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Award-winning personal finance journalist. Marathoner x 13; Dad x 2. Beagle x 1. Connector. Your biggest fan. News influencer, I guess?

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Published in Reuters, Fortune, WSJ, AARP, and many more. 

Specialties: Financial Journalism
Newsletters
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This is why I post jobs … if even one person gets a gig out of it, it’s worth it …

Chris Taylor

Senior Correspondent for Reuters. Contributor WSJ Buy Side & Fortune. Marathoner x 12; Dad x 2. Personal finance guru. Canadian in Jersey. 

Award-winning financial journalist with a focus on investing, real estate, personal finance, and retirement. Published in the Financial Times, CNBC, Money Magazine, and many more. 

Specialties: Financial Journalism
Personal Finance
Investing
Real Estate
Financial Blogging
Retirement
Travel Writing
Freelance Reporting
Freelance Editing
Money Expert
Ghostwriting / Ghostwriter
Content Strategy 
Digital Content
Media Partnerships
Storytelling

Well this is exciting!

When I heard Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach® and Earl Cox were creating the Financial Influencer Network, I knew they had something special on their hands

And I saw so many of my friends in the business involved, like Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche  Mandi Woodruff-Santos  Vera Gibbons  Reyna Gobel  Trae Bodge  Andy Wang & many more

So I’m honored to be a part of this amazing group — spreading financial literacy, giving people the money tools they need to thrive, lifting each other up

Can’t wait to get started! 

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What a day at Haymaker Group’s Media Summit NYC yesterday, put together by J.J. Colao!

All-star panels all around ⭐️ 

Nice to see new and old friends, like Amanda Coffee  Meredith Klein (she/her)  Cristin Culver  Erin Bruehl  Danny Groner  Gloria Doyle  Michelle Mendiola  Emily Gross  Cici Ghattas  Phil W.  Rachel (Livingston) Naar  Laura Coletti  Kristen (Olsen) Doyle  Anna Rose Pardue  

Some nuggets of wisdom from the panelists:

Alex Konrad: At larger newsrooms, I was kind of a big-game hunter, where I would work on a huge project for Forbes and then recover for a week or two. There’s no recovery time now. It’s like you’re always sprinting, and you’re part of that marathon race. So that’s been a real challenge: Give myself the space to feel good about what we’ve achieved, but also constantly re-gear up. Okay, it’s the weekend, but you’re in founder mode, and weekends are not a thing anymore.

Alex Heath: If you’re thinking about doing this as a reporter, if you’re not excited about the grind and the entrepreneurial aspect of it, and all you want is more money, then this is not the job for you. You have to want to own your own company, and think through all the different parts of it. It’s a lot.

Hope King: As someone who has covered business as a reporter, we all know the founder’s journey, we know what it takes to build up those businesses. So we walked into this with eyes wide open, knowing what it would take. So anyone thinking about this, I would encourage them to reflect on the actual work it takes, and whether or not you want to do that work every single day.

Randall Lane: AI is going to change every single product in every market, and that’s true for everybody here. This is one of those very rare instances in history when you know in real time that it’s real. With AI, even if there’s a crash, it’s there, and this will change everything. Anybody who doesn’t think like that right now is taking a risk. The riskiest thing you could do right now is not experiment with AI.

Maxwell Tani: When we were doing this job 10 years ago, it was much more about covering institutions. There’s obviously still a lot of coverage about companies and the big tectonic changes that are happening. But the biggest change on a day-to-day basis is, me learning about some new podcaster who is incredibly popular and sitting down with Trump. That’s definitely not something that would have happened 10 years ago. The hierarchy was a little bit cleaner, now it’s all very personality-driven.

Oliver Darcy: One blind spot of the industry is not focusing on the powerful people who allow some of the disinformation artists to thrive and monetize their platforms … With the Jimmy Kimmel situation, we’re finally getting a little more coverage about station owners. These are people who wield enormous influence, but they’re rarely covered. It’s usually the front-facing talent that gets covered, but not the people who are making money for themselves behind the scenes.

