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HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Ep 527: How To Not Know: Making Peace With Financial Uncertainty

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Business, Investing

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

If financial uncertainty is keeping you awake at night, this episode is for you. Author and journalist Simone Stolzoff joins Jean to talk about his new book, How To Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World That Demands Answers, and why learning to sit with the unknown might be the most powerful financial skill you can develop right now. And in this week's Mailbag, Jean is joined by Lacy Garcia, founder and CEO of Willow, to help three listeners navigate inflection points in their lives: how to start dividing shared assets before a divorce is filed, what to do with your 401(k) after a layoff, and how to think about a lump-sum inheritance without letting fear or emotion drive the decision.  Resources mentioned in this episode: The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff Hanna Horvath, Your Brain on Money on Substack The Forever Paycheck by Jean Chatzky — available for pre-order now Subscribe to the HerMoney newsletter Ready to connect with a fiduciary advisor who's the right fit for you? Find one at hermoney.com/findanadvisor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Have you ever wondered why songs on the radio are popular? Why does certain movies get made, even though the premise seems completely random?

0:41.3

Why are concert tickets costing you $3,000, but nobody makes any money touring?

0:46.0

Well, on my podcast, breaking down the biz, we answer all those questions and more.

0:51.1

I'm Seth Schackner.

0:52.3

I have over two decades of experience in the entertainment

0:54.7

and the music industry. And every week, I talk to insiders that lend insight and expertise on the

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platform or watch us on YouTube so you never miss a beat. Let's make sense of this industry

1:09.7

together.

1:14.3

There's a middle path, you know, from an investing perspective. If you spend all of your

1:18.4

time researching without actually placing any investments, you're going to, one, waste a lot of time

1:23.6

and two, never be able to confront your own assumptions and see whether the market will validate

1:28.8

your choices. But if you're incredibly impulsive and you gather no information, that's another way of

1:33.8

sort of avoiding uncertainty. And so maybe there's a middle road where you gather some information,

1:39.1

but you don't let that completely paralyze you.

1:41.5

Hey, everyone.

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