Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Heather Dubrow on Two Decades-Worth of Marriage and Money Advice, Prenups, Money Dysmorphia and More
21 Nov 2024
This conversation with Heather Dubrow (actor, entrepreneur Real Housewives of Orange County star) has everything: how to have healthy conversations about money with your spouse, tackling money dysmorphia, to prenup or not to prenup, Nvidia, floozy clauses, the Real Housewives arrest record— everything. And one thing is for sure: you'll have as much fun listening to this conversation as Nicole had having it. Check out Heather's capsule collection with Susan Bender here: https://sbxhd.com/ All investment strategies involve risk of loss. The content you hear on this podcast is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice by our hosts or by Money News Network.
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I'm Nicole Lappin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. It's time for some money rehab. Honestly, this episode covers so much ground, I don't really know how to introduce it.
From having healthy conversations about money with your spouse, to money dysmorphia and prenups and investing and floozy clauses and the Real Housewives arrest record, this conversation has a bit of everything. And that's probably because I'm talking to Heather Dubrow, who has seen it all.
Heather is so refreshingly honest and articulate about money, and let me tell you, that is not always the case with people who are Hollywood-adjacent. Heather is an OG member of the Real Housewives of Orange County and an entrepreneur. She most recently collaborated on a line of capsule pieces with designer Susan Bender.
Heather has been married to her husband, Terry Dubrow, who you might know from Botched, for 20 years. So as a newlywed, I really loved hearing her advice about having healthy conversations with your partner about money. But again, there is too much to love about this episode, so I'm just going to stop talking about it and get right into it. Here's Heather. Heather Dubrow, welcome to Money Rehab.
Oh, thank you for having me. So you obviously are financially crushing it right now, you and your family. But let's rewind. Was there ever a time where you felt like you needed money rehab? What was your relationship with money when you were growing up?
Oh, yeah, for sure. There was a running joke between me and my dad where he was explaining to me the concept of income and outgo. Listen, sister, it doesn't grow on trees. You know, I grew up in an upper middle class family. I had jobs to learn how to take care of myself, not because I needed the money. So that was very lucky for me. I'm very grateful for it.
I call my parents patron of the arts because I was always... performing. And so obviously was going to spend years struggling to do that as one does. But I have to say, when I first moved out to California, I graduated Syracuse University and I was doing some acting gigs and I got flown out to California and I decided to stay out here.
And my parents were like, OK, if you want to stay in California, that's fine. You're going to have to figure it out. And part of figuring it out, instead of being a waitress, I was a singer. So I sang at Disneyland and I ended up putting together this big band that we performed. And that was like my waitress job for four years.
However, during that period of time, I did what a lot of people in their 20s do, which is rely on my credit cards and rack up quite a bit of credit card debt in my early 20s. Do you remember how much? Oh, yeah. It was $60,000. Damn, girl. Yeah. And that was over the course. Cause you know, like some months the band did better than others. Sometimes I spent more than others.
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