When was the last time that you analyzed your family budget? You are bustling about doing spring cleaning for your home right now. Why not also take time to do spring clean your budget, too?

With tax season being in full effect, getting your family’s financial heath in order very important. In fact, actions taken or avoided now can have a huge financial impact on the remainder of the year. It may still seem quite a ways off, but things like back-to-school shopping and Holiday spending can be made less stressful if the appropriate steps are taken now.

Farnoosh Torabi is a personal finance expert and bestselling author of  “When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women” joined me in a recent interview to share the best ways to make the most of your family’s tax return, as well as tips to streamline your household budget to save money and be financially prepared for family expenses to come.

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Take a listen to the interview below.

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About Farnoosh:

 

Farnoosh Torabi is a personal finance expert, bestselling author, TV personality. She is a Contributing editor at Money Magazine and frequent contributor to DailyWorth, Yahoo! and The Today Show.

Her latest book When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women is an Amazon #1 Best Seller and her web series evolved into the #1 personal finance series online, ”Financially Fit” on Yahoo! Finance.She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Real Simple, Marie Claire, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, People, Entrepreneur, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, USA Today, The New York Daily News and The New York Post.

Her television credits include CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Fox, Larry King Live, Dr. Oz, Katie, The View, Live with Kelly and Michael, The Nate Berkus Show, Anderson and The Gayle King Show on OWN, among others.

 Farnoosh graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in finance and international business and holds a Master’s from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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