Suze Orman hasn’t always been a personal finance guru. Her father, a Russian immigrant, owned a deli on the South Side of Chicago and when she was older, she moved to Berkeley, Calif., and became a waitress. When she was able to borrow enough to start her own restaurant, she lost all her money in about four months.
But Orman learned from her mistakes. She found out that the broker who had financially ruined her was dealing illegally, and she sued. She got all her money back and got a job at the very brokerage she’d sued, Merrill Lynch.
She went on to work at Prudential Bache, then started her own firm, and began writing books and giving financial advice on PBS and others until she got where she is today — with her own show on CNBC and frequent appearances on Oprah’s network (OWN), along with a shelf-full of best sellers and a wall-full of awards and honorary degrees.
Orman specializes in simple, no-nonsense personal finance advice, and recently gave some exclusive tips to AOL Jobs readers:
