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The Journal.

Financial Influencers on Wealth and Work

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, Business News, News

4.25.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In a conversation taped at The Journal live event, entrepreneurs and influencers Vivian Tu, Haley Sacks, and Brian Kelly sat down with Jessica Mendoza to explore personal finance in the social media era; exploring everything from generational wealth to how much crypto people should have in their portfolios. Further Listening:  Kathy Hochul on Mamdani, Trump and Where Democrats Went Wrong We had so much fun in NYC, keep an eye out for more live events across the U.S. soon! Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Earlier this month, we held our very first live taping of the journal podcast in New York.

0:11.6

It was a great night. We met some of our listeners and rocked out to our theme music. We had so much fun.

0:29.3

At the event, I recorded a conversation with a panel of financial social media influencers.

0:34.7

Today, we're sharing it with you.

0:36.6

You can watch the interview on Spotify.

0:38.0

All right. Give it up one more time for some of today's biggest financial influencers,

0:50.9

Mrs. Dow Jones, your rich BFF, and The Points Guy. One more time. So tonight,

0:59.3

we're going to be talking to our wonderful guests about building wealth in this economy.

1:05.2

Lots to talk about there, but I just want to give everybody a little bit of a formal introduction.

1:09.6

Let me start with Haley, Haley Sacks, as most people know you, Mrs. Dow Jones.

1:14.0

Haley is a native New Yorker.

1:15.4

She launched her YouTube account.

1:17.0

Woo!

1:17.5

In 2017, it took off because of the way she makes financial advice fun for millennials to start with,

1:25.1

but now also for Gen Z.

1:26.7

And her spreadsheets and quizzes are super popular

1:28.8

with people who want help navigating their finances. Hey, Haley, thank you for being here.

1:32.9

Thanks for having me. We've also got, of course, your rich BFF, Vivian 2. She's the daughter

1:42.1

of immigrants, and she used to work on Wall Street,

1:44.8

but now she's focused on making social media content using her expertise to help everyday people

1:49.7

build wealth, which we're going to be talking a lot about tonight. She also has her own

1:53.9

podcast. She's written two books, and she has all the advice you need on how to get rich.

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