Jean Chatzky Biography
Jean Chatzky Sherman is an American journalist, a personal finance columnist, financial editor of NBC’s TODAY show, AARP’s personal finance ambassador.
She is also the founder and CEO of the multimedia company HerMoney. Throughout her life, she has grown up in Wisconsin, Indiana and spent a lot of her early years in West Virginia. She is the financial editor of NBC’s TODAY show and AARP’s personal finance ambassador.
She is a very talented writer and got a lot of success thanks to her books like The Ten Commandments of Financial Happiness, Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day, and Money Rules: the Simple Path to Lifelong Security.
Jean Chatzky Age
Chatzky was born on 7th September 1964 in Michigan, United States. She is 55 years old as of 2019.
Jean Chatzky Education
She went to high school which is unknown, after completing high school she enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a BA Degree in English.
Jean Chatzky Family
There is not so much public information available about her parents, but It is known that her father was a professor at a college while her mother ran a school library. Jean also has two brothers in her family tree.
Jean Chatzky Personal Life
She was married twice in her life. Her first marriage to Peter Chatzky was unhappy and she got divorced from him at the end of the 90s. Her second husband is Eliot Kaplan. They met each other in the early days of the year 2000. She has two children named Julia and Jake Chatzky. Currently, she resides in Briarcliff Manor, New York with her family.
Jean Chatzky Height| Weight
Jean’s height and weight are unknown. Jean Chatzky stands with average height and bit heavyweight. Might be on her late forties or early fifties, she still possesses youthful looks and perky cheeks and curvaceous stature. Jean’s height and weight are unknown but will be updated soon.
Jean Chatzky Net Worth
Unfortunately, her net worth is not available because she has kept her own finances private.
Jean Chatzky Career
She started her career off as an editorial assistant at the Working Woman in 1986. Later she was promoted to the role of assistant editor. After three years of hard work at the Working Woman, she decided to leave the journalism industry. She went on to work at the equity research department of Dean Witter Reynolds until she made a return back to journalism in 1991.
With new fresh start in the journalism world, she joined Forbes magazine as a reporter as well as a researcher. In the year 1992, she provided her service and expertise to Hearst with a start-up project known as SmartMoney. After a few years, she was promoted from staff writer to senior editor. In the year 1998, she started her work at Money Magazine.
In early 2000, she widely appeared on the television which gave her a lot of experience in front of the camera. Since that time, she has made many appearances on different TV shows like Oprah, and The View. She now mostly works as a financial editor for NBC’s Today Show.
She became the Director of Education for the Savvymoney.com financial resource website in the year 2011. In addition to her television career, she also is an author and has published multiple books about finance. Her first book was titled Talking Money and was published in 2001.
Jean Chatzky Awards and Recognition
Chatzky received the Clarion Award for magazine columns from the Association of Woman in Communications in 2002, and her radio show received a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television.
She has also been nominated twice as part of a three person writing team each time for National Magazine Awards in Personal Service and was named one of the country’s 30 best magazine columnists by the Chicago Tribune in 2003.
In 2009, the Consumer Federation of America awarded Chatzky the Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award for her nearly two decades of pioneering personal finance education.
Jean Chatzky books
- The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times (March 2009)
- Make Money, Not Excuses (March 2008)
- Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (January 2006)
- The Ten Commandments of Financial Happiness (January 2005)
- Talking Money (January 2001)
- Not Your Parents’ Money Book: Making, Saving and Spending Your Own Money (August 2010)
- Money rules: the simple path to lifelong security (2012)
Jean Chatzky Money Rules
Money rules is one of her books it covers the following
- he more time you spend looking, the less happy you’ll be with what you find.
- Your retirement trumps their tuition.
- Losing money hurts more than it should.
- Big numbers make smart people do stupid things.
- Don’t lend money to friends & relatives, and don’t co-sign for loans.
- If its 50% off, it’s still 50% on.
Jean Chatzky Quotes
- “Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.”
- “You can have a do-over starting today. But you have to get over the feeling that it’s too late.”
- “It’s not about having it all. It’s about having what you value most.”
- “Turn down offers for new cards or credit line increases on your current cards. Credit’s tight, and chances are, you’re not getting many offers anyway. But if you do, remember that the less credit you have available, the less trouble you can get into.”
- “By definition, saving – for anything – requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.”
- “In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they’re charged back up. Then you’re in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You’re in a hole that’s twice as deep – and twice as steep.”
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