Your Money Map Replay: The Investing Mistakes You’re Probably Making, And How To Stop

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all been there: endlessly scrolling through financial headlines, absorbing TikTok hot takes, or reading investing books with dreams of becoming the next Warren Buffett. But what if all that advice is doing more harm than good? On the most recent episode of Your Money Map, our weekly show with the Alliance for Lifetime Income, we sit down with Barry Ritholtz, host of Bloomberg’s Masters in Business podcast, CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and author of the new book How Not to Invest: The Ideas, Numbers, and Behaviors That Destroy Wealth and How to Avoid Them. His mission? To help us unlearn everything that’s steering us in the wrong direction. If you like this episode and want more, check out all of our Your Money Map episodes at protectedincome.org/your-money-map/ or tune in live every Wednesday at 12 PM ET on Facebook or LinkedIn. 🚀 FinanceFixx – Our 4 or 8-week coaching program to get your finances on track! Our next 4-week session starts May 6th, use code SAVENOW for a 15% discount. 📈 InvestingFixx – A club for women ready to grow their wealth. Your first month is completely free. Have a question for us? Write to us (or send us a voice note!) at [email protected]. While you’re at it, join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Gene Chatsky. We have had so many new listeners join us lately, and I just wanted to take a sec to say welcome.
0:07.3	Before we dive into today's episode, let me just take a moment to reintroduce myself. I am a long time personal finance journalist.
0:20.1	You might remember me for my 25 years on the Today Show.
0:24.2	And I started this podcast back in 2016 with one goal to help women take control of our money
0:32.3	and build the financial lives that we deserve. Whether you are budgeting, investing, negotiating, or
0:39.9	just looking to make some smarter financial choices, you're in the right place. And if you're
0:45.5	ready to go even deeper, I've got two fantastic programs. Finance Fix is my hands-on budgeting course,
1:02.6	and investing fix is the investing club I run with Karen Feinerman from CNBC that's designed just for women.
1:13.2	You can find out more about these programs at FinanceFix.com and InvestingFix.com, and by the way, we spell fix with two X's. We are so glad you're here.
1:14.8	Now let's get into the show.
1:28.3	But think about how many tens of thousands of people are out there opining on everything. Most of the time, we forget, hey, they don't know who I am.
1:30.1	They don't know what tax bracket I'm in.
1:31.7	They don't know what state I live in.
1:36.1	They certainly don't know what my financial goals are or what my plans are.
1:37.7	What have I saved so far?
1:39.4	I'm one of my hoping to use this money for.
1:42.9	Is their advice really geared to me?
1:46.2	Hey, everyone.
1:47.7	Welcome to Her Money.
1:48.7	I'm Gene Chatsky.
1:52.2	Today, we are talking about investing.
1:56.9	And I know it is a topic that many of you cannot get enough of these days. But we're not talking about it in the way that you might expect. You might have picked
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