So Money With Farnoosh Torabi

Today's guest is a financial behaviorist and has quite an interesting story as to how she got there. Jacquette Timmons started college at the Fashion Institute of Technology here in New York City at the young age of 16 years old where she was determined to make her mark as a shoe designer.  The first semester into college she realized that she wasn't so good at drawing so she switched to become a marketing major. Before graduating she met her mentor who encouraged her to head to Wall Street.  At that moment, Jacquette realized that there is a lot in common between the designer mindset and the world of money and personal finance. Fast forward years later and Jacquette is now a financial behaviorist and helps others to identify underlying behaviors and beliefs that help them from reaching their financial goals. She is also a coach, teacher, speaker and writer who talks about everything from common financial problems for the middle class to the 1%.  She is also the founder of Sterling Investment Management, Inc.

In today’s episode of Ask Farnoosh, special guest Alan Moore, co-founder of XY Planning Network, I answer your biggest questions about retirement planning, student loans, interest rates and more.Alan joined me on So Money last month. To catch his interview, click here.  For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

Our guest today is like none other. He straddles the worlds of music and technology, managing artists like multi-platinum rap legend Nas while also investing in tech startups. His name is Anthony Saleh. His background is in mathematics and electrical engineering…and while pursuing those degrees he discovered his true calling in the world of music. A little bit about his illustrious music career (and by the way he’s not even 30): He is the CEO of Emagen Entertainment Group and an artist manager with C3 Management. He executive-produced Nas' 2008 Untitled and 2012 Life is Good albums, both of which were Grammy-nominated and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In 2009, he partnered with Troy Carter to be the Executive Vice President & General Manager of Atom Factory. During his tenure, Atom Factory represented Nicki Minaj, Robin Thicke, Mary J. Blige, Lady Gaga, Toni Braxton, and many other artists. Anthony is also an influential member and part-time resident of Silicon Valley, where he is an avid angel and s

Raise your hand if you’ve ever rented a tux? Or know someone who’s rented a tux? It’s kind of a pain, right? It’s multiple visits…you often need to get the tux tailored. It’s not cheap.The industry is changing…Today’s guest is leading the movement.George Zimmer is the founder, chairman CEO and honorary tailor of his former company Men's Warehouse for over 40 years. In 2013 George left Men’s Warehouse. News reports suggested at the time it was over disagreements with the board.He's now making a comeback with two new business ventures including zTailors where he is once again revolutionizing the apparel industry providing consumers with a remarkable and highly personalized experience to create high-quality, customizable and affordable tailoring through a national network of tailors. His second venture, Generation Tux, is what he's calling a "reinvention of the tuxedo rental experience." Over the years, George has helped tens of millions of young men find a tuxedo rental so he's putting his past experience to go

If you're a female entrepreneur you'll hopefully be as inspired as I am by today's guest. Jenn Scalia is a visibility coach and online business strategist who specializes in helping female entrepreneurs stand out in their industry in order to make an impact in their area of expertise. She's best known for her tough love, no-B.S. style when it comes to managing her clients. She has quite the story of her own having hit rock bottom only to come back stronger than ever.  After losing the love of her life, moving back in with her parents and piling up debt, Jenn was a single mom and realized it was time for a change. Jenn motivated herself to build a 6-figure business to become an online superstar. Today, she helps thousands of entrepreneurs who follow her teachings of how to promote their brands online.  She is also regularly featured on Huffington Post, Elite Daily and MindBodyGreen. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

I’m dedicating this show to all my student loan borrowers out there. I know you listen to this show. I know you’re dedicated to getting ahead financially. I also know that this is an extremely challenging issue. Overcoming student loan debt. In this country …we have more than $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, 40 million borrowers, an average balance of $29,000. To help us out with some solutions…I’ve invited the co-founder and vice president at SoFi. This company is making a big name for itself as the alternative student loan refinancing engine. A second largest marketplace lender with over $3 billion in loans issued across student loan refinancing, mortgages, personal loans and MBA loans.  You may recognize his name because he's also a thought leader whose perspectives on Millennial and Gen X personal finance topics have been featured in a variety of media outlets among them are ABC, FOX, CNBC, Fast Company and event Italian Vogue! Prior to co-founding SoFi, Dan spent twelve years leading Enter

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh, special guest Ethan Dornhelm, principal scientist at FICO, and I answer your biggest questions about credit everything from making minimum payments to what goes into your credit score and more.To learn more about Ethan visit www.fico.com/en/blogs/author/ethan-dornhelm.  For more information about the podcast visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

