Personal Finance 101 with Liz Weston
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
While it’s always fun talking to authors, CEOs and you on the Better Off podcast, I also enjoy chatting with fellow financial industry journalism colleagues. Doing so allows me to get their take on the state of the industry and to talk about what they’ve been covering, what has them jazzed and what they see coming in the weeks and months ahead. Our guest this week, Liz Weston, is a total financial nerd, so I guess it’s fitting that Liz works as a columnist for NerdWallet, a personal finance website that offers financial tools and advice to help people understand their options when making financial decisions. Liz is also a CFP® and has been covering the industry for many years. She started her career on the politics beat but that got old quickly. She transitioned into personal finance and has been writing full-time since 1994. Even though Liz knows her stuff, it was very interesting to hear her talk about how she has used an insurance agent, a tax pro, an estate planner and even has her own financial planner. I’m the same way...even though we are professionals within the industry, qualified experts can help you save time, money or ideally, both! Some of the other topics we discussed include:The decreasing role of the Consumer Financial Protection BureauThe student loan crisis and possible ways to fix itWhether or not social security will be around for millennialsIf you follow me on Twitter then you know I’m a big fan of the content Liz continues to crank out. She’s definitely worth a follow for top notch personal finance insight. “Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment. We love feedback so please leave us a rating or review in iTunes. "Better Off" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. For a recap of every episode, visit https://www.betterment.com/resources/topics/inside-betterment/better-off-podcast/ Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ https://soundcloud.com/jill-schlesinger http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money http://betteroffpodcast.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi it's Jill Schlesinger on this episode. We're going deep into |
| 0:07.2 | personal finance 101 with Liz Weston, |
| 0:10.5 | nerd wallet columnist and certified financial planner. Talking about money and helping. Weston, Nerd Wallet Columnist, and Certified Financial Planner. |
| 0:13.5 | Talking about money and helping people with their money, |
| 0:15.8 | setting out a path and saying, OK, this is how you can take control |
| 0:18.7 | and this is how you can make the decisions that you want to make. |
| 0:21.6 | And obviously life happens. Everything everything changes and that's the other |
| 0:25.1 | thing I like about personal finance is there's always something new to write about. |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome to the Better Off Podcast sponsored by Betterment, the largest independent online |
| 0:33.7 | financial advisor. Today we're talking to Liz Weston. Now I've known Liz |
| 0:38.5 | Liz for a while because we both wrote for |
| 0:45.0 | Nurd Wallet and shot some videos together, but she's gone on to do all sorts of interesting things |
| 0:46.0 | including being a columnist for Nerd Wallet. |
| 0:49.0 | She's also a certified financial planner. |
| 0:51.0 | She's written a bunch of books, five of them, I can't even |
| 0:54.2 | believe it, and she appears a lot on television and radio all across the country. Now what's |
| 0:59.2 | interesting about Liz is that she sort of has a similar background in terms of what she does today |
| 1:04.2 | though we come from different roots so you'll hear a little bit of her origin story. |
| 1:09.6 | In this episode we're going to talk about the developments in the student loan crisis, |
| 1:15.5 | whether or not the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is really going to survive, |
| 1:20.5 | and the future of Social Security, which I think people really just still don't |
| 1:25.4 | understand. Don't forget we've got your listener question of the week. If you'd |
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