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856: Tonya Rapley, Founder of MyFabFinance.com Mar 06, 2019

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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 love. She is the creator of the #BanishTheBalance challenge, a debt elimination challenge that helped over 4,000 participants pay off more than $200,000 of debt in sixty days.

Selected by TV One as a modern day history maker, Tonya is a full-time entrepreneur and tours the country providing workshops for private and nonprofit clients. Her client list includes Fidelity Investments, Prudential, the National Endowment for Financial Education and FinCon ( the financial blogger's conference). Tonya has spoken at Bloomberg, Essence Fest, Millennial Week, PepsiCo, the Blogging While Brown Conference, BlogHer, Circle of Sisters and a host of colleges and universities.

You can learn more about Tonya at www.TonyaRapley.com and www.MyFabFinance.com. Also, follow her on Instagram @Tonya.Rapley and @MyFabFinance.

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855: Rachel Rodgers, Founder of HelloSeven.co Mar 04, 2019

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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 that changing the world is easier when you have some cash in your bank account. She decided to build a million-dollar business and then teach other women how to do the same.

In fact, she talks about on the show today how you can't really be a feminist if you're broke. Rachel is also the creator of the Million Dollar Badass Podcast. Got to listen to that. Fasten your seatbelts, diving into motherhood, money and making it work, all while refusing to apologize.

Learn more about Rachel by visiting her website www.helloseven.co and follow her on Instagram @RachelRodgersEsq

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854: Ask Farnoosh: Saving for a Home, Buying Life Insurance and Boosting Credit Mar 01, 2019

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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.

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853: Dr. Anna Cabeca, Author of The Hormone Fix Feb 27, 2019

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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 business in the process.

As a menopause and hormone expert, Dr. Cabeca has changed the lives of women across the globe, connecting to others through humor, honesty and passion. She’s been featured in national media, has created her own line of products, and just recently published a book called The Hormone Fix: Burn Fat Naturally, Boost Energy, Sleep Better, and Stop Hot Flashes, the Keto-Green Way.

To learn more about Dr. Anna Cabeca, please visit www.drannacabeca.com or follow her on Twitter @AnnaCabeca.

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852: Maria Aspan, Author of Startup Money Made Easy. Feb 25, 2019

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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 New York Times, American banker, where she was the national editor and coverage of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, which she says was a turning point in her career. She’s here to tell us about her new book, Startup Money Made Easy. It is The Inc. Guide to Every Financial Question About Starting, Running, and Growing Your Business.

The book focuses on a lot of the commonly held beliefs that people have about raising capital to start their dream business and she debunks some of these mindsets. She also uses her years of experience, research, and conversations with successful CEO’s to demystify the startup money process for entrepreneurs to be. Plus, Maria dives into her own money and career journey, as she climbed the ranks of the news business. Today, she is an editor at top publications.

To learn more about Maria, visit her website at www.MariaAspan.com and follow her on Twitter @MariaAspan.

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851: Ask Farnoosh: How to Financially Prepare for Baby? Feb 22, 2019

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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.

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850: Casanova Brooks, Real Estate Expert and Author Feb 20, 2019

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Our guest today is Casanova Brooks, a young man who battled cancer in his teens, lost his home, lost his job and experienced the death of his mother all within the span of one week. Hitting rock bottom, he says gave him the confidence to take on new challenges, take on a growth mindset and rebuild his life. Today is one of those episodes where you're just going to hear the most inspiring story of a man who persevered and now only at the ripe age of 31, has completely rebuilt his life. Casanova today is a successful real estate expert, having locked in 46 real estate deals in his first year as an agent. All this, working in a new city, where he had no family, no friends, no network. His outlook on life has awarded Casanova invitations to speak all over the world. He's also the author of the book Real Estate: Play the Game Like the Winners. We're going to talk about the steps he took after hitting rock bottom, his take on real estate these days and how to evaluate risk in your financial life.

Learn more about Casanova Brooks at www.CasanovaBrooks.com, and on Instagram @Cassanova_Brooks.

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849: Casey Erin Clark, Vital Voice Training Co-Founder Feb 18, 2019

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What is the right way to speak? How and why can your voice be a mask to help you accomplish the goals you hope to achieve? Today we are chatting with Casey Erin Clark. She’s the cofounder of a business called Vital Voice Training, which is a voice and speech coaching company on a mission to empower women and change ideas around what women are supposed to sound like. What are we supposed to sound like, you know? We talk about this as well as vocal fry, what is it, do you have that and does it even matter? Casey’s business, by the way, was born from a career heartbreak. She grew up with a goal to be on Broadway and she had numerous career successes from being in a number of off Broadway musicals, she performed at the Oscars, she was a member of the Les Mis national tour but when she tried to get the part to perform Les Mis on Broadway after the tour, she didn’t get the part, and we’ll learn how she went from this huge heartbreak to a breakthrough, working as a singing coach and running Vital Voice Training with her cofounder.

Learn more about Casey at www.VitalVoiceTraining.com and follow her on Twitter @CaseyErinClark.

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848: Ask Farnoosh: Help! My partner won't talk about our finances. Feb 15, 2019

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This week on Ask Farnoosh, listeners ask about how to manage money in your relationship when a partner doesn't like to talk about money, how to properly share your personal income with co-workers and how much risk should someone in their 20's take on in their retirement portfolio? Listener and personal finance enthusiast David Fox co-hosts with Farnoosh.

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847: Cate Luzio, Founder of Luminary Feb 13, 2019

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So often we hear about startups taking investor dollars, or venture capital, or taking on debt to start a business. Our show today highlights one woman, Cate Luzio, and how she, thanks to her consistent savings over the years, afforded her own way to launching her business and becoming an entrepreneur.

She just decided a year ago to launch Luminary; a new collaboration hub in New York dedicated to providing women with a beautiful and functional space to work and grow their network. Prior to forming Luminary, Cate was the Executive Vice President and Global Head of multinational corporate banking at HSBC. There, she was responsible for roughly $2 billion = in revenue and teams globally in 55 countries.

Cate and I discuss the impetus for her transition into entrepreneurship. We also talk about the reasons behind what seems to be a stagnant level of women in the workplace since the 1980s. Also, couldn’t let her go without asking her about some of the money memories from childhood that shaped her perspectives today.

To learn more about Cate and Luminary, please visit https://www.luminary-nyc.com/ and follow her on Instagram @BeaLuminary.

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