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  • Tess Vigeland offers some closing advice to parents about helping their kids understand personal finances.

  • Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla tells Tess Vigeland about the challenges he faced with debt earlier in his music career.

  • Personal finance expert Beth Kobliner and her teenage daughter, Rebecca, join Tess Vigeland to discuss "The Talk" — about money and, well, that other thing.

  • Eighth-graders Gracie Hackenberg and Avery Butler read their winning essays during the taping of the "Financial Futures" show in Portland, Ore.

  • Mike Richardson, founder of Dark Horse Comics, talks to Tess Vigeland about comics, money and his own childhood.

  • Two Portland families join Tess Vigeland on stage to share their philosophies on kids and money. And from the Oregon Children's Theater production of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the Oompa Loompas pay a visit.

  • Tess Vigeland welcomes former professional basketball player Chris Dudley of the Portland Trailblazers, who is now a certified financial planner — and a parent of three.

  • Beth Kobliner, author of "Get a Financial Life," joins Tess Vigeland on stage to discuss how parents can talk about money with their kids.

  • Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland opens the special live "Financial Futures" show in Portland, Ore., with the Live Wire comedy troupe.

  • David Dominguez, a high school senior, says that while kids shouldn't skip out on the "Life Skills" courses at school, learning about money really should start at home.

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