Today's guest is a business strategist and self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur. Her story began when Erin dreamed of climbing the corporate ladder after reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad (written by Robert Kiyosaki, a former So Money guest!) where she finally learned the meaning of “financial freedom.”  To her, financial freedom had always been about a job and 4% annual raises, but now it was about ownership.  By her late 20’s, Erin got her realtor’s license and was owner of two homes. She then created a part-time pet-sitter company.  Within two years the part-time job became a six-figure income with 12 employees.  Five years later, she sold the pet company and opened a mobile spray tanning business.  Nine months later, she had created another successful business venture.  Since then, she has spent time helping and investing in others and their ventures.  She’s taken products to market, launched online businesses and has taken on massive marketing changes and plans for businesses in a variety of industries.  Since h

Today’s guest is someone for whom I had the privilege of working when I was first in New York City working as a junior reporter at Money Magazine, and there my guest Jon Birger was a senior writer. And so it is with great pleasure that I introduce him today on the show. Jon is the recent author now of the newly published book “DATE-ONOMICS: How Dating Became A Lopsided Numbers Game.” He explains the shortage of college educated men for every heterosexual woman out there, what he calls the “man deficit”, and it’s not that he’s just not into you — well there’s just not enough of him, he explains. And in the book Jon further goes on to talk about why this is the case, examining a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and good old number crunching. And good news, he offers some solutions for his female readers who wish to get married. Like which college to attend, if you’re young enough, where to hang out and where to live in order to meet Mr. Right.In addition to his book, Jon is a contributor to

Today's guest is the very accomplished Tory Johnson. She’s an employee-turned-entrepreneur whose goal is to help “make great things happen for women.”In doing so, she created two multi-million dollar career-focused businesses for women including Women for Hire, a recruitment service offering a variety of career-related information for working women, and Spark & Hustle, a subscription network for entrepreneurs to come together to connect and collaborate on their ideas.Tory is also is a weekly contributor to ABC’s Good Morning America and author of 7 books, including a New York Times best-seller for The Shift: How I Finally Lost Weight and Discovered a Happier Life, where she shares how she shed 62 pounds in a year after her life-long battle with her weight.Earlier this month, Tory’s sequel Shift for Good: Simple Changes for Lasting Joy Inside and Out was released.  She recounts her journey to personal discovery and the effect it has had on both her professional and personal life.  For years, Tory was so focuse

Kicking it off this week with my good friend Michael Schreiber. Michael and I used to work together. Well, actually we went to graduate school together at Columbia, followed by some colleague work atTheStreet.com, and then later we kind of worked together at Credit.com. He is currently the Editor in Chief and Chief Content Officer of Credit.com. It’s a website that serves as your credit advocate. It’s also a resource and guide to make sure that you’re fully armed with all the info and tools you could possibly want/need in order to fully understand your credit. Wanna know how a late payment can affect your score? Need guidance on how to manage your credit? Or maybe you wanna see where you stand with your score? Credit.com has you covered and the content from the website is syndicated everyday across major media portals including Yahoo!, NBC,AOL, MSN, and several others. Michael is responsible for leading the editorial and content team made up of more tan 30 credit experts. He is an Emmy and Dupont award winnin

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh, special guest Sophia Bera of GenY Planning and I answer your biggest questions about retirement planning, how to afford children and more.Sophia Bera joined me earlier in the month on So Money Millennial week and in case you missed our interview you can catch it here.If you would like to learn more about Sophia Bera, visit her website genyplanning.com or follow her on Twitter @sophiabera.

Today’s guest is a veteran journalist and well-known voice to millions of American Radio listeners. She is Tess Vigeland, CEO of Tess Vigeland Productions, an LA-based multi-media media company. For 11 years, she was the anchor for public radio’s Marketplace as well as spent 6 years hosting the personal finance show, Marketplace Money. Tess also wrote the newly published book titled, Leap: Leave A Job With No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want. This book was based off of Tess’s personal experience after she felt that “Marketplace’s Tess Vigeland” was no longer fulfilling and left her dream job to find her next calling. In her book she talks about leaping without a net with humor and honesty and shares the possibilities that are on the otherside for those willing to leap with her.Tess still keeps her radio voice warmed up serving as a backup anchor for NPR’s All Things Considered as well as shows on two local LA stations. In her “spare” time, time she writes for The New York Times, The Guardian

