Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It is I, Chelsea Fagan, your host, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet and person who

loves to talk about money. Today I'm going to be talking about money with someone who came

all the way from New Zealand, which is really far from New York if you look at a map.

I was surprised myself when I saw how far it was.

She is someone who loves talking about money just as much as I do and has a book that just came out last week on that very subject.

Her passion in particular is about getting women to invest, which as we know here at TFD is something that is often a bit of an uphill battle,

not because women aren't capable of investing or don't have the money or education to invest,

but often because they're just not taught to manage their own long-term finances or really even to think about them.

We have study after study that shows that even in heterosexual pairings where the woman has higher

education, earns more than her husband, works full time. In general, these women are still not the

ones who are doing the long-term financial planning, even if they're usually the ones making

the day-to-day consumer decisions. And this isn't just a missed opportunity in terms of women

taking control of their own futures and having

their own security.

It's also a missed opportunity in that day-to-day finances

like what brands were buying at the store

and long-term finances, like how we're building wealth

and passive income to carry us through retirement,

are extremely closely linked.

And having the person, again,

usually the woman in a marriage, making the former decisions, but having little to no control

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