474. Want a Better Financial Life? Don't Marry a Loser: A Conversation with Vivian Tu
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What if one of the most important financial decisions you ever make isn’t about investing, saving, or budgeting... but about who you choose as your partner?
In this episode, I’m joined by Vivian Tu, also known as Your Rich BFF, 2x New York Times bestselling author, and host of the podcast Networth and Chill. We discuss why money is not just about survival but about power, choice, and freedom. Vivian explains why women are often socialized to over compromise financially in relationships, how to adjust your mindset about money as a shared partnership decision, and why financial literacy is essential for protecting your future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host, Cara Lowentile, master-certified coach, and founder of the School of New |
| 0:13.3 | Feminist Thub. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life |
| 0:20.0 | on your own terms, one that you're truly |
| 0:22.4 | excited to live. Let's go. Vivian, my friend, hi. Welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for |
| 0:32.2 | having me. It's so good to see you. I feel like I sound like a valley girl because I was just in |
| 0:37.0 | L.A. for a few days and I'm like, so good to see you. I don like I sound like a valley girl because I was just in L.A. for a few days, |
| 0:37.7 | and I'm like, so good to see you. I don't know if you may remember from the last time we were on this show, I asked people to brag about themselves because I think women should brag about themselves more. And I know you agree. So tell us who you are and what you're doing right now. Okay, for everybody listening. My name is Vivian 2. You probably know me online as Your Rich BFF. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm a former Wall Street trader. |
| 1:00.1 | I am now a two-time New York Times bestselling author. |
| 1:03.5 | Two-time, number four, not just on the list, number four on the list, |
| 1:07.1 | which is really number one for those in the know based on. |
| 1:09.9 | There are books that just park on the top of that list for like years. I don't even know what's happening. So for those |
| 1:15.9 | in the know, she's really a number one bestseller. Thank you. Thank you for that. I have a podcast |
| 1:21.4 | called Networth and Chill. I teach the next generation about personal finance, everything from budgeting, saving, investing, |
| 1:29.5 | to more of the nuanced conversations of how do you handle money and relationships, how do you set up |
| 1:35.9 | financially literate children, and some of the things that I'm incredibly proud of are the fact |
| 1:41.3 | that I have helped millions of people start to invest, millions of people |
| 1:45.5 | pay off their debt. I've made the Forbes 30 under 30 list, the list to prison pipeline, just kidding. |
| 1:50.8 | I was going to say, but you're not going to prison. |
| 1:52.7 | I'm not going to prison, as well as the Time 100 creators list. |
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