Today’s episode is a deep dive into perfectionism, comparison culture, and the struggles women face when measuring their progress against others. Guest Monica Packer is a normal mom and recovering perfectionist who uncovered the truest model to lasting growth: its progress made practical. As a podcaster and coach, she guides women to find sustainable growth by adopting progress over perfection. Monica is a mom of 5, former middle school teacher, forever Oprah fangirl, perpetual cookie dough maker, and beginner gardener. You can find more about Monica at aboutprogress.com.
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1568: The Fear of Failure and Recovering from Perfectionism

Employers are increasingly using AI to filter job applications. How can job seekers leverage this technology to increase their chances of landing an interview? Our guest is Laura Michelle Davis, an editor at CNET, where she specializes in personal finance content and also writes about technology, culture, and labor. Her recent piece addresses how AI is changing the game for job seekers and how applicants can stay competitive in the age of automation, algorithms, and machine learning.
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1567: How Job Seekers Can Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Land the Job

This week, Farnoosh answers audience questions about the best ways to afford a car and how to afford quitting your job.
Check out her column in Oprah about what to do *before* quitting your job.
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1566: Ask Farnoosh: I'm Burned Out at Work. How Can I Afford to Quit?

Are you a wounded achiever? Transformational career coach Brooke Taylor shares her personal conflict with her "success wounds" and how to spot the different types of wounded achiever in yourself, how each manifests in your life and impact your career and money choices. 
More about Brooke: She is a global speaker and transformational career coach supporting female leaders at companies like Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, Google, Salesforce, McKinsey, across the globe. She is also a former Marketing Lead at Google. 
In a crowded career coaching space, Brooke has distinguished herself as “the expert” in helping transform the lives and careers of high-achieving female leaders. Using a combination of Brooke’s personal experience and expertise modalities, Brooke breaks down what she calls women’s deeply ingrained “success wounds” and decouples their identity from their achievements, enabling her clients to scale their income, land promotions 200% faster, negotiate greater raises, and 100% of clients seeking a new job have landed one, all while gaining inner freedom and healthier narratives in the workplace.
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1565: Repairing Your Success Wounds with Transformational Career Coach Brooke Taylor

Divya Gugnani is the CEO and co-founder of Wander Beauty, one of the most beloved beauty brands. Listen to learn why Divya is an accidental entrepreneur, how she's become comfortable taking risks, and the power of staying curious. Learn more about Wander Beauty and Divya's new fragrance line Five Sens.
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1564: Taking Smart Risks and the Power of Curiosity with Wander Beauty Co-Founder

This week, we answer audience questions through the lens of financial fear, why it's healthy and how it can guide us to better choices. Special guest Georgia Lee Hussey, co-founder of Modernist Financial, joins to weigh in and help listeners.
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1563: Ask Farnoosh: The Fear of Money, How to Prioritize Financial Goals and Roth Vs SEP IRAs

Guest April Lokar is the Founder of Semi-Conventional, where she helps entrepreneurs amplify their expertise with scalable offers. In her corporate career, she developed her semi-conventional style, finding her own unique way to live life and get things done. Her passion is seeing clients’ light bulb moments as they become clear and confident in the next step for their business. We discuss taking risks in your career & changing jobs to earn more.

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1562: Changing Jobs to Earn More and a "Semi-Conventional" Approach to Career Success

To understand what’s behind existing wealth and opportunity gaps, history is sometimes our greatest teacher. But chances are when we think of the crack era, our minds go to how it was depicted in the media or political campaigns and policing in the 1980s and 1990s. Do we really know the individuals who suffered and what happened to them? And while people suffered, who profited? How do the failures of that epidemic continue to haunt and hold back our plight against drugs, as well as social justice and wealth equality today? Donovan Ramsey is our guest and the author of the new, acclaimed book WHEN CRACK WAS KING: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era. (This episode aired originally on July 31).
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1561: When Crack Was King Author Donovan X. Ramsey

Katie Couric has a big financial question for Farnoosh, plus 401k conundrums from the audience. And Farnoosh finally sees the Barbie movie - what does she think? (This episode aired originally on August 11)
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1560: Ask Farnoosh: A Financial Question from Katie Couric

We go behind the scenes with an in-house corporate recruiter Farah Sharghi. She is the Director of Recruiting and Human Resources at Dil Mil, a South Asian dating app based in San Francisco. She has worked as a technical recruiter at a variety of companies, including Google, Lyft, Uber, TikTok, and The New York Times and she has fast-growing social media platform where she shares her best job hunting and interviewing techniques, lesser known advice that really works like how to use Ai, how to enhance your online resume to stand out on LinkedIn and other job sites, how to spot red flags when interviewing for a position, signs you should NOT work there. (This episode aired originally on August 2)
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1559: The Biggest Job Hunting Mistakes (You Can Easily Avoid)

