HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

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Ep 108: Should You Freeze Your Eggs? A Conversation About Career, Money, Life May 02, 2018

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"Freeze your eggs. Free your career." That was the headline on an April 2014 cover of Businessweek featuring this week's guest, Brigitte Adams. Adams went on to found Eggsurance, an egg-freezing education site, and she gets granular on the process. In Mailbag, we talk credit freezing, SEP IRAs and student loan refinancing.

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Ep 107: A Candid Conversation On Death, Grief And Money With The Authors Of Modern Loss Apr 25, 2018

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Talking about money and death can be awkward. That’s why we're chatting with Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, authors of, "Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome." We discuss grief, family dynamics, inheritances, wills, the importance of having good executors and what to say to people when it feels like there are no right words. In Mailbag, HSAs, post-divorce retirement considerations and prepping college grads for managing money.

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Ep 106: How To Overcome Your Fear of Investing Apr 18, 2018

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Does women + Investing = Fear? It might, according to research from our guest, Libby Leffler, VP of Membership at SoFi. She gives us her take on how to get more involved with your investments. In Mailbag, whole life insurance policies, how to rollover retirement accounts and how to pay down debt and build emergency savings.

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Ep 105: All The Negotiating Advice You’ve Gotten Is Wrong. Kate White Fills Us In. Apr 11, 2018

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Kate White, author of The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success, offers her advice on negotiating and how being a "good girl" can hold you back. In Mailbag, credit repair services, Facebook scams and tax deductions.

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Ep 104: 401(k)s, Facelifts And Other Fairy Tales With HBO’s Sheila Nevins Apr 04, 2018

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Sheila Nevins, longtime President of HBO Documentary Films has spent years telling other people's stories. But in this episode she opens up about her own. We have a no-holds-barred conversation on what it was like to be a career-driven woman in the 1970s, the #MeToo movement, her relationship with money, and her feelings about aging. In Mailbag, saving before you start investing, and couples compromising on debt tolerances.

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Ep 103: How To Do The Ultimate Shopping Ban And Save Thousands Mar 28, 2018

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After paying off $30,000 of debt in two years, Cait Flanders found herself spending too much because she never addressed why she got into debt in the first place. She went on a two-year shopping hiatus and discovered her spending was more emotional than anything else. In her book, "The Year of Less" she chronicles her journey and teaches us to hack our shopping habits for the better. In Mailbag, short-term and long-term investment decisions and lowering your credit card's interest rate.

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Ep 102: The Jobs, Investments And Relationships You Have In Your 20s And 30s Aren’t For Practice. Here’s Why. Mar 21, 2018

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It's time to start approaching each year and decade of our lives more intentionally. We're chatting with therapist Dr. Meg Jay, author of "The Defining Decade" about how to take control, reduce our anxieties and build identity capital. In Mailbag, how to gain more financial power.

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Ep 101: Find Your Million-Dollar Idea With Adam Grant Mar 14, 2018

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Adam Grant, organizational psychologist, Wharton's top-rated professor and bestselling author offers up his surprising research on originality, including the fact that people who are "idea machines" are more likely to procrastinate, more likely to play it safe and just as likely to feel the same fear and doubt that the rest of us do. In Mailbag, we cover how to raise kids who want to be investors, and why you need a cohabitation agreement if you're moving in with the LOYL.

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Bonus Mailbag #9 Mar 09, 2018

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In this Bonus Mailbag, questions on tax brackets in retirement, credit cards for business expenses, balancing student loan repayments with retirement savings and getting the whole family on board for an estate planning discussion.

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Bonus Mailbag #8 Mar 08, 2018

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When it's likely safe to hand over your social security number, and when it's not. Also, questions on using trust money for student loans and managing finances as freelancers.

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