Heather Dubrow
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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I think I don't know enough about this kind of law to know what's what. Because Laura Wasser and I have talked about this before. Has she been on your show? Yes.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Exactly. So you're agreeing to something without agreeing. But the question is, I think about inherited money. If you take part of your inherited money and you put it into a house that you're now living in with your significant other, I'm not really sure how that works. Do you get your initial investment back and the gain is community property? I'm not really sure how that works.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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How much are you going to inherit? How much protection do you need? Is there jewelry in the family? that really should be kept in your family if something were to happen between you. I don't know, things like that. I think they are things worth discussing.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Obviously our kids, unless we do something incredibly stupid, I would assume they'll be inheriting something and I would want them to be protected. I would also want them to feel like that whoever's marrying them is marrying them for the right reason. But I also, on the other side of it, I feel like
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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people should get what they deserve and i certainly wouldn't want to hear a story of my child or anyone's child or any i'm going to speak more for women entering into this marriage and getting totally screwed raising kids and putting their career aside or whatever they've chosen to do for this family and then walk away with absolutely nothing so you guys didn't have one
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I call my parents patron of the arts because I was always... performing. And so obviously was going to spend years struggling to do that as one does. But I have to say, when I first moved out to California, I graduated Syracuse University and I was doing some acting gigs and I got flown out to California and I decided to stay out here.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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No, no, totally. She and I have talked about it before and as her friend, I just hope she's making smart choices to keep herself personally, financially sound. And I think that's just true of all women. I mean, you know, I used to hear people talking about having fuck you money, which I get, but shouldn't we have fuck me, you know, that kind of money, like that. It's like this.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I heard Goldie Hawn on this panel. I don't know if you've seen this, but it's brilliant. She's on this panel and she's talking about women and financial freedom. And she said, the problem is we're set up incorrectly because it becomes like this, honey. I saw this dress and it's really cute and I really would love to have it.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And do you see how my tone has changed and how I'm talking to my spouse because I want to be sweet to get this thing. It sets up such a terrible relationship between you and your significant other when you have to act a certain way in order to get things that you want or need.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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from the relationship, whether it's emotional needs or financial things or articles of clothing or gifts or whatever it is. It's a terrible way to set yourself up. Everyone needs to be independent.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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It depends. I think everything is relative, but it's the conversation about how stay-at-home moms don't get paid, which is ridiculous. There should be money. If one partner is going out to earn, let's say, as the breadwinner, and one partner is staying home to raise the children, that partner should be, there should be money for that partner. Set aside. that is theirs to do with what they wish.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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There should be money that goes to the household, money that goes to education, all these things. That's your, fuck me, I can do whatever the fuck I want with this money. Or else you're set up in that story that Goldie Hawn is talking about and have nothing. I remember very well going from a full-time working actress making, I think I was making $60,000 an episode on that show. And this is 2002.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Wow. Plus reruns and residuals. Not just residuals, but like other ancillary businesses that I was doing and getting paid for and whatever. I was making a lot of money. I went from doing that to being the full stay at home mom, full time of twins. And it was, and moving to Orange County.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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All of a sudden I watched my money go to zero because I did have investments and I did have all of that stuff, but I didn't have any assets. flow. There was no more income. And so all of a sudden it was only outgo. And it was like, now I'm set up in a position to what ask my husband for money or how much can I spend? It was very strange. And to your point really could have changed.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Our relationship, does that make one partner more powerful than the other? What does that do to you? The dynamics, yeah. I hated it. I have to tell you, I hated not having my own money, even though it was all our money. And he never made me feel that way at all and was always valued what I did with our children and our family and keeping our whole family running and all of that. but I hated it.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And my parents were like, OK, if you want to stay in California, that's fine. You're going to have to figure it out. And part of figuring it out, instead of being a waitress, I was a singer. So I sang at Disneyland and I ended up putting together this big band that we performed. And that was like my waitress job for four years.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And I can't say that I remember a specific conversation, but I do remember having multiple conversations about what our financial life moving forward looked like.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Yeah.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Not knowing what their financials are, I have no idea. It sounds very low to me, honestly, considering I know they lived in a big, nice house and took vacations and had a very nice life. That seems low to me. I don't know their financial situation, but I just hope for Jen that she's got a great lawyer who's really doing all the forensic accounting and figuring out what she deserves.