Calling all broke Millennials! In this week’s episode, I have Erin Lowery, creator of BrokeMillennial.com and author of the Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together. Erin will share practical tips to start applying to get your finances on track. Erin shares some additional insights from her book on how to get financially naked with your significant other and how to handle the “B” word aka budgeting. This episode is jam-packed with awesome advice.
More about my guest:
Erin Lowery is the author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together and Broke Millennial Takes On Investing: A Beginner’s Guide to Leveling Up Your Money. Her first book was named by MarketWatch as one of the best money books of 2017 and her style is often described as refreshing and conversational. Erin’s appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, CNBC and Fox & Friends. She has written for Fast Company, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Refinery29 and regularly speaks at universities and conferences around the country. Erin spent most of her childhood living in Asia but now settled in New York City with her husband.
In this episode we cover:
- Erin’s first financially reality check
- How our upbringing affects how we view money.
- Why is money such a taboo topic.
- Tips to get you on track to making better financial decisions.
- Where to start with your finances.
- How do we navigate conversations with our significant other when say one carries more debt than the other.
- Erin shares how to get financially naked with your significant other..
- What are some things people worry about in regards to their finances that honestly should be the least of their worries.
- What you can expect to learn from her most recent book Broke Millennial Takes On Investing.
- Erin also chats about prenups and how they aren’t as negative as you think.