1899: My Frightening Financial Stories
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Financial fear is common and quite frankly, normal. In this episode, Farnoosh breaks down some of the pivotal financial moments in her life where the underpinning emotion was fear. Starting all the way back in her early childhood. Then we hit the mail bag and answer questions about life insurance for kids, using a Roth IRA as an emergency account and where to allocate charitable giving this year.
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| 0:00.0 | So Money episode 1899, Ask Farnush. |
| 0:04.8 | You're listening to So Money with award-winning money guru Farnoosh Torabi. |
| 0:09.7 | Each day, get a 30-minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, |
| 0:15.0 | authors, influencers, and from Farnoose yourself. |
| 0:19.0 | Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:22.7 | Sorry. |
| 0:23.6 | You're in the wrong place. |
| 0:25.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to So Money. |
| 0:31.3 | Welcome to So Money, everybody. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Farnoose Terabi. |
| 0:34.2 | It's Halloween. |
| 0:36.0 | And I don't have any ghost stories for you. I did follow a ghost |
| 0:39.6 | story in Montclair. I'll actually drop that in the show notes. I did a whole piece on the |
| 0:45.4 | haunted stories of Montclair and there were quite a few. But this story that I want to share |
| 0:50.0 | today on the podcast has nothing to do with ghosts or goblins or spirits. It's about financial fear. |
| 0:58.3 | I thought we could maybe open the show with some warm and fuzzy stories about the times in our lives |
| 1:04.2 | when we've been really scared about money. I just want to say firstly that if you've ever been there |
| 1:09.1 | and maybe you're there right now, you're worried about |
| 1:11.6 | making ends meet, you're afraid of losing your job, you're afraid if you might not find another |
| 1:16.2 | job, you're afraid of, oh, all the uncertainty, right? That's so universal right now. Financial fear |
| 1:22.9 | is running rampant. It's very common and honestly I'm I'm here to tell you, it's healthy. It's healthy. |
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