The Greatest Financial Lesson of Life
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Suze Orman Media
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
For this Suze School, Suze explains why it’s so important to be prepared, financially, for the what-ifs of life. Using the current government shutdown as an example, Suze talks about what you need to do to protect yourself so that if you experience something similar, you can still pay your bills.
Then, Keith Fitz-Gerald stops by to talk with Suze about just what happened in the stock market this past week.
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| 0:00.0 | Susie, is it really true? |
| 0:02.2 | Is what really true? |
| 0:03.4 | The Alliance certificates. |
| 0:05.3 | Oh, you mean the rate that they're offering? |
| 0:06.9 | Yes, unbelievable. |
| 0:08.7 | Yes, it's true. |
| 0:09.9 | And all of you need to take advantage of it currently. |
| 0:13.6 | If you go to myalliant.com, you can get a six-month or one-year certificate for 4.10% that's a lot higher than a one-year |
| 0:27.6 | treasury, especially if you live in a low state tax bracket for $75,000 or more. It is $4.15 APR. So if you leave all the money in there, that's what you get. |
| 0:43.7 | So if you have money at a bank, at a brokerage firm, anywhere that you want a great rate, |
| 0:50.3 | I have to tell you, go to myeliant.com now before it disappears. I'm going, Susie. |
| 0:58.2 | I bet you are, Katie. |
| 1:04.0 | November 9, 2025. Welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast, as well as everybody smart enough to listen. |
| 1:18.7 | Now, before we begin, I just want to say, I have a special guest coming up in this podcast, so you best stay tuned to find out who it is and what they have |
| 1:33.5 | to tell you. So today's Susie School is about the lessons of life. Because you all have to look at what's been happening for approximately the last 40 days. Now, |
| 1:50.8 | maybe it's not happening to you, but it is absolutely happening to people. And when something |
| 1:58.0 | happens to people, you have to look at what's possible is happening to people |
| 2:05.0 | and could it ever happen to you? And what am I talking about? The lessons of life that you think |
| 2:13.4 | everything is going along great. You have a solid job. You have a paycheck coming in. You own a home. |
| 2:22.8 | You finally reached the American dream of owning a home. You have a car that probably you've leased |
| 2:29.6 | because you don't listen to the Women and Money podcast. Maybe you're putting some money away in your |
| 2:36.6 | retirement account, but really, you're counting on that paycheck every single week, every single |
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