Lynnette Khalfani
Lynnette Khalfani, The Money Coach, is a personal finance expert and the author of The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million, Investing Success: How To Conquer 30 Costly Mistakes & Multiply Your Wealth! and the New York Times bestseller Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom.
As an award-winning financial news journalist, Lynnette worked for nearly a decade as a Dow Jones Newswires reporter and a Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC. At CNBC, Lynnette filed weekly television segments on personal finances, investing and small business, and conducted online chat sessions on CNBC.com.
Lynnette has interviewed thousands of financial experts, and personally paid off more than $100,000 in credit card debt before becoming a self-made millionaire. Now she shares the secrets to wealth with audiences nationwide, using insights based not just on her professional knowledge, but also on first-hand experience.
A popular keynote speaker, Lynnette also conducts workshops about credit and debt, money management, real estate, investing and entrepreneurship. Lynnette is a frequent guest on national TV and radio programs, and has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Essence, and on Oprah, Dr. Phil, The Tyra Banks Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Tavis Smiley, as well as the Emmy award-winning reality program “Starting Over.”
When she’s not chasing after her three young kids, Lynnette is developing two PBS pledge specials, based around her books Zero Debt and The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million. She is also presently a Money Coach for AOL, where she dispenses her unique brand of personal finance wisdom. For more info about Lynnette as an AOL Money Coach, please visit http://coaches.aol.com/money/lynnette-khalfani/main.
Lynnette’s history as a financial journalist and reporter spans more than 15 years. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Irvine in 1991, and a Master of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California in 1993, Lynnette launched her career as a reporter for the Associated Press in Los Angeles.
She later worked as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a writer/associate producer for Fox TV in Philadelphia before joining Dow Jones & Co. in 1994.
During her nine-year tenure at Dow Jones, Lynnette held several positions of increasing responsibility. She began as a reporter covering Wall Street, writing about the financial markets, high-profile executives in the securities industry, and mergers and acquisitions. Lynnette was later promoted to positions of senior writer and Philadelphia Bureau Chief, where she covered publicly-traded companies in southeast Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and southern New Jersey.
She also worked as a deputy managing editor, overseeing a staff of 22 reporters and editors, and directing coverage of the bond markets for Dow Jones Newswires. After serving as a Personal Finance Editor/Columnist for Dow Jones Newswires, Lynnette became a Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC, a position she left in 2003.
Lynnette is a two-time winner of the Dow Jones International Newswires Award, resulting from her coverage of stock market fraud, and her trend pieces on Wall Street’s top players.
As a Money Coach, Lynnette continues to make financial literacy her top priority.
Lynnette Khalfani, The Money Coach, is a personal finance expert and the author of The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million, Investing Success: How To Conquer 30 Costly Mistakes & Multiply Your Wealth! and the New York Times bestseller Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom.
As an award-winning financial news journalist, Lynnette worked for nearly a decade as a Dow Jones Newswires reporter and a Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC. At CNBC, Lynnette filed weekly television segments on personal finances, investing and small business, and conducted online chat sessions on CNBC.com.
Lynnette has interviewed thousands of financial experts, and personally paid off more than $100,000 in credit card debt before becoming a self-made millionaire. Now she shares the secrets to wealth with audiences nationwide, using insights based not just on her professional knowledge, but also on first-hand experience.
A popular keynote speaker, Lynnette also conducts workshops about credit and debt, money management, real estate, investing and entrepreneurship. Lynnette is a frequent guest on national TV and radio programs, and has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Essence, and on Oprah, Dr. Phil, The Tyra Banks Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Tavis Smiley, as well as the Emmy award-winning reality program “Starting Over.”
When she’s not chasing after her three young kids, Lynnette is developing two PBS pledge specials, based around her books Zero Debt and The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million. She is also presently a Money Coach for AOL, where she dispenses her unique brand of personal finance wisdom. For more info about Lynnette as an AOL Money Coach, please visit http://coaches.aol.com/money/lynnette-khalfani/main.
Lynnette’s history as a financial journalist and reporter spans more than 15 years. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Irvine in 1991, and a Master of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California in 1993, Lynnette launched her career as a reporter for the Associated Press in Los Angeles.
She later worked as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a writer/associate producer for Fox TV in Philadelphia before joining Dow Jones & Co. in 1994.
During her nine-year tenure at Dow Jones, Lynnette held several positions of increasing responsibility. She began as a reporter covering Wall Street, writing about the financial markets, high-profile executives in the securities industry, and mergers and acquisitions. Lynnette was later promoted to positions of senior writer and Philadelphia Bureau Chief, where she covered publicly-traded companies in southeast Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and southern New Jersey.
She also worked as a deputy managing editor, overseeing a staff of 22 reporters and editors, and directing coverage of the bond markets for Dow Jones Newswires. After serving as a Personal Finance Editor/Columnist for Dow Jones Newswires, Lynnette became a Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC, a position she left in 2003.
Lynnette is a two-time winner of the Dow Jones International Newswires Award, resulting from her coverage of stock market fraud, and her trend pieces on Wall Street’s top players.
As a Money Coach, Lynnette continues to make financial literacy her top priority.
