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Tying up loose financial ends

Season 1 Episode 51

With so many priorities competing for our attention, it’s easy to overlook opportunities that come up this time of the year that can help with your financial plan. This week on 91ÂÛ̳ Engines’ Everyday Wealthâ„¢, wealth planner Jason Cowans joins Jean and Soledad to review a few important financial steps you can consider taking before ringing in the new year. Also in this episode, when a loved one passes away, financial decisions can often make the grieving process even more challenging. The hosts discuss the emotional and financial aspects of losing someone you love, and steps you can take to help make the process a little easier.

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Jean Chatzky

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Meet the Host: Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky came to personal finance not as an economist or a financial planner but as a journalist who dug into the topic of money to get her own money in order as well as to earn a paycheck. She has the innate ability to take the complicated world of money and explain it in ways we can all understand. And this has never been more important than now because we all have more responsibility for our financial lives than any generation that came before us. Aside from hosting Everyday Wealthâ„¢, Jean is the CEO of HerMoney.com and host of the podcast HerMoney with Jean Chatzky. The financial editor of NBC's TODAY show for 25 years and the financial ambassador for AARP, she appears frequently on CNN and MSNBC and was a recurring guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.