I've Been An Activist For 70 Years. I'm Terrified For Young People
The Financial Diet
TFD
4.3 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Thanks to Betterment for sponsoring this series! Get started, be invested, sign up in minutes: https://www.betterment.com/tfdWelcome to season 2 of our fan-favorite series, Just Getting Good, where Chelsea sits down with women over 50 to talk about life, love, money, aging, and everything in between. In this episode, Chelsea speaks with Rosalind (Ros) Petchesky, a lifelong activist and retired professor living here in NYC. They talk about coping with this fraught political moment, Ros' activist life from reproductive rights to Gaza, the value of intergenerational friendships, and what money is actually worth.Want to support TFD? One of the best ways is to join our membership program, The Society at TFD — join at the premium tier and get instant access to Chelsea's latest member newsletter! You can become a member here on YouTube or over on Patreon (we recommend Patreon for a better user experience!) — Join here: https://bit.ly/46jmyUE
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| 0:00.0 | We had jobs that gave us great health care benefits and pensions. I retired with all those things. |
| 0:07.7 | I have, you know, that's what sustains me. But I, and that doesn't really exist for most young people now. |
| 0:17.7 | I had so much good fortune. I was married to someone who was wealthy and had a trust fund and bought a co-op and I live in it still. |
| 0:28.8 | I can barely afford the maintenance, but I inherited it. |
| 0:32.4 | So there's so many things about my life that really aren't relevant to most young women. |
| 0:38.5 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Just Getting Good, which is one I have |
| 0:43.8 | been particularly excited about, because although we have been talking a lot on this show about |
| 0:49.5 | money, love, life, relationships, all of these topics, divorce quite frequently as well. |
| 0:55.0 | One of the topics we have not yet covered in depth is what it means to live a life of activism. |
| 1:01.0 | Now we talk about politics and sort of the political process quite a bit here on TFD because, as we always say, |
| 1:08.0 | money is inherently quite political and the framework that we are all working with economically comes down to a question of policy and who we put in power. |
| 1:16.6 | But we don't always talk necessarily about what political engagement looks like on an individual ground level. |
| 1:23.6 | And in this series, we talk a lot about the positives of aging, more confidence and a |
| 1:29.5 | stronger sense of self. And one of the best things you can do to ensure that that future |
| 1:33.7 | version of you is the fearless woman, I'm sure you're imagining, is to start taking care |
| 1:39.0 | of your finances now. Because the more time you give your money to grow, the better off your |
| 1:43.8 | future self will be. |
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