1326: Ask Farnoosh: How Women Can Plan and Build Financial Resilience

03/04/22 • 28 min

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As we begin the month of March, Women’s History Month, we are dedicating our Friday episodes to important financial themes that touch all of our lives, but especially the lives of women – from planning to investing to retirement and more.

For this So Money has partnered with Prudential and each Friday a financial expert from Prudential will join me to answer your money questions. Today our theme is women’s unique financial challenges, the importance of financial planning and how planning builds resilience.

Our guest is Sarah Benton Smedley who has been a Financial Planner at The Prudential Insurance Company of America since 2013. Sara is passionate about financial wellness and helping her clients achieve their goals through education, guidance and crafting custom strategies for their financial future. In this episode we’ll talk about how to financial plan if you’re unemployed, the evolving financial goals of women today (much different than 20 years ago) and when it makes sense to take on debt to achieve certain financial goals. For more insights, visit www.prudential.com/SoMoney

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In this episode, guest Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, author of Financial Adulting, breaks down key steps to being a financially confident and conscious adult.

Ashley is a money coach, author of The 30-Day Money Cleanse, and the Founder of the Fiscal Femme, a money platform on a mission to end inequality through financial well-being.

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1327: The Financial Cost of FoMO with Patrick McGinnis, Author of Fear of Missing Out

From cryptocurrency to housing, the fear of missing out (FoMO) drives a great deal of our financial decisions. Guest Patrick McGinnis, the first to coin the term FoMO, shares the root causes of this fear, as well as the unfortunate costs of FoMO-led investing and spending. His book is called Fear of Missing Out: Practical Decision-Making in an Overwhelming World.

More about Patrick: He is an international venture capitalist and host of the hit podcast FOMO Sapiens. Patrick coined the term FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), as well as the related term FOBO (Fear of a Better Option) in a 2004 article in the student newspaper of Harvard Business School. FOMO has since been added to the dictionary and FOBO has become an increasingly popular framework to describe choice paralysis. Patrick is also the author of international bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job.

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