We have a megawatt fashion entrepreneur on the show - Chriselle Lim! Across her various social channels, Chriselle has garnered a community of over 6 million global followers. Her brand portfolio spans fashion, beauty, and parenting, On the show, Chriselle and Farnoosh discuss opens up about her journey and evolution as a fashion influencer and what inspired her to start her own brand, strategies on negotiating partnerships, and financial lessons learned from marriage and divorce. Check out Chriselle's new fragrance line at Phlur.com (This episode aired originally on July 26)
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1558: Chriselle Lim, Fashion Entrepreneur on Finance, Family and Life After Divorce

This week on Ask Farnoosh: Should you switch banks if you're only earning 2% on your savings account? When does it make sense to invest in home upgrades? Should a listener sell her house now or later? And what's the rule of thumb for asset allocation in your retirement portfolio? Is investing in 95% stocks too high? (This episode aired originally on June 30.)
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1557: Ask Farnoosh: When to Make Home Upgrades, High Yield Savings Pros and Cons

Guest Ana Homayoun is the author of the new book Erasing the Finish Line:  The New Blueprint for Student Success Beyond Grades and College Admission. In it she highlights the essential skills students need to move beyond a prescribed path and truly thrive in school and life. Reflecting on over two decades of working directly with students worldwide, leading academic advisor and early career development expert Ana Homayoun has written the book we desperately need.
More about Ana: She is an academic advisor and early career development expert working at the intersection of executive functioning skills, technology, and personal energy management. She is the founder of Silicon-Valley based Green Ivy Educational Consulting and the executive director of Luminaria Learning Solutions, a non-profit initiative developing the Life Navigator School Advisory Program. She is the author of three previous books: That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week, The Myth of the Perfect Girl and Social Media Wellness. She lives in San Francisco.
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1556: Essential Skills for Real World Success We Fail to Teach Kids

This is a very special SO MONEY episode taped earlier this summer in front of a live audience at the Midnight Theatre in Manhattan. Our star guest Michelle Buteau is a comedian, author and star of Survival of the Thickest on Netflix. During our conversation, we peel back the layers of Michelle's storied life, sharing insights, anecdotes, and so much laughter. Michelle is not only a master of humor and storytelling. She's also an astute saver and investor. Discover her keys to living a rich life and her current investments.
A special thanks to Zelle, our sponsor for the evening and providing us with a space to share transparent financial advice.
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1555: (LIVE!) Comedian Michelle Buteau, Star of Survival of the Thickest on Netflix

How does Farnoosh define "success?" How does decide which projects are worth her time, resources, and energy?
Plus: listeners have questions about their options when a prospective employer makes a low initial offer, the pros and cons to filing taxes jointly with your spouse and what to do with a $25k inheritance.
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1554: What is Farnoosh's Definition of "Success"?

What does it take to launch a super successful podcast these days? "Podcast Princess" Hala Taha shares how she quickly built her show, Young and Profiting, to be one of the top business and entrepreneurship podcasts across all apps. Hala is also the founder and CEO of YAP Media, a full-service social media and podcast marketing agency for top podcasters, celebrities, and CEOs. Hala is also one of the most successful and well-known influencers on LinkedIn.
She and I talk about scoring her first billionaire client and her reckoning with 2020, the despair she experienced, and discovering her path forward. 
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1553: Secrets to Launching a Top Podcast with Hala Taha, Host of Young and Profiting (YAP) Podcast

Guest Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, mental strength trainer and the host of Mentally Stronger. She joins to share her 5 lifestyle mistakes that keep you from growing mentally stronger -- and financially better off.
More about Amy: She is an international bestselling author. Her books, including 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 1 million copies. The Guardian dubbed her “the self-help guru of the moment.” Forbes calls her a “thought leadership star” and People says her book is one of the top 20 must read books of all time.
She lives on a sailboat in the Florida Keys.
This episode aired originally on May 31, 2023.
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1552: Turning Mental Strength Into Financial Strength

Katie Couric has a big financial question for Farnoosh, plus 401k conundrums from the audience. And Farnoosh finally sees the Barbie movie - what does she think?
Check out Farnoosh’s full op-ed piece on Katie’s website.
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1551: Ask Farnoosh: A Money Question from Katie Couric

Rich kids are perceived as free from life’s toughest challenges. “Having it all.” But being raised in affluence brings a unique set of pressures and hidden tripwires. Guest Kristin Keffeler, MSM, MAPP, is a thought leader and consultant at the forefront of a global shift in family wealth advising, known as Wealth 3.0. She works with affluent and enterprising families, rising gen, and the professionals who support them. Her book, The Myth of the Silver Spoon, explores our wealth culture and helps to identify structures for finding and sustaining one’s own vision of a fulfilling, impactful life.
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1550: Rich People Problems and Why We Should Care with Kristin Keffeler, Author of The Myth of the Silver Spoon

Manisha Thakor is the author of the new book, MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your "Enough" and is on the show discussing ways we can solve this money-happiness paradox and learn to build that essential base layer of “emotional wealth.”
Moneyzen draws on science and the stories of wide range of multidisciplinary experts from all walks of life to show how to rip off your "Busy Badge" to put meaning back into your life, eradicate the soul-destroying belief that “Self-worth = Net worth" and escape life as a human doing and return to your natural state as a human being.
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