So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

This week's Ask Farnoosh recorded from Los Angeles, amidst the launch of Stacks House in Los Angeles, the financial pop-up that Farnoosh co-founded. This week: Questions about financially supporting aging parents, investing versus paying down debt and credit score hacks.  Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming literary workshop Book to Brand. Early bird registration is now open! Hosted on Acast. See...

Tori Dunlap believes she was put on this planet for one reason and one reason only, to fight for wealth equality.   Tori She is the Founder of Her First $100k, a website and a movement. Tori created Her First $100k to educate women about money and to encourage them to join her on the journey to amass a $100,000 by 25.  She teaches women how to negotiate, save, invest and she's a content creator, a...

Lindsey Pollak is a leading expert on the millennial generation and today’s multi-generational workplace. She’s often called a translator, advising organizations and individuals on how thrive in today’s unprecedented five generation workforce. People are working longer and years ago, we thought by now, that the baby boomers would all be retired, but many of them are still at it and working. Lindse...

In this week's episode, host Farnoosh Torabi tackles listeners' questions about making money moves in a relationship, purchasing life insurance when you're single and have no kids and where to invest small amounts of money. 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.

Investing is not just for the wealthy. It is for broke millennials, too. We're welcoming back on the show my friend Erin Lowry, a personal finance expert. She started the crazy, popular blog called Broke Millennial years ago, as a way to share her own useful financial tips with her peers. The blog blossomed into a book by the same name, Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Lif...

Our guest today is Alex Banayan, who grew up in Southern California. The son of Iranian immigrants who had financial struggles and wished for Alex to experience a better life. And while he didn’t quite meet their initial expectations. (like many Iranian parents, he was encouraged to become a doctor, a lawyer, an academic), the 26-year-old has today accomplished more than many do in a lifetime. Fru...

Guest co-host Lily Chen joins Farnoosh on this week's episode of Ask Farnoosh. Lily is a medical doctor and podcast host from Sydney, Australia. She is also the host of How To Win Friends & Influenza , a quirky medical podcast that dispenses awesome life advice with minimal mention of Dale Carnegie. Questions this week: How can I get my 401k rebalanced if I don't use a financial advisor? How to in...

Who wants to hop off the I’m so busy train? It is possible to have a thriving career without feeling burnt out. It’s possible to raise your kids without feeling like you aren’t doing enough, according to our guest Kate Northrup who just released a book called Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms. Kate was initially on this show about four years ago, discuss...

Ida Rademacher is the Vice President at the Aspen Institute, as well as the Executive Director of the Aspen Financial Security Program. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington DC, Through Ida's work she tries to create nonpartisan solutions to improve financial challenges that are facing households in America. Ida is also in charge of shaping polic...

Guest host Christina Hamati joins Farnoosh to answer listeners' money questions. Christina is an avid listener. She works at a Fortune 100 financial firm as a consultant on various advanced financial planning concepts. She is in the midst of achieving her CFP designation.  Questions we tackle: I've heard it's better to put money in your IRA than pay down your mortgage. What do you think? Any advic...

Today’s guest is more familiar with The Millionaire Next Door than anyone else. She is Sarah Fallow, the daughter of the late Thomas Stanley, the book's author. Sarah is the Founder and President of DataPoints LLC, a company that provides scientifically validated, automated behavioral finance tools to the financial services industry. As the 20th anniversary of The Millionaire Next Door drew nearer...

Do you want to come play with the money? We are in conversation with Stacks House co-founders Kindra Meyer and Patience Ramsey. Really excited to announce that tickets are on sale currently for our Los Angeles arrival. You can purchase tickets at stackshouse.com/tickets and I have a special discount for SO MONEY listeners…Use SoMoneyStacksLa for 20% off your ticket. We’ll be opening doors on April...

This week's episode tackles questions related to earning more money and managing guilt around spending. Check out www.somoneypodcast.com for the transcript. You can always send me your money questions on Instagram @farnooshtorabi.  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 your partner died today, would you have your shit together? Today’s guest is Chanel Reynolds. She’s the author of the brand new book What Matters Most: The Get Your Shit Together Guide to Wills, Money, Insurance and Life’s “What-Ifs.” After Chanel’s husband passed away unexpectedly, she realized she had no idea how to access any of their financial documents. She didn’t know how to pay her mortg...

We are in conversation today with one of the top financial journalists in the country. We have Chris Taylor on the show. He’s an award-winning journalist, senior money correspondent at Reuters Money and contributor to Fortune and cnbc.com. We’re talking about his money perspectives. This is his first podcast interview. I didn’t know this until we wrapped, pretty flattered, and the lessons he’s lea...

This week's question touch on ways to financially supporting parents in their retirement, how to set up a Roth IRA, deciding whether to take a lower paying job and factors that impact our credit scores.  Special co-host is Morgen Rochard, founder of Origin Wealth Advisers, an independent, fee-only practice dedicated to helping young families and professionals align their finances with their life g...

One of the most financially fragile demographics in this country is women who have none prime credit scores. They are a part of the new middle class and these are women who experience challenges unlike many other parts of the population because they are often mothers, caretakers to elderly relatives, and the people in charge of their households. Their financial wellness matters to many people in t...

Our guest today discovered her love of money, courtesy of her quarter-life crisis. Kara Perez is the founder of Bravely, which she started in 2017. At that time, she was in the midst of what she calls a quarter-life crisis. She was broke, saddled with student loan debt, she had no career direction. She realized that what was holding her back was her lack of financial knowledge. She buckled down an...

On International Women's Day, Farnoosh invites financial expert Megan Gorman to co-host. Topping the list of questions: how to save for retirement and the benefits of the almighty Roth IRA. More about Megan: She spent her entire career working with high net worth individuals and families on their entire financial picture.  An attorney by training, Megan’s passion about personal finance is all abou...

Tonya Rapley is the millennial money expert and creator of the award-winning site, My Fab Finance . In 2014 she was deemed the “New Face of Wealth Building” by Black Enterprise Magazine and featured as their cover subject.  A millennial herself, Tonya’s mission is to help millennials break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck so that they can become financially free and do more of what they lo...

We're unpacking some of the real reasons, the real issues behind why women struggle to achieve financial independence. My guest today is the one and only Rachel Rodgers. She is as her bio describes, a woman of color, a mother of four and a seven-figure business owner in that order. Rachel started her career working as a lawyer with nonprofits, federal judges and Hillary Clinton, when she realized...

Co-host Allison Task, coach and author of Personal Revolution joins Farnoosh to answer your top money questions related to real estate, life insurance, long-term care insurance, credit scores and starting a podcast. Note: Farnoosh misheard the listener's question related to long-term disability and thought she asked about long-term care, to clear any confusion.   Learn more about Farnoosh's upcomi...

Dr. Anna Cabeca is a triple board certified Ob/Gyn physician who found herself feeling exhausted, depressed, and diagnosed with early menopause as the young age of 38. Despite being a physician, she was unable to solve her own health problems, and colleagues didn’t offer viable solutions, either. So, she set out on a journey to discover how to recapture her health, and created a new, thriving busi...

Thinking of starting a business? Wondering how much money you’ll need? Well, our guest today says it’s not as much as you might think. Our guest today is Maria Aspan. She’s an award winning business journalist and editor at large at Inc. Magazine where she writes about personal finance, startups, technology, finance, and gender. Before working at Inc., Maria covered business and finance for the Ne...

How to financially prepare for a baby? Do I need to contribute to a Roth IRA if I have a 401(k)? How can I re-emerge in the workforce as a mom who took a few years off? Ask Farnoosh returns with great questions from listeners.  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.