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Haley Sacks
Aka Mrs. Dow Jones, is one of the most influential voices modernizing financial literacy for the Zillennial generation. With her signature blend of humor, pop culture, and sharp financial insight, she’s made money education feel accessible, relatable, and genuinely cool for millions. Her work has earned recognition from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune's “40 Under 40.”
Future Rich Person
With humor, pop culture savvy, and zero judgment, her new book makes personal finance actually fun. She shares actionable and realistic strategies for building wealth on your own terms in the modern world—no trust fund or winning lottery ticket required. Embrace your life as a Future Rich Person today!
Haley’s 5 Picks
Best TV show you’ve watched recently?
Hacks! It's genuinely the funniest show on television, and I'm devastated it's the final season. The writing is so sharp… It's the kind of comedy that also somehow makes you cry, which I didn't consent to.
Best movie you’ve watched recently?
The Lorne Michaels documentary! I actually started my career at Above Average, his digital media company, so I was already a fan going in. But what really got me was how he figured out how to monetize comedy at a time when no one knew how, and how SNL has survived on network TV for 50 years despite constant censorship battles. It's kind of insane when you think about it.
5-star-worthy book you’d recommend to anyone?
Besides Future Rich Person (obviously), Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors. It's about a whirlwind marriage between a broke young artist and a wealthy older man in downtown Manhattan that completely unravels in the best way. Dark, funny, and weirdly hard to put down.
Podcast on your weekly rotation?
The Bitch Bible by Jackie Schimmel. She is so freaking funny. And Prof G Markets, of course.
A hidden gem you wish more people knew about?
Phia! It's a free browser extension that instantly tells you if you're overpaying for something while you shop online. You just hit "Should I Buy This?" and it compares the item across 40,000+ retail and secondhand sites in seconds.
Pix: In Future Rich Person, you reference the crippling debt issue millennials and Gen Z are facing (Gen Z averaging $94,101 in personal debt). What is your best advice for climbing out of debt?
HS: I actually created something called the Bachelorette Payoff Method for exactly this. Here's how it works:
Rank your debts from highest to lowest interest rate (just like the Bachelorette ranks her contestants.)
Pay the monthly minimum on all of them (she still goes on dates with everyone), but give your "final rose" (aka every extra dollar you have) to the debt with the highest interest rate.
When that debt is gone, take everything you were paying toward it and roll it into the next one.
The payments snowball, the debts disappear faster and faster, until you get to your final rose ceremony: your last debt payment ever. Works every time.
Pix: If you had to audit one celebrity’s spending habits for a week, whose would you choose?
HS: Taylor Swift, no question. I need to know everything- how she and Travis split expenses, their prenup, how much security costs, how much she makes when she sleeps, etc. Also, I wonder if she’s a big online shopper because she can’t actually buy stuff IRL that much because she’s too famous to go to a store.