Nicole Lapin Net Worth, How Does The Finance Expert Make Money?

Nicole Lapin is an American-born television news anchor, author, and businesswoman who has a net worth of $2 million.

She has also served as a finance correspondent for various talk shows like Morning Joe on MSNBC and The Today Show on NBC. Lapin is also an acclaimed New York Times bestselling author for her books “Rich Bi_ch, Boss Bi_ch, and Becoming Superwoman.

The book, Becoming Superwoman was released in September 2019 and became famous for providing a 12-step plan to go from burnout to balance. She published her most recent book, Miss Independent, in February 2022, which debuted on The Wall Street Journal’s best seller’s list in the “Hardcover Business” category.

Lapin is hosting the CW business competition show, Hatched, in its second season. She also regularly appears on Good Morning America, Dr. Oz, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and major talk shows.

She talks as a business reporter and expert money commentator in these appearances. She is also a podcaster, co-hosting the podcast “Hush Money” with Jason Feifer, the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur on iHeartRadio.

Lastly, she also hosts “Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin,” a daily iHeartRadio podcast about money habits.

Quick Facts About Nicole Lapin

How Much Is Nicole Lapin’s Net Worth?

Acclaimed finance expert Nicole Lapin has an estimated net worth of $2 million as of 2022.

She started her career as a correspondent in South Dakota and Kentucky CBS stations while also serving as an investigative reporter in Palm Springs, California’s KPSP-LP.

One of her most prominent early reporting was when she reported the execution of gang member Stanley Williams in San Quentin Prison live.

During these early years, she also worked as a reporter on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for Chicago’s First Business network.

She hit her first big break when she joined CNN in 2005 and became one of the youngest anchors in the network’s history. Some of the major events she has anchored are:

• Virginia Tech massacre
• Israel-Hezbollah conflict
• 2008 Presidential election

She became a major force in pushing the network forward in 2007 when she created an interview series for CNN called “Young People Who Rock.” The series focused on people under 30 doing remarkable things.

Lapin received more attention after she reported on location in Los Angeles in 2009 during famed pop singer Michael Jackson’s memorial service and for her one-on-one interview with then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on California’s budget crisis.

She ended the noughties, and her tenure on CNN, by launching CNN live, the network’s 24-hour online streaming news network. The news anchor joined CNBC in January 2010 as a New York-based anchor on Worldwide Exchange, the only globally aired show on the network.

Later in the year, in June 2010, she added co-anchoring The Kudlow Report to her CNBC duties. Her time at CNBC saw her regularly interviewing Fortune 500 CEOs and breaking news of Initial Public Offerings and pre-market movements.

Within a year of joining CNBC, Lapin anchored her show from Washington DC to cover the US budget crisis of 2011.

She gained more attention for her series “The States of Pain,” where she extensively reported on the fiscal woes the US was facing. She also garnered further attention through her regular column on CNBC.com with their racy titles and unconventional stories.

Besides fiscal topics, Lapin also reported on alternative investments like comic books, wine, and horses. As the decade went on, Lapin started reporting not only on CNBC but NBC as a whole, with her influence reaching NBC affiliate stations like KNBC and WNBC.

In September 2012, Lapin announced that she would join Bloomberg Television as an anchor and a special correspondent.

She anchored Bloomberg West for the network, where she covered technology and interviewed startup founders like:

• Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn
• Tony Hseih of Zappos
• Dennis Crowly of Foursquare

She continued reporting stuff outside of finance by reporting on technology in football and interviewing various football club owners.

The next year, she started working as a special correspondent for Hollywood on shows like omg! insider, Entertainment Tonight, and The Wendy Williams Show. Now that she had gained power and influence, Lapin founded her own production company to produce accessible content focused on women.

This company created the financial news website Recessionista, inspired shows on Ora TV, Carlos Slim, and Larry King’s network. In 2014, she announced an AOL original show called “I’ll Never Forget My First,” where she interviewed influential women about the first time they knew they’d reached success.

Lapin’s company also launched a device called CASH Smartwatch, the first wearable device enabling users to track their daily spending. The same year, she announced that HarperCollins would publish her first book in a six-figure deal.

The book sold out the first week and made the New York Times Bestseller list, leading Lapin to sign a sux0figure deal with Crown Business for her second book.

BenBella published Lapin’s third book in 2018, and HarperCollins Leadership signed Lapin for a seven-book, seven-figure deal in October 2020.

