"I had one of the coolest jobs a teenager could ever have.”

An award-winning journalist and longtime Marketplace Radio veteran, Tess Vigeland faced two very different career paths when she was thinking about college. But for someone who earned acclaim for hosting a show about money, it turns out the topic was less compelling to her than finding the best way to tell stories about money. From her home in Portland, Oregon, Tess shares:

• Growing up in a home where money was never discussed

• The story behind her best-selling book Leap

• Why she has 12+ credit cards

• Her unabashed fandom of “Shark Tank”