Jean Chatzky

Speech Topics

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.

Can you really start from nothing and become truly secure financially? In this fascinating and interactive keynote, Jean Chatzky asks the questions: What’s the difference between you and Warren Buffett? Between you and your boss? Or between you and your successful neighbor? What do the financially comfortable have that you don’t? And how do you get it? Based on her most recent book that includes groundbreaking research on the self-made wealthy, Jean reveals the traits and habits of those who have moved from the lowest economic strata to the highest. Then she helps audiences take a look at where they are now and offers simple strategies for helping them get to where they want to go. In this optimistic and empowering presentation, she helps people see that they themselves have the power to determine their own financial future and find freedom in even the most difficult of economic times.

As a mother of two, Jean Chatzky knows what parents want—kids who grow up to earn their own money and live independently (i.e., not on the family couch)! After conducting a dozen focus groups with middle-schoolers around the country for her upcoming Not Your Parents’ Money book (September 2010), she also knows what skills kids need in order to get there. In this fun and lively presentation, Chatzky shows how teaching responsibility, setting limits and living by financial example can all combine to put your kids on the path to personal financial success.

As a mother of two teens, Jean Chatzky knows what parents want—kids who grow up to earn their own money and live independently (i.e., not on the family couch)! After conducting a dozen focus groups with middle-schoolers around the country for her upcoming Not Your Parents’ Money book (September 2010), she also knows what skills kids need in order to get there. In this fun and lively presentation, Chatzky shows how teaching responsibility, setting limits and living by financial example can all combine to put your kids on the path to personal financial success.

Biography

Jean Chatzky, CEO and co-founder of HerMoney, is the former financial editor of NBC’s “Today” show, a coach on the PBS show Opportunity Knocks, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, the financial ambassador for AARP and the host of the HerMoney podcast. Through decades of reporting on personal finance, she believes there is absolutely no rocket science to money. She knows that a full, successful financial life is within every woman’s grasp—and with the HerMoney team, she’s on a mission to help you get it.

Jean is the author of six books, including her latest, a new edition of her best-seller Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day, updated to reflect the changes in today’s economic environment and how they are affecting Americans’ savings strategies. Other chart-topping titles include The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even the Toughest TimesandMake Money, Not Excuses. Widely recognized as an exceptional journalist, she recently received the Clarion Award for magazine columns from The Association of Women in Communications and her radio show received a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television, Inc. One of the most in-demand and trusted financial experts on a range of topics including debt reduction, saving, investing, and strategies for managing money and life, Jean has become the rational voice that people are turning to in these challenging and confusing times.

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