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Is she using Laura? Not that I know of. She should. It's so funny. I love her. And we've known each other for a few years now. And we keep trying to make a lunch date. And she's like, you really don't want to be seen in public having lunch with me.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I'm like, why? Who cares? She's like, oh, no. Then the rumor mills. I'm like, that's all right. You already say he's cheating on me. It's fine.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I mean, I can't tell you what's in her head. I can only tell you what I would do. But I personally, I wouldn't rush to get married so quickly anyway. Regardless of this. Regardless of that, I just think, what's the rush? I would say this to any of my friends that are going into second or third or whatever marriages, especially when you feel like you're done having children.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And not that I think you need to be married to have kids. I'm not saying that, but I am saying what's the rush. You're an older person. And if you have found someone that you want to spend your life with, you don't really need a piece of paper. to prove that you love each other and want to be together. Besides being engaged is so fun.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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However, during that period of time, I did what a lot of people in their 20s do, which is rely on my credit cards and rack up quite a bit of credit card debt in my early 20s. Do you remember how much? Oh, yeah. It was $60,000. Damn, girl. Yeah. And that was over the course. Cause you know, like some months the band did better than others. Sometimes I spent more than others.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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That was like, Terry and I always talk about like how being engaged was like one of the most fun years.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I don't know who's got salary transparency, but I will tell you that just like any other Hollywood production, people get paid different amounts. So not all the cast makes the same amount. No, definitely not. If you've been on one season versus 13 seasons, you're not making the same. As you shouldn't. Do you guys talk about this or do you know who makes what?
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I have a general idea, but I think what I would tell you is the more senior cast member you are, the more you're going to make.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I would say that I am paid very appropriately to how long I've been on the show. So OG. Yeah. And I'm okay with that. I'm not saying all of the salaries are what I think are appropriate. Do I think some people should be making more? Yes. But that's also just the nature of times right now, especially in Hollywood. Scripted shows, people don't make what they used to make.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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We don't get residuals anymore. for things. It used to be back in the day, 20, 30 years ago, you could do a commercial and live for five years off the residuals of one national spot. That's not the case. Those days are over. I do want to say I've always been with NBC Universal, always been, I think, paid well and bonused well.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And financially, I've never felt anything other than very respectful transactions.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I think it's 100% for the right reasons. I think it's fantastic. I think it is such a great platform. I didn't get this when I first joined because I was an actress. I was like, okay, great. My career is now over. can't do reality TV and all that. But the landscape of television has changed. And what I think is great is someone like Rebecca coming onto the show with an authentic business
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I am curious to see the inner workings of her company and what she does and how she runs her empire. I'm fascinated and runs her life. I would like to see all of that. What I don't like.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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and this happens more often than not, not just on Housewives, but on many reality shows, is that people come on with these inauthentic lives and these borrowed clothes and these pretend businesses, or they come on to launch. What are the common things? Like, I always make a joke that it's like a trucker hat line, but you know, it's an alcohol, it's a- Skincare, I don't know.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Skincare, it's a whatever it is. I am all for people making money. I am all for people using the platform. But I think two things. If you are someone- who just maybe wants to be famous, be on the show, show your life, great. Be authentic, come in, let us get to know you and then see what you can build off of that.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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If you're someone like Rebecca and you have already this super interesting career and you're willing to open up your life and show us everything, great. I think that's amazing. But authenticity sells and I hope she does great on the show because I just love that she even said that.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And I think also that magical thinking, like it'll all be fine and whatever. But luckily I started working as an actress and my first very big series, regular job, the first check I got, I completely paid off the debt. And I said, I will never, ever have debt again. Except for debt that is acceptable. Good debt. Good debt, yeah. Business debt, that type of thing.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Oh, my God, I want that, honey.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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A hundred percent. We're on TV. We're on camera. You want to look good. You want outfits for the events. And look, I took a lot of flack recently for talking about Jen Pedranti's dress. So on our show, Jen, we were going to a little tea party And Jen had on this really beautiful dress.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And I was walking through Neiman Marcus a couple of days later and I was on the phone with Tamara about something else. And it came up the escalator and I saw the dress. It was white, yellow flowers, Dolce Gabbana. I went, oh, that's the dress she was wearing. And I looked at the price tag. It was two thousand dollars. So I said to Tamara, oh, my God, that dress is fucking two thousand dollars.