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| Jean Chatzky |
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Jean Chatzky, award-winning journalist, best-selling author and sought-after motivational speaker, has created a global platform that is making significant strides to help millions of men and women battle an epidemic with a devastating impact - debt. Jean is the financial editor for NBC’s Today, a contributing editor for More Magazine, a columnist for The New York Daily News, and a contributor to The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also hosts a daily show on the Oprah & Friends channel, exclusively on XM Radio.
She is the author of five books, including best sellers Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (New York Times and Business Week best seller) and Make Money, Not Excuses (Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller). Her newest book, The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times, was published by Crown in March 2009.
Jean has been recognized as an exceptional journalist. She received the Clarion Award for magazine columns from the Association of Woman in Communications, her radio show received a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television, Inc., she has been nominated twice for National Magazine Awards and was named one of the country’s best magazine columnists by the Chicago Tribune.
In addition to her professional work, Jean is on the Literacy Partners board of directors, lends her support and expertise to women's services groups and is on the board of the Nora Magid Mentorship prize at the University of Pennsylvania, which helps journalism students get a head-start in the field. She is also a member of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women for the University of Pennsylvania.
Jean lives with her family in Westchester, New York.
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| The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times - Based on Jean Chatzky's newest book, The Difference, Jean shows you how to develop your intuition so you can recognize when to take a risk, helps you increase your resilience in this bad economy, and tells you why it’s important to pinpoint your passion and make it your career. Based on a study with Merrill Lynch and Harris Interactive of more than 5,000 people, Jean identifies the way people categorized themselves financially, from wealthy to spiraling into debt, and then dug deep to uncover the factors that made The Difference. Whether you want to be in the top three percent or the top 30 percent, The Difference shows you that you can do it. |
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| Recession Busting 101 - Financial speaker, author, and Today Show contributor Jean Chatzky shares her insights on the current economic challenges and how to maneuver through the myriad of financial responsibilities that we all face, including 401(k)s, mortgages, and interest rates. With time for question and answer, she helps audiences understand the big picture, how it applies to their personal finances, and plan appropriately in light of today's current economic times. |
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| Make Money, Not Excuses -
Why aren't we making more money? Doesn't everyone want the financial security that more money provides? Then why aren’t we making smarter decisions about our money? The answers to these questions are often more complicated than the questions themselves. Jean Chatzky, author of Make Money, Not Excuses, believes that the reason most people aren't wealthier is that we tend to get in our own way, setting up roadblocks or relying on excuses that thwart us on the way towards achieving our financial goals. These patterns prevent us from earning more, saving and investing for the future and protecting what we've built. In an illuminating discussion about the nature of money and wealth, Chatzky locates the real reasons why people – especially women – rely on these excuses. She also provides strategies for ridding ourselves of these success-blocking excuses, putting audiences on the path towards real wealth, real financial security – and peace of mind.
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| Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 a Day -
What's the number one enemy of building wealth? Debt. And getting out of it - cutting debt, changing bad spending habits, saving money - are difficult if you don't understand the basics of personal finance. In this presentation, based on her best-selling book Pay It Down, Jean Chatzky shows you how to eliminate debt from your life, once and for all. Providing an easy to understand, jargon-free blueprint for debt reduction, Chatzky also introduces a simple plan - the idea of saving just $10 dollars a day - as a way to eliminate debt and create capital for saving and investing. Audience are not only shown strategies for locating $10 a day, even in tight budgets, but also come to understand the potential for freedom and peace of mind that comes with finally being out of debt. |
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| Money and Happiness - In her frank, engaging style, Jean Chatzky explains how to “own your money” to create a satisfying and comfortable life. She outlines the financial attitudes and behaviors of happy people and shows how anyone can be a part of this group, no matter what you earn. In this presentation, filled with fresh insights and real-life examples, Chatzky reaffirms that finances don’t have to be a source of stress, and that living within your means can be extremely rewarding. |
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| The Secrets of Successful Women Investors - Even though statistics about women managing their money tend to be all doom and gloom, there's an untold story out there. Some women are actually managing their money spectacularly. Jean Chatzky has spoken to dozens of them, isolated their behaviors and boiled them down to seven secrets. In this presentation she shares those seven secrets and more, in the hopes giving women the confidence to take charge of their investments. (This presentation can be tailored for male and mixed audiences.) |
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