What advice would you give to someone (me) wanting to learn about it?

I learn fast and I'm pretty well educated, but I've always sort of remained willfully ignorant about finance. I'm not really sure why... I think because it never interested me before and then I married someone who works in finance and so he handles all of that stuff for us.

Now I'm thinking of making a career change where a good base of knowledge in finance will be important (I won't have to be an expert but I need to be able to hold a conversation and not look like a moron with people who are) and I'm really overwhelmed with where to start. My husband isn't a lot of help because he's always been interested in finance so he doesn't really know where one "starts" either.

I tried googling around for like... "introduction to personal finance" but I just wound up with a lot of courses and yahoo pages. Any advice is appreciated