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Welcome to Her Money.

Thanks so much for joining me for today's show where we are going to be talking about taking risks

and not just financial risks. I'm talking about the kind of risks where you're at the beach and you see a

surfer hop on a 10-foot wave and you think how could somebody do that or you see a

professional poker player bet thousands of dollars on a single hand.

Believe it or not, a lot of calculation, a lot of thought goes into every single one of those decisions and we've got a guest in

studio Dr. Allison Shrager who is going to break it all down.

Allison is an economist, she's a journalist at courts,

she's co-founder of Life Cycle Financial Partners,

which is a risk advisory firm,

and she's also the author of a book with the best title that I have heard in a very long time

It's called an economist walks into a brothel and other unexpected places to understand risk.

Allison, thanks so much for coming in.

Thanks so much for having me.

I'm really excited to have this conversation.

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