Please tune in/watch this fun conversation with one of our nation’s top financial journalists. Beth is brilliant in the both the British and American senses of the word. Her advice and insights are for keeps and for posterity, as in your kids and grandkids. *Get a Financial Life, *Now in its 5th Edition, is the perfect graduation gift. But it’s also one of the best guides going for your own financial future. As NEWSWEEK wrote, “A life’s work of smart financial advice.”
Beth’s Bio
Beth Kobliner is an American personal finance journalist, commentator, and author, best known for the New York Times bestsellers Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties and Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You’re Not), a guide for teaching kids ages 3 to 23 about money. She also co-authored the 2013 children’s book Jacob’s Eye Patch with her son Jacob Shaw.wikipedia+1
She graduated from Brown University in 1986 and began her career as a research associate for financial journalism pioneer Sylvia Porter before becoming a staff writer at Money magazine. Over a roughly 30-year career, she’s been a columnist for Money, Glamour, and Redbook, and a contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, and O, The Oprah Magazine, along with regular appearances on Today, Good Morning America, PBS NewsHour, Oprah, and NPR’s Marketplace.smartasset+1
In 2010, President Obama appointed her to the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, where she led development of the Money as You Grow initiative, later adopted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; she went on to serve on the Council’s successor for Young Americans in 2014. She’s also worked with Sesame Workshop, notably teaching Elmo about spending, saving, and sharing money for the special “For Me, For You, For Later”. She lives in New York City with her family.
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