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And. She told this one, that one told that one. It got back to Jen and Jen was so pissed at me. Like, how dare I tell her what she can and cannot buy? And I said, look, you just told us you're making six grand a month and it's a $2,000 dress. Of course. Spending a third of your money. Yeah. Yeah. And she was like, well, that's just gossipy. I'm like, yeah, it's gossipy. It's also true.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I think it's exactly what you're talking about. I think it's this money dysmorphia. I've never heard it put like that. But it's like what you're talking about with Instagram. It's all the same thing. It's the highlight reel on Instagram. Oh, they go to Paris. They're beautiful. They're working bags and all the things. And you're on a show. You're going on TV. It's a projected image.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Fake it till you make it. Put it out there. It defeats the purpose of what we're doing. Now, look, I understand borrowing a dress for a special event like the reunion or something. Bravo Con or you're going on Watch What Happens Live or there's something like special. But if you need to do that on the daily for all of your outfits, that is not your authentic life.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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You are showing us someone different. That is not why are you on a reality show? It's about reality. So I don't know. I think that these women, they want to keep up with the Joneses or the DeBroses. Sometimes. And I think it's sad because I think they should know that they're enough. And that what people want to know is who you are and that not everyone. And I don't begrudge anyone.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I hope this doesn't sound weird. I don't want to begrudge anyone wearing designer or having all those things. Have it all. I hope everyone gets all of it. But the point is, it's always back to the authenticity. I don't wear knockoffs, right? If I can't afford it, I won't buy it. That's just my thing. I don't like it. I think it's copyright infringement.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And I would rather buy some beautiful Zara something. But I think that people get very wrapped up in wanting to be all of that.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I didn't really think so, to be honest with you, but I am between... There's two friends that have a thing, and I'm sort of between them. There's also another girl on the show who has been acting out a bit, and I am friends with her. It's a very difficult position. The audience likes to play Monday morning quarterback, you know? And so the audience has the benefit of seeing everything.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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It probably took me three, four years to get into it. And Hollywood is one of those places where if you strike lightning, you can make a lot of money really quickly. The trick is to know what you're doing with that money because those jobs are also fleeting. So you have to be careful. I remember on the show that I'm talking about,
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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where I don't see conversations that happened or things that happened or whatever. I'm just here living my life. I also don't believe in this team mentality. Like I'm on the, Shannon team versus I'm on the Tamara team. I don't like this team mentality. Two things can be true. I can be friends with someone and not agree with the way they're handling a situation.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I've tried to be honest with my friends about it and tell them how I feel about how they're acting. But sometimes the audience will go, oh, you're on her team. So you're mean and It's a little bit hard to navigate. My feeling is this. If you don't like something I have said or I have done or the way I have handled something, that is your opinion.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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And if you want to put a comment about that, that is fine. If you don't like me because I'm sitting in the same room as someone that you don't like the way they are behaving, that I, you know. Does it hurt your feelings? Yes, but I also know social media on our show accounts for 3% of our viewing audience.
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And so if you take a dive in it and you want to get upset about 3%, no, I'm okay at letting most of that go. And then also, do you totally believe all the good stuff they say when they're in love with you and it's great? I just feel like you have to realize that we are opening our lives. It also is entertainment. And We're also all real human beings with families and spouses and friends.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I just think those trolls, sometimes I think I feel sorry for them because I can't imagine The impetus of putting that kind of vitriol out, really typing something mean out and hitting send, I find so crazy. The karma hit for that.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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I mean, that is girl math. And look, I'm not always good at it. I am really sensitive. Everyone in the cast knows that about me. But here's the thing. And I think the audience forgets this as well. So we film for three and a half months. We have three camera crews. So forever, the algorithm is something like forever, 30 hours. We film 20 minutes, makes it to the air. Wow.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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There's so much you don't see. And I'm not crying bad editing or anything like that. I'm just saying there's so much you just don't see. You're seeing pieces of lives. And also you could film someone for a year and make two very different
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films of their lives you could show everything amazing they did and make them look like a hero or you could show like all their trips and falls and when they misspeak and make them look douchey and the truth is we're all a little bit of all of that and am I having a bad season I don't know you know I came back to the show after a break because I wanted to be able to show our family with our
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kids in our family, different genders, different sexualities, and try to start conversations in other people's homes. After this is my third season back, and I threw a big event for family equality. I launched a sparkling wine where 100% of the proceeds go to family equality, presented at the GLAAD Awards and other things. So that's what I came back to do. That's what I am proud of.
