Stacey Tisdale
Stacey Tisdale has reported on business and financial issues for more than 15 years. Tisdale’s recent book is entitled The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money (John Wiley & Sons). In addition, she currently reports for the business news division of CBS News, and she anchors some of the networks national broadcasts. Tisdale also reports for The American Consumer, a weekly nationally syndicated show on PBS, and she is the U.S. Contributor for Shattered: Breaking the Glass Ceiling, a magazine for professional women.
From 2002 to 2004, Tisdale reported for all of the CNN networks, filing business and consumer reports for CNN, Headline News and Marketsource, CNN’s affiliate service, serving more than 600 local stations. She also reported for Inside Africa, a weekly news magazine show on CNN International. During this period, Tisdale also reported for a nationally syndicated program created by BusinessWeek TV called Money Talks.
Tisdale has also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as an expert on the financial issues facing women. Her experience also includes hosting and anchoring on Tech Live, TechTV’s daily news program. She was also a business correspondent for CBS MarketWatch, The Early Show, CBS Evening News, and CBS Radio in the late 90’s.
Tisdale’s journalistic career began at Dow Jones & Co. For 7 years, she produced, wrote, and eventually reported and hosted programming for Wall Street Journal Television, which is now CNBC. Prior to that, Tisdale was a writer for Dow Jones newswire service, Telerate.
Her broadcasting career came after her work on Wall Street as a cash manager for the commodities firm Balfour Maclaine International. Her responsibilities included managing as much as $70 million a day. Tisdale has also worked on the floor of the Coffee Sugar Coca Exchange.
Tisdale graduated from Marymount College in 1988, where she studied international business and finance, and she attended Polytechnic of Central London in England. She has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Cuba. She is also a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Life Planning
For over 15 years, financial journalist Stacey Tisdale has analyzed countless personal finance methods, and interviewed countless people who can’t find their ‘financial footing’ despite their efforts to try ‘this piece of advice,’ or ‘that financial plan.’ She has done this for the greatest news organizations in the world including Dow Jones, CBS, CNN, and PBS.
Then, she came across what she feels is the most significant finding of her career. A financial planning system called Life Planning that makes people look at the factors driving their choices about making and spending money.
Whether it’s a sense that, “I deserve the best,” “Someone will bail me out,” or, “I have special circumstances,” something is at the root of all of our financial behavior.
Through her reporting, Ms. Tisdale observed that discovering, and accounting for that something, is imperative if lasting change is to occur. Otherwise we simply fall back into old habits and patterns. She saw first hand how Life Planning brought people the changes they were looking for in their lives.
As evidenced in her book The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, Stacey Tisdale has identified why this integrated approach to financial planning works, and why the public is so open to it now. In the post 9/11 world, quality of life has become as important as quantity.
Still, we face:
- The highest healthcare care bills in history for ourselves and our parents
- Families are using assets meant to be inherited by their children to pay for things like retirement and eldercare
- Corporate retirement benefits are disappearing
We can no longer afford this given the reality of our longer lives. The money simply won’t last. Our financial choices are simply the culmination and representation of what we value, both as individuals, and as a society. In order to achieve the richness in life that we are looking for, those values, and not just our numbers, must be the starting point in our decisions as to how to utilize our financial resources. That is the premise upon which this Ms. Tisdale’s work is based. It is the acknowledgement that old messages, methodologies, and choices must be re-examined, if they are to truly represent where we are.
Financial & Lifestyle Issues That Face Women & Minorities
While working women contribute more than a third of the typical family’s income surveys show the “men handle the money” dynamic is alive and well in personal finances. This despite the fact that:
- Over 75 percent of all women are widowed at an average age of 56
- Almost 1 in 4 women are broke within two months of their husband passing
- Women live longer, so they need 20 percent more for retirement
This is largely because women still lack confidence in their ability to manage money, and they lack knowledge about personal finance, due largely to a lack of opportunity because of social and familial stereotypes. Minorities are denied loans at a much higher percentage than whites. They are also charged more, in the forms of fees and higher interest rates, for loans. We saw how disproportionately minorities are victimized by practices in the financial service industry when interest rates rose, and sub prime mortgages had to be adjusted higher. This breeds a lack of trust and frustration on the part of many minorities, often times leading them to avoid the very financial institutions that could help them, educate them, and empower them with the confidence to challenge the ‘status quo,’ and make different choices. As an expert and reporter on the financial issues that face women and minorities for more than fifteen years, financial journalist Stacey Tisdale has raised awareness about these issues on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dow Jones, CBS, CNN, and PBS. As she writes about in her book, The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, she has seen first hand how the financial issues that face women and minorities are largely the result of the messages society sends us about gender and race. These messages not only play out in financial behavior, but they tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies which leads to a lack of role modeling for new patterns of behavior for these groups. Stereotyping is incredibly dangerous on all levels, financial issues being no exception. The person doing the stereotyping is confined to a narrow range of choices for engaging with an individual or circumstance. The person being stereotyped is often limited to a narrow range of options. Our system rewards those who help themselves. Stacey Tisdale can enlighten these groups about the ways in which stereotypes and limiting perceptions, be it their own or social, are playing out in their financial behavior. With that knowledge they will have the power to make different choices. She will also guide them on their road to financial literacy and self-empowerment.
