What do you do when every financial plan you have ever been handed assumes there are two of you?

Pat Hankin spent her career in financial services and consulting, then found herself inside an online community of nearly half a million single parents, watching the same questions go unanswered over and over. So she wrote the book nobody had written. She is the author of The Field Guide for Single Parents, and about a quarter of it is money.

In this episode, Pat explains why the standard financial independence playbook breaks down in a one-adult household, why head of household is a better bracket than most single parents realize, which three expenses actually move the needle, and the housing decision that has to happen before the dissolution papers are signed. We also get into how to calculate what an hour of your life is genuin ...