How You Can Get Through A Shutdown (Even If You're Not A Federal Employee)
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Suze Orman Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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On this special episode, Suze gives a step-by-step plan for surviving this government shutdown, with courage. The suggestions Suze makes are not just for those people currently furloughed, it’s for all of us, so that we may be prepared for the what-ifs of life.
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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 everybody to the Woman and Money podcast. And everybody smart enough to listen. Susie O. here. And today's episode is not business as usual. It's not Ask KT and Susie anything. |
| 0:57.7 | And why is that? |
| 0:58.8 | It's because the government has shut down. |
| 1:03.5 | And when Washington grinds to a halt, millions, and I mean millions of people's |
| 1:10.1 | paychecks, stop cold. Federal employees, |
| 1:15.8 | contractors, families, small businesses that depend on that income, I have to tell you not only |
| 1:23.5 | is it frightening, but in my opinion, it is totally frustrating and seriously it's just unfair. |
| 1:31.6 | But I'm not going to get into the politics of this, but it's just not right. None of it |
| 1:38.9 | is right, just so you know. Here's what we're not going to let happen, at least not on my watch. |
| 1:47.8 | If this has affected you, you are not going to let this fear of what just happened paralyze you, |
| 1:56.7 | no, because fear makes you hide, and you know I've said it over and over again, |
| 2:04.4 | fear is one of the main internal obstacles to wealth. |
| 2:07.3 | You also know that I have said to you, courage is one of the eight qualities of a wealthy, |
| 2:15.0 | wealthy person, all right? |
| 2:21.8 | So you're not going to let fear paralyze you right now, |
| 2:31.2 | because again, fear makes you hide, but courage makes you act. So today, I'm going to walk you step by step through what you can and must do right now to protect yourself |
| 2:38.5 | your money and your future. And I'm going to get into the stock market with all of this as well. |
| 2:46.0 | But really, I want us to take care of those that are going to be affected by this because we do not know how long this is going to last. |
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