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Sudden wealth: a blessing or a curse?

Season 1 Episode 39

Even in the toughest financial times, you can get a windfall of money and have no idea what to do with it. In this episode of ÃÛѨÊÓƵ’ Everyday Wealthâ„¢, Soledad, Jean and wealth planner Jason Cowans talk about what to do if you’re one of those lucky people who come into sudden wealth – either through an inheritance, a divorce or lawsuit settlements, or even the lottery – to help make the most of your money.

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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.