Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi
Born	Worcester, Mass
Occupation	Journalist, financial expert, television personality and author
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Farnoosh Torabi (born February, 1980) is an Iranian-American journalist, author, television personality, and personal finance expert.

Farnoosh was born to Iranian parents in Worcester, Massachusetts, and attended Harriton High School in suburban Philadelphia. She has a Bachelors of Science in Finance and International Business from Pennsylvania State University and a MS in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2010, she was named an alumna of distinction by Penn State University for graduates under the age of 35.

On June 16, 2012 she married Tim Dussinger in Philadelphia, PA.They have a son, Evan Kiani, who was born on June 21, 2014.

Farnoosh began her career in 2003 as a researcher and reporter at Money magazine. From 2004 to 2006 she lived in New York City and worked as a business producer and reporter at NY1 News. She later became a financial correspondent for Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com TV from 2006 to 2009 where she covered the stock market, the economy, small business and personal finance.

In 2008, she was the financial correspondent on Real Simple, Real Life. In 2009, she became the host of SOAPnet's The Bank of Mom and Dad, an adaptation of the BBC reality series. The New York Times called her advice on that show "perfectly practical". That year Farnoosh also published You're So Money: Live Rich Even When You're Not. The book focuses on financial advice for young people. Her next book, Psych Yourself Rich was published in 2010 by FT Press.

In 2010, Farnoosh joined Yahoo! Finance to host a weekly video series entitled Financially Fit. The series ended in December 2013.

In 2014, Farnoosh published her third book, When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women. In it, she candidly addresses how income imbalances affect relationships and family dynamics, and presents a bold strategy to achieving happiness at work and home.

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