Welcome to Financial Foundations, a many series of Financial Feminist brought to you by State Farm.

During each episode of this limited series, we'll be tackling financial basics like budgeting, investing, debt,

and what it really means to be a financial feminist

to help you get on track no matter where you're at on your money journey.

Through short actionable episodes and simple homework exercises,

I'll help you build a financial plan you'll actually want to stick to.

Thanks again to our sponsor, State Farm, for making the series possible.

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financial feminists. Welcome back to the show. I'm so excited to see you.

That seems to be the intro that I always go with. We never script it, but I'm always excited to see you and I will always be here.

My name is Tori. I am a money expert. I am a New York Times best selling

author of a book also called Financial Feminist and this is episode six of

our Financial Foundations series brought to you by our friends at State Farm.

If you are new to this series, a reminder, please go back and listen to the previous episodes.

We are doing these in order for a specific reason.

So if you haven't listened to episodes one through five,

please go back, listen to those,

and then we'll see you back here.

If you are already caught up, well welcome.

We're talking today about side hustles and passive income, but before we get into the rest of the episode, let's talk about our homework from our previous episode, which was to start picturing Nana You or a grandparent You and journaling about them.

I want you to ask yourself now, how did it feel to picture your life in retirement?

How did it feel to picture what dream grandma you looked like, what her days were full of,

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