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 woman who loves to talk about money.

And if you're watching the video version of this podcast, you've probably noticed by now that I am not at the TFD set.

I'm not in our office.

I'm not even in New York.

I am, as is basically our annual pilgrimage at this point for filming and showing our faces with the clients out here in Los Angeles. I'm in LA. I'm in Hollywood, actually, of all places. And one of the people that I most wanted to speak to when I came out to LA, This is our first podcast that we're shooting in LA.

So not only is it the first person we reached out to,

it's the first person we have scheduled.

We literally got in last night.

But it's someone who I think really typifies

a version of the Los Angeles experience

and specifically the creative professional experience

that we very rarely see or heard talk about.

I actually heard about her because a good friend of mine who

is a working actress based in London

is a big fan of her podcast and talked about how much

she is one of the only people who is in that space,

who is a working actress, who is sort of, quote,

living the LA dream, but who's talking really, really candidly about the finances of it all.

Um, and what actually happens behind the scenes because as you guys can probably imagine in such an image based industry,

part of what is very important is projecting an image of success, even if that's not always the reality and is often just being propped up on things like credit card debt

and rentals.

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