So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Latest Episodes:

1347: Ask Farnoosh: How to Avoid Getting Low-Balled at a New Job Apr 22, 2022

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This week on Ask Farnoosh, a frustrated listeners shares how employers and recruiters refuse to share salary information but insist you ask for what you want to make. How can you work around this and avoid being low-balled? Also: Should I use emergency savings to cover living expenses? How can couples (with kids) prioritize savings goals? (A replay from February 11, 2022)

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1346: The Problem with Hustle Culture with Author Caroline Dooner Apr 20, 2022

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Bestselling author Caroline Dooner joins with an important message as we enter a new year: Let's get some rest!

She is the author of Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture.

Book summary: Offering a frank and funny critique of the cultural forces that are driving us mad, author Caroline Dooner examines how treating ourselves like never ending self-improvement projects is a recipe for burnout. We have become unknowingly complicit in perpetuating our own exhaustion because we are treating ourselves like machines. But even phones need to f*cking recharge.

Episode originally aired on Jan 3, 2021.

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1345: Simple Ways to Invest in Art on a Budget with Liz Lidgett Apr 18, 2022

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Guest Liz Lidgett is an art advisor, writer and gallery owner. As Founder of Liz Lidgett Gallery and Design, she works with people to find the perfect piece of art for their style, space, and budget. Farnoosh and Liz discuss ways to spot worthwhile art "investments" on a budget, how to build a successful business as an emerging artist right now, NFTs and more. Plus: Details on Farnoosh's recent art purchase that 10x'd in value in one year. This episode is a replay from February 14, 2022.

Artists mentioned in our conversation: Betsy Enzensberger, Hunt Slonem, Damien Hirst and Elisa Sheehan. Learn more about them and many more artists at www.lizlidgett.com.

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1344: Ask Farnoosh: Saving For Retirement for First Time in 40s (Help!) Apr 15, 2022

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This week's Ask Farnoosh answers listeners' questions related to negotiating salary when your employer recently got acquired. When is a good time to ask for a pay increase? Also: How to start investing for retirement for the first time if you're in your 40s? Can you add your child to your business' payroll? What are the benefits? Plus: Insights into I-Bonds, a popular savings vehicle that helps during inflationary times.

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1343: Overhauling Finances, Career and Childcare in the Pandemic (One Couple's Story) Apr 13, 2022

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Today we go behind the scenes of one household that shifted their careers, income streams and childcare in the pandemic ... and the changes have been for the better. Lee Bonvissuto is our guest. She is an entrepreneur and Founder of Present Voices, where she helps people access and articulate their best ideas in their most important moments through communication coaching, consulting, and community. In our conversation, Lee speaks candidly about the decisions that she and her partner made in the pandemic to reorient the economics within their marriage, to have her husband step away from his career and become the primary caregiver to their daughter. How was that decision made? How did it work out? How is it continuing to work out?

Lee also shares professional advice for those that want to harness anxiety to be more effective communicators at work.

Fun fact about Lee, she was raised in the theater. Her father was a mime. She takes us to her childhood and some of the money memories that she has growing up in an artist community.

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1342: The On-Going Financial Struggles of Working Moms in the Pandemic Apr 11, 2022

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Brynne Conroy is founder of Femme Frugality and the book The Feminist Financial Handbook. She joins to share the financial and professional hardships endured during the pandemic, as a single mother to two young children. And why the battle is not nearly over.

Read Brynne's personal essay at Too Ambitious.

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1341: Ask Farnoosh: Money Advice for My 30s? Apr 08, 2022

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How to save and invest in your 30s? How badly will a car refi damage my credit score? How to best afford a new home for my parents? This week's Ask Farnoosh addresses audience questions with guest co-host Georgia Lee Hussy, CFP and founder of Modernist Financial in Portland, Oregon.

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1340: Making a Financial Impact Without Spending Money Apr 06, 2022

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Elisa Camahort Page is an entrepreneur, speaker and author. She is also co-founder of BlogHer, an online community for women bloggers. On the episode, Elisa shares how to align your personal values with your financial mission and create profit and progress. How to make a social impact when your income is inconsistent? How to use social capital and time to move the financial needle for yourself and your community? [Random: We also dive in being a vegan and the cost of following that diet!]

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1339: Money, Meditation and Manifesting Wealth with Dina Kaplan Apr 04, 2022

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Guest Dina Kaplan is Founder of the The Path, which teaches meditation for the modern mind. The Path has taught thousands of people to meditate around the world and at festivals including SXSW and Sundance. She offers advice on how through meditation and elevating consciousness, we can attract more richness in our lives.

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1338: Ask Farnoosh: What to Make of This Crazy Housing Market? Should I Bother to Save for a House? Apr 01, 2022

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Back to regularly scheduled programming this Friday, with the return of a solo-hosted episode of Ask Farnoosh. Farnoosh answers your top money questions related to real estate (should I buy right now?) to retirement (where to invest if I don't have a 401k through work?) and best ways to invest for "fun?" (Is there even such a thing?) Also: Farnoosh's thoughts on recession forecasts and why she's not a fan of April Fool's or any pranks for that matter.

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