
Today, Jean is an award-winning personal finance journalist who is both the financial editor of NBC’s The Today Show and AARP’s personal finance ambassador. If I tried to list out all the impressive things Jean has done during her 30-plus year career, it would take up half the episode, so I will summarize by saying Jean’s career started off when she received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania in English and joined the team at Working Woman Magazine. Manisha Thakor: First, let me tell you a bit about Jean and her very impressive background as a multi-decade champion of financial education for women, men and children. The issue at hand is the safety, security and stability of women both financially and in day to day life. My guest today is Jean Chatzky, and our lively conversation definitely falls in that latter camp, shining a light on an issue directly pertaining to 51% of the population and likely worrisome to a large portion of the other 49% of the population as well. Other guests will stretch you to think about broader societal issues relating to money, meaning and wealth ideally in a way you may not have encountered before. Some of our guests will give you tips, tools and tactics to make tiny tweaks or radical reboots in your own life.
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Manisha Thakor: Welcome to the true WELLth Podcast where we bring you a wide range of guest experts to help you think about how to craft a life of deep personal meaning from a variety of angles. But yeah, I’ve had that experience of, oh, Jean Chatzky is in Starbucks, and I have to defend the fact that, yes, I know what I’m spending on my coffee and I can afford it and it’s fine. In reality, we do spend an absurd amount of money on coffee. I do think we all need to be a little more conscious about our spending, and that’s just a very, very convenient example. Jean Chatzky: I’ve had the experience of standing in line in a Starbucks after doing a segment on television where you talk about, well, if you really cut back on coffee, you would be able to save a million dollars, which I hate.

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