While I was at FinCon 2015, I had the pleasure of interviewing Carl Richards with a live audience. He is a Certified Financial Planner and the director of investor education for BAM Alliance, which is a community of more than 130 independent wealth management firms located across the United States. Carl is the creator of the weekly Sketch Guy column in The New York Times and a columnist for Morningstar Advisor. His sketches are most known for taking complex financial concepts and making them easy to understand. They also served as the foundation for his first book, The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money. Most recently this past March, Carl released the book The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money.Carl’s work has also been featured on Marketplace Money, Oprah.com, Forbes,com among others. He has also become a frequent keynote speaker at financial planning conferences and visual learning events around the globe. Carl’s artwork has appeared in a solo sho

Joining me today is Belinda Rosenblum, a CPA wealth expert and self-proclaimed “Chief Money Motivator.” She runs her own company, OwnYourMoney.com, which specializes in helping corporate professionals and entrepreneurs take charge of their money. Her goal is to lead a movement that will change people’s perspectives on money and transform the way we are thinking, feeling, and acting about our money. She is also the co-author of a book entitled, “Self-Worth to Net Worth: 12 Keys to Creating Wealth Inside and Out,” which provides a step-by-step approach to help build financial self-esteem. She’s also offering So Money listeners her free 10-day course to help any of you out there listening to get out of debt. How generous! It’s called the DitchYourDebtChallenge and So Money listeners can get the course by visiting http://www.ditchyourdebtchallenge.com/somoney. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

Today's guest is someone I've proudly worked with to help me steer my previous book launch and elevate my business. And I think what she does to help clients is simply outstanding and one of a kind. I am a little biased, but I'm very, very serious here. Teaming up with her has been hands down one of the best investments I've ever made in growing my brand. I wanna welcome today, to the show, Selena Soo.Now after working in the non-profit world making around $42,000 a year, in New York City, which is hard in this city believe it or not. The most expensive city in the world! Selena decided in 2012 to go to business school and change gears, just go into a whole new career. And at first she was interested in PR, but realized that it just didn't give her the opportunity to do her favorite thing, which is to connect with people genuinely, without an agenda. So she decided to explore the idea of becoming a publicity and business coach, a service that she herself had paid for many times.Fast forward to today, she is a

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh, I answer your biggest questions about renovating vs building your dream home, how to pay for graduate school, the importance of having an internship and more. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

Today’s guest is Alan Moore, a Certified Financial Planner and the co-founder of XY Planning Network, a fee-only RIA and location independent financial planning firm. Alan co-created this company because him and his business partner felt that Gen X- and Gen Y-ers were being ignored by the bigger, traditional financial planning firms; so they wanted to fill this void with the creation of this company. He is also the President of Serenity Financial Consulting, LLC, located in Milwaukee, which specializes in providing financial planning advice and investment management services to individuals or families in order to achieve their financial goals on an as-needed or hourly basis.Alan has been recognized for his work by Investment News, naming him among the “40 Under 40” in financial planning and by Wealth Management as one of “The 10 to Watch in 2015.” He is frequently speaking on behalf of topics including technology, marketing as well as business coaching and his quotes have been included in articles in publicat

When I set out to start this podcast, I wanted to create a show where successful people could share their stories and advice through an open conversation about money, and hopefully inspire the listeners that they can do it too. My guest today, Adrienne Dorison has that same goal in mind in her business. Adrienne has created a 10 session and a VIP Intensive program to create your “Rich Life,” which she defines as all about self-mastery to reach your highest potential, creating freedom, financial success and lasting fulfillment. In this program, you receive coaching sessions, online support, access to her mastermind group of entrepreneurs and much more.A little more about Adrienne…she paid off $45K of student debt in just 6 months, has had a career at a prestigious Fortune 500 company, and is an accomplished athlete – she has even won a long distance triathlon!For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

Today I have the great pleasure and privilege of speaking with a fantastic award-winning journalist, Sharon Epperson. Sharon is currently a correspondent for CNBC covering the commodity markets and personal finance. She also appears on other NBC news shows like The Today Show and Nightly News, I'm sure you've seen her on television. She reports on a daily basis from the New York Mercantile Exchange where she covers the Energy Markets. She's won numerous awards include a Gracie Award for Outstanding Online Host for her financial advisor playbook video series on CNBC.com and the Trailblazer of the Year Award from the New York Association of Black Journalists. Sharon has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Government from Harvard, and a Master's in International and Public Affairs from Columbia. So interesting that she ended up as a financial journalist and she talks about that journey, how she became the woman that she is today. What was the path that took her to CNBC? The opportunities that led her to financi