Laura Adams (aka, “Money Girl”)
MarketFoolery
The Motley Fool
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Laura Adams became the first star of financial podcasting in 2008 when she started hosting the “Money Girl” podcast. An award-winning writer and personal finance expert, Laura sits down with Chris Hill to discuss her origins in finance, how she got started in podcasting, which financial headlines give her cause for concern, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 28th. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Chris Hill. |
| 0:05.8 | As you can probably tell from the ambient noise, we're not in the studio at full of global |
| 0:09.0 | headquarters. We are hanging out at the Capitol Sheridan in Austin, Texas. Home of food trucks, great |
| 0:16.8 | barbecue, great music. It is also the home of the award-winning writer and personal finance |
| 0:20.8 | expert, Laura Adams, the host of the top rated |
| 0:24.4 | money girl podcast so great to meet you it's great to meet you too it's fun to put |
| 0:29.8 | voices and faces together. |
| 0:32.7 | I heard your voice for a long time. |
| 0:35.0 | Likewise. |
| 0:37.0 | I want to get into a couple of personal finance things that have been in the news lately, |
| 0:41.8 | but I want to start with just sort of how |
| 0:44.4 | you got started in all of this. Let's go way back. You grew up in South Carolina |
| 0:51.4 | what did your parents do? |
| 0:54.0 | My parents have always been very entrepreneurial. |
| 0:57.9 | They've always owned businesses, multiple businesses, |
| 1:01.0 | but they were primarily involved in the telecommunications |
| 1:03.8 | business. |
| 1:04.8 | So this is kind of a dying thing now, but an answering service was kind of a big deal back in the |
| 1:10.8 | day. |
| 1:11.8 | A lot of companies needed somebody to answer phones off hours and |
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