So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Our guest today is in the midst of selling her belongings and packing her family of five into an RV, spending the next year traveling the country. Today’s guest is Jenn Edden. She’s a sugar addiction expert, author and empowerment coach who helps female entrepreneurs learn how to increase their energy through proper nutrition. She is the author of Woman Unleashed: the highly sensitive woman's guide to radiant energy, unstoppable confidence and a 21 day plan to kick sugar's hold on you! Lately, she’s become more interested in helping families and children overcome their sugar addictions and that is what sparked the big move.Over the next year, Jenn, her husband and three children will be going from state to state to visit schools and universities to educate kids and young adults about healthy eating.Jenn arrives at this major transition knowing a thing or two about being brave. She is a former medical school drop out and a survivor of a near-death home explosion.  She’s got her handle on her health AND her finances. Hear how she and her husband did the math to figure out if they really could just afford to travel the country for a year with their kids.To learn more about Jenn, follow her on twitter @JennEdden and visit her website, www.jecoaching.com. Her book Woman Unleashed is available on Amazon.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.

Suze Orman is here!This interview is probably one of my favorites for a lot of reasons. It was fascinating to hear Suze's views on women and money today and learn if they've changed over time. You may have thought Suze was enjoying retirement. Well, she's left...at least, temporarily, inspired since the #MeToo movement to relaunch a new and improved edition of her best-selling book, Women & Money.This is going to be a little bit of a different format than typical episodes on the podcast. You will hear from me, as well as Adam Auriemma, the editor-in-chief of Money Magazine, who invited us to join a panel with him to share our thoughts around women and money. For the full video ov, head over to money.com.Check out more of Suze's work at www.suzeorman.com.  Her updated book Women & Money is available here. 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.

Farnoosh, what are your thoughts on 0% financing offers for new cars? Is hiring a financial advisor a waste of money? How best to plan for a child with special needs? Joe Saul-Sehy, host of Stacking Benjamins co-hosts. Joe is taking his show on the road and is in the midst of a 3-city tour. He'll be in Kansas City on October 9. Get the full tour schedule here: www.stackingbenjamins.com/tourLearn 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’ve been following me on Instagram or get my newsletter, you might know that I recently took stand up comedy classes here in NYC at Manhattan Comedy School. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. It scared the heck out of me...so naturally, I had to try it. My next performance is TONIGHT at Gotham Comedy Club at 7pm, actually.  And so I thought who better to have on So Money today than my comedy school teacher, comic Karen Bergreen.Over the past decade, Karen has been keeping audiences laughing all across the country. She’s been on Comedy Central, the Oxygen Network, VH1, The View, and LIVE at Gotham.She’s also an author of two fiction books, Perfect is Overrated and Following Polly: A Novel. She and I talk about the highs and lows of being a female stand up comic, growing up in New York City when people *didn’t* want to be labeled as “rich.”..and  Karen’s transition to comedy...She graduated from Harvard, and went on to law school. How and why she pivoted is where we begin the conversation...To learn more about Karen, visit KarenBergreen.com or find her on Twitter @KarenBergreen. 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.

Would you consider yourself gritty? Grit is being able to pursue long term goals, even if that pursuits take years. Grit is when you view your life like a marathon, not a sprint. Grit is when you don’t consider a failure an end point. And, today’s podcast guest is the world’s foremost expert on grit, and she’s here to tell us how we can get more of it and why it’s so important.Today, I’m welcoming Angela Duckworth to the show. She is the New York Times best selling author of the book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance...now in paperback. She’s a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her PhD, and she’s the Founder and CEO of Character Lab, a non-profit that helps use psychological science to help kids thrive. Angela and I discuss how grit can be learned, her financial perspectives formed as the daughter of immigrant Chinese parents, Eastern versus Western parenting values...and we explore the plot of the hit book and movie Crazy Rich Asians. You can learn more about Angela by visiting her website, www.angeladuckworth.com and www.characterlab.org and follow her on Twitter @angeladuckw.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.

Special co-host Jamila Souffrant, founder of Journey to Launch, is back on the show, this time co-hosting and helping answer a wide range of questions from So Money listeners.Today's questions: Is it better to make an additional principal payment on a mortgage each month or invest in an index fund? What to do when you're in your 60s with no savings or retirement? What can a professional woman in her late 20's - who wants children one day - do to prepare best for the time and money constraints of parenthood?To learn more about Jamila, visit JourneytoLaunch.com. You can also follow her on Instagram.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.

Ever wish there was someone at your company, whose job is to enhance your well-being, happiness and fulfillment at work?Today I’m welcoming Claude Silver to the show. She is the Chief Heart Officer for Vayner Media, the powerhouse media company created by none other than Gary Vaynerchuk, who is also a bestselling author and by many accounts, one of the most recognized entrepreneurs in the world. As Chief Heart Officer, Claude she has a very special job, and is responsible for improving and inspiring Vayner Media’s 800+ employees. Her role is to help nurture the amazing culture at Vayner Media and ensure it’s a place where all employees feel at home. Don’t we wish more companies prioritized this?Growing up, Claude wanted to either be a philanthropist or a movie director, but at the heart of it all, she just enjoys helping people. Today we’ll talk to this inspiring woman about how she landed this unique job title, the book that changed her life and how she tries to, as she says, "light people up at work each day."You can follow VaynerMedia at VaynerMedia.com and follow Claude on Twitter @claudesilver. 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.

In the Iranian culture, if your child becomes a doctor, this is the ULTIMATE trophy for a parent. And while being a doctor comes with a great deal of integrity and pride...building a solid financial life as a doctor is not as simple as it once was with the heaps of student loan debt many doctors today have.And as our guest today will explain, many physicians are not equipped with the financial know-how of managing their money and growing wealth.Peter Kim is our guest and he is an anesthesiologist AND real estate and passive income expert. Last I checked, being an anesthesiologist was one of the highest paid tracks in medicine. So, what motivated Peter to rethink his profession?For years Peter blogged anonymously at PassiveIncomeMD.com about his exploration into real estate as a side hustle. He also runs the real estate company CurbsideRealEstate.com to help educate physicians about the homebuying process. Did you know there’s a thing called a physician’s home loan?Peter recently lifted the veil on his site to share his name and more details about his personal life to the thousands of readers he’s cultivated over the past few years.Today he is a physician by CHOICE, as well as an avid real estate investor. You can learn more about Peter Kim by visitingwww.passiveincomemd.com and www.curbsiderealestate.com. Follow him on twitter @passiveincomemd.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.

This week's listener questions touch on home ownership, paying down student loans (versus investing in the stock market) and where to stash cash for a short-term goal? Co-host is Mary Grace Gardner, a So Money listener and founder of TheYoungProfessionista.com.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.

How do you make or take your coffee? Does it spark joy? Our guest Raj Jana has built a thriving business by turning the common experience of making coffee into kind of an art form and in the process has created a 6-figure per month business. A little more about Raj: He was born to Indian parents who came to the U.S. with only a few dollars in their pockets. He previously worked at Chevron as an engineer until a life changing moment at work that made Raj reevaluate his life path. Raj shares financial lessons learned from his upbringing, the changes he would try to make if he won the lottery and some high-level coffee talk. Like, what is a pour-over? And why is it Raj’s go-to coffee order?To learn more about Raj’s company, Java Presse Coffee, visit JavaPresse.com and follow him on Instagram @JavaPresseCoffLearn 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.