Redbook magazine named Nicole Lapin, a permanent money columnist in 2015. The same year, she became Hatched’s host and only female judge. Lapin continued her stint on television by serving as a judge on Miss America 2017.

She continued the rest of the 2010s by contributing financial reports and segments to various television shows like:

• Rachael Ray
• The Kelly Clarkson Show
• The Doctors
• Access Hollywood

She also serves as a regular money expert for:

• GMA3
• E! Daily Pop on-air
• Forbes
• Entrepreneur
• Thrive Online

A Look At Nicole Lapin’s Family

Nicole Lapin is the daughter of a scientist, Ron Lapin, and a beauty queen, Orly Lapin.

Ron Lapin, an Israeli-born American surgeon, was famous in medical circles for being a bloodless surgeon for his willingness to perform surgeries on Jehovah’s Witness patients without blood transfusions.

Lapin did these bloodless surgeries through electric scalpels, which reduced blood loss during surgery, and was a big promoter of the tool, teaching people how to use it, alongside other techniques that make bloodless surgery successful.

Lapin completed medical school in New York City and established a practice in Orange County, California, in the 1970s, practicing and living there until he passed.

Lapin became a favorite of many Jehovah’s Witness patients for his practice of bloodless surgeries, which he had been interested in since the mid-1970s.

Soon after he performed his first surgery, many Jehovah’s Witness patients came to him for surgery around the world.

Due to the success of his bloodless surgeries, he opened several bloodless Surgery centers in Southern California and hospitals in Norwalk, Bellflower, and Fountain Valley.

Lapin was a tireless advocate of non-blood medical management throughout his life.

Due to his tireless advocacy, a Japanese pharmaceutical firm chose Lapin in 1980 to operate on Jehovah’s Witness patients using an artificial blood substitute, Fluosol DA, but with conditional FDA approval. The surgery proved a big success.

Lapin faced persecution throughout his life for publicly challenging and deriding conventional medical practices for being substandard and unacceptable.

Lapin’s early advocacy of bloodless surgery, viewed as radical then, soon became seen in a new light after the outbreak of blood-borne AIDS infections. Despite being publicly beloved, the opinion of other medical professionals notwithstanding, for his advocacy and forward-thinking in medicine, Lapin’s personal life was rife with terror.

He went through a bitter divorce in the late 1980s, where his wife, actress, and model Orly Lapin, alleged that Lapin had abused her and her daughter Nicole. Orly stated that she ran away from home with her children to keep them safe from Ron Lapin.

Tabloid newspapers ate up the divorce. Ron Lapin was later acquitted of all allegations.

He passed away on May 16, 1995.

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Who Is Nicole Lapin’s Husband?

Nicole Lapin is not married but is engaged to her fiance Joe Sanberg, with whom she lives in Los Angeles.

Joe Sanberg is an American investor and Entrepreneur who co-founded Aspirantion, Inc. Aspriration, Inc is an online investing and banking firm and an early investor of Blue Apron, a meal delivery service.

Sanberg has also founded CalEITC4Me, an outreach program based in California that helps low-income families claim state and federal earned income tax credits.

Like Lapin, Sanberg was born and raised in Southern California. He studied at Anaheim Servite High School and graduated from Harvard University. After college, Sanberg went to work on Wall Street, where he earned enough to feel monetarily secure.

However, as he was uneasy working in an industry that divorced service from profit, Sanberg shifted to investing in startups like Blue Apron and Aspiration.com.

In 2013, he co-founded Aspiration Inc with American lawyer Andrei Cherny. The company enables customers to choose their fee levels on checking accounts. Sanberg also serves on the Jefferson Awards Foundation’s Board of Governors. The organization engages with over a million youth annually through volunteer programs and public services.

People called Sanberg the spark for creating the CalEITC4Me and his leadership in 2015 toward California launching an Earned Income Tax Credit.

Sanberg has often considered a political career, and the media reported in 2018 that Sanberg had considered a presidential run in 2020. Most recently, Sanberg led an initiative in the 2022 California elections to raise the minimum wage to $18 per hour and has received over a million signatures.

According to Sanberg, the idea is wildly popular and has amassed over 60% support.

Some FAQs

Is Nicole Lapin Married?

She isn’t married but has a fiance named Jon Sanberg

Who Are Nicole Lapin’s Parents?

Nicole Lapin’s parents are acclaimed surgeon Ron Lapin and model Orly Lapin

What Is Nicole Lapin’s Religion?

She is Jewish, and her father was born in Israel.