After graduating from college Johnson held an internship at CNN in Atlanta. From there she worked as a general news reporter for the Valdosta Daily Times in Valdosta, Georgia, and then the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area where she worked as a health care reporter. Johnson moved to New York City in 2003 where she was hired at the Associated Press's then-new financial wire. Since 2005, Johnson worked as a full-time freelance business and personal finance journalist. Johnson is a well-known business and personal finance journalist. Her articles have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, MSN Money, Glamour, Forbes, Men's Health, Woman's Day, Parenting, WIRED, SUCCESS, DailyWorth, RetailMeNot, and The Huffington Post. She is currently contributing editor at SUCCESS magazine.
Blog and Podcast
As a blogger of Wealthysinglemommy, Johnson writes about her life as a professional, single parent in New York City, and speaks to issues faced by professional women. She is known for taking a strong stand that women should continue their careers and strive for financial independence after having children, for shared parenting, and that mothers should be open and honest with their children about their dating. Since launching in August, 2012, the blog gained an international following and media attention. The blog has been criticized for being unrealistic in her dating advice, and judgmental of other women's choices, including by bloggers at The Chicago Tribune. Wealthysinglemommy has been cited by major media outlets including being named to The New York Times Motherlode's blogroll. Parents magazine named Wealthysinglemommy “Best of the Web,” and the site was listed as an AOL DailyFinance: "20 Personal Finance Influencers to Follow on Twitter." Johnson and Wealthysinglemommy have been quoted as an expert in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, O the Oprah Magazine, NBC TODAY's blog, Headline News, HuffingtonPost Live, Woman's Day, Ryan Seacrest Radio, NPR, Business Insider, Fox News, The Houston Chronicle, CBS Radio, NBC Nightly News and Yahoo! Personal Finance. Johnson’s podcast, “Like a Mother with Emma Johnson,” features interviews and commentary on issues facing professional mothers, including work, career, business, relationships, parenting, politics, and sex. Named to USNews’ "Top 15 Personal Finance Podcasts," Like a Mother has featured Arianna Huffington, Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger, Free-Range Kids’ Lenore Skenazy, Tinder founder Whitney Wolfe and feminist journalist Rebecca Traister.
Author
Johnson's first book, The Kickass Single Mom: Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Self, and Raise Fabulous, Happy Children, is scheduled for publishing in October 2017. The nonfiction book is published by Penguin Random House.
Books
Radio
"The Emma Johnson Show" was a nationally syndicated AM radio show. This hour-long call-in talk show explored issues of interest to modern women including parenting, work, career, dating sex and feminism. Guests included bestselling authors and national media personalities including Laura Vanderkam, Katrina Alcorn, Farnoosh Torabi and Miki Agrawal. This show ran from February, 2014 to September, 2015.
Personal life
Johnson lives in New York City with her two young children. She married in 2005 and divorced in 2009. She is single.
