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Jean Chatzky: Women Are Getting Richer. Here’s What It Means for Money and Business | Finance | YAPClassic

August 28, 2026

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Jean Chatzky, a veteran financial journalist and founder of Her Money, began her career not in finance but as an English major whose own messy finances and a job at Working Woman magazine sparked her interest. After struggling to land a business journalism role—she recalls that the big business magazines “kind of thought Working Woman was a joke”—she took a detour into equity research on Wall Street to learn investing inside and out. That detour, combined with years writing books, appearing on the Today Show, and doing radio for Oprah, eventually became the skill stack she used to launch Her Money. As she puts it, “I was one of the original side giggers,” and when she got fired from her last magazine job for being “a little too expensive,” she realized she already had five other jobs and just needed to put them together.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (03:23) **Jean Chatzky’s Origin Story** - Chatzky explains how a messy personal financial life and a job at Working Woman magazine led her to business journalism and eventually Wall Street.
  • 2 (06:15) **Skill-Stacking to Entrepreneurship** - Chatzky describes how she built Her Money by combining journalism, broadcasting, speaking, and consulting skills acquired over decades.
  • 3 (09:12) **The Gender Wage Gap in 2024** - Chatzky confirms the gap is real and moving slowly, with women earning 83.5 cents to a white man’s dollar, and worse for women of color.
  • 4 (16:44) **Employer Responsibility for Closing the Gap** - Chatzky argues that employers must take the lead by auditing payrolls and compensating based on work, not perceived need.
  • 5 (19:22) **The Education Snowball Effect** - Chatzky explains how 132 women graduating college for every 100 men is reshaping the economy and dating dynamics.
  • 6 (21:52) **Women’s Rising Wealth and Market Power** - Chatzky details how women’s control of 75% of discretionary spending by 2028 will redesign products and services.
  • 7 (28:40) **The Breadwinner Effect on Relationships** - Chatzky discusses how women earning more than their partners changes relationship dynamics, often for the worse.

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Show Notes

Determined to fix her messy personal finances, Jean Chatzky built a career from journalism to investing on Wall Street and back to financial media, learning how money works. Along the way, she saw a major economic shift taking shape as women began earning, inheriting, and controlling more wealth. So she built HerMoney, a platform helping women become financially empowered. In this episode, Jean shares how this economic shift will reshape investing, relationships, and consumer behavior, plus practical strategies for spending, debt, credit, homeownership, and financial freedom.

In this episode, Hala and Jean will discuss: 

(00:00) Introduction

(02:20) Jean’s Transition From Journalism to Finance

(04:13) The Value of Skill Stacking in Entrepreneurship

(07:33) The State of the Gender Wage Gap

(16:10) Why Women Will Control More Wealth

(21:14) Dating as a Successful Woman

(27:52) How Women Are Learning to Invest

(31:15) Financial Freedom, Renting, and Homeownership

(36:51) How Money Types Shape Financial Decisions

(41:20) Budgeting, Debt, and Credit Strategies

(48:40) Investing Extra Cash Wisely 

Jean Chatzky is an award-winning journalist and the founder and CEO of HerMoney, a multimedia company dedicated to helping women build financial confidence. She spent 25 years as the financial editor for NBC’s Today show and has served as AARP’s personal finance ambassador. Chatzky is also a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the HerMoney podcast, where she and a team of experts help women take control of their money.

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