Give Yourself Credit
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Suze Orman Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Women & Money, Suze gives you everything you need to know about credit cards. You’ll learn what a FICO score is, what your ideal score should be, and how to improve it. What happens to your credit when you get divorced? Suze explains all.
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| 0:00.0 | Suzy Orman's Women in Money Podcast is proudly sponsored by America's Credit Unions, |
| 0:06.0 | the perfect home for your money. |
| 0:11.0 | Suzy Orman here and you are listening to the Women in Money Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Now this is not your ordinary money podcast, for there is nothing that I do that is ordinary. |
| 0:20.0 | So if you want to be the powerful woman that you were born to be in every aspect of your life, |
| 0:26.0 | then you have come to the right place. |
| 0:57.0 | More and more I am hearing from you and you are writing me and you are saying the following. |
| 1:07.0 | Suzy after 20 years, after 30 years, sometimes after 40 years, I have just divorced my spouse. |
| 1:20.0 | I never thought I would be in this situation, I never took control of my money, |
| 1:25.0 | and now I am starting over and I don't know where to begin. |
| 1:32.0 | I don't have credit cards in my name. |
| 1:35.0 | I don't even know what a credit score is. |
| 1:38.0 | I don't know what I need to know, I don't even know how to protect myself. |
| 1:44.0 | If during the divorce now it hasn't been completed yet, |
| 1:48.0 | what do I do with the credit cards that I have in joint name with my ex spouse to be? |
| 1:57.0 | I don't know, can you tell me Suzy? |
| 2:02.0 | So today's podcast is all about everything that you need to know about credit cards and a credit score. |
| 2:14.0 | You have got to know about these things because these two things, believe it or not, can be the true basis of your financial foundation. |
| 2:27.0 | Let's start with a credit score. |
| 2:30.0 | They are formally known as a FICO score. |
| 2:35.0 | FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation, the company that created the score many years ago. |
| 2:46.0 | Why did they create it? |
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