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Mellody Hobson on making money secondary in decisions
I was 22 years old, starting my first job out of college and at lunch with my boss, John W. Rogers Jr., the founder and chief executive of Ariel Investments. I hung on John’s every word, filing away...
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Kim Gordon: You don't always need the things you want
Kim Gordon’s memoir, “Girl in a Band,” a New York Times best seller, details her life as a founding member of Sonic Youth and her marriage to her band mate Thurston Moore. Here, Gordon tells us about...
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Carl Richards on finding surer footing
We left the trail head at 1 a.m. and headed for the summit of the Grand Teton. I had made this climb several times, but my friend was still new to mountaineering. This trip was his first attempt at...
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Olalah Njenga on breaking rules and paying the price
During the 12 years I’ve owned a marketing strategy company, I have set many guidelines and recommendations for myself and my employees — but few hard rules. Those few rules are in place as a...
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Ron Lieber on the lessons of paying for college
When it came time to apply for college in the fall of 1988, my parents and I didn’t know the first thing about the financial-aid process. But my mother, a veteran personal shopper who has always had a...
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A Chinese cabby's query leads to Mary Pilon's epiphany
With the Mandarin language skills of a buffalo, I began chatting with my taxi driver in Shanghai, a polite man with plenty of questions about the United States. It was early 2007, and sitting in a...
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Slim Thug's real estate plan, dashed by a dalliance
There’s never much surprise when hearing stories of artists mixing business with pleasure, but it is surprising when too much mixing results in the artist ending up with financial losses. A few years...
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Ken Lenox: Don't overreach!
Lenox Farms is a ranch of about 1,800 acres located in the Missouri Ozarks. It's been in my family for five generations. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, it was a typical stock farm, with cattle and hogs...
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Nicole Childers' teenage lesson is her adult buffer
The day after my high school graduation, at the age of 17 and with an acceptance letter to an Ivy League university in hand, my foster mother asked me to move out of her house in San Diego. I was...
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Lizzie O'Leary learns a lesson in debt and confidence
The interest rate made my stomach drop: 27.6 percent. I stared at it, trying to understand how that was even possible. I’d signed something else, hadn’t I? A lower rate, I must have. It was 2000, I...
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David Brancaccio wants you to consult your future self
Eureka moments are supposed to happen in unlikely locations, like the one Archimedes had in his bath. But my revelation about planning and money came in a terribly likely spot, a centuries-old...
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Kai Ryssdal on passing along the financial genes
When you get right down to it, it’s my dad’s fault. My relationship with money, I mean. It’s not weird or anything like that. It’s just... casual. Like... whether you have it or you don’t,...
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How Y2K turned Paul Sullivan's life upside down
I’ll admit it now: All those Y2K predictions had me scared about what would befall the world when 1999 became 2000. But it turned out that something more disruptive than my computer clock going...
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Make more than Gustavo Arellano? You pick up the tab
“Don’t even bother,” my big-shot executive pal warned me as I reached for my college-era Visa. We hadn’t seen each other since my undergrad days. “You never pay for the meal of someone who’s better...
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Ann Carrns splurges on her own American Girls
After I spent a weekend packing away toys that my children had outgrown, Elizabeth, Felicity, Julie, Kaya, Kirsten and Kit were nestled safely in plastic bins. If you don’t recognize those names, you...
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Kenneth Feinberg on placing a value on life
In the last 30 years, presidents, governors, mayors and others have delegated to me the unenviable task of putting a value to the lives of people who are already dead. After the 9/11 terrorist...
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Amy Speace, a singer-songwriter just trying to make do
Originally aired Friday, March 27, 2015 I live in East Nashville, Tennessee, a bohemian neighborhood in Music City right across the Cumberland River from downtown that, for many years, has been home...
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