So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Our guest today is like none other. He straddles the worlds of music and technology, managing artists like multi-platinum rap legend Nas while also investing in tech startups. His name is Anthony Saleh. His background is in mathematics and electrical engineering…and while pursuing those degrees he discovered his true calling in the world of music. A little bit about his illustrious music career (and by the way he’s not even 30): He is the CEO of Emagen Entertainment Group and an artist manager with C3 Management. He executive-produced Nas' 2008 Untitled and 2012 Life is Good albums, both of which were Grammy-nominated and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In 2009, he partnered with Troy Carter to be the Executive Vice President & General Manager of Atom Factory. During his tenure, Atom Factory represented Nicki Minaj, Robin Thicke, Mary J. Blige, Lady Gaga, Toni Braxton, and many other artists. Anthony is also an influential member and part-time resident of Silicon Valley, where he is an avid angel and seed investor and advisor to many of America's top technology start-up companies. Anthony is an Emmy award winner…He has been named as Billboard's Top 30 Under 30. And most recently called a top 100 Entrepreneur by Levo.com. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever rented a tux? Or know someone who’s rented a tux? It’s kind of a pain, right? It’s multiple visits…you often need to get the tux tailored. It’s not cheap.The industry is changing…Today’s guest is leading the movement.George Zimmer is the founder, chairman CEO and honorary tailor of his former company Men's Warehouse for over 40 years. In 2013 George left Men’s Warehouse. News reports suggested at the time it was over disagreements with the board.He's now making a comeback with two new business ventures including zTailors where he is once again revolutionizing the apparel industry providing consumers with a remarkable and highly personalized experience to create high-quality, customizable and affordable tailoring through a national network of tailors. His second venture, Generation Tux, is what he's calling a "reinvention of the tuxedo rental experience." Over the years, George has helped tens of millions of young men find a tuxedo rental so he's putting his past experience to good use offering a high-tech clothing rental experience.For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

If you're a female entrepreneur you'll hopefully be as inspired as I am by today's guest. Jenn Scalia is a visibility coach and online business strategist who specializes in helping female entrepreneurs stand out in their industry in order to make an impact in their area of expertise. She's best known for her tough love, no-B.S. style when it comes to managing her clients. She has quite the story of her own having hit rock bottom only to come back stronger than ever.  After losing the love of her life, moving back in with her parents and piling up debt, Jenn was a single mom and realized it was time for a change. Jenn motivated herself to build a 6-figure business to become an online superstar. Today, she helps thousands of entrepreneurs who follow her teachings of how to promote their brands online.  She is also regularly featured on Huffington Post, Elite Daily and MindBodyGreen. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

I’m dedicating this show to all my student loan borrowers out there. I know you listen to this show. I know you’re dedicated to getting ahead financially. I also know that this is an extremely challenging issue. Overcoming student loan debt. In this country …we have more than $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, 40 million borrowers, an average balance of $29,000. To help us out with some solutions…I’ve invited the co-founder and vice president at SoFi. This company is making a big name for itself as the alternative student loan refinancing engine. A second largest marketplace lender with over $3 billion in loans issued across student loan refinancing, mortgages, personal loans and MBA loans.  You may recognize his name because he's also a thought leader whose perspectives on Millennial and Gen X personal finance topics have been featured in a variety of media outlets among them are ABC, FOX, CNBC, Fast Company and event Italian Vogue! Prior to co-founding SoFi, Dan spent twelve years leading Enterprise Sales and Product Development at at Standard Chartered Bank across London, Singapore and Shanghai. Dan was born and raised in the UK, so he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of Durham in England.  He also holds a graduate degree in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was a Sloan Fellow and co-founded SoFi. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh, special guest Ethan Dornhelm, principal scientist at FICO, and I answer your biggest questions about credit everything from making minimum payments to what goes into your credit score and more.To learn more about Ethan visit www.fico.com/en/blogs/author/ethan-dornhelm.  For more information about the podcast visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

Today's guest is a business strategist and self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur. Her story began when Erin dreamed of climbing the corporate ladder after reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad (written by Robert Kiyosaki, a former So Money guest!) where she finally learned the meaning of “financial freedom.”  To her, financial freedom had always been about a job and 4% annual raises, but now it was about ownership.  By her late 20’s, Erin got her realtor’s license and was owner of two homes. She then created a part-time pet-sitter company.  Within two years the part-time job became a six-figure income with 12 employees.  Five years later, she sold the pet company and opened a mobile spray tanning business.  Nine months later, she had created another successful business venture.  Since then, she has spent time helping and investing in others and their ventures.  She’s taken products to market, launched online businesses and has taken on massive marketing changes and plans for businesses in a variety of industries.  Since her dream is to help others, she created The Starters Club, which aims to help people wherever they are in their journey of entrepreneurship by working closely together and connecting entrepreneurs to the resources they need to help grow their business.  She's also written the book Master the Start: 10 Steps To Get Out Of Your Own Way and Create Your Dream Business and started a podcast to accompany her business, The Starters Club where she discusses entrepreneurial topics and interviews guests.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.

