy blogging and child influencers, what has come out since these children have grown up, and what these families are actually selling. Plus, the dangers and problems of selling exclusive content of your children, turning your home and their safe space into a "set," and strangers being a fan of your child. What laws can be put into place to protect the children in these online famous families?


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Gabe S. Dunn has been through a few evolutions, both personally and professionally. You might know him from his earlier work, but A Thousand Natural Shocks finds him in a different, more grounded place. This isn't a reboot of his past projects so much as a hard-won new perspective. After years of trying to hustle through a broken system, he's ditched the empty "girlboss" ethos for something far more raw and real. The result is a furious, funny, and deeply personal podcast that acts as a companion to his popular newsletter. While it grew from a finance-focused show, the scope has widened considerably. You won't find standard budgeting tips or stock market advice here. Instead, each episode feels like a necessary conversation about surviving-and sometimes even finding joy within-our modern capitalist landscape. Gabe pulls from history, culture, and his own journal to examine how systemic forces shape our daily lives, our identities, and our sense of possibility. It's about the stress of rent, the politics of existing, and the small acts of resistance that keep you going. Listening feels like getting a candid, often darkly humorous analysis from a friend who's done the homework and lived the material. This is a show for anyone who's ever felt the weight of the economic divide and wanted to hear it discussed with honesty, not jargon. Tune in for a podcast that connects personal struggle to broader social forces, making the daunting feel a bit more navigable, one story at a time.
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