And I remember when I started covering investing every day, I would read the Wall Street Journal

investing section and just stop anytime I didn't know something and pause and try to learn

it.

So as you can imagine, it took about me about three hours to read the paper every morning

for a while.

But it was a tremendous, very quick education.

And of course, yeah, it did spur my own interest in managing my own money.

I'm Chris Hill and that's Mina Kimes.

She's an NFL analyst for ESPN and host of the Mina Kimes show featuring Lenny.

Every week she talks all things football with special guests and contributions from her

football loving dog Lenny.

But before all that, she was an award-winning financial journalist.

We caught up earlier this month to talk about her leap from Bloomberg to ESPN, the business

of the NFL, and something that every fantasy football fan will want to know before picking

a quarterback this season.

Mina started working for a division of Fortune magazine right out of college.

And I began our conversation by asking her what it was about financial journalism that

she found interesting.

The thing that was interesting to me was that I was offered a job as a physicist journalist

or actually more accurately an internship.

So when I was in college, I only really had two concrete aspirations.

One was to be a writer in some capacity and the other was to not spend a summer at home

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