Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode

of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, Chelsea Fagan, your founder and CEO

of the Financial Diet, your host, your person

who loves talking about money.

And actually, as some of you probably know,

if you've watched or listened to this show before,

a person who loves to gossip.

Now, I know that a lot of us were probably raised saying that gossip is a bad thing. But I think it's fair to say that gossip rules. It's awesome. It's cool. It's a good thing to do. It's good for the soul. It's good for the mind. It's good for the body. OK, maybe it's not entirely. Sometimes gossiping can be petty and it can be overly negative.

And it can be about sort of externalizing our own insecurities and sort of projecting on or

calling out other people based on what we see in them.

But gossip in many ways can also be a useful tool.

It's how, for example, for many, many, many years

and even today, women were able to communicate

important information to each other, to warn each other

about things, to make connections, to form networks,

to form communities.

And while some of it, yes, can be totally petty,

also a lot of it enables us to understand human behavior

better, to understand how other people feel,

to modify our own behavior.

For example, if a friend tells you about something really

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