Social Trends
Journalists have a unique vantage point when it comes to viewing what’s important to our society at any given time. Case in point: Turn back the clock a few years to the late 1990’s and financial journalists were telling us the stories about the soaring stock market, the latest dot com overnight millionaire, or how ‘Mom and Pop Main Street’ made a million dollars on an Internet stock. It made perfect sense ‘fast money’ was an international obsession. Today, in the post 9/11 world quality of life has taken on new meaning. Ms. Tisdale is doing stories about people ‘downsizing’ their lifestyles. She reports about men and women walking away from high paying jobs to spend more time with their families. She tells how in a post-Enron world, spending without accountability is no longer the accepted norm. We want to know what corporate officers are doing with our investment dollars. We want to know that corporations and nations are not cutting corners that hurt our environment in order to make money. We are giving more money to charities than ever before, and the non-profit, philanthropic sector is one the fastest growing. With over 15 years experience reporting for the greatest news organizations in the world, including Dow Jones, CBS, CNN, and PBS, as well as the in depth study of societal influences on behavior in her book, The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, Stacey Tisdale has become an expert in identifying social trends and in identifying the information and resources the public is looking for.
The New Realities of the Workplace
Talk to top management at companies around the world and there is a unifying message: A global talent shortage has led them to the realization that they must manage their human capital as well as they manage their financial capital. Financial journalist Stacey Tisdale has these conversations. She has seen companies struggling to meet the demands of a global marketplace as they struggle to find and keep the talent to serve them. She has seen and can discuss what works: Strategies like diversity initiatives, talent development programs, management incentives, opportunities within the company like networking groups, work/life support that attract and keep the best talent. She has also seen how a lack of such initiatives has failed. The new realities of the workplace also mean a new reality for today’s worker. They are in demand, and in a position of power like never before. They have opportunities to define what they do and how they do it that have not been available in the past. The key is in identifying where the employee and the employer have the best synergies when it comes delivering the best product or service. Stacey Tisdale can help employee and employer develop mutually beneficial and satisfying relationship so that the end goal is served.
A Message to University Students About Finance
There has never been more pressure on students to excel academically than there is today. Stacey Tisdale recently covered this trend for CBS News. Students from all walks of life expressed fears that if they didn’t stand out academically or develop skills that will help them in their chosen careers through internships and work experience they had little chance of finding the jobs they really wanted. “Now you really have to do something to make an impression,” a young girl from New York told her. What’s striking is that the pressure these students are putting on themselves is not coming from their parents or their educational institution. They are simply looking around and realizing for themselves that we now live in a global workplace, and the competition is fierce. Their instincts are correct, and it is these very instincts that will bring them the success they are looking for. It is these instincts that have got them where they are today: Ready to capitalize on the limitless career and lifestyle opportunities that are available to them. As she discusses in her book, The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, the key to success for today’s student is to stay connected to their goals and passions despite the tremendous pressures to give into stereotypes and expectations that are connected to ideals that are not their own. There are messages from society to “keep up with the Jones,” and make choices about making and spending money based on gender, race, or ethnicity. There are familial messages – spoken and unspoken – to take certain paths when it comes to creating and utilizing financial resources. These things can lead young people to create limiting perceptions about their own abilities, opportunities, and choices. Our financial choices are simply the culmination and representation of what we value, both as individuals, and as a society. In order to achieve the richness in life that we are looking for, those values, and not just our numbers, must be the starting point in our decisions as to how to create and utilize financial resources. Stacey Tisdale will help students stay connected to their values and goals so that they can honor the contributions they truly want to make. She will show them how the choices they make about making and spending money can help them achieve the lives they want. She will convey the importance of those choices given the financial realities of the world we live in today.
