Empowering you with Financial Literacy

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The national best-seller that readers love, making it one of the most gifted books! Why have you not read it yet?
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Empower yourself through a live talk that will change the way you think about money. Small steps to financial fitness.
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Let's Talk Money is your guide to financial stability and freedom. Join me as I delve into a wide array of topics each week.

Books & Audiobooks

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EMPOWERTalks

Personal Finance Talks by Monika Halan help you to get control of your money life. Very easy and practical moves that nudge you into taking that very difficult first step towards financial control.
Monika does not promise to get you rich quick. There is no secret sauce that’s in short supply. She initiates you into a lifetime of good money habits.
I was always struck by her focus on the consumer. She would ask all the hard questions about complex economic affairs and then work to communicate them simply to her audience
Nandan Nilekani
Highly Recommended Talks

TEACH YOURSELF THE MONEY MATHEducation

Do you find yourself intimidated and confused with day to day financial decisions? Do you feel like you struggle with concepts and terms related to finance? Educate yourself with a series of videos and podcasts by Monika Halan. She explains the most complicated concepts with simplicity and ease to help you kick start your financial journey.

Thank you Monika!

Ms. Monika Halan was awesome! Everyone loved her. .The money mantras and investment knowledge she shared with the students will be a lifeline lesson for them. She has talked about how to create wealth and financial success which is very important in the present scenario.
Dr. Gargi Pant Shukla Associate Professor - Doon Business School
Monika’s book ‘Let’s Talk Money’ forms the cornerstone of an elective course in Personal Finance at SPJIMR. A highlight of this course is an interactive session with the author herself, where students are always enthralled by Monika’s immense knowledge, clear insights, and her ability to unhesitatingly call a spade a spade. Thank you again, Monika!
Mr. Ananth Narayan Former Associate Professor (Adjunct) - SPJMIR
Monika has been a speaker at many of Cafemutual events right from the beginning. She is not only articulate, she speaks with great clarity and erudition. She champions the investors rights and exhorts the entire ecosystem of financial services to adopt higher professional standards and transparency! More power to her!
Mr. Prem Khatri CEO - Café Mutual
'It's an excellent read - riding on the author's characteristic candour and domain expertise that equips her to explain financial concepts and instruments in the simplest manner without talking down to her audience.
Menaka DoshiFormer Editor - Bloomberg Quint
Monika demystifies an extremely difficult topic: personal finance. Her Dhan Chakra session was not only informative but also busted some investment myths that one commonly gets pulled into in the name of investment planning.
Ms. Deepa ViswanathanDirector Group FP&A, CFO, Co-lead India D&I Employee Networks - Credit Suisse
This is something that we should be learning in high school! Monika’s talk on ‘What to do with my salary’ delivered some very important concepts that even as a professional with a work experience of over 6 years were revelational to me. I hope everyone gets the opportunity to hear Monika talk and learn from her the essential concepts that the today’s educational system fails to deliver.
Dr Ruchi AgarwalStudent - London Business School

Latest Reads

November 8, 2024
The unbearable heaviness of financial conversations
I have answered reader, viewer, and listener questions about money for a long time. I have seen them change over time. There used to be entry-level questions about what to do with ₹50,000 in the bank, what stocks and funds to buy, portfolio questions around asset allocation, strategy questions — a whole range of questions around...
September 30, 2024
Non-US world struggles to find common currency
From September 1, Russia legalised the use of cryptocurrencies to settle international trade accounts and wants to create an “experimental infrastructure” for such payments. India has at least $900 million stuck in unpaid dividends in Russian investments that are unable to be repatriated due to the sanctions faced by Russia. India has allowed the Chinese...
September 16, 2024
This generation gap is actually a valley
The age cohort that began work in the decades surrounding 1991 is now in its 50s and 60s. This is the urban mass affluent population slice that saw its boats lift with the giant wave of economic growth and prosperity that the economic reforms of 1991 unleashed. You just had to be in the right...

About Monika

Monika Halan is a trusted personal finance writer, speaker and author who helps families get their money decisions right. She is the founder of Dhan Chakra Financial Education and the best-selling author of Let’s Talk Money that is now available in Hindi, Marathi and Punjabi as well. She is an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Securities Markets, a Sebi-founded educational institution and at Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan. She is the Chairperson of Sebi Advisory Committee for Investor Protection and Education Fund.

She is a regular speaker on financial literacy, regulation, inclusion and consumer issues in retail finance. She has a Master’s in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a second Master’s in Journalism Studies from College of Cardiff, University of Wales, UK. She has worked across various media organisations in India, including MintThe Economic Times and The Indian Express, and was Editor Outlook Money. She has run four successful TV series around personal finance in NDTV, Zee and Bloomberg India.

She was a Director on the Financial Planning Standards Board India and is a Member of the Editor’s Guild.

She is an author of the best-selling book Let’s Talk Money (Harper Collins, 2018). The Hindi translation Baat Paise Ki was released in 2020, Marathi and Punjabi in 2022. Her first book Seven Steps to Financial Freedom was published by Macmillan in 2005.

She was chosen as a Yale World Fellow in 2011 and was a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany in 2022.

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