1343: Overhauling Finances, Career and Childcare in the Pandemic (One Couple's Story)

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today we go behind the scenes of one household that shifted their careers, income streams and childcare in the pandemic ... and the changes have been for the better. Lee Bonvissuto is our guest. She is an entrepreneur and Founder of Present Voices, where she helps people access and articulate their best ideas in their most important moments through communication coaching, consulting, and community. In our conversation, Lee speaks candidly about the decisions that she and her partner made in the pandemic to reorient the economics within their marriage, to have her husband step away from his career and become the primary caregiver to their daughter. How was that decision made? How did it work out? How is it continuing to work out? Lee also shares professional advice for those that want to harness anxiety to be more effective communicators at work. Fun fact about Lee, she was raised in the theater. Her father was a mime. She takes us to her childhood and some of the money memories that she has growing up in an artist community. 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 CNAT, the site that shows how to navigate change all around us.
0:06.4	So money episode 1343 becoming the sole breadwinner in the pandemic with Leibon Vesudo,
0:13.3	founder of Present Voices.
0:16.7	You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru Farneesh Karabi.
0:21.2	Each day, in a 30-minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds,
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0:38.6	happier life. Welcome to So Money.
0:43.2	As for so many people so scary at the beginning, right, we had no idea what was happening.
0:48.4	We were in New York City in Brooklyn. We had been in the same apartment for over 15 years,
0:54.5	and in the lead up to the pandemic, we actually lost that apartment. We had rats eat through the
1:00.3	walls. And so we were all ready in real disarray. And in this moment, I have my own business, my
1:07.6	partner. He was going to a hospital all day. And so it was a very stressful moment where he was in
1:15.0	one of the hardest hit hospitals and being pushed to the front lines as an administrator.
1:20.5	And so we made a very challenging decision very early on in the pandemic.
1:26.7	Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farneesh Tarabi. Today, we're going to hear of the behind-the-scenes
1:32.4	of one household where the couple decided to go from two income streams to one. And who was going
1:39.1	to be the stay-at-home parent? Dad. Lee Bon Basuto is our guest today. She is an entrepreneur and
1:45.5	founder of Present Voices where she helps people access and articulate their best ideas in their
1:51.4	most important moments through communication coaching, consulting, and community. In our conversation,
1:58.9	Lee and I talk about her business helping people harness, in many cases, their anxiety to
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