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that there was other people on the show who were buying Porsches and big screen TVs, which were a lot of money at that time, and all these different things. And all I cared about was paying off my debt and making sure that I was living hand to mouth. I opened a Schwab account. I wanted to, before boss bitch was a term, I wanted to be that. I wanted to be financially smart.
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So for the things that are annoying or the 3% or even if it's 1% that think I'm having a bad week or even a bad season or a bad month. I know how I show up in the world and I know what I've been able to do. That gives me a lot of pride. And I know when I see people out in the world, what they say to me about their kids or their parents and what it's meant to them to have us on the show.
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And that's what I need.
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trend that's going around the the mount rushmore trend bethany gave her mount rushmore of housewives you are definitely you should be on everybody's i think that's so sweet you know what's funny though it's like i had this career even though they make fun of it on my show by the way but i had this career well i think of my life in decades like i had this really beautiful actress
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decade, but that's all I was doing. And then I have four kids in seven years. So that I will consider that decade ish was transitioning like out of acting and pregnant decade and then into this reality. And now I have had a podcast for 10 years, YouTube channel, Terry and I've written three books together, done other shows together, and I'm taking classes at the groundlings. And I
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become involved in this musical that I'm working on, like all this really fun, so much fun stuff that I feel like I so appreciate you saying that I don't need to be on the Mount Rushmore. I'm so grateful to be a part of this pop culture thing and the platform that's done for me and for my family.
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But when the time comes to move on and it does for everyone, I will be excited to do whatever that next thing is.
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I would probably choose, like, all the OGs from all the cities. So I guess it would be a tough call between Vicky and Tamra, but because she was on first, I'll say it would be, like, Vicky and Teresa and Bethany and Nini. Do you watch another franchise? No. No. Do you watch your own? That's the rub. You have to watch your own because you have to see what everyone's saying about you.
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I did watch Beverly Hills when it first started because Terry and I were friends with Adrian Maloof and Paul Nassif. Paul and Terry are on botched together. We knew Paul and Adrian years ago before they had gotten married. When she joined Beverly Hills, We were like, oh, let's watch this thing. This is crazy. And we watched, I think, I don't know, maybe a season or two.
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But I've known Lisa Rinna for 30 years. I've known Garcelle for years. I've known Kyle. Some of them off the show, some of them from the show. I feel like at this point, I'd rather just be friends with people in real life. then watch the drama or have an opinion on it because there's something really nice. Like you telling me you've never watched the show.
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Like maybe some people might be like, wow, like thrilled. Don't watch. It's fine. Let's just be friends. Thank you.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
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Right now, I would say buy NVIDIA.
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We didn't get it at 40. So it's still going up. Yeah, still going up. But you know what? Here's the thing. It's like Apple. People get nervous because it's at the all time high. All the stock pickers are calling it generational stock. Are you a big trader? Terry handles that stuff, but it's a conversation that we have. And we talk to our kids about stocks. We talk to our kids about investing.
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You know, I wrote that book. Of course I know. There it is. Just checking. In those days, I'm 55. This was 30 plus years ago. People that I grew up with, especially women, even my parents who were super cool and all that were like, when are you getting married? Who's going to take care of you? And all of that, because that was the environment we were growing up in. And I was raised by very 1950s
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Please include your daughters in financial conversations and include your children period in financial conversations. And I'm not talking about telling them how much money you have. Our kids do not know how much money we have. That is not their business. That is our money and not for them to know.
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However, we do discuss what loans look like, what a PAL is, what buy, borrow, die, how we did our 529 plans and saved for their college educations. We high five each other all the time about that one, crush that one. And just we talk about all of that with our kids. My son, Nicky, He's not a kid who likes school, right? Each of my four kids are very different. Never liked school.
