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I first heard of Suze Orman right here on iMSN, from cupcake. I was intrigued but hesitant. We didn't have much money to worry about (until recently), my husband does a fine job keeping track of our finances, I never learned the first thing about investing so surely I'd be over my head reading a personal finance book.
Well, all of these concerns are addressed and negated in Suze Orman's Women & Money: Owning the power to control your destiny. Suze discusses how gender roles have changed so drastically in the past few decades, how typical female personality traits and adherence to stubbornly persistent relationship roles have held many women back from taking control of their personal financial situation: women from successful CEOs to SAHMs, from young women in their 20s to widowed retirees. No matter how much your family makes, no matter how much you personally bring in, you need to think about what your money is doing for you, and you need to shed any blame or shame surrounding the amount of debt you have, the choices you've made, or your current grasp of money matters. Leave the blame and shame behind, start now, and succeed one step at a time!
I love how she steps through everything from the basics of how to get or stay out of debt, to ideas for saving and investing, proposals for SAHMs and single moms to start building financial freedom, and firm suggestions for ways to protect the money you have through legal means and insurance coverage. She starts from ground zero so you never have to feel ashamed at a gap in your financial education, but her ideas range right up to more advanced portfolio allocations and complicated legal documentation.
I've been reading a lot of personal finance and investing books, but I'm so glad I read this one. It's full of commonsense advice, and I learned that I really like Suze's thought process and writing style. But most importantly, it gave me a lot of reassurance about my level of financial knowledge and my ability to keep building on my current understanding and play an active part in our household money decisions. I'll be reading more of her books (have already downloaded her latest from the library!) and I recommend this one to any of y'all at any stage of training!
Well, all of these concerns are addressed and negated in Suze Orman's Women & Money: Owning the power to control your destiny. Suze discusses how gender roles have changed so drastically in the past few decades, how typical female personality traits and adherence to stubbornly persistent relationship roles have held many women back from taking control of their personal financial situation: women from successful CEOs to SAHMs, from young women in their 20s to widowed retirees. No matter how much your family makes, no matter how much you personally bring in, you need to think about what your money is doing for you, and you need to shed any blame or shame surrounding the amount of debt you have, the choices you've made, or your current grasp of money matters. Leave the blame and shame behind, start now, and succeed one step at a time!
I love how she steps through everything from the basics of how to get or stay out of debt, to ideas for saving and investing, proposals for SAHMs and single moms to start building financial freedom, and firm suggestions for ways to protect the money you have through legal means and insurance coverage. She starts from ground zero so you never have to feel ashamed at a gap in your financial education, but her ideas range right up to more advanced portfolio allocations and complicated legal documentation.
I've been reading a lot of personal finance and investing books, but I'm so glad I read this one. It's full of commonsense advice, and I learned that I really like Suze's thought process and writing style. But most importantly, it gave me a lot of reassurance about my level of financial knowledge and my ability to keep building on my current understanding and play an active part in our household money decisions. I'll be reading more of her books (have already downloaded her latest from the library!) and I recommend this one to any of y'all at any stage of training!
So we've had some really good talks in the past few weeks about what we want our money to do for us, and I'm so proud that I've had the ability to go from his "Could you look into what it would take to get rid of PMI" to launching and following through on a full refinance of our house. Next up, I'm going to work on the allocation of our taxable investment accounts (the ones we keep so that we can start supplementing our income pre-retirement as he phases down his work hours). I'm also going to find a higher-yield savings account for our emergency fund, and an interest-bearing account for our HSA, and I'm probably going to look into funding myself a traditional IRA and converting it to a Roth now that I've learned that there's no income limits on doing so.
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