Jean Chatzky: Women Are Getting Richer. Here’s What It Means for Money and Business | Finance | YAPClassic
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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
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How did Jean Chatzky transition from journalism to a career in finance?
When women make more money, we see that they take on more of their responsibilities at home. If you are in a relationship where your partner can't support your success or doesn't want to support your success, then it's not going to work. Being a homeowner is a helpful way to save money over the long term. When you own, you're building equity in this house, and that is a form of forced savings. But if you're not gonna be someplace for five years, I don't think you should buy. You just had $100,000 cash. Where would you put it? What I'm doing with that kind of money right now is
Yap gang, it is such a great time to be a woman. More women are becoming breadwinners, building successful companies, and creating wealth on their own terms. And as a female entrepreneur, I see this shift happening all around me. So today we're unlocking the Young and Profiting archives from my conversation with Jean Chaski. She's a financial journalist and the founder of CEO Her Money. Jean breaks down why women growing economic power isn't just changing our bank accounts. It's reshaping relationships, businesses, and even the way products are designed. And she explains why the next big step is making sure women feel just as confident investing in their money as they do earning it. I learned a lot from this one, and I think you will too.
Let's dive in with Jean. Jean, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast. Thanks, Hala. Thanks so much for having me. I'm so excited for this conversation. I think it's going to be so insightful for my audience. I really love your work. And you didn't really start off in finance, which I thought was interesting. And I'd love to get some backstory from you in terms of your journalism background. You were an English major. How did you end up first getting interested in finances?
I got interested, quite honestly, because my own financial life was a bit of a mess. And simultaneously, the journalism job that I got was sort of business adjacent. I started my career as an editorial assistant at a magazine that no longer exists called Working Woman. And got to report some stories on things like business and careers and management trends and investing. And I was interested enough in them to try to get a job in personal finance, business journalism when I left that job, which turned out to be really, really difficult because all the big business magazines on the planet, and I applied to all of them, kind of thought working woman was a joke.
And
finally, I got a little bit of advice that what I needed was an MBA, but I didn't have really any interest in going back to school at that point. So
instead, I
got a job on Wall Street. I worked in equity research for a couple of years. I learned investing inside and out. And when I came back out, I was able to reenter journalism, join Forbes, from there to Smart Money. And from there, I ended up on the Today Show for 25 years.
Amazing. So when I looked at your career journey, it reminded me a lot of my own in terms that you skill stacked to become an entrepreneur. So I call this skill stack entrepreneurship, where basically, you worked for other people, and you gained all these skills over the years, and then you became an entrepreneur, basically putting these skills together. And then you came out with her money and nobody could do her money better than you, you know, because you had all the experiences to put together this unique offering, to put together this awesome website, this awesome podcast. And you had all the background and the skills, the writing, the journalism, the broadcasting, the knowledge of that actual topic.
It's a lot like what I did with Yap Media and my podcast network and my social agency. So I'd love for you to just Talk to us about that for all these young people listening. Talk about the skills that you acquired over the years and then how you sort of use that in your entrepreneurship journey.
I was one of the original side-giggers, right? I think I had a side hustle before it was called a side hustle. Pretty much always, because journalists make very little money, or at least when you're starting out as a journalist, you make very little money.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did Jean Chatzky transition from journalism to a career in finance?
0:00–7:27
2
What is skill‑stacking and how did it help Jean build HerMoney?
7:27–18:36
3
What does the latest data say about the gender wage gap in 2024?
18:36–27:34
4
Why are women expected to control the majority of future wealth?
27:34–37:52
5
How does being a high‑earning woman affect dating and relationships?
37:52–47:37
6
What strategies are women using to become confident investors?
47:37–53:54
Speakers
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