Tiffany Aliche
Tiffany Aliche, known as The Budgetnista, teaches personal finance through books, online classes, and practical conversations about budgeting, debt, and building a financially whole life.
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Rodale Books
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Rodale BooksOverview
- Also known as
- The Budgetnista
- Work
- Financial educator, author, and former preschool teacher
- Roots
- Daughter of Nigerian immigrants; taught in Newark, New Jersey
- Breakout book
- Get Good with Money, a 2021 New York Times bestseller
- Community
- Dream Catchers, her Live Richer community
Mini bio
How it started.
Tiffany learned money fundamentals from her accountant father and found her love of teaching while working at a childcare center. After the 2008 financial crisis cost her her job, debt and the loss of her home forced her to move back in with family. Rebuilding her own finances helped shape the work she would do as The Budgetnista.
A classroom that kept growing.
Her ten years as a preschool teacher in Newark shaped her approach to financial education. Through the Live Richer movement, she built a community whose members call themselves Dream Catchers. Her 2021 bestseller Get Good with Money laid out a ten-step approach to financial wholeness, followed by the hands-on workbook Made Whole in 2023.
Money conversations, together.
Tiffany and Mandi Woodruff-Santos launched Brown Ambition in 2015, bringing money, careers, and the experiences of women of color into the same conversation. Tiffany stepped away from regular hosting in late 2024. Her teaching also reached viewers through Netflix’s Get Smart With Money and her PBS special.
Beyond her own platforms.
In 2019, she partnered with New Jersey Assemblywoman Angela V. McKnight on legislation requiring financial education in the state’s middle schools. In 2025 she took her own story to a Senate forum on education costs, and in 2026 she joined AFT’s financial education campaign.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2023Made WholeAuthor and audiobook narrator
- 2021Get Good with MoneyAuthor
Film & TV
- 2025Get Good with Money with Tiffany AlicheHost
- 2022Get Smart With MoneyFeatured financial coach
Podcasts
- 2015–2024Brown AmbitionCo-founder and co-host with Mandi Woodruff-Santos
Awards
Quotes
If you don’t know what your money is doing, you aren’t going to be doing much with it.Tiffany Aliche, Get Good with Money book club kit
A budgeting lesson included in her publisher’s discussion guide for readers.
Trivia
- Her community members call themselves Dream Catchers.
- She became the first Black woman to appear solo on the cover of Money magazine in February 2021.
- She grew up with four sisters and describes her mother as the family’s expert negotiator.
- She has also written a children’s book, Happy Birthday Mali More.
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