Introducing: A Week In Her Wallet

Introducing: A Week In Her Wallet

From HerMoney with Jean Chatzky by Jean Chatzky Her Money

April 9, 2026 · 2 min

About this episode

The episode introduces a limited series where women track their spending for a week and discuss their insights with Jean Chatzky.

Do you actually know where your money went last week? Not roughly...where it actually went. Every coffee, every impulse buy, every bill that hit all at once on a Monday morning when you were least expecting it. A Week in Her Wallet is a HerMoney limited series where real women from our community track every single dollar they spend for one full week, and then sit down with Jean Chatzky to talk about what they learned. Because the way we spend says so much about what we value, what we're afraid of, and where we might want to make a change. In this series, you'll hear from women like: Kortne, a 55-year-old tech director in Texas who meal preps every meal — even on race day at a half-marathon across the country — but didn't think twice about dropping $820 on Bruno Mars tickets for her daughter Kristen, a single woman in her 40s who travels constantly for work, owns her own home, and used her yard sale earnings to buy festival tickets for a night out with a friend Larisa, a Maryland mom juggling a rental property, two busy kids, a road trip to Florida, and a Sam's Club run that started with paper towels and ended with a bathing suit Real women. Real numbers. Real life. Subscribe to…

People in this episode

Host: Jean Chatzky

Guests: Kortne, Kristen, Larisa

Topics covered

  • spending habits
  • personal finance
  • women's financial stories
  • money management
  • budgeting

Keywords

  • spending
  • finance
  • women
  • budget
  • money tracking
  • personal finance

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Texas, Maryland, Florida

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