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 bestsellers Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (New York Times and Business Week bestseller) and Make Money, Not Excuses (Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller). Her upcoming book The Difference: Why Some People Are Rich, Some Are Not, And How You Can Become One Of Them will be published by Crown and available in April 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.
Speech Topics
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.
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 bestselling
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.
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.
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.
