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I think women can be leaders in shifting the power dynamic of money.

We're the communicators. we don't shy away from emotions, and

talking about money isn't comfortable, it's not easy, we don't have practice, but we as women

have a lot to gain.

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So today we are going to get just a little bit uncomfortable,

but I promise you that by the end of the episode you will be glad that we did.

We are going to break the taboo around talking about wealth.

It is no secret that income inequality is one of our country's biggest problems and that we need change on a societal level and for some of us on a personal level too.

Today's guest has invited the world to talk about money

and what it means to have too much of it.

With her memoir, we need to talk,

a memoir about wealth. Jennifer Risser is on a mission to start

much-needed conversations about money as a way for us to connect, to learn from

one another and to shake up the status quo.

In her book, she walks us through both the advantages and the challenges of wealth

and tells us, and I love this, that we are all 99% the same.

Jennifer's pretty open about the fact that she has a lot of money.

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