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Her money comes to you through PRX. Hi I'm Jean Chatsky and welcome to her money. Thanks so much for spending a little time with me this week focusing on your financial life because when you own your money, you own your life.

And today we've got somebody great to help us focus on doing just that. You all have probably seen Karen Finerman on

C. N. B. She's the chairwoman, as they call her, on fast money. She's also

been the chairwoman of Metropolitan Capital.

She's a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

And today we're going to tee up a conversation that talks about investing in ourselves.

How aggressively can women actually go after making money, how we can find success, but on our own terms, whether or not risk aversion when it comes

to your investments is particularly a problem for women as it's reputed to be and why multitasking can be a huge

waste of time.

Karen, welcome to the show.

Happy to be with you.

I'm thrilled to have you in the studio. We can do the

Harah-Hara song later. You know one of the things I think I knew about you before

I read the book, but it comes through loud and clear in the book is you knew from a very

young age that you wanted to make money I think they're not a lot of women who

who say that at least out loud.

So where did that come from?

You know, it always surprises me.

There aren't a lot of women that say that.

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