So Money, episode 2, Gene Chaski.

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Welcome to So Money. Welcome back to So Money, I'm your host, Farnish Terabi.

As part of my inaugural week of this podcast, I've got an incredible lineup of guests the who's who of money and

today's guest is someone for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration

she is Jean Chatsky the financial editor Editor for NBC's Today Show, an award-winning personal finance

journalist and AARP's personal finance ambassador.

Jean is also a best-selling author.

Her most recent book is Operation Money, a free financial guide, yes free for

military service members and families. Now I've known Jean personally for over a decade and quite shamelessly I never took the opportunity

to really ask her about her personal financial journey and the experiences that helped shape her mindset about money until now.

In this next half hour we'll learn about how Gene sets financial goals and how she achieves them,

her six word money mantra, and the job growing

up that, get this, only paid her 25 cents an hour and so much more. Are you ready? I'm excited to bring you Jean Chatsky. And the Jean Tatsky, thank you so much for joining me on my launch of so money. I didn't realize this was the launch I'm so excited thanks

for asking absolutely you know I didn't mention this in the introduction but for a lot of

people listening they may not know that 11 years ago, I was your assistant.

You know, I think about, I mean, it's funny when we have people in our orbit they tend to cycle around again

but I have so enjoyed watching all that you've done and I take a little bit of pride and ownership for

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