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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.

And I'm Jeff Patak, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Our guest on the podcast today is personal finance expert Farnush Tarabi. Farnush is

editor at large for CNET money. She has also written several books, including When She Makes More and You're So Money.

In addition, Farnush hosts the Webby-nominated So Money podcast, where she interviews leading experts and

authors about their financial perspectives and answers listeners' questions. For several years,

she has hosted the Web-enominated web series,

Financially Fit, on Yahoo. She's also served as a money coach on such shows as

remake America on Yahoo, Bank of Mom and Dad on SoapNet, and TLC's Real Simple, Real

Life. Farnush graduated with honors from Penn State University with a degree in finance

and international business. She also holds a master's degree from the Columbia University

Graduate School of Journalism. Farnoosh, welcome to the Longview. Thank you for having me. It's so

great to be here. Well, it's great to have you here. We've wanted to have you on this podcast for a long

time. So I wanted to start you on this podcast for a long time.

So I wanted to start by talking a little bit about your personal story.

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