Jean Chatzky
- CEO of HerMoney and NBC Today Show Contributor
- Speaker on Money, Financial Wellness, and Smart Investing
Jean Chatzky Speaker Biography
Jean Chatzky, award-winning journalist, best-selling author and sought-after financial speaker, has created a global platform that is making significant strides to help millions of men and women battle an epidemic with a devastating impact – debt. Jean is the financial editor for NBC’s Today, a contributing editor for More magazine, a columnist for The New York Daily News, and a contributor to The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also hosts a daily show on the Oprah & Friends channel, exclusively on XM Radio.
She is the author of five books, including best sellers Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (New York Times and Business Week best seller) and Make Money, Not Excuses (Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller) and The Difference: Why Some People Are Rich, Some Are Not, And How You Can Become One Of Them.
Jean has been recognized as an exceptional journalist. She received the Clarion Award for magazine columns from the Association of Woman in Communications, her radio show received a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television, Inc., she has been nominated twice for National Magazine Awards and was named one of the country’s best magazine columnists by the Chicago Tribune.
In addition to her professional work, Jean is on the Literacy Partners board of directors, lends her support and expertise to women’s services groups and is on the board of the Nora Magid Mentorship prize at the University of Pennsylvania, which helps journalism students get a head-start in the field. She is also a member of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women for the University of Pennsylvania.
Jean lives with her family in Westchester, New York. 901-754-9404.
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The Forever Paycheck: The New Retirement Strategy to Spend More, Worry Less, and Never Run Out of Money
Americans have a problem – and we know it. Unless we do something, something big, something different, many of us are going to blow the through the money we’ve stashed away for retirement long before we run out of time. But what if that didn’t have to happen? What if we had a way to guarantee ourselves a Forever Paycheck – a pension of sorts that would last the rest of our lives? And what if having that Forever Paycheck meant that you could spend more, much more – double, even – the amount of money you’d likely spend if you simply pulled money out of your retirement accounts bit by bit. It’s possible. We have the ability to fix this problem in our own individual lives, with tools we already have access to today. The problem is, most people have no idea how. In this presentation, Jean Chatzky will break it down in a way that is easy to understand, easy to follow and easy to incorporate in your financial life.
Women And Money: Create The Joyful, Less-Stressed, Purposeful (And, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve
When it comes to money, women are different. Not just by the numbers — the pay gap combined with breaks from the workforce to care for kids and older parents results in lower retirement balances which have to last for women’s longer lifetimes — which are challenging enough. But when it comes to what we want to do with our money, and what we need it to do for us. In this candid, often funny speech, Jean talks through a three-part plan that involves understanding yourself in relationship to money, how the need for safety and security (while understandable) can hold women back, why investing for the long-term is non-negotiable, and how to use the rewards you reap to accomplish the other things women want most including establishing a legacy, being able to take care of the people we love, and feeling free to enjoy this life that we’ve built.
AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out Of Money Or Breaking A Hip
There’s no getting around this truth: Health and money are inextricably linked. If you don’t have good health, it will inevitably wreak havoc on your financial life. And if you haven’t built a solid financial foundation, staying healthy will eventually become a problem — particularly as you age. That’s why Jean teamed up with Dr. Michael Roizen, chief of wellness at the Cleveland Clinic, to create this multi-part plan to address both challenges at once. The best news: The same strategies work to improve both areas of your life. In this speech based on their New York Times Bestselling Book, Jean will talk through assessing your finances and your health (you can’t start until you know where you are), why automation is the magic bullet that makes your financial life much easier, a strategy for building a strong team to help you and the other steps to take today to start to become AgeProof.
5 Steps To Lasting Financial Resilience
If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that resilience — the ability to adjust to or recover quickly from difficult situations — is not just some nice-to-have skill. It’s a necessity. Fortunately, it’s also a skill you can learn and build over time by taking some very specific steps. In this speech custom crafted for coming out of the pandemic, Jean takes us through a seven-point plan to create a resilient financial life that will go the distance. She talks about the need for sufficient savings and how to build them (or rebuild them if you’ve used them during recent months), how to invest to meet your goals (so that you’re not worried about the whims of the markets), how to protect the people you love most with the appropriate insurance and an estate plan that checks all the boxes, and how and why giving back is a key to lasting happiness.
How to Money: Your Ultimate Guide to the Basics of Finance
There’s no getting around it. You need to know how to manage money to know how to manage life — but many of us don’t! In this upbeat talk, crafted with younger women in mind, Jean breaks down the basics of money — how to earn it, manage it, and use it — giving you all the tools you need to take charge and be fearless with personal finance. Specifically, How to Money will cover creating a budget (and sticking to it), negotiating for that next salary with aplomb, navigating student loan repayment, how to manage your credit for lifelong success, and investing for your short and long-term goals. All so you can earn more, save smart, invest wisely, borrow only when you have to, and enjoy everything you’ve got!