2018-11-06
1 小时 15 分钟This week I'm sitting down with my friend Farnoosh Turabi, who has been obsessed with how people relate to money, including herself, pretty much for as long as she can remember.
Her first book, you're so Money, was a nationally acclaimed tell all for people searching for financial independence that led to appearances all over the media on places like the Today Show, Good Morning America, writing for magazines like Glamour, Marie Claire O magazine, being featured in reality tv shows like bank of Mom and dad, TLC's Real simple, real Life, and a personal finance series called financially fit on Yahoo.
Along the way, she got married.
She became a mom and also found herself in this interesting role of the primary breadwinner in her family.
And that made her really curious about what happens when women in a relationship earn more than men.
This question became kind of an obsession for her, not only on a personal level as she wanted to explore how it affected her relationship with her husband and with her friends.
It became the focus of her last book.
When she makes more, we dive into this question and also explore the far reaching corners of her life as the parents of first generation american family, her upbringing, her relationships and what led her into this really fascinating path and professional life.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
You basically from the age of eleven to 14 refuse to be called by your given name.
That's a great place to start, Jonathan, let me just tell you, because I ended up writing college essays about my issues with my birth given name, Farnouche.
Although this had just in the cab here with the lyft to get your name before they pick you up, the driver said Farnouche, now is that French or German?
And I wanted to hug him.
I wanted to really give him a big wet kiss because my third grade Farnouch, the eleven year old Farnouche would have been so happy to hear that, you know, she is perceived as someone who is more or less similar to everybody else because that was really the issue back then with my name, was that it was an instant way to be identified as different.
And when you are in the age group of ten 1112, it's hard, it's hard to accept that you're different when all you want to be is the same because being the same means you have more friends, you're more liked, you're more accepted.
And that wasn't my story and I'm so grateful for it now.
But you can imagine at that age it was a real struggle.
Yeah, because I know your parents came here from Iran in 79.
Yes.