So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

This week's audience questions center around real estate and retirement. One listener wants to know how to prepare for the mortgage process when self-employed. What documents will she need? Another audience member wants to know whether climate risks will make home buying unattractive. And last: should you still be invested in the stock market in retirement? Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming lit...

Creative professionals - from coaches to designers to many self-employed individuals - sometimes have a harder time managing money. Questions about how much to charge for their goods and services and how to establish a business for long-term financial success is not always readily available. Our guest Ilise Benun offers practical advice for creatives on how to distinguish their "worth" from their...

We've all heard the expression, Follow Your Passion, but how realistic is it? It's not the be all, end all, to achieving fulfillment and success, says guest Terri Trespicio. In her new book Unfollow Your Passion , she shares the insights and tools for living a meaningful life on your own terms. In our conversation we discuss why pursuing "the one thing" and making bucket lists can set us up for fa...

We continue our discussion around the Cost of Climate Change and its impact on our investments and financial choices with guest Georgia Lee Hussey, co-founder of Modernist Financial and certified financial planner. We respond to listener questions about creating a sustainable portfolio, buying flood insurance and more. Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming literary workshop Book to Brand. Early bir...

When it comes to making an impact with our money, our first instinct may be to shift our shopping dollars to support the change we seek in the world. From banning plastics to supporting Black-owned businesses to boycotting retailers that are unkind to their workers, how and where we collectively spend certainly matters and deserves attention. But what about where we save our money? Where we bank?...

This week on So Money and on CNET (live beginning Monday 11/01 at noon ET), we are dedicating coverage to issues surrounding The Cost of Climate Change. Today, we focus on how climate change and extreme weather events are giving some home buyers pause. Our guest is Aditi Shekar, co-founder and CEO of Zeta , a financial services platform supporting families. She explains why she and her husband are...

This week on Ask Farnoosh: Details about backdoor Roth IRAs, the concept of "proper savings" and how to manage costs in a relationship where one partner makes significantly more. Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming literary workshop Book to Brand. Early bird registration is now open! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If something in your life could be  made easy, what would that be worth to you? Hard work is not always the best work. Yet we often opt for the harder routes in life because we assume they equate to more value, more meaning, more success. Susie Moore joins to discuss the insights and inspiration from her newest book Let It Be Easy . The book revolutionizes the concept of stress, showing you how to...

Celeste Headlee is the author of SPEAKING OF RACE:  Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It (on-sale 11/2), In our conversation we talk about the importance of connecting the dots between privilege and wealth, how to actually ask questions about race without sticking your foot in your mouth, the role of social media in furthering discussions about race. And celeste’s own challeng...

To buy or rent a home in Santa Monica? What tax deductions can I bank on this year? Smart to ditch roommates for my own place and pay double? How to play retirement savings catch-up? Farnoosh answers listeners questions. To purchase the 2022 So Money Page-a-Day calendar, visit www.pageaday.com, search for So Money and use the code SOMONEY for 20% off. Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming literary...

What's it like to be a woman navigating a career in tech? Alana Karen was a very early Google employee and has stories to tell. Her book, Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay , aggregates hundreds of stories on this topic, as well. More about Alana: She is an award-winning tech leader, author, and speaker whose work impacts many of our everyday lives. From Google Search to...

Author and speaker Minda Harts joins Farnoosh to share insights from her new book, Right Within: How to Heal From Racial Trauma in the Workplace. They discuss how to identify racial aggressions, how to effectively speak up and how to know if you're being gaslit. Filled with Minda Harts’s signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized momen...

This week's Ask Farnoosh addresses audience questions related to student loan, investing advice for teens, financial advice for someone nearing retirement and post-divorce, as well as the best finance books for beginners. Farnoosh picks two reviewers of the week to receive a free 15-minute money session. Plus, details about the forthcoming So Money calendar. Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming li...

For those of us considering career redirection or revisiting dreams deferred during the pandemic, entrepreneur Teneshia Warner joins to offer valuable tips and stories from her own personal experience leaving a stable corporate job to pursue her dream. Teneshia's book,  The Big Stretch: 90 Days to Expand Your Dreams, Crush Your Goals, and Create Your Own Success ,  is a soul-searching, life-transf...

This episode is brought to us in partnership with the Allstate Foundation. [Trigger Warning] Today’s show focuses on a very serious issue, domestic violence and specifically, financial abuse, described as the invisible weapon of domestic violence. It is something that happens in nearly all cases of domestic violence - 96 percent of domestic violence victims experience financial abuse. October is D...

This week’s Ask Farnoosh offers advice to a listener post-divorce on ways to think about re-establishing her financial life, as well as whether it’s OK to cash out a life insurance policy to use towards buying a home. How to establish boundaries with a parent that’s financially dependent on you? And what to do with a $50,000 inheritance? (Replay from Sept 17, 2021) Learn more about Farnoosh's upco...

Financial expert Tanja Hester joins to talk about her new book called Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change . Clear-eyed and practical, Wallet Activism helps angry, overwhelmed, and disillusioned consumers cut through the marketing lies of companies that have rebranded their problematic practices as “green,” “woke,” and “ethical” to learn how to u...

Joyce Marter is a celebrated psychotherapist, and founder of Urban Balance, who has made it her life’s mission to help people improve their mental health and financial wealth. Through lessons learned from her own career as a business-owner, Joyce’s new book,  “The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life”  shares a 360 degree holistic view of success with practical tool...

In the speed round of Q&A, Farnoosh answers a broad range of listeners' questions from real estate to budgeting and savings strategies for those living in NYC. Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming literary workshop Book to Brand. Early bird registration is now open! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are striving for equality in your relationship, you might be doing it all wrong. Our guests today Nate and Kaley Klemp, are a married couple and co-authors of the new book The 80/80 Marriage: A New Model for a Happier Stronger Relationship, recently named an editor's choice pick by the New York Times. According to the authors, striving for a 50/50 marriage is really just a framework for fai...

Guest Rachel Pacheco is on the faculty at The Wharton School of Business and the author of Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, which provides real-life strategies and teachings for how to be an effective leader and manager in the workplace. Farnoosh and Rachel discuss how managers can work harder to engage and retain employees, as well as some of Rachel's biggest mistakes as...

Tackling a wide range of financial and career-related questions on Ask Farnoosh today. Listeners want to know how to evaluate a job offer at a smaller company, the benefits of paying off a mortgage versus investing more for retirement. And what are the financial steps to take before quitting your job to focus full-time on a side business? How to budget after a layoff? Learn more about Farnoosh's u...

Author and Duke University Professor Dorie Clark joins to share insights from her latest book, "The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World." Clark talks about how to break out of the endless cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives we all seek, with unique principles and frameworks you can apply to your specific situation. Learn more about Farnoosh's upcom...

Richelle Fredson is a book publishing consultant and proposal coach. She lends her extensive knowledge to aspiring authors - including Farnoosh! - to guide them through the book development process from concept to proposal to agent introductions.  Dubbed the “six figure book deal coach” her clients regularly receive competitive book deals from Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins...

This week's Ask Farnoosh offers advice to a listener post-divorce on ways to think about re-establishing her financial life, as well as whether it's OK to cash out a life insurance policy to use towards buying a home. How to establish boundaries with a parent that's financially dependent on you? And what to do with a $50,000 inheritance? Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming literary workshop Book...