A money story is your history and relationship with money and wealth. Did you grow up with enough of it? Are you still insecure about it? Are you afraid to make more of it? Everyone has a money story but not everyone shares them. Author Jennifer Risher is breaking this cycle with her recent book, ‘’We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth.” In this episode, we talk to Jennifer about her experience getting wealthy during the dot-com boom and what she’s learned through documenting how money affects her family, friendships, and life in her memoir.
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Speaker Bio: Jennifer Risher is on a mission to move money out of the taboo category and help us have much-needed conversations about the emotional side of wealth. She is the author of “We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth” which tells her story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of place in the world. She was born in Seattle, Washington, grew up in Oregon, and graduated from Connecticut College. In 1992, she joined Microsoft where she worked as a recruiter and then as a product manager. She and her husband, David, have two daughters and live in San Francisco, where David is CEO of Worldreader, a nonprofit he cofounded with a mission to create a world where everyone is a reader. In response to COVID, Jennifer and David launched the #HalfMyDAF challenge, which inspired over $8.6 million in charitable giving. In 2021, #HalfMyDAF is continuing to inspire more giving from DAFs to nonprofits.
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