About Helen Jonsen

Helen Jonsen is a veteran journalist with a kaleidoscope career in media appearing on television and radio as a commentator, reporter and behind the scenes producer in the US and Melbourne, Australia, where she lived for a couple years. With an understanding of economy and markets tempered by a touch of Aussie cynicism and the reality of how to run a big family through the ups and downs of  varying health care crises and a tanking economy, she has a lot to say about politics, policy and the world around us. She was most recently editor of workingmother.com and a senior editor at Forbes.com. Helen is currently the consulting General Manager and Chief Content Officer for Ballooning Nest Eggs, where families are inspired to grow nest eggs for and with their children.  She is a contributing expert to the book The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom: A Woman’s Guide to Enjoying Wealth and Power. Earlier, as a television journalist in New York City before Mayor Bloomberg, she learned there was no glamour in covering Gotham from City Hall and the Bowery to Harlem and the outer Boros (and certainly not when looking for restrooms at a murder scene when seven months pregnant.) Helen is married to award-winning Aussie television news cameraman, Mark Watkins. They have four somewhat grown-up children. Tweet @helen_jonsen. Find out more at helenjonsen.com