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He's very good at math, but he never liked school. And then I think like in eighth grade or something, Terry said to him, you need to think of math as like a game. It's like a puzzle. And all of a sudden, like that started clicking and he started getting interested, but he hated school. And then one day Terry said, let me teach you about stocks. Are you interested in all in the stock market?
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And he was like, yeah, okay. Terry gets a whiteboard out. and starts teaching him about socks. And he was fascinated. And then Schwab at the time, you could always check with Schwab or any kind of your financial institutions to see if they have any deals going on. Schwab at the time was doing a teen thing where they were having kids take this little course.
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And if they got through the course, they got $500 in a Schwab account. So he took the little course and he passed the little course and he got $500 in a Schwab account. And that started him on that. And he loves it. He's so interested. So talk to your kids. Yes. Yes. And if you don't know it, learn it together.
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They will. But you know what? It's funny because we were just learning about... We have the trust and we have all those things, but we sat down with some financial people who were telling us about how much you can leave someone tax-free when you die. And so we started having conversations about that. I walked away with tears and I go, you know what I took away from that?
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We're not spending enough money. It's a great takeaway.
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parents. And that's what you did. You grew up, you met someone, you got married and your kids and all of that.
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What era are we living in right now? It's true, and it's insane to me. I understand why I was raised like that, because we're all products of our environment. But I cannot understand anyone my age. Like, my oldest kids are 21. I was just visiting them. That's where I was telling you. I just got back from a whirlwind trip. And I loved sitting with my son. He's studying abroad this semester.
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And sitting with him and him saying to me, hey, so what do you think about... And laying out different... ideas for what his future looks like and what he's interested in and are really thoughtful. And he's nervous. He wants to be successful on his own. I love hearing that.
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That's an interesting question. Yeah, we've had feast and famine years. Of course, when I was in that credit card debt. And I worried sometimes about, you know, how I was gonna take care of myself. I think we all go through that. But I think as a sentient being, as a married adult, I got married at 30. Even Terry and I have had those moments. We've talked about it publicly.
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We, I say we, because we're in this together, but Terry had made an investment that turned out to be a huge scam. And we had $2 million swindled from us. This is a long time ago. But at a time where, look, $2 million is a lot of money. I don't care who you are. Of course. It's a lot of money. But especially at that time, and what we took away, people would say to me, aren't you upset with him?
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Aren't you angry? And I would say no, because our system of checks and balances completely failed. And I... realized that I was doing the same thing that my mother had done in her relationship with my father and just assumed he was taking care of everything. It wasn't breaking any cycles at all. And so Terry and I sat down and I was like, look, we need to fix this. And this is our partnership.
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We've broken down. What do we do moving forward? So even though that was a major loss, it was such a huge gain. And I truly believe, and I don't know if this answered your question at all, but I truly believe that happened to avoid something so much worse later on. So to answer your question, I feel like we are very grateful people. And we realize how lucky we are and that we've done well.
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So we do live in abundance in that respect. But in scarcity, because we do think about how to be smart and safe, prepare for our futures and our kids' futures as much as we can.
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It was probably 20 years ago. But the thing is, I just don't want to make the big mistake.
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No. No, he is more on the investment side. Real estate, we do together. He'll locate properties and feel very passionate about a project. I will execute the project. So that's how we split that up. He's also, he's got a brilliant mind and he's very into finance and stocks and investments. That's his side of that. I handle literally day to day. I pay every bill. I know where every dollar is.
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I am in charge of all of our LLCs and anything like that.
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A hundred percent. It really just reset us. We sat down and it was like, okay, this is fucked up. How are we going to never have this happen again? And the hubris of us to think that if it sounds too good to be true, it's definitely too good to be true. And it's also really changed the way he speaks to our children to always trust and verify.
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And even if you're doing a business deal with your sibling, you trust and verify. You must in every deal. But it really did reset us. I think it made us closer, to be honest. The only time we ever fight about money, quite frankly, is he makes jokes that he thinks are hilarious about me on TV and interviews, you know, about my American Express bill or whatever. And he thinks it's so funny.
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But the truth is, there's a faction of people that would assume or just believe that Terry makes all the money and I just spend it all, and that's dynamic, and aren't I cute, and all that kind of thing. I am aware of every dollar that comes in, about what we spend, about how we spend, and I am not a frivolous person. That doesn't mean I don't like to shop and buy nice things.
