So Money With Farnoosh Torabi

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 Ads, Fiber to Google Grants and beyond, Alana has been leading the charge to develop, scale, build and drive team and product development that has seen a rippling industry impact. Alana has spoken at conferences and summits on technology, leadership, DEI, talent and innovation. She lives with her three children, husband, two dogs, and a cat in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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 moments with managers and clients, work through past triggers they may not even know still cause pain, and reframe past career disappointments as opportunities to grow into a new path.

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.

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-transforming, 12-week boot camp that reveals how to get from where you are to where you dream to be – in life and in business. Visit www.thebigstretchbook.com to take Teneshia's Dreamer Profile Assessment.

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 Domestic Violence Awareness Month and I thought it would be helpful to revisit a conversation with earlier this year from one very brave survivor, Mercii Thomas. She recently left her abusive partner, a man that made her financially and geographically reliant on him. We’ll discuss the importance of understanding financial abuse and how that can prevent a victim from breaking free. We’ll explore the prevalence of domestic violence and financial abuse and the importance of financial empowerment....and share important resources for victims, survivors and their allies.If you or someone you know wants to learn more about the

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)

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 use their financial power to fight back. 

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 tools and guidance to amplify individuals self-worth and self-esteem to create financial abundance. 

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.

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 failure.Farnoosh and the Klemps explore the shift from fairness to what the couple calls radical generosity, as well as individual to shared success. They also share a number of tools for making these shifts real in the areas of saving, spending and balancing power.

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 a boss.

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?

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.

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, Hachette, Sounds True and many more.As host of the Bound + Determined with Richelle Fredson podcast, she provides a behind-the-scenes look at the business of books, interviewing industry leaders and authors. 

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?

What does financial self-care look like? It may not be what we think. Farnoosh interviews Allison Task, life and career coach and author of the new book, to learn ways to create more happiness and fulfillment in your financial life, as well as in your personal life and career...especially in these challenging times. Allison's new book is entitled A Year of Self Care Journal: 52 Weeks to Cultivate Positivity and Joy.

The next Child Tax Credit arrives on September 15. Ahead of that, Farnoosh interviews Roxy Caines from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, about how families can gain access to this much-needed benefit. Families can find out more information about the credit, if they qualify and how to get it at GetCTC.org.Also:Check out the Child Tax Credit 2021 breakdown on CNET.Calculate how much your family could receive with CNET's calculator.

This Friday, Farnoosh answers listeners' questions regarding whether it's better to own or rent an apartment in an expensive city. What to look out for when starting a business with a relative? What are the best investing courses? How to make the most of a previous 401(k) if you don't plan to start a new job yet? Reminder to send questions for Fridays shows to farnoosh@somoneypodcast.com

From Stacey Vanek Smith, the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money, comes Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace. It is an accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling. Using The Prince as a guide and with charm and wit, Smith applies Renaissance politics to the 21st century, and demonstrates how women can take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as second-best.

This episode aired originally on May 31, 2021.They may be called the "forgotten generation," but Generation X, those born between 1966 and 1980, are the trailblazers of our time, according to guest Margit Detweiler, founder of TueNight.com — a Webby-honored storytelling platform, live event series and community for grown-ass, Gen-X women aka those of us who are, in fact, "just getting started." Farnoosh and Margit discuss Gen X's superpowers, the legacy they'll leave the next generation and what would you do with your career if the Internet crashed?More about TueNight: Its weekly newsletter, the TueDo List, was just a Webby honoree in 2021 and named one of the top women-led newsletters by Forbes. Their storytelling lineup is consistently great and has included luminaries such as What Not To Wear’s Stacy London, NY Attorney General Tish James, novelist Amy Sohn, musician Jill Sobule, author Ada Calhoun and many others. In April of this year Margit launched TueNighters a private, subscription-based community wi