229. Haley Sacks: Combining her love of entertainment with finance! Mrs. Dow Jones on everything YOU need to know about all aspects of money, enjoying your life, and being consistent
Trading Secrets
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5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Upon entering the professional world, Haley took note of the content gap in the personal finance sector and decided to combine her interest in finances and her background in entertainment to make finance cool. Since then, Sacks has been helping a new generation of earners get fluent in finance. In short, she is making dollars make sense with a side of humor and pop culture to her millions of followers on social media. Haley has been featured in finance publications such as Bloomberg, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, CNBC, Forbes, MarketWatch, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Yahoo Finance, and more.
Haley shares her journey from becoming a page for David Letterman to transitioning into finance, including her biggest financial mistake, side hustles, and her role as a creative social producer for Lorne Michaels. She discusses writing scripts for Fuse while working on Mrs. Dow Jones, creating her budgeting template Money Book 2.0, and outlining four essential financial steps everyone should take. Haley offers advice for parents, shares her approach to paying off debt, reframing a budget, and the importance of global exposure. She also reflects on her best and worst investments, provides credit card tips, and stresses the need for a personal money system, arguing that getting rich should be a simple process. With insights into the economy and the goal of working less, she emphasizes why money needs to be a constant conversation in our lives.
Haley reveals all this and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Haley Sacks & https://www.mrsdowjones.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. |
| 0:15.2 | Today we are joined by financial expert entrepreneur and known too many as Mrs. Dow Jones, Haley Sacks. Upon entering the |
| 0:23.9 | professional world, Haley took note of the content gap in personal finance sector and decided |
| 0:29.2 | to combine her interest in finances and her background in entertainment to make finance |
| 0:34.0 | cool. Since then, Sacks has been helping a new generation of earners get fluent in finance. |
| 0:39.9 | In short, she's making dollars make sense. |
| 0:42.9 | With the side of humor and pop culture to her millions of followers on social media, |
| 0:48.0 | Haley has been featured in finance publications such as Bloomberg, |
| 0:51.4 | Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, Forbes, Market Watch, |
| 0:55.8 | entrepreneur, Barrens, Yahoo, finance, and more. Haley, thank you so much for being on |
| 0:59.8 | Trading Secrets. And now I'm on Trading Secrets. And now you're on Trading Secrets. It's an honor to |
| 1:03.6 | have you here. My gosh, an honor to be here. Congratulations on all your success. Everything, as I'm reading your intro, I'm like, this is everything I believe in. |
| 1:11.6 | It's everything that I have so much passion for. And I love having people like yourself on because it also gives different perspectives. |
| 1:18.8 | Like same advice, same idea, different takes. And for me, it's like whatever will click with someone, that's a win. So I'm excited about this. |
| 1:26.9 | That's what I always say is like, |
| 1:28.5 | it's just about finding the right teacher. Same with like working out. Like you have to find |
| 1:32.3 | the right trainer that will motivate you. I think it's the same with financials. You just need to |
| 1:36.2 | find the right person who can really get you going. Totally. I think one thing that's really cool, |
| 1:40.5 | listen, if you're here to take notes, trust me, I'm going to get into the financial tips. We're going to ask. But a little bit on the career side, I find it interesting, |
| 1:47.4 | that your background is actually in entertainment. You studied, I believe, film in college. And |
| 1:53.0 | that's like quite the detour into finance. So walk me through like what that detour was and why. |
| 1:58.6 | Oh my gosh. I always say like, you, there are those financial gurus who are like, |
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