{"id":643652,"date":"2026-05-02T19:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643652\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:56:38","slug":"want-a-financial-glow-up-start-with-money-fluency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643652\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a financial glow-up? Start with money fluency"},"content":{"rendered":"

By 2030, women will control more than $113 trillion in global wealth, marking a massive and historic shift in financial influence. Yet while more women are shaping the future as founders, investors, philanthropists and leaders, fewer than one in three feel prepared to navigate complex financial priorities, according to research from HSBC.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why \u201cMorning Joe\u201d co-host and Know Your Value founder Mika Brzezinski recently joined Racquel Oden, Head of International Wealth and Private Banking at HSBC USA \u2013 as well as activist Monica Lewinsky \u2013 to host a special HSBC event in L.A., sharing what financial fluency looks like at every decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat fluency really means is knowing what to do, when to do it and how to do it,\u201d Oden said. \u201cThat\u2019s the space we\u2019re all moving into \u2013 from literacy to fluency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the past year, Know Your Value and HSBC launched two groundbreaking reports: \u201cThe Giving Shift: Global Living, Local Giving,\u201d<\/a> and more recently, \u201cThe Financial Glow Up: The Fluency Gap in Women\u2019s Wealth,<\/a>\u201d based on conversations with more than 2,000 individuals, including over 1,000 women across generations and backgrounds. The latest report explored the gap between understanding money and knowing what to do and when to do it as life evolves.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the moment of stress \u2013 of death, of destruction, of divorce, of loss \u2013 that\u2019s when you need to step up for yourself and you do need to be [financially] fluent,\u201d Brzezinski said. \u201cI saw so many women doing what I did \u2013 apologizing or self-deprecating \u2013 we depreciate our value in real time when we talk that way, so I love the concept of celebrating our worth, learning to talk about money in real and tangible ways and shedding the negative psychological habits that cause us to avoid the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewinsky, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and host of the hit podcast, \u201cReclaiming,\u201d admitted that a negative money mindset held her back for years. \u201cI developed an adversarial relationship with the idea of taking care of my money,\u201d Lewinsky recalled. \u201cI wish I had a relationship with money that wasn\u2019t psychological.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to \u201cThe Financial Glow Up\u201d report, 43 percent of women are financially planning for other people \u2013 children, aging parents, or both \u2013 far more than men. Nearly 60 percent of women are primary caregivers, which directly impacts income and long-term planning. So, it\u2019s no wonder that only 29 percent of women feel prepared for aging-related costs.<\/p>\n

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In Lewinsky\u2019s case, her journey in resilience and reinvention included periods of instability where she struggled to save money until her 40s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost a lot of my earning years,\u201d she said. \u201cI definitely feel like being a woman had so much to do with what my experience was \u2026 even moments when I stepped back out into the public arena a little over 10 years ago, I was so conscious of appearing to make money.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not until she secured her podcast that Lewinsky embraced a more empowering perspective. \u201cWhen we closed the [podcast]deal I said to the team, I want to help a lot of people, I want to move conversations forward and I want to make a ton of money,\u201d she remarked. \u201cThat was a really big thing for me to be able to say \u2013 I deserve that financial freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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