So Money episode 1822 from Stay at Home Mom to Stand Up Mogul, inside Zarnagard's American Dream.

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What we realized was that when you think you need the savings, the savings go really fast.

When he had a job, we thought we had a lot of savings.

We thought we had a lot of assets.

And then suddenly the market was down for this thing and there were no buyers for that thing.

And it was like an avalanche of money things. And my husband, I could tell,

was very shaken up. The only exam he had failed in his life until that point was the New York

State driver's test. His whole life was about winning the exams. That's how a lot of people progress

in India. So I had to

take control or he was going to do something stupid because he was like, I'll take any job anywhere.

And I knew that's not the answer. You know, that is not going to work for a guy who's done all

that he had done. And I also felt like I owed it to him for 22 years at that point.

He had been running a household by himself. I felt like the universe was calling me to step up.

And I was going to do anything.

Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnoose Tarabi. We've got a really special episode in front of a live audience that I taped

at Loopwell, Montclair, New Jersey last week. I've been talking about it for a while now,

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