Today’s guest is someone for whom I had the privilege of working when I was first in New York City working as a junior reporter at Money Magazine, and there my guest Jon Birger was a senior writer. And so it is with great pleasure that I introduce him today on the show. Jon is the recent author now of the newly published book “DATE-ONOMICS: How Dating Became A Lopsided Numbers Game.” He explains the shortage of college educated men for every heterosexual woman out there, what he calls the “man deficit”, and it’s not that he’s just not into you — well there’s just not enough of him, he explains. And in the book Jon further goes on to talk about why this is the case, examining a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and good old number crunching. And good news, he offers some solutions for his female readers who wish to get married. Like which college to attend, if you’re young enough, where to hang out and where to live in order to meet Mr. Right.In addition to his book, Jon is a contributor to Fortune Magazine, as well as a freelance journalist who’s work has appeared in The New York Times,The Washington Post, Time, Barons, Bloomberg Businessweek, among many others. Prior to his work as a freelance journalist, Jon was a senior writer at both Fortune, and as I mentioned, Money Magazine. You may also recognize his name because he’s had numerous radio and TV appearances for this book, ranging from MSNBC, to CNN, to NPR, Good Morning America, and most notably in 2013 the Silicon Valley Trade Group “Always On Network” names Jon a power player in technology business media. So, he is a hard-hitting journalist on top of an author of a wildly popular book.For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

Today's guest is the very accomplished Tory Johnson. She’s an employee-turned-entrepreneur whose goal is to help “make great things happen for women.”In doing so, she created two multi-million dollar career-focused businesses for women including Women for Hire, a recruitment service offering a variety of career-related information for working women, and Spark & Hustle, a subscription network for entrepreneurs to come together to connect and collaborate on their ideas.Tory is also is a weekly contributor to ABC’s Good Morning America and author of 7 books, including a New York Times best-seller for The Shift: How I Finally Lost Weight and Discovered a Happier Life, where she shares how she shed 62 pounds in a year after her life-long battle with her weight.Earlier this month, Tory’s sequel Shift for Good: Simple Changes for Lasting Joy Inside and Out was released.  She recounts her journey to personal discovery and the effect it has had on both her professional and personal life.  For years, Tory was so focused on the number on the scale and her waist size but realized even after she lost all the weight, she was still missing something.  In this latest book, Tory shares with her readers how they can find joy in their daily lives and how they can make this shift for good since she experienced it firsthand, too.For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

 Kicking it off this week with my good friend Michael Schreiber. Michael and I used to work together. Well, actually we went to graduate school together at Columbia, followed by some colleague work atTheStreet.com, and then later we kind of worked together at Credit.com. He is currently the Editor in Chief and Chief Content Officer of Credit.com. It’s a website that serves as your credit advocate. It’s also a resource and guide to make sure that you’re fully armed with all the info and tools you could possibly want/need in order to fully understand your credit. Wanna know how a late payment can affect your score? Need guidance on how to manage your credit? Or maybe you wanna see where you stand with your score? Credit.com has you covered and the content from the website is syndicated everyday across major media portals including Yahoo!, NBC,AOL, MSN, and several others. Michael is responsible for leading the editorial and content team made up of more tan 30 credit experts. He is an Emmy and Dupont award winning journalist. He’s also a producer with 15 years of experience working in print, TV, online media and documentary work. Prior to this role he served as Managing Editor at MainStreet.com, the personal finance site owned by TheStreet.com. Michael is also a fellow graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism where he also serve there as an adjunct professor in the multimedia department. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.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.

In today's episode of Ask Farnoosh, special guest Sophia Bera of GenY Planning and I answer your biggest questions about retirement planning, how to afford children and more.Sophia Bera joined me earlier in the month on So Money Millennial week and in case you missed our interview you can catch it here.If you would like to learn more about Sophia Bera, visit her website genyplanning.com or follow her on Twitter @sophiabera.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.