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Hi and welcome to the Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morning Star.

Before we get started today, wanted to give a quick heads up about some changes in our hosting lineup.

Ben Johnson will be joining the roster of hosts for the podcast,

along with me and Amy Arnaut. Ben has long been an analyst and thought leader for Morningstar,

and I'm excited to have him join us on the Longview. Ben, welcome. I'm thrilled to be here today,

Christine, long-time listener, first-time co-host, really looking forward to

continuing to shape terrific conversations on the podcast with you. Ben, we're really excited to have

you here. Today on the podcast, we're going to be chatting with Heather and Doug Bonaparte.

They're co-authors of a new book called Money Together, How to Find Fairness in Your Relationship and become an unstoppable financial team.

Heather and Doug know a little something about money and relationships, as you may have

guessed they're married. Heather worked as a lawyer for more than a decade before joining

the family business as bona fide wealth's director of business and legal affairs.

She also co-authored the couple's first book,

The Millennial Money Fix. Doug is a certified financial planner and founder of bona fide wealth,

a wealth management firm in New York City. He serves on the advisory councils of CNBC and Investopedia.

Heather and Doug, welcome to the Longview.

Great to be here.

Thanks so much for having us.

Well, we're excited to have you here.

And we want to talk about your book, which is a delightful read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Can you talk about the initial spark in wanting to talk about this topic and write about this topic of couples

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