Financial education isn’t a one-time talk. It’s a lifelong practice shaped by family, values, curiosity, and resilience.
In this episode, Joline Godfrey welcomes Kirby Rosplock, CEO and founder of Tamarind Learning, for a conversation about financial fluency across every age and stage. They explore why families need ongoing learning, how values and money conversations belong together, and why curiosity matters in a fast-changing financial environment.
Kirby also shares how AI can support learning without replacing judgment, effort, and human connection.
Kirby discusses:
Why families need repeated financial learning instead of one-time education events
How curiosity, values, and moral judgment shape better financial conversations at home
Why schools and programs fall short when learning isn’t reinforced over time
How AI can support learning while still requiring human thought, judgment, and privacy care
Why children and adults build resilience when education includes effort and hard things
Kirby Rosplock is the founder of Tamarind Learning, a platform focused on financial fluency, wealth education, and lifelong learning for families and advisors. She works closely with families to help them build stronger conversations around money, values, responsibility, and decision-making across generations. In her conversation with Joline Godfrey, Kirby shares insights on adult learning, resilience, family systems, and the role curiosity plays in helping individuals grow into thoughtful financial stewards.
Financial stress affects everyone, regardless of their economic standing.
How can families address stressors from a young age? What is the role of communication and love within a family when facing financial challenges?
In this episode, Joline Godfrey sits down with Jeff Savlov, Founder of Blum & Savlov LLP, to explore the different categories of stressors that families face. They discuss how these stressors may affect family members, from young children to adults, and offer strategies for dealing with them. The conversation emphasizes the importance of open communication, understanding, and utilizing stress as a catalyst for growth.
Key discussions include:
Jeff’s family background and his journey from family business to being a family dynamics expert
Understanding existential stress and its impact on family systems
Strategies for discussing financial decisions with young children and involving them in family financial planning
Tackling self-inflicted financial stress and the importance of open communication in families
The role of parents in reducing adolescent stress and encouraging honest dialogue
Jeff is the Founder of Blum & Savlov, LLP, and consults to business families, legacy wealth families and the advisors who serve them. He brings more than 30 years of unique experience in sales and marketing, business ownership, entrepreneurial endeavors and family dynamics/psychological training, along with a common-sense style, to his consulting work with families. By integrating his diverse business background, extensive academic work and family dynamics/psychological training with his experience working in his family’s commercial printing business, Jeff helps enterprising families to balance family and business/wealth so both will thrive for many generations.
Having participated in his family’s commercial printing business in New York City, Jeff understands firsthand the challenges of balancing the interplay between family and business and the devastation that can befall an otherwise healthy business when this balance is not proactively managed. In the business Jeff’s family owned, a consultant was brought in to work with the family, facilitated a successful reorganization of the business and helped rebuild family relationships. This is one of the primary experiences which motivated Jeff’s career in family business and family wealth consulting.
Jeff holds a Master of Social Work degree from Rutgers University with specializations in group dynamics and family systems theory. He has a post-graduate certification from the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey (now the Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of NJ) where he is a member of the faculty.
Jeff received an Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute (FFI), Boston, MA where he is recognized with Fellow status. Through membership in FFI, an international organization comprised of family business and family wealth advisors, consultants, educators and researchers, Jeff has access to the latest trends, developments, best practices and research in family business and family wealth consulting. Jeff is the founder of the Princeton Family Business Consultants Group – an interdisciplinary group of professionals serving enterprising families across the U.S. and convening to develop best practices.
In addition, Jeff has consulted on relationship and team dynamics with Fortune 500 companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Schering Plough. He also devotes a portion of his time to performance enhancement with corporate executives and elite high school athletes.
