1342: The On-Going Financial Struggles of Working Moms in the Pandemic

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Brynne Conroy is founder of Femme Frugality and the book The Feminist Financial Handbook. She joins to share the financial and professional hardships endured during the pandemic, as a single mother to two young children. And why the battle is not nearly over. Read Brynne's personal essay at Too Ambitious. Want more articles and videos by Farnoosh? Check out www.cnet.com/somoney. Subscribe to her weekly So Money newsletter for the latest updates and advice. Catch her weekly money videos on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So money is brought to you by CNET, the site that shows how to navigate change all around us.
0:06.5	So money episode 1342, how the pandemic upended one mom's career
0:11.6	and how she's struggling to rejoin the workforce.
0:15.6	You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru Farneesh Karabi.
0:20.2	Each day, we get a 30-minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds,
0:25.4	authors, influencers, and from Farneesh herself.
0:29.4	Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons?
0:33.1	Sorry, you're in the wrong place.
0:35.3	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:38.7	Welcome to So Money.
0:42.0	I am a single mother.
0:43.7	I have no financial support outside of my own career.
0:46.8	I don't have family or anything that supports me in that way.
0:50.9	So when society shut down,
0:53.5	I realized very quickly that I was going to have to do all the things,
0:57.4	that that prioritization that I typically follow was going to get thrown out the window.
1:02.2	Welcome to So Money, everybody.
1:03.5	I'm Farneesh Tarabi.
1:04.8	We are in conversation today with Bryn Conroy,
1:07.5	who is the founder of Theme Frigality, a community that she launched years ago
1:12.2	in support of women and their financial goals.
1:15.1	And like many moms during the pandemic, Bryn faced some financial and career crossroads.
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