In this week's newsletter: How to be bold! 

An exclusive interview with Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati, who wrote a new book on how we can all level up our courage.

Plus the latest money news you need to know, like Prudential Financial on how people REALLY don't like to talk about finances (but you should!); NerdWallet on financial resilience, and how ready we are for economic shocks (sort of, not really); and ICSC on why Gen X is sitting on more cash than you'd think ($42 trillion, to be exact).

And this week's roundup of the hottest job openings in the media & marketing worlds, at organizations like SEMAFOR, Google, Citi, Bloomberg, National Football League (NFL), Inc. Magazine, FanDuel, Hyatt, Duolingo, The Independent, JPMorganChase, Dow Jones, The Guardian & many more

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10/10 would recommend!

So what was all that talk about the Commonwealth 🤔

Founder at Haymaker Group

After months of planning, Media Summit | NYC is now just a few days away. 

I’ve been listening to past sessions over the last few days to get pumped up and it has absolutely worked. This event is like Christmas for media nerds.

I’m deeply grateful to everyone who’s signed up to attend, purchased tickets, and donated to CPJ. And I'm especially grateful to our fantastic speakers, including:

• Media leaders Alyson Shontell, Randall Lane, Mike Hofman, David Rubin, and Eric Hippeau
•  Indie media stars Emily Sundberg, Eric Newcomer, Alex Konrad, Alex Heath, and Hope King
• The best beat reporters covering AI, crypto, and media, including Nina Bambysheva, Leo Schwartz, Yueqi Yang, Rebecca Bellan, Rashi Shrivastava, Hayden Field, Maxwell Tani, and Oliver Darcy
• Our incredible moderators Sara Fischer, Peter Kafka, Julie Samuels, Nayeema Raza, Kerry Flynn, Hadas Gold and Daniel P. Simon

See you Monday!

Here's a scary Halloween post: Who exactly is checking your credit report?

More people than you'd think. And not just banks or credit-card companies.

Insurance companies.

Utilities.

Employers.

Landlords.

In short ... quite a few organizations are interested in your creditworthiness. The more you know, the more you can be prepared, and work to improve your score.

My new column, for Current  / Stacker

#credit #debt #personalfinance 

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To cleanse your timeline …

Here’s Bryan Adams at MSG last night

A callout for anyone who ran the NYC Marathon yesterday:

-What did you learn from it? About discipline, about endurance through suffering, about joy?

DM me or let me know in the comments - it may appear in an upcoming newsletter!

🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️ 

New York Road Runners

New York ALWAYS shows up. 🗽
 
Your pre-race pep talk from NYRR Coach Ben and Coach Steve. 
 
Send 🥳👏🙌 in the comments to your fellow 55,000+ runners and 💙🧡🩷 to the 2 million spectators who will be encouraging you every step of the way.

Book launch day!

Congrats to Beth Pinsker, CFP® whom I love 

If you will ever have to handle the finances for an elderly parent, this is the book for you

Nice to see new and old friends at KGB Bar in Manhattan - Lauren Young  Jonathan Lonner  Ramit Sethi  Jennifer Merritt  Ian Salisbury 

Beth’s advice about getting your money lives in order, if the unexpected happens: 

“You need to make sure somebody has a roadmap to follow what you’ve been doing. Luckily for us, we live in an age where everything is automated. If I had a problem right now, 90% of my life would carry on automatically, and the bills would keep getting paid. You need that, because if one person who is running the household finances gets sick, and nobody else knows how to do it – which is the case I was in with my mom – the reverse engineering of somebody else’s adult budget is really hard. We all live very complicated lives, and have a lot of bills we pay that we don’t even think about. When you have to take that over for another person blindly, it’s really complicated.”

Check out my Q&A with her here: https://lnkd.in/eeDNYeT7

And buy her book here! https://lnkd.in/e7AP2Ux2

$5 billion you say?

