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Farnoosh Torabi is an American journalist, author, television personality and personal finance expert. The New York Times calls her advice “perfectly practical.” Torabi began her career as a researcher and reporter at Money magazine in 2003. She then moved to NY1 as a business producer and reporter from 2004 to 2006. She was a financial correspondent for Jim Cramer's The Street.com TV from 2006 to 2009. In 2008 she was the resident finance guru on Real Simple, Real Life, a show on TLC that attempted to give women makeovers in all aspects of their lives. In 2009, she was the money coach and host of SOAPnet’s The Bank of Mom and Dad, an adaptation of the BBC reality series. Women living beyond their means were forced to live with their parents, who would make all financial decisions. Torabi offered financial guidance and mediated disputes between the families. In 2010, Farnoosh joined Yahoo!Finance to host a weekly video series entitled Financially Fit.

Books and Publications
In 2008, Torabi published You're So Money: Live Rich Even When You're Not. The book focused on financial advice for young people. Jim Cramer provided the foreword. Her next book, Psych Yourself Rich, was published in 2010 by FT Press. It was an Amazon best-seller.

Torabi is a frequent guest on the Today Show and MSNBC, as well as The Nate Berkus Show. Her work and advice has appeared in publications including Real Simple, Glamour, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Money Magazine, People, Entrepreneur, Redbook, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News and The New York Post.

In 2009, Torabi was named one of Cosmopolitan Magazines's Financial Foxes.

Education and Personal Life
She was born in Worcester, Mass and attended Harriton High School in suburban Philadephia. She has a MS in Finance and International Business from Pennsylvania State University and a MS in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2010, Torabi was named an alumni of distinction by Penn State University for graduates under 40.

Torabi is Iranian-American. As of 2012, she is engaged to American software developer Tim Dussinger.