Summary
Welcome to The Penny and the Pint, a weekly financial podcast hosted by John Shea and Brendan O’Brien, two Baltimore financial professionals with over 60 years of combined experience in financial services.
Each 10-minute episode breaks down real-world financial topics, offers practical money management tips, and shares actionable strategies to help listeners build wealth, improve financial literacy, and make confident financial decisions.
Blending financial wisdom, Baltimore neighborhood stories, and a little Irish humor, John and Brendan aim to make personal finance simple, relatable, and accessible to everyone.
Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker 5: Welcome everybody to the Penny and the Pint, the podcast that helps you to stop guessing about your finances and to start to stack the building blocks. Of real wealth. I’m John Shea, and across the table from you is Brendan O’Brien. We’re a couple of old Irish guys from the neighborhood here to let you know that you’re not alone when it comes to questions about your financial future.
[00:00:21] We will tackle real life financial scenarios head on, and give you some easy to follow points about how to add some clarity in some direction. To your financial situation?
[00:00:31] Speaker 6: Yeah, John. And, uh, you know, since the market’s closed, I think it’s time to lock up and go out and head out for one of those pints.
[00:00:37] You know, in my travels I’ve asked a lot of people about the busy space of podcasting and you know, what I’ve found out is missing what our voice literally, there’s uh, you know, a big hole in the world of podcasting and, uh, that’s what it was missing. I’ve determined. Here we come, the O’Brien, Shea take on everything under the sun.
[00:00:57] That’s it. So that’s what we’re gonna do. Why should we [00:01:00] do
[00:01:00] Speaker 5: this, Johnny? Oh, we should do this because we’re well versed in this. We’ve got 60 plus years of financial services experience between the two of us, and experience equals wisdom. So here we are. That’s
[00:01:11] Speaker 6: right. We’ve lived and experience. Just about everything that we’re going to recommend to our clients and to our podcast listeners.
[00:01:20] So we look forward to seeing you once a week. We’re gonna do a 10 minute podcast. We’ll probably talk a little bit about what’s going on in the neighborhood and what’s happening in the news and in Baltimore, but the second half of our show. But we’re gonna take a deep dive really quick on a. Financial topic of some sort.
[00:01:37] We’ll give you two or three actionable items, something that you can take home and apply to your life and your financial situation. And then we’ll get outta your life. We’ll get outta your life. Yeah. Yep. We’ll do all that with a wink and a smile, and maybe even
[00:01:49] Speaker 5: a sip, maybe even a sip. Yeah, the ultimate goal here is just to help to create a more financially savvy community here in Baltimore.
[00:01:56] So we’re here to help you. So use us as a resource when you have the
[00:01:59] Speaker 6: [00:02:00] need. So wherever you get your podcasts, look for the penny in the pint. A new 10 minute episode drops every week. If you have a question for us, email us at info at Old Irish guys financial. We’ll see you at the pub. See you there.