The importance of editors …

Editorial & Content Director | Beauty + Style Expert | Consultant | On-Air Talent

Every time I log onto LinkedIn lately, I feel a bit overwhelmed by the seemingly never-ending posts from peers, colleagues and friends sharing that they, too, have been impacted by these unrelenting layoffs.

Now that I’ve officially hit the six-month mark of navigating the unpredictable --  and, let’s be honest, extremely competitive -- world of freelance and self-employment, I’ve been reflecting a lot on what’s helped me get through it.
And truthfully, the one thing I wish I had when I was first laid off was a community of people going through the exact same thing, to share my thoughts, fears, frustrations, excitements and questions that come with starting over.

Not to take away from the love and support I did receive during that time (I love y'all, forreal), but let’s be real, nothing compares to connecting with someone who just *gets* it.

So, at the top of next year, I’d like to organize a meetup for anyone in the NYC area whose been impacted by layoffs and is navigating what’s next. It will likely be in January 2026 and will be an evening of drinks, community and honest conversation.

To be clear, this isn’t a business play -- but if you're a brand that's interested in providing resources, slide in my DMs. It’s simply something on my heart to do, because I wish it had existed when I needed the reminder that I wasn’t alone.

If this sounds like something you’d want to be part of or you know someone who would, sign up via the link below. Let’s create a space where we can exhale, swap stories and remind one another that we’re examples of resilience -- even in the hardest seasons. 💕 

https://lnkd.in/eHvhynae

Interesting question - which connection requests to accept?

Editorial director at Ragan Communications/PR Daily, editor, content strategist, writer

Quite a bit of discussion lately about when to accept LinkedIn requests from people you don't know.

I'm in a different situation than most. Not to humble brag, but I get a lot of requests, mostly from people I don't know. Which is great, it's how I grow my network, grow my audience. 

But how I choose who to connect with comes down to:

Vibes. 

Does your profile feel right? Does your photo feel off? Is your job title in my industry in some vague way? Is it full of puffery like "VISIONARY GROUNDBREAKING UNDERWATER BASKETWEAVER"? Is your job title in sales, business development or some other area where I feel like you're going to immediately sell me something? Probably not going to connect. You can follow me tho! And if I recognize you from active, smart participation in my comments, I may follow you back.

Also, sometimes I miss connections. I mean to look at them and then more come in and oh God there are so many. So if you've connected with me and I didn't reciprocate, doesn't mean you failed the vibe test. Means I probably got distracted by a shiny object.

EVP of Brand & Marketing, Chicago Blackhawks

We're hiring a Manager of Social Media. 🏒

Social in sports isn't like anywhere else. The volume. The pace. Building in public every single day. It's chaos—but it's the best kind.

We're looking for someone who lives in the comments. Who watches what fans are actually creating, not just what they're saying. Who can look at everything we've always done and ask: does this still matter?

You'll lead people who move fast and make things. Who choose ideas over polish. Who understand that entertainment beats perfection every time. Your job? Give them the space to swing big and the clarity to know what actually matters.

This role is for someone who believes that saying no is as important as saying yes. That being hands-on beats dashboards. That ruthless focus is how great teams win.

Here's what you're walking into: The Blackhawks. One of the most iconic brands in sports. The largest social audience in the NHL—7.5 million strong. Chicago, one of the greatest sports cities in the world. A marketing team that gets that social isn't just a channel—it's where our brand lives, where culture happens, where we extend our legacy for a new generation. And one of the youngest and most exciting teams in the NHL.

You'll have it from day one. ✨

Sound like you? Let's talk. 👇
https://lnkd.in/gGm-M3Pg

If this resonates, share it. 🙏

Arrivaderci Quinnen. You were a good Jet.

We’ll see you in Valhalla

Any ultimate frisbee families out there?? 🥏

“Synthetic Influencers”. Sigh

https://lnkd.in/e7E6NJBa

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