579: Jo Piazza, Author of "How to Be Married"

<p>A new topic for us today. We're talking about marriage. I'm obsessed with this topic. I wrote a book, When She Make More, about female breadwinners in modern day relationships. When you think about marital advice in this country, it typically centers around pre-marital advice and then advice on how to deal with divorce.</p><p>But what about the years in between?</p><p>Marriage is wonderful but it's also hard, and the more prepared you and your partner can be for the challenges - from your money differences to raising children to taking care of aging parents -  the less likely it is that you'll need to read that article about how to survive your divorce, right?</p><p>Our guest today is Jo Piazza, a prolific writer and author whose recent book is part-memoir, part-investigation on the topic of marriage. The book is called: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Married-Continents-Surviving/dp/0451495551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492094501&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+be+married+jo+piazza">How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage</a>. In the book, Jo shares a framework to help the rest of us keep our marriages strong, from your engagement into the newlywed years and beyond.</p><p>More about Jo: She's an award-winning journalist who's written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, Elle and many others. Her novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Knockoff-Novel-Lucy-Sykes/dp/1101872209/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1492094914&sr=8-3&keywords=jo+piazza">Knockoff</a>, became an international bestseller and she's also the author of the critically acclaimed <a href="https://www.amazon.com/If-Nuns-Ruled-World-Sisters/dp/1497601908/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1492094914&sr=8-4&keywords=jo+piazza">If Nuns Ruled the World</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Celebrity-Inc-Famous-People-Money/dp/1453258191/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1492094914&sr=8-5&keywords=jo+piazza">Celebrity Inc. How Famous People Make Money</a>.</p><p>To learn more visit <a href="http://www.somoneypodcast.com">www.somoneypodcast.com</a>.</p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>