Stacey Tisdale has reported on business and financial issues for more than 15 years. Tisdale’s recent book is entitled The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money (John Wiley & Sons). In addition, she currently reports for the business news division of CBS News, and she anchors some of the networks national broadcasts. Tisdale also reports for The American Consumer, a weekly nationally syndicated show on PBS, and she is the U.S. Contributor for Shattered: Breaking the Glass Ceiling, a magazine for professional women.
From 2002 to 2004, Tisdale reported for all of the CNN networks, filing business and consumer reports for CNN, Headline News and Marketsource, CNN’s affiliate service, serving more than 600 local stations. She also reported for Inside Africa, a weekly news magazine show on CNN International. During this period, Tisdale also reported for a nationally syndicated program created by BusinessWeek TV called Money Talks.
Tisdale has also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as an expert on the financial issues facing women. Her experience also includes hosting and anchoring on Tech Live, TechTV’s daily news program. She was also a business correspondent for CBS MarketWatch, The Early Show, CBS Evening News, and CBS Radio in the late 90’s.
Tisdale’s journalistic career began at Dow Jones & Co. For 7 years, she produced, wrote, and eventually reported and hosted programming for Wall Street Journal Television, which is now CNBC. Prior to that, Tisdale was a writer for Dow Jones newswire service, Telerate.
Her broadcasting career came after her work on Wall Street as a cash manager for the commodities firm Balfour Maclaine International. Her responsibilities included managing as much as $70 million a day. Tisdale has also worked on the floor of the Coffee Sugar Coca Exchange.
Tisdale graduated from Marymount College in 1988, where she studied international business and finance, and she attended Polytechnic of Central London in England. She has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Cuba. She is also a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Life Planning
For over 15 years, financial journalist Stacey Tisdale has analyzed countless personal finance methods, and interviewed countless people who can’t find their ‘financial footing’ despite their efforts to try ‘this piece of advice,’ or ‘that financial plan.’ She has done this for the greatest news organizations in the world including Dow Jones, CBS, CNN, and PBS.
Then, she came across what she feels is the most significant finding of her career. A financial planning system called Life Planning that makes people look at the factors driving their choices about making and spending money.
Whether it’s a sense that, “I deserve the best,” “Someone will bail me out,” or, “I have special circumstances,” something is at the root of all of our financial behavior.
Through her reporting, Ms. Tisdale observed that discovering, and accounting for that something, is imperative if lasting change is to occur. Otherwise we simply fall back into old habits and patterns. She saw first hand how Life Planning brought people the changes they were looking for in their lives.
As evidenced in her book The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, Stacey Tisdale has identified why this integrated approach to financial planning works, and why the public is so open to it now. In the post 9/11 world, quality of life has become as important as quantity.
Still, we face:
- The highest healthcare care bills in history for ourselves and our parents
- Families are using assets meant to be inherited by their children to pay for things like retirement and eldercare
- Corporate retirement benefits are disappearing
We can no longer afford this given the reality of our longer lives. The money simply won’t last. Our financial choices are simply the culmination and representation of what we value, both as individuals, and as a society. In order to achieve the richness in life that we are looking for, those values, and not just our numbers, must be the starting point in our decisions as to how to utilize our financial resources. That is the premise upon which this Ms. Tisdale’s work is based. It is the acknowledgement that old messages, methodologies, and choices must be re-examined, if they are to truly represent where we are.
Financial & Lifestyle Issues That Face Women & Minorities
While working women contribute more than a third of the typical family’s income surveys show the “men handle the money” dynamic is alive and well in personal finances. This despite the fact that:
- Over 75 percent of all women are widowed at an average age of 56
- Almost 1 in 4 women are broke within two months of their husband passing
- Women live longer, so they need 20 percent more for retirement
This is largely because women still lack confidence in their ability to manage money, and they lack knowledge about personal finance, due largely to a lack of opportunity because of social and familial stereotypes. Minorities are denied loans at a much higher percentage than whites. They are also charged more, in the forms of fees and higher interest rates, for loans. We saw how disproportionately minorities are victimized by practices in the financial service industry when interest rates rose, and sub prime mortgages had to be adjusted higher. This breeds a lack of trust and frustration on the part of many minorities, often times leading them to avoid the very financial institutions that could help them, educate them, and empower them with the confidence to challenge the ‘status quo,’ and make different choices. As an expert and reporter on the financial issues that face women and minorities for more than fifteen years, financial journalist Stacey Tisdale has raised awareness about these issues on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dow Jones, CBS, CNN, and PBS. As she writes about in her book, The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, she has seen first hand how the financial issues that face women and minorities are largely the result of the messages society sends us about gender and race. These messages not only play out in financial behavior, but they tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies which leads to a lack of role modeling for new patterns of behavior for these groups. Stereotyping is incredibly dangerous on all levels, financial issues being no exception. The person doing the stereotyping is confined to a narrow range of choices for engaging with an individual or circumstance. The person being stereotyped is often limited to a narrow range of options. Our system rewards those who help themselves. Stacey Tisdale can enlighten these groups about the ways in which stereotypes and limiting perceptions, be it their own or social, are playing out in their financial behavior. With that knowledge they will have the power to make different choices. She will also guide them on their road to financial literacy and self-empowerment.
