So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

What if I told you that you could keep your 9-5 job AND be an entrepreneur? Our guest today says being a business owner doesn't have to be an all or nothing proposition. Patrick McGinnis is here to offer advice on how to be a part-time entrepreneur. He's a venture capitalist and author of the international bestseller, The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job.Patrick practices what he preaches. He's a 10% entrepreneur, himself. Outside his day job he's built a diverse and global portfolio of investments, including top tech companies. Tune in to the full interview to learn more about how to gradually become your own boss.To learn more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's guest once went to the ATM where she found out she only had $18.56 to her name. Ali Brown is here to talk about how she went from near-broke to launching a multi-million dollar business. Her rock-bottom moment came as she had left a full-time job at a small advertising agency in NYC to become an entrepreneur. At this point, most people would throw in the towel and start looking for another full-time corporate job. Not, Ali. Today she is a multi-millionaire, has over 250,000 followers and provides advice through one-on-ones, her podcast Glambition Radio and website.To learn more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Help... I'm always treating myself and others and now I'm having trouble living within my means. What can I do? How do I focus on paying off my federal student loans while overcoming how overwhelmed I feel? My hubby and I are not happy with our bank. How ridiculous would it be to close our credit cards and take our business elsewhere? Answering these questions of yours and more on this week's #AskFarnoosh with special co-host Rachelle Magadan.To learn more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What can you do today so that you will be smarter tomorrow? Our guest today is someone The Huffington Post has called "The Most Inspiring Woman in the World" and she is constantly on the pursuit of learning and growing. She asks herself, "What can I do today to be smarter tomorrow?" Well, she reads at least one book per day. Can you believe it? Lolly Daskal is here and her new book The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatnessis making headlines. Inc Magazine calls it the #1 Leadership Book.Lolly is a highly sought-after executive leadership coach and founder of the company Lead From Within.I'm always grateful when my guests go deep on the show and Lolly spares no details. She talks about her financial mindset as the child of Holocaust survivors. "Never talk about money," she was taught. How has that influenced her today as a mother and entrepreneur?That and so much more, including her take on true leadership today and what are the two factors that equate to confidence.For more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've talked about this a lot on the show before. There's the gender wage gap but there's also the gender investment gap. I've talked about this at length with Ellevest's founder Sallie Krawcheck. Our guest today is also addressing this in her new book, Smart Women Love Money: 5 Simple Life-Changing Rules of Investing. Alice Finn is with us today. In the book she provides the tools women (and men) need to achieve long-term success no matter how the markets are fluctuating.More about Alice... she's the CEO of PowerHouse Assets LLC. It's a firm she founded to hep women become more engaged when it comes to their finances.To learn more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Help... I lent someone money and now they declared bankruptcy. What can I do? What is considered a low expense ratio? Should I pay for my wedding photographer in cash? Answering these questions of yours and more on an all new #AskFarnoosh with special co-host Tammy Tibbetts, co-founder and CEO of She's the First.For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest today has been dubbed The Student Loan Assassin, paying off over $90,000 in loans plus another $10,000 in credit card debt in just 24 months. The total damage? $111,354.33.We don't cover debt as much as we do earning, saving and retiring early on this show but the fact is many Americans are saddled with a combination of student loans and mounting credit card debt. You struggle to make the right trade-offs. You're discouraged by the totality of the debt, not sure you'll ever see an end to it.John Kapetaneas is here to offer us some inspiration and his own plan of action for eliminating debt in a short period of time. By day - and probably by night because journalists don't sleep - he is a producer and writer for ABC News covering all sorts of human interest stories. In the process, he's sharing his own courageous story of becoming financially free.To learn more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new topic for us today. We're talking about marriage. I'm obsessed with this topic. I wrote a book, When She Make More, about female breadwinners in modern day relationships. When you think about marital advice in this country, it typically centers around pre-marital advice and then advice on how to deal with divorce.But what about the years in between?Marriage is wonderful but it's also hard, and the more prepared you and your partner can be for the challenges - from your money differences to raising children to taking care of aging parents -  the less likely it is that you'll need to read that article about how to survive your divorce, right?Our guest today is Jo Piazza, a prolific writer and author whose recent book is part-memoir, part-investigation on the topic of marriage. The book is called: How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage. In the book, Jo shares a framework to help the rest of us keep our marriages strong, from your engagement into the newlywed years and beyond.More about Jo: She's an award-winning journalist who's written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, Elle and many others. Her novel, Knockoff, became an international bestseller and she's also the author of the critically acclaimed If Nuns Ruled the World and Celebrity Inc. How Famous People Make Money.To learn more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How should I reposition myself after taking some time off from work? How should I save for a home... can I tap into my 403b account? What is a great book for a college graduate? Answering these questions and more on this week's Ask Farnoosh.To learn more visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A couple months back I purchased a gift for my husband through this company Oars + Alps, a men's athleisure and natural grooming brand. The brand is being called the "Warby Parker of men's grooming," and was created after the founders won the regional 2016 Harvard Business School New Venture Challenge and spent a year in research and development. All the while, the brainchild behind this product was none other than my old colleague Mia Saini Duchnowski.  She, along with Laura Lisowski, is the company's founder, and our guest on So Money today.I worked with Mia back in the day at TheStreet.com.  We sat across from each other during the market's demise. She was an intern and was contemplating leaving Harvard Business School to pursue being a financial correspondent. She made the transition and went on to be a very successful reporter and anchor at Bloomberg TV covering the global financial markets. She's pivoted since, launching into the world of entrepreneurship. The idea for Oars + Alps grew out of a personal necessity; both Mia and her co-founder's husbands needed better products to help with sensitive skin.For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.