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The Money Conversations Everyone Should Be Having | Jason Tartick

September 15, 2026

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The Money Conversations Everyone Should Be Having

Jason Tartick spent his twenties climbing the corporate ladder at Key Bank, getting promoted repeatedly while wearing "the suit" and becoming what everyone else needed him to be. Then at 29, he had a massive panic attack during a meeting, left, passed out, and realized he had no connection with himself. A month later, he got the call to go on The Bachelorette — after being auctioned off at a Gilda Radner charity event where 3,500 people watched him strip to "Old Time Rock and Roll." That pivot from banking to reality TV became the foundation for a career built on something most of us avoid: talking openly about money.

Why We Don't Talk About Money — and Why It Costs Us

Tartick's core argument is simple: we aren't taught anything practical about money, so we don't know how to talk about it, and when we do, it gets weaponized. "We don't know how to talk about them," he says of financial topics. "And when we don't know how to talk about them, we don't. And then when we start talking about it, it's icky, it's sticky, it's gross."

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What you'll learn

1 (01:05) **Leaving Banking & The Path to Reality TV** - Jason describes his corporate banking career and how a charity bachelor auction led to *The Bachelorette*
2 (06:58) **Is an MBA Still Worth It?** - Jason gives his honest take on the value of his MBA and where he'd go for one today
3 (07:44) **Overcoming Fear of AI with Simple Analogies** - A practical strategy for anyone scared to start using AI
4 (10:13) **A Lightbulb Moment with AI** - Jason shares a specific example that made the power of AI click for him
5 (11:08) **Investing Strategy: Time vs. Portfolio & The Accredited Investor Playbook** - How Jason shifted from managing his own portfolio to accessing private AI investments
6 (14:10) **Where Beginners Should Actually Start Investing** - The foundational steps before buying any stock or ETF
7 (17:25) **How Men vs. Women Talk About Money** - The real gender divide isn't what you'd expect

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Show Notes

Jason Tartick has lived a few very different financial lives: corporate banker, reality TV personality, entrepreneur, investor, author, podcast host, and creator. He’s become known for breaking the taboo around money—asking the questions most people are afraid to ask and bringing radical transparency to conversations about how we earn, spend, invest, and build wealth.

Now, Jason joins Mary Holland with the mic turned on him, getting candid about his own money habits, career pivots, investments, and relationships.

They get into:
- What it was really like leaving the security and credibility of banking for The Bachelorette
- How his relationship with money has changed as his career—and income—have evolved
- The business behind his talent agency and how he makes money from it
- How he thinks about buzzy investments like AI and crypto
- How early you should start talking about money with someone you're dating
- The financial red flags to look out for in a relationship

From career pivots and investing to salaries, relationships, and the money conversations we’d rather avoid, this episode is a reminder that financial transparency isn’t about having all the right answers—it’s about being willing to ask the right questions.

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