Stacey Tisdale "You are already perfect. If you are not perfect, it is due to the poverty of your understanding. Get rid of this understanding and you will become rich..." -Swami Muktananda, excerpt from "From the Finite to the Infinite." Location: New York & Connecticut Website: www.truecostofhappiness.com

Biography:
On air journalist Stacey Tisdale has reported on business and financial issues for more than 15 years. Ms. Tisdale authored a book which was released in September 2007, titled The True Cost of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money (publisher: John Wiley & Sons). A financial expert, Stacey appears on NBC’s Today Show, and reports for “The American Consumer,” a weekly nationally syndicated show on PBS. Ms. Tisdale is also the U.S. Contributor for Shattered: Breaking the Glass Ceiling, a magazine for professional women.

From 2002 to 2004, Stacey filed business and consumer reports for all of the CNN networks, including, CNN, Headline News and Marketsource which serves more than 600 local stations. Ms. Tisdale also reported for “Inside Africa,” a weekly news magazine show on CNN International. During this period, Stacey Tisdale contributed reports to “Money Talks,” the nationally syndicated program created by BusinessWeek.

A member of the elite Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Ms. Tisdale has appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as a financial expert and has been quoted in O magazine. Her unique financial advice will also be featured in upcoming issues of Essence magazine.

Her experience also includes hosting and anchoring on “Tech Live,” TechTV’s daily news program. In addition, Ms. Tisdale was a business correspondent for CBS MarketWatch, The Early Show, CBS Evening News, and CBS Radio.

Stacey’s journalistic career began at Dow Jones & Co. For 7 years, she produced, wrote, and eventually reported and hosted programming for Wall Street Journal Television, which eventually became CNBC. Prior to that, Ms. Tisdale was a writer for Dow Jones newswire service, Telerate.

Ms. Tisdale’s broadcasting career came after her work on Wall Street as a cash manager for the commodities firm Balfour Maclaine International. Her responsibilities included managing as much as $70 million a day. Ms. Tisdale has also worked on the floor of the Coffee Sugar Coca Exchange.

Stacey Tisdale graduated from Marymount College in 1988, where she studied international business and finance, and she attended Polytechnic of Central London in England.

Ms. Tisdale has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Cuba. She is a board member and advisor for John Hope Bryant’s financial literacy organization, Operation Hope: www.operationhope.org/smdev/. Stacey has authored a personal finance curriculum for college students on behalf of Operation HOPE. The program is going to be mandatory for students at Spelman College, beginning school year 2008-2009. It is then expected to adopted by Historically Black Colleges across the United States.

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