“Charismatic and Compelling”
Nick Wolny is a professional editor and columnist covering personal finance, LGBTQ+ life and how they intertwine.
Quick Links and Summary
Engage Nick to speak at your next organization event! Virtual and in-person speaking engagements are available.
Direct email: hello (at) nickwolny (dot) com
One-pagers: Speaking: General money stats focus | Speaking: LGBTQ+ money stats focus
Media kit: Google Drive with photos and graphics
Example Speaking Topics
- The Saving Rate Roadmap: How LGBTQ+ people can secure their financial future
- Pink Money: Why the LGBTQ+ market’s purchasing power is about to explode
- Fund Your Fabulous Future: Why minority stress sabotages wealth
(and what queer people can do about it)
Lower third/attribution options
- Nick Wolny, author, Money Proud: The Queer Guide to Generate Wealth, Slay Debt, and Build Good Habits to Secure Your Future
- Nick Wolny, author, Money Proud
- Nick Wolny, Out magazine finance columnist
- Nick Wolny, columnist, Out magazine
- Nick Wolny, finance columnist, Out magazine
Bio
Nick Wolny is an author, speaker, and finance columnist for Out magazine. He writes Financialicious, a personal finance newsletter tailored toward queer readers, and is working on his first book, Money Proud, which releases in December 2025.
Additional info: I have an HD video setup in my home office.
Nick’s Core Message
Nick Wolny is a personal finance author and consultant working at the intersection of business, technology, and LGBTQ+ culture. He is currently the finance columnist for Out Magazine and a managing editor at CNET Group; prior to this, he was a self-employed marketing consultant for six years. Nick ’s personal finance perspective is that mastering your money requires coming out to yourself about who you are, what lights you up, and what will bring you fulfillment in both the future and the present.
This modern outlook on money led to Nick being tapped to launch a vertical on side hustles and financial independence for NextAdvisor, a partnership with TIME magazine. He later moved over to CNET, covering consumer matters and appearing in national broadcast media as a correspondent, before moving to the branded content division.
But it was a side hustle of his own, a finance column for Out magazine, where he got to dive deep on the evidence that queer people are at a financial disadvantage.
A contributor for several years, Nick has previously written for Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Business Insider, and Fortune magazine. His first book, Money Proud: The Queer Guide to Generate Wealth, Slay Debt, and Build Good Habits to Secure Your Future, released with HarperCollins in December 2025.
Portfolio
Out Magazine: How Pride is preparing for a world without DEI
A collection of interviews with Pride directors across America on how they pivoted as corporate dollars dried up.
FORTUNE: Superficial corporate attempts to show LGBTQ solidarity might be doing more harm than good. Our latest data analysis proves it
A commentary on how rainbow capitalism rings hollow with consumers and organizations alike. (From 2022)
Fast Company: 5 ways coming out helped me build my dream career
An op-ed for Fast Company on National Coming Out Day in 2021.
Out Magazine: The pink shadow ban: How LGBTQ+ influencers are fighting censorship
How queer people whose livelihood depends on social media distribution are navigating income challenges.
Yahoo Finance: How changing your money mentality can yield huge rewards
A video interview on the idea of intellectual capital and the earning potential of education.
CNET: Maxed Out: Inside America's $1.14 trillion credit card debt crisis
Feature writing and street journalism on how credit card culture weaves a web of psychology, policy and profit.
Out Magazine: The real cost of same-sex surrogacy
Why same-sex parenthood, despite its exorbitant cost, continues to rise in popularity.
Entrepreneur: Why every LGBTQ person should learn this skill
Context and recommended action steps on why queer people should learn entrepreneurship.
CNET: All 22 types of 1099 tax forms, explained
A longform service-focused piece to bookmark every tax season.