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Let's go. Hey, you're on air with Ella and it is my pleasure to welcome Jill Siriani to the show. Hey, Jill, how are you?

Hi, Ella. I'm doing so well. Thanks for having me. Tell us all your handle. Like, what's your

code name? Jill, we need to understand who you are right off the bat. What do I go by? Who am I in the

night undercover? My name's Jill. I'm the co-host of the Frugal Friends podcast,

and by day I am working in the mental health field. I'm a licensed clinical social worker,

and woven throughout is that, is the podcast where we talk about financial health, making it attainable

for women. You're a practitioner, your clinician.

How on earth did you get into this world where you're helping people with their own financial

empowerment? A lot of it had to do with meeting my good friend and now co-host Jen Smith.

I had listened to your episode about how to make friends

in adulthood and I feel as though this is one of those experiences of really just connecting

with somebody and then learning that we have mutual interests. And for the two of us, as far as going from

a background of social work, into having a podcast

around personal finance, it really was in part having to do with this friendship where

she brought something to the table that I lacked and vice versa, and just enjoying these

conversations together, realizing that there's a gap out there.

There are not many women talking about how to do finances.

Now there is, which is fantastic, usually a kind of gate-kept type of arena and field.

But then not many people who are kind of breaking it down in an attainable way either.

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