Short questions with Dana Perino for Taylor Riggs

You've seen america connected screen, but person you ever wondered what we're for illustration off-camera?

For nan past fewer months, I’ve enjoyed checking successful pinch immoderate of your favourite Fox personalities to study much astir who they are down nan scenes.

What's nan 1 point Jesse Watters couldn’t unrecorded without? What's Bill Hemmer’s favourite Halloween costume? And what's sitting connected Greg Gutfeld’s nightstand? 

But that's not all! The nosy is conscionable getting started.

This week, we're excited to radiance nan spotlight connected Taylor Riggs. She joined nan Fox Business Network successful December 2022 and presently serves arsenic co-host of "The Big Money Show" (weekdays, 1 p.m. /ET) alongside Jackie DeAngelis and Brian Brenberg.

Prior to joining FBN, she was astatine Bloomberg News, wherever she co-anchored a regular programme connected Bloomberg Television, covering equities, bonds, currencies and commodities. Earlier successful her career, she was a markets newsman for The Bond Buyer, covering municipal enslaved buy-side investors and sell-side analysts.

P.S. We person truthful overmuch much successful shop for you. Stay tuned each week for caller editions of "Short Questions pinch Dana Perino" — and if there’s a mobility you want answers to aliases a proposal for nan personification I should question and reply next, time off a statement successful nan comments conception below. 

This week, Dana Perino said pinch Taylor Riggs of Fox Business Network, who revealed her apical investing instrumentality — and nan champion proposal she'd springiness her younger aforesaid if she could.   (Fox News Digital)

Q: Prior to becoming nan co-host of ‘The Big Money Show’ on Fox Business Network, wherever had your profession taken you? 

TR: I came to FBN aft spending 9 years astatine Bloomberg. I astir precocious anchored nan "Closing Bell" show and a exertion show for Bloomberg TV. 

Before that, I wrote stories connected municipal bonds and covered authorities and section authorities issues for Bloomberg News.

Q: How did you make your first dollar? 

TR: I worked for my dad’s mini business — filing papers, answering calls astatine nan reception desk, making photocopies and organizing nan message room. 

Q: Growing up, what was your favourite committee crippled aliases paper game? Did you for illustration ‘Monopoly’ — and person you ever been drawn to finance? 

TR: My favourite crippled we played arsenic a family was "Sorry!" And I liked it because it was a batch of luck pinch a hint of strategy. 

"I person ever been drawn to finance, but ‘Monopoly’ took excessively agelong to play!"

I person ever been drawn to finance, but "Monopoly" took excessively agelong to play!

Q: What mobility do you deliberation each head should inquire successful a occupation interview? 

TR: I americium stealing this mobility from Peter Thiel. He has said that 1 of his favourite question and reply questions is, "What important truth do very fewer group work together pinch you on?" 

I for illustration nan mobility because it prevents group think, encourages contrarian ideas and forces you to talk an unpopular opinion. I deliberation it’s bully to person labor who deliberation differently!  

Q: If Elon Musk called you tomorrow pinch an unfastened spot connected nan adjacent SpaceX flight, would you go? 

TR: A 100 times YES! 

Q: What proposal would you springiness personification who is caller to investing and wants to commencement building wealth? 

TR: Start young and enactment invested. 

Most group commencement excessively precocious because they are acrophobic they don’t cognize what they are doing. And erstwhile nan marketplace has a large correction, they get tense and waste alternatively of staying invested. 

"Invest successful nan marketplace arsenic young arsenic you tin — and clasp onto your position for a very agelong time."

My biggest portion of proposal is, "Time successful nan market, not timing nan market." So invest successful nan market arsenic young arsenic you tin — and clasp onto your position for a very agelong time. 

I conscionable bargain an ETF that tracks nan S&P 500 and dollar costs average. I effort not to waste moreover erstwhile I’m nervous. And past I conscionable dream that I build wealthiness by knowing nan S&P 500 will beryllium higher successful 20 years than it is today.  

Q: If you were a contestant connected a cooking show, what crockery would you hole to impressment nan judges? 

TR: I person to admit I americium a horrible navigator and I don’t bask cooking. My hubby is Italian and truthful he loves cooking our family meals. 

He would make his homemade pesto and homemade pasta.

Q: What is your favourite app connected your phone? Bonus points if it is 1 that I don’t already person downloaded connected my phone! 

TR: I person a few. To your earlier mobility astir "Monopoly," I person the app connected my phone and emotion playing! 

On a much superior note, I person my Fidelity app to cheque my investments and publication investigation connected nan marketplace and I emotion it.

Q: When should you commencement school your kids astir financial responsibility? 

TR: Yesterday! I judge it’s ne'er excessively early. 

I person a 6-month-old daughter and I already talk to her retired large astir budgeting erstwhile we are astatine nan market shop aliases what nan markets did coming aliases what net announcements are coming retired adjacent week. 

"I moreover opened up an finance relationship for her that includes money she sewage from family erstwhile she was born."

I show her each paycheck really overmuch I contributed to her 529 Savings Plan and I moreover opened up an finance relationship for her that includes money she sewage from family erstwhile she was born. 

I judge financial state is truthful important to thatch her and thief her consciousness comfortable successful making smart financial choices. 

Q: Last book you read? 

TR: "Shark Heart." It sounded silly and I wasn’t judge I would for illustration it. 

But it was a very saccharine communicative and a amazingly rubbing read.

Q: How do you attack nan equilibrium betwixt investing and redeeming for nan early versus enjoying nan present? 

TR: This is simply a tricky one. I genuinely judge successful holding disconnected connected coming purchases to put successful yourself and your family for nan long-term. But we person to consciousness happiness today. 

"We can’t eat retired aliases spell connected a picnic if we besides aren’t redeeming for nan future. That’s our rule!"

So I return a information of my paycheck and put it successful my 401(k) that I won’t touch for 30 much years. Then I return different information of my paycheck and usage it to put successful stocks that I americium willing successful now. 

And then, finally, I return a mini information of my paycheck and prevention for a picnic aliases a meal nighttime retired that my hubby and I want to return together. But we can’t eat retired aliases spell connected a picnic if we besides aren’t redeeming for nan future. That’s our rule!

Q: What is nan champion portion of proposal you would springiness to your younger self? 

TR: Be benignant to yourself (we are our ain worst critics) and springiness yourself a batch of grace during your increasing pains. 

Have religion that life will each activity retired really it is meant to be.

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