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It means I'm not frivolous. I don't throw money away.
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I know. It's just so dumb. It's like wife math jokes and stuff. And I'll lean into it sometimes. But other times I'm like, I work very hard for this family. financially as well as other ways. So do you guys smush all of it together? Or is there like a yours, mine, ours approach? Yeah, what's mine is mine, what's his is mine. No, I'm kidding. But when we first got together, I was a working actress.
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I made a very good salary. Terry was a plastic surgeon making a great salary. So we had separate companies, basically. It took me, I think, 14 years to change my last name.
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I mean, it doesn't matter. Like you're having a kid. I would use his last name socially, but it just wasn't on documents. I didn't find it necessary, but we started out with separate accounts. And then we had one kind of community account. I feel like that we both put money into for, I don't even remember what rent. I don't know. It very quickly devolved into it's just all of our stuff.
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I don't know. I wouldn't say disagreed. I would say like one sort of funny argument we had. So historically with real estate, Terry would buy these places and just throw these projects in my lap. So when we sold our Pelican Crest house, which was, if you watch Housewives, it was the house where when we first joined the show, it had the big double staircase and whatnot.
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that we had built from the ground up. And so we moved out, we sold it and we moved out and he bought this other lot. And he was like, this is a great lot. You got to build this house. It's going to do really well. And I said, okay, I'll tell you what.
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I will build the house, but you have no say because the last ground up, we had done a number of homes, but that was the first ground up home we'd built. And I was nervous about it. And I made him sign every tile, every swatch, every everything, just so he signed off. And he really hated like 30% of the house.
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I had also hired a designer that he wanted me to hire, a very talented guy, but not exactly my style, very talented. So I felt like that house was never exactly what I wanted, not exactly what Terry wanted, but we still did well on it. But here he throws this next project into my lap and I go, okay, here's the deal. If you want me to build the house, I will build the house.
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I'm not hiring a designer and you have no say. You can have say in the movie theater equipment and like the sound stuff. Other than that, forget it. And he used to walk in during the building process and be like, wow, the beams are so dark. And I'd be like, ouch, ouch, ouch. Is this a sound? No, this is not a speaker. Not your jurisdiction. No, no. Bye-bye. Not happening.
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And so I figured the algorithm would be about the same and he would hate like 30% of the house. He loved the house. He loved it so much. We actually stayed there longer than we've ever stayed anywhere. And you probably saw that we sold it for the third highest sale in Orange County history. $55 million later, it was a very good investment. And that was the best of us.
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He found the right place and I built it the way I envisioned it. And those were the results.
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That's so funny that you mentioned that. So there is a scene on Orange County House. It was years ago when I was first on the show and we were at a jewelry store and everyone was talking about how much they could spend without telling their significant other. And I think at the time I said like $10,000 or something like that. And everyone was like...
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Oh, yeah, for sure. There was a running joke between me and my dad where he was explaining to me the concept of income and outgo. Listen, sister, it doesn't grow on trees. You know, I grew up in an upper middle class family. I had jobs to learn how to take care of myself, not because I needed the money. So that was very lucky for me. I'm very grateful for it.
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Well, I don't think I would actually quantify it today, but I have a thing in my head about certain things. If I bought a purse and it was a certain amount of money, I wouldn't discuss it with Terry, but for some reason, jewelry feels different to me.
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20? Definitely more than that. This is not going to be a relatable conversation. But- I get it. Like an investment piece. Like an investment piece. But also there's something that seems like jewelry to me is romantic, I suppose. So I'd want him to give it or for it to be significant- I've spent more on parties than I have on certain items of jewelry. But Terry doesn't understand what parties cost.
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So I would never include him in that conversation.
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I feel like there used to be such a big stigma about it. When we were getting married, it would have been like, oh, but. It does seem to me that it makes sense. You talk about everything before you get married. You plan so many things. I hope so. I mean, you should, right? But it really does seem prudent to have financial conversations. We never sat down and said, are you in debt?
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I knew I wasn't, but I never asked him that. Did he have student loans or anything from? You know, he probably had literally $200 in student loan. It was such a low interest loan. He kept it till the very end. But besides that, he didn't have debt. But I didn't know that. We never talked about that. I wish we had. It turned out fine. But I would caution my kids if they were getting married.