So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

To buy or rent a home in Santa Monica? What tax deductions can I bank on this year? Smart to ditch roommates for my own place and pay double? How to play retirement savings catch-up? Farnoosh answers listeners questions. To purchase the 2022 So Money Page-a-Day calendar, visit www.pageaday.com, search for So Money and use the code SOMONEY for 20% off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's it like to be a woman navigating a career in tech? Alana Karen was a very early Google employee and has stories to tell. Her book, Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay, aggregates hundreds of stories on this topic, as well.More about Alana: She is an award-winning tech leader, author, and speaker whose work impacts many of our everyday lives. From Google Search to Ads, Fiber to Google Grants and beyond, Alana has been leading the charge to develop, scale, build and drive team and product development that has seen a rippling industry impact. Alana has spoken at conferences and summits on technology, leadership, DEI, talent and innovation. She lives with her three children, husband, two dogs, and a cat in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author and speaker Minda Harts joins Farnoosh to share insights from her new book, Right Within: How to Heal From Racial Trauma in the Workplace. They discuss how to identify racial aggressions, how to effectively speak up and how to know if you're being gaslit.Filled with Minda Harts’s signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past triggers they may not even know still cause pain, and reframe past career disappointments as opportunities to grow into a new path. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's Ask Farnoosh addresses audience questions related to student loan, investing advice for teens, financial advice for someone nearing retirement and post-divorce, as well as the best finance books for beginners. Farnoosh picks two reviewers of the week to receive a free 15-minute money session. Plus, details about the forthcoming So Money calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For those of us considering career redirection or revisiting dreams deferred during the pandemic, entrepreneur Teneshia Warner joins to offer valuable tips and stories from her own personal experience leaving a stable corporate job to pursue her dream. Teneshia's book, The Big Stretch: 90 Days to Expand Your Dreams, Crush Your Goals, and Create Your Own Success, is a soul-searching, life-transforming, 12-week boot camp that reveals how to get from where you are to where you dream to be – in life and in business. Visit www.thebigstretchbook.com to take Teneshia's Dreamer Profile Assessment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is brought to us in partnership with the Allstate Foundation.[Trigger Warning] Today’s show focuses on a very serious issue, domestic violence and specifically, financial abuse, described as the invisible weapon of domestic violence. It is something that happens in nearly all cases of domestic violence - 96 percent of domestic violence victims experience financial abuse.October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and I thought it would be helpful to revisit a conversation with earlier this year from one very brave survivor, Mercii Thomas. She recently left her abusive partner, a man that made her financially and geographically reliant on him. We’ll discuss the importance of understanding financial abuse and how that can prevent a victim from breaking free. We’ll explore the prevalence of domestic violence and financial abuse and the importance of financial empowerment....and share important resources for victims, survivors and their allies.If you or someone you know wants to learn more about these issues, you can visit allstatefoundation.org. If someone needs immediate help, please reach out to the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Ask Farnoosh offers advice to a listener post-divorce on ways to think about re-establishing her financial life, as well as whether it’s OK to cash out a life insurance policy to use towards buying a home. How to establish boundaries with a parent that’s financially dependent on you? And what to do with a $50,000 inheritance? (Replay from Sept 17, 2021) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Financial expert Tanja Hester joins to talk about her new book called Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change.Clear-eyed and practical, Wallet Activism helps angry, overwhelmed, and disillusioned consumers cut through the marketing lies of companies that have rebranded their problematic practices as “green,” “woke,” and “ethical” to learn how to use their financial power to fight back.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joyce Marter is a celebrated psychotherapist, and founder of Urban Balance, who has made it her life’s mission to help people improve their mental health and financial wealth. Through lessons learned from her own career as a business-owner, Joyce’s new book, “The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life” shares a 360 degree holistic view of success with practical tools and guidance to amplify individuals self-worth and self-esteem to create financial abundance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the speed round of Q&A, Farnoosh answers a broad range of listeners' questions from real estate to budgeting and savings strategies for those living in NYC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.