So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh I answer your biggest questions about rewards credit cards, paying off loans, saving for retirement, financial issues with your partner and credit scores. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh I answer your biggest financial questions about creating money boundaries with family, rebuilding credit, real estate, crowdfunding, how to invest your inheritance, 401(k)s, pre-nups and compound interest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's guest is Ryan Holiday. I had this wonderful guest on earlier this Spring and Ryan is a thought-provoking media strategist, bestselling author of three books, and he's not even 30 yet - I'm so jealous! Most recently his very successful books is called, The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph. He has been responsible for a number of manipulative stunts and media controversies, and has been accused of being a "media manipulator" which he writes about in his first book Trust Me, I'm Lying. And he’s only 27 years old! After dropping out from University of California at 19 to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, he went on to advise many bestselling authors and multiplatinum musicians, including 50 Cent and Tim Ferriss, whom I had the honor of interviewing earlier this year (check out episode 60).Ryan also served as Director of Marketing at American Apparel for many years, where his campaigns ended up being used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube, and Google and written about in AdAge, the New York Times, and Fast Company. Ryan now works as the media columnist for the New York Observer. And his work has appeared in Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, ThoughtCatalog and Medium.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s guest has a really interesting story and is a woman after my own heart, helping young professionals navigate debt while teaching financial independence and what it means to be “financially fit.” Shannon McLay is a financial planner who left a stable job at a traditional financial services firm to start her own company, The Financial Gym. She felt that all traditional financial services firms did not offer the proper tools or resources to help young people in their 20s and 30s who are looking to build assets while also managing debt. Shannon believes that the key to long-term personal financial success is commitment to financial fitness and making smart financial choices. Well, amen to that! Through her company, Financially Blonde blog, her first book, “Train Your Way To Financial Fitness” and podcast, Martinis and Your Money, Shannon is covering all platforms so that financial fitness can be fun, easy and accessible to everyone! You can tune into her podcast every Friday to hear more from her.Three takeaways from our interview today include:The risks she took to leaver her job at Merrill Lynch and start her own company.How she’s going about raising capital to grow her financial planning business. As she says she’d like to someday like to do for the financial planning world what H&R Block has done for accounting services.How to win a free SIGNED copy of Shannon’s book Train Your Way to Financial Fitness. Shannon is giving away 5! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's guest is Dorie Clark. She's a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Time and Entrepreneur. She's been recognized as a branding expert by The Associated Press, Inc, and Fortune.What's a brand? Yeah we're gonna talk about that with Dorie. I believe I have a brand; sometimes I hesitate to admit it because I think it sounds, sometimes, a little snobby to say that I have a brand. But she puts it in a way that really democratizes this concept of having a personal brand. You have a brand, whether you're working at a company, an entrepreneur, a mom staying at home with your kids raising them, you have a brand! And so the earlier you recognize that, and nurture that, and cultivate that, the better off you can be.Now Dorie also serves as a marketing strategy consultant and speaker for many notable clients, including Google, Microsoft, Yale University, Fidelity, and World Bank among others. She's the author of two great books; the first is called "Reinventing You", and more recently she's the author of "Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It". She currently is an adjunct professor of business administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and a visiting professor for IE Business School in Madrid.Dorie was also featured on Huffington Post as a 100 Must Follow on Twitter in 2013 and 2014. She's also on the Nifty 50 list of top women on Twitter, and most notably she was named on of Inc Magazine's 100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference, and recognized in Forbes as one of 25 professional networking experts to watch in 2015. So she is, as it pertains to branding and leadership, she's your go-to and she's on the show today. So I'm very honored. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s guest is a high-profile personal trainer, life coach and co-founder of the latest boutique workout in New York City, ModelFIT. Justin Gelband has been dubbed “The Model Whisperer” from The New York Times’ magazine with a client base including some of the world’s hottest models and celebrities including Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepoel and Taylor Swift among many others. He is very accomplished in the personal training field with certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine and APEX nutrition. His passion for fitness started at a young age where he grew up swimming competitively and playing tennis and soccer. He’s now revolutionizing workouts for women by combining a mix of Pilates, yoga, movement, motion, balance stability, functional training and more. His belief is that all women can attain being “model fit” by working with your body to feel comfortable in your own skin and eating right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now, if you're someone who's always on the go, looking for a way to consume the day's top new stories in the fastest way possible, you may already be a subscriber to this or you've heard about it, but you have to check out theSkimm - one word. It's a free, daily email newsletter that goes out each morning, gives you all the important news across subject lines, and party lines. It is simple, and kind of a sassy roundup of the latest news stories with fresh editorial content catering mainly to a young female audience. It's fun to read, easy to understand, easy to explain to a friend after work at a happy hour, what's say going on in Greece or the latest in the electoral race.And I'm not only a fan, I guess you could also say I'm sort of a contributor to theSkimm. In my partnership with Chase Slate, the brand partnered with theSkimm to create some cool and interesting editorial content around financial fitness that I helped create. So I'm very proud to introduce today's guests, the co-founders of theSkimm. They are friends, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin and you're gonna love their story. Carly and Danielle, they originally met in Rome, they were studying abroad, it was a rainy day and they were both studying in Rome, they were in college.Years later they reconnected in New York as they were both producers for NBC News - how bout that? And they not only became fast friends again, but they also became roommates and co-founded theSkimm from their living room couch. Both of them have now been included on Forbes 30 Under 30 List this year. They were honored by Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovator Summit as one of the most 100 Intriguing Entrepreneurs in 2014. Danielle is a Tufts grad; she hails from Chicago. While Carly is a New Yorker who attended the University of Pennsylvania. And what brought them together and what really sparked theSkimm, was and is their passion for news. And so these ladies are just a force to be reckoned with, and they're also really relatable. I loved talking with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh, I answer your biggest questions about how much to start investing, moving back in with parents to save money, budgeting your savings and budgeting for NYC living. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh, I answer your biggest questions about affording a second child, self directed IRAs, keeping your emergency fund in a money market account or a bond fund, and marketing your business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to another edition of So Money Summer Fridays! Today I'm replaying my interview with Jack Canfield author of The Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The book has sold more than 500 million copies in print since it first published in the early 1990s. I recall that series of books being mentioned on Oprah countless times growing up, didn't you? Maybe you have also read The Success Principles, first published a decade ago. This is a big deal.Jack was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1944. He spent his formative teen years in West Virginia, later attending Harvard for college. He began his career in 1967 as a high school teacher in Chicago. And from there built his career into the blockbuster brand and business that it is today. Today he is the founder and CEO of The Canfield Training Group and founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. He holds a Guinness Book world record for having seven books on the New York Times best-seller list at the same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.