As Gia Giudice readies to start her next chapter as a cast member on Bravo’s Next Gen NYC, she’s already got a resume filled with interesting roles as she navigates a bustling career. The Garden State native has grown up since we first met her on The Real Housewives of New Jersey all those years ago, and these days her career is thriving across various platforms.Â
In the past, she’s launched a fashion line and from there, Teresa Giudice’s daughter has only expanded the scope of what she’s doing for her job. We’re taking a closer look at the empire Gia is building and has been creating for several years now in spaces across social media and podcasting.Â
Gia Giudice explains what she does for a living
After graduating from Rutgers University in 2023, Gia put her plans to go to law school on hold to focus on other endeavors and opportunities that have come her way.Â
Gia Giudice hosts a podcast and teases what’s next for it
In 2025, Gia launched her podcast, Casual Chaos, and hopes to expand it in a major way down the line.
“I would love to go on tour with this podcast,” Gia told PopCulture in a recent interview. “I have put a lot of effort into this podcast, and I hope my fans see that with just the efforts…that I put in to really show that this podcast is going to be amazing. So I hope my audience thinks the same.”
Gia Giudice details her career as an influencer
On her podcast, Gia explained why she decided to pursue a career as an influencer. “The opportunities were endless,” she said in an episode earlier this year. “I’m just never going to be in my 20s again, getting these opportunities, and I really just wanted to capitalize on it. That’s literally it.”
Teresa is also incredibly supportive of Gia’s work as an influencer, telling The Daily Dish in 2024, “Right now and she’s focusing on her influencing career, and she’s doing phenomenal with that.”
Gia Giudice opens up about her plans to be a lawyer
For now, Gia has been open about the fact that she put her law school dreams on hold for the time being to pursue these other opportunities. “If my heart was fully set on becoming a lawyer, I would have had to give up social media, give up everything I was doing, and honestly give up the money coming in. I’m just being real with you,” she said on her podcast earlier this spring. “So at that point, I was like, ‘Am I really going to stop all of this right now?'”
Teresa has also been supportive of Gia’s decision to defer law school and a legal career. “She took her LSAT. And then she was studying to take her LSATs again, but she wasn’t ready at the moment. So she just wanted to take a break,” Teresa explained to The Daily Dish late last year. “I told her, I [said], ‘Listen, you have your whole life ahead of you.’She finished college, and she did great, and I’m like, ‘You know what, take a break, focus on your influencing career… then you can go back to studying and take your LSATs again.'”
Gia has made it clear in the past, however, that the “chapters not closed” on going to law school down the line.Â
How does Gia Giudice make money?
As mentioned, Gia hosts her podcast and also works as a content creator and social media influencer. During an appearance on the Trading Secrets podcast last year, she shared how she supports herself financially and doesn’t rely on her parents, Teresa and Joe Giudice.
“I am completely on my own in the way of — besides my living situation. I still do live [at] home with my family — but financially, I do cover everything myself,” she said of living at home with her mom and stepdad, Luis “Louie” Ruelas, in New Jersey (her dad, Joe, lives in the Bahamas). “I don’t really get money from my parents anymore.”
What’s next for Gia Giudice’s career?
It seems like the sky’s the limit as Gia continues to find various endeavors to add to her resume. Teresa even previously teased the idea of opening a restaurant and having her family be involved. “Gia will be helping. She would want to work there also and help me,” she explained last year. “And the girls, too. So it’d be like, me and the girls.”Â
Whatever her career takes her next, Gia revealed in a recent Instagram post that she’s currently “booked, busy, and happy.”
And don’t forget to check her out on Next Gen ​​​​​NYC. Check out the trailer at the top of the post.
Speaking of the careers of the Next Gen NYC cast, we’re taking a closer look at their resumes and what they do for money.
