Have you heard of Her First 100k? How about the number 1 business podcast: Financial Feminist? Perhaps you’ve seen Tori Dunlap’s debut book Financial Feminist a new New York Times best seller, that just hit shelves in 2023. Well today I have the enormous privilege of hosting the woman behind it all on the 52 Lists podcast! Welcome to the show, the one and only Tori Dunlap!
Tori Dunlap is an internationally-recognized money and career expert, and podcast host. After saving $100,000 at age 25, Tori quit her corporate job in marketing and founded Her First $100K to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable resources to better their money. She has helped over three million women negotiate salary, pay off debt, build savings, and invest. Tori is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Financial Feminist”; host of the #1 Business Podcast, Financial Feminist; ; and co-creator of Treasury, an investing education platform that has over $30M invested (featured on New York Times Business front page). Tori's work has been featured on Good Morning America, the Today Show, NBC, Fortune, BBC and more.A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Tori now travels the world writing and speaking about personal finance, online businesses, and confidence for women.
If you’re not impressed yet by her bonkers bio, here are some show notes on what we chatted about on this week’s podcast!
In this Episode:
Tori reads us her List #8 from 52 Lists fro Happiness that she wrote at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
Rest vs. Time off. What is the difference?
Should you save while paying off debt? Or focus on one or the other first?
How much should we have saved in an emergency fund?
What are the best ways to tackle debt?
The hilarious way we met in 2018 at a Women in Business conference!
The difference between financial advice from an intersectional feminist perspective vs not.
What is Intersectional Feminism?
Racism, Ableism, Homophobia and how they play into your access to financial growth.
What if simply Learning IS the purpose of our lives?
The difference between what are going to do next vs what are you going to do with your life.
The importance of creative outlets amidst your pursuit of career.
What is success?
We want to be known for our truest selves, not just achievement.
The addiction of “working hard.”
If you have ambition, you need to use that same ambition for work to be passionate about rest as well.
Using career as proving.
Not everyone will like you! But damn, it still sucks.
Learning takes time, re-learning and un-learning take time. And you’ll absorb more by going slow.
How is mental health core to the Financial Feminist book?
“I’m bad with money,” and how to challenge that narrative.
Shame is the one human emotional that is not productive.
Tori’s love of Timothee Chalamet and Brene Brown.
A Guide to Financial Feminism from a NYT Best Seller