HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

“Should We Give Up a $350K Lump Sum for a Bigger Guaranteed Pension?”

Jenna joins Jean Chatzky on this week's episode for another AMA conversation, this time digging into a decision that sits right at the heart of Jean's new book, The Forev

Ep 544: Is the 4% Rule Dead? Jean Chatzky on Building a Paycheck That Never Runs Out

We've gotten really good at teaching people how to save for retirement. But almost nobody teaches you what to do the day you stop earning and have to start spending. That

The Secret To Building Wealth As A Normal Person

Do you feel like you're middle class? You might not be. Pew Research shows the U.S. middle class has shrunk from 61% of households in 1971 to closer to half today. So wha

Remembering Gloria Steinem: Money, Power & Feminism (2017 Interview)

Gloria Steinem died today at 92, and we're revisiting a conversation that's stayed with Jean for almost a decade. Recorded live at the Paley Center in 2017 at an event ca

Ep 543: Is This Stock Market Too Good to Be True? Karen Finerman's Honest Take

The S&P 500 is on pace for a fourth straight year of double-digit gains, something that's only happened once before since 1928, and that last time ended with the dot-com

The Simple Framework for Planning the Retirement You Actually Want

Most of us pictured our lives as a straight line: high school, college, a job, marriage, a house, kids…one milestone after another. Then life happened. A divorce. A layof

Ep 542: We Fact-Checked Social Media’s Worst Financial Advice With Jill Schlesinger

FinTok is full of people giving confident financial advice… and a lot of it is dead wrong. This week, Jean sits down with CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger, an

"I'm 3 Months Into Early Retirement. How Do I Make the Money Last?"

You've heard of FIRE, Financial Independence, Retire Early. And maybe your first reaction is: those people are a little extreme. But what if you stripped away the extreme

Ep 541: Protected vs. Growing: The Split Your Portfolio Actually Needs

When's the last time you looked at your portfolio and felt genuinely confident it could weather a bad year? For most of us, the answer is some version of "I'm diversified

A Rejection Expert on How to Ask for What You Want (Even If The Answer Is No)

You know that feeling when you should ask for the raise, have the hard money conversation with your partner, or push back on a bad deal… and you just don't?  On today’s

Ep 540: The One Question That Will Change Your Relationship With Money

What if the secret to never worrying about money again isn't earning more or spending less? Jesse Mecham, founder of the beloved budgeting app YNAB (You Need A Budget) a

$100k Used to Mean You’d Made It. Now It Barely Covers Groceries.

$100,000 used to mean you'd made it. Today, in some cities, it barely covers groceries — and there's a real reason that gap feels so wide. This week, Jean sits down with

Ep 539: Why Retirees Are Too Scared to Spend Their Own Money (And How to Fix It)

You saved. You invested. You did everything right. So why does spending your own money in retirement feel so terrifying? This week, Jean sits down with Terri Fiedler, Pr

Is a Vitamix Actually Worth $600? A Consumer Reports Expert Answers Your Biggest Home Spending Questions

You know that feeling when you're staring at two versions of the same appliance and have absolutely no idea which one is actually worth it? Today we're getting some answe

Ep 538: The Four-Day Workweek Is Real – So Why Don’t We Have It Yet?

Every few weeks, another tech titan promises to hand us our time back. Jamie Dimon says a shorter workweek is coming. Elon Musk says AI will make work optional. Bill Gate

Four Women Get Honest About Retirement Planning, Financial Peace, and the Money We Leave Behind

Do you have enough? And how do you even know? In the third and final episode of HerMoney's series with AARP, From First Paycheck to Forever Paycheck, Jean Chatzky and he

Ep 537: Why Your Medical Bills Are Bankrupting You and What You Can Do About It Today

Your doctor isn't the enemy. So why does it feel like you're fighting them, and losing? This week, Jean Chatzky sits down with Dr. Jordan Grumet to talk about his explos

The House of Cards: What Happens to Your Money When Life Blows Up the Plan

Did your life turn out exactly the way you planned it? Nobody says yes. Not one person. In the second episode of HerMoney's three-part series with AARP, From First Paych

Ep 536: AI and Your Money: What It Can Do, What It Can't, And Where It Could Get You Into Trouble

What happens when you let AI run your life? In her book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, award-winning journalist Joanna Stern chronicles he

From First Paycheck to Forever Paycheck: How Women Can Build Wealth at Every Life Stage

In the first episode of our three-part series with AARP, Jean Chatzky brings together four women across four generations- Gen Z creator Hannah Williams, Zillennial entrep