254: Tess Vigeland, Former Host at Public Radio's Marketplace

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today’s guest is a veteran journalist and well-known voice to millions of American Radio listeners. She is Tess Vigeland, CEO of Tess Vigeland Productions, an LA-based multi-media media company. For 11 years, she was the anchor for public radio’s Marketplace as well as spent 6 years hosting the personal finance show, Marketplace Money. Tess also wrote the newly published book titled, Leap: Leave A Job With No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want. This book was based off of Tess’s personal experience after she felt that “Marketplace’s Tess Vigeland” was no longer fulfilling and left her dream job to find her next calling. In her book she talks about leaping without a net with humor and honesty and shares the possibilities that are on the otherside for those willing to leap with her. Tess still keeps her radio voice warmed up serving as a backup anchor for NPR’s All Things Considered as well as shows on two local LA stations. In her “spare” time, time she writes for The New York Times, The Guardian among many others as well as serves as a professional emcee, speaker, panel moderator and interviewer. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.0	Welcome to So Money.
0:28.0	Welcome back to So Money everyone. I'm Farnish Tarabi your host live from the
0:35.1	Trade King podcasting stage here at FinCon 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina. So
0:41.0	great to be here to see so many familiar faces. A lot of people I only
0:45.0	have the privilege of speaking to or emailing throughout the year. Now I get to give
0:49.2	them a hug, a high-five, have lunch, coffee. And one of the people here who is a keynote actually, someone
0:57.8	I've been following for years as a journalist, someone I highly admire and respect.
1:02.8	Tess Viglin is here, CEO of Tess Viglin Productions,
1:06.8	but many of you probably know her as the radio host Extraordinare.
1:11.4	For 11 years, she was the anchor for Public Radio's
1:14.6	Marketplace Money. She also has written the newly published book entitled
1:18.9	Leap Leave a job with no Plan B. Yeah been, to find the career and life you really want.
1:26.5	And I suspect you talk about this from first person.
1:29.6	I do, indeed.
1:31.4	And the book was based, yeah, as I should read my own introductions, and I should, they would answer my questions.
1:37.0	The book was based on the radio extraordinary part.
1:40.0	Oh no, that was an understatement.
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