How To Make Wise Financial Decisions
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Suze Orman Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this Suze School, we’ll learn how fear sometimes drives many of our financial decisions, especially for those in or near retirement. Suze explains several steps we can take to overcome that fear and make better choices with our money.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Susio here now. What is the goal of money? The goal of money is for you to be secure. |
| 0:06.6 | And there is no better way for you to be secure than having an emergency savings account. |
| 0:13.2 | It is essential for your financial foundation. So all of you should be participating in |
| 0:19.2 | the ultimate opportunity savings account at Alliant Credit Union. |
| 0:23.9 | Go to myalliant.com to find out more and be secure. |
| 0:36.9 | In January 18, 2006, welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast, and everybody's smart enough to listen. |
| 0:47.5 | And today is Susie's school. |
| 0:50.0 | That means you get me all to yourself. |
| 0:53.1 | I know, a lot of you are saying, but I miss KT. |
| 0:55.9 | She's so sweet. |
| 0:57.2 | She's so cute. |
| 0:59.0 | And trust me, I know how adorable she is. |
| 1:02.1 | If you think she's adorable on the podcast, you should see her in real life, that vitality, |
| 1:10.4 | that love, that spirit. oh, I'm telling you, |
| 1:15.1 | just shines through when she's just doing everything that she really wants to do. |
| 1:21.7 | On Thursday's podcast, last Thursday, we opened up the podcast with KT reading and email from a man by the name of David, |
| 1:31.8 | who said that last Sunday's podcast, which was my market projection, was his favorite podcast out of |
| 1:38.7 | 25 years, I think, of him listening to me. And KT just thought that was so great. And then I said, but those kinds of |
| 1:48.9 | podcasts are not my favorite podcast. And the real reason is that I could give you the best stocks to |
| 1:58.9 | buy. I can give you the best forecast, the best this, |
| 2:03.2 | the best that. But there's something that prevents you, not all of you, but many of you from doing |
| 2:11.9 | that, which I have told you to do. That's when I started to realize that why is it that you don't do what you know |
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