Suze Orman at the Apollo: Women and Money, Part 1

Sit on down.

So I have arrived at the pinnacle of my career.

And I mean that, everybody.

You know, you have dreams.

You have dreams.

Maybe you'll win an Emmy.

Maybe you'll have a number one New York Times bestseller.

Maybe you'll do this and that, all that I've done.

But I've had one really, really big dream.

and that is to stand on the Apollo stage and talk money to all of you.

Now, here's what I find fascinating about all of you.

It is 15 minutes late from the start time, and I've been standing over there for 15 minutes And all of you, or some of you, were out there drinking.

And you did want to stop drinking before you came in here.

And do you know what I was told? I was told you were scared.

The topic was about money.

You had to be drunk to sit in an audience with Susie Orman.

Listen, I love talking to women, an entire audience of women, and the men smart enough to come as well.

Yeah, you have to think about it.

It takes courage as a man to come to a show called Women and Money.

So you've got to give them credit, right? I love talking to women more about money than anything else.

And here's the reason why.

The future is female.

And this is the year, this is the year that all of you need to have a financial voice.

I understand very well what's been happening with the Me Too and the Time's Up movement, and I just want to talk about that for just a second here.

I want us all to think about why, as women, why would we, and every one of us has experienced this, Why would we put ourselves in a situation that wasn't respectful to ourselves? Why would we say yes, okay, when we're thinking, no, I don't want to do this, I don't like you, you're ugly, whatever it is.