Rachel Morgan Cautero is a full-time freelance writer based in Ponte Vedra, Florida. When she’s not busy wrangling a toddler, baby, and one very stubborn French bulldog, she’s writing on all things personal finance, from the best budgeting and investment apps to retirement tips and inheritance laws, even how to hack your next vacation on points.
Her experience is wide-ranging. She’s worked as an energy reporter at a daily newspaper in the height of the fracking craze, a managing editor at several luxury lifestyle publications, even a reporter and several major publications in New York City. (She even once interviewed Melania Trump, but that’s another story.) Rachel was also a 2019 Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association Best of Journalism judge, an Experian #CreditChat panelist, and has appeared on Cheddar Life and NPR’s ‘On Point’ with Meghna Chakrabarti.
Most recently, her experience has narrowed in the personal finance sector, a career path that began while serving as the managing editor at DailyWorth, a finance-focused media destination for women, now HerMoney. In 2018, while also birthing a baby, she decided to start her own freelance business. She soon took on clients ranging from content marketing sites to writing for finance sites such as The Balance, Learnvest, and SmartAsset. She’s also written a fair amount in the parenting sector, for publications such as Parents magazine, The Everymom, and Truly Mama.
Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Forbes, Nerdwallet, The Balance, Yahoo Finance, SmartAsset, HerMoney, and DailyWorth.
Rachel has a bachelor’s degree from Wittenberg University and a master’s of arts in journalism from New York University.
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