Social Trends
Journalists have a unique vantage point when it comes to viewing what’s important to our society at any given time. Case in point: Turn back the clock a few years to the late 1990’s and financial journalists were telling us the stories about the soaring stock market, the latest dot com overnight millionaire, or how ‘Mom and Pop Main Street’ made a million dollars on an Internet stock. It made perfect sense ‘fast money’ was an international obsession. Today, in the post 9/11 world quality of life has taken on new meaning. Ms. Tisdale is doing stories about people ‘downsizing’ their lifestyles. She reports about men and women walking away from high paying jobs to spend more time with their families. She tells how in a post-Enron world, spending without accountability is no longer the accepted norm. We want to know what corporate officers are doing with our investment dollars. We want to know that corporations and nations are not cutting corners that hurt our environment in order to make money. We are giving more money to charities than ever before, and the non-profit, philanthropic sector is one the fastest growing. With over 15 years experience reporting for the greatest news organizations in the world, including Dow Jones, CBS, CNN, and PBS, as well as the in depth study of societal influences on behavior in her book, The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, Stacey Tisdale has become an expert in identifying social trends and in identifying the information and resources the public is looking for.
The New Realities of the Workplace
Talk to top management at companies around the world and there is a unifying message: A global talent shortage has led them to the realization that they must manage their human capital as well as they manage their financial capital. Financial journalist Stacey Tisdale has these conversations. She has seen companies struggling to meet the demands of a global marketplace as they struggle to find and keep the talent to serve them. She has seen and can discuss what works: Strategies like diversity initiatives, talent development programs, management incentives, opportunities within the company like networking groups, work/life support that attract and keep the best talent. She has also seen how a lack of such initiatives has failed. The new realities of the workplace also mean a new reality for today’s worker. They are in demand, and in a position of power like never before. They have opportunities to define what they do and how they do it that have not been available in the past. The key is in identifying where the employee and the employer have the best synergies when it comes delivering the best product or service. Stacey Tisdale can help employee and employer develop mutually beneficial and satisfying relationship so that the end goal is served.
A Message to University Students About Finance
There has never been more pressure on students to excel academically than there is today. Stacey Tisdale recently covered this trend for CBS News. Students from all walks of life expressed fears that if they didn’t stand out academically or develop skills that will help them in their chosen careers through internships and work experience they had little chance of finding the jobs they really wanted. “Now you really have to do something to make an impression,” a young girl from New York told her. What’s striking is that the pressure these students are putting on themselves is not coming from their parents or their educational institution. They are simply looking around and realizing for themselves that we now live in a global workplace, and the competition is fierce. Their instincts are correct, and it is these very instincts that will bring them the success they are looking for. It is these instincts that have got them where they are today: Ready to capitalize on the limitless career and lifestyle opportunities that are available to them. As she discusses in her book, The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money, the key to success for today’s student is to stay connected to their goals and passions despite the tremendous pressures to give into stereotypes and expectations that are connected to ideals that are not their own. There are messages from society to “keep up with the Jones,” and make choices about making and spending money based on gender, race, or ethnicity. There are familial messages – spoken and unspoken – to take certain paths when it comes to creating and utilizing financial resources. These things can lead young people to create limiting perceptions about their own abilities, opportunities, and choices. Our financial choices are simply the culmination and representation of what we value, both as individuals, and as a society. In order to achieve the richness in life that we are looking for, those values, and not just our numbers, must be the starting point in our decisions as to how to create and utilize financial resources. Stacey Tisdale will help students stay connected to their values and goals so that they can honor the contributions they truly want to make. She will show them how the choices they make about making and spending money can help them achieve the lives they want. She will convey the importance of those choices given the financial realities of the world we live in today.
