13 "Dumb" Financial Mistakes

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a “friend” who is super smart, has a great career, holds a graduate degree, has even saved a chunk of money for retirement, but who keeps making the same dumb mistakes when it comes to money? Is this “friend” you? I joined Here and Now on NPR to discuss how you can avoid making some of these common mistakes. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It's a bonus episode. Hey, this is not even our
0:08.3	podcast, but props to my friends over at NPR's here and Now because they did a great interview with me
0:16.3	about the upcoming publication of the paperback edition of my book, The Dumb Things Smart People Do With Their Money,
0:23.8	13 ways to write your financial wrongs.
0:26.3	Here's the segment that they aired during the week.
0:29.2	This is with my pal Jeremy Hobson,
0:31.0	he's one of the hosts of NPR's here and now.
0:33.6	According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Americans owed about one and a half
0:37.8	trillion dollars on their student loans as of last summer. That is a dramatic
0:42.1	increase from a decade earlier and taking on
0:44.6	too much student debt is just one of the common money mistakes our next guest
0:48.8	notices. Jill Schlesinger is a certified financial planner. Her book is The Dumb Things Smart People
0:54.1	Do with their money. Thirteen ways to write your financial wrongs. It's out in paperback
0:58.4	next month. She's also a CBS News business analyst and joins us now, Hi Jill.
1:03.0	Hello.
1:04.0	So we talked with you last year about some of the dumb things
1:06.0	that people do with their money and people can find those at here and now
1:08.0	now.org, but you say there's more.
1:11.0	And one of the things that you bring up is that people take on too much
1:14.3	college debt. What do you mean by that? You know, when the book was published, it happened
1:19.6	before the whole college admission scandal.
1:23.2	And so when that happened, I remember having so many conversations with people
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