Jean Chatzky Biography
Jean Chatzky is a personal finance columnist for NBC’s TODAY show, the AARP’s personal finance ambassador, and the founder and CEO of the multimedia company HerMoney.
Jean Chatzky Age
Jean was born on 7 September 1964, in Michigan, United States of America. She is 59 years old as of September 2023.
Jean Chatzky Family – Education
Chatzky, who was born in Michigan and raised in Wisconsin, Indiana, and West Virginia, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English. Her father was a university professor. She comes from a Jewish family.
Jean Chatzky Husband
Chatzky married magazine executive Eliot Kaplan in May 2009.
Chatzky Career
Chatzky began her career at Working Woman in 1986, rising from editorial assistant to assistant editor. In 1989, she left journalism to work in Dean Witter Reynolds’ equity research department, before returning to journalism two years later as a reporter/researcher at Forbes. In 1992, she joined the Dow Jones/Hearst start-up SmartMoney, where she rose from staff writer to senior editor. Chatzky returned to Money Magazine in 1998 after a five-year absence. Chatzky has appeared on shows such as Oprah, Live With Regis and Kelly, The View, and others. She has written for Parents, Seventeen, and Cosmopolitan, as well as being a staff writer for SmartMoney and a Forbes fact checker.
Chatzky also serves as the Today Show’s financial editor. Jean’s website also features a daily blog. Chatzky joined the financial advice website SavvyMoney.com in 2011 as the director of education and editor in chief. In 2018, she founded HerMoney, a multimedia company dedicated to changing women’s relationships with money, inspired by her weekly podcast, HerMoney with Jean Chatzky. Chatzky is a well-known author. Her 2017 book, AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip, co-written with Michael F. Roizen, became a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller. Grand Central Publishing released her book Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve in March 2019.
Chatzky and Time Inc.’s Time for Kids division launched a magazine called Your $ in early 2015 to teach financial literacy to fourth, fifth, and sixth graders.The PwC Charitable Foundation contributed funds to the magazine, which aimed to reach 2 million American students. Chatzky and journalist Soledad O’Brien launched Everyday Wealth with Soledad O’Brien and Jean Chatzky, a weekly radio show and podcast on personal finance, in January 2022. Edelman Financial Engines is the sponsor.
Jean Chatzky Books
- The Difference (March 2009)
- Make Money, Not Excuses (March 2008)
- Pay It Down (January 2006)
- The Ten Commandments of Financial Happiness (January 2005)
- Talking Money (January 2001)
- Not Your Parents’ Money Book (August 2010)
- Money rules
Jean Chatzky Net Worth
Jean has an estimated net worth of 14 million dollars.