Work Your Wealth: 9 Steps to Making Smarter Choices With Your Money

by Mary Beth Storjohann

Imagine ditching the stress around your finances once and for all. Think about what your life would be like to have control over your money instead of feeling like it has control over you. Work Your Wealth isn’t your traditional personal finance book. Mary Beth Storjohann, CFP®, speaker and writer makes it her mission to cut through the crap, toss the fancy lingo, make money relatable, and breaks down specific steps and to-dos along the way to provide you with confidence and clarity in your financial life. Work Your Wealth makes taking control of your finances exciting and easy to do. It provides an organized plan of attack that covers everything from setting goals, budgeting, paying down debt, investing, planning for retirement, using credit wisely, and more. Not to mention a whole chapter that covers your real life money questions. In addition, Mary Beth wraps up each chapter with a list of detailed, actionable Money Moves to help you build the foundation you need to create your own financial plan. Work Your Wealth educates, motivates and empowers you to gain a financial education, to kick your bad money habits (and your debt) to the curb, to step up and invest in yourself, and most of all to celebrate your wins along the way. If you’re ready to take control of your money, Work Your Wealth is your ticket to a new financial life.

Genres: Finance, Business

158 pages, Paperback

Published February 9, 2016

Reviews

[Katrina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Approachable, surface-level introduction to personal finance and goal setting. A good choice for the person who is overwhelmed, intimidated, and wondering where to start with managing their money. To take it a step further, I would follow up with Ramit Sethi's "I Will Teach You to Be Rich."

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for people starting out on their financial independence journey, especially the 20-30s crowd. It’s short and easy to read with clear action steps for every chapter. This book will help take you from clueless about your money to understanding where your money is going, why, and how to increase and protect it. Highly recommend.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very basic money management book, good for those just starting out, or maybe still in college and needing to understand basic money management information. Not so good for anyone over 35, or that has any basic knowledge of the way money works.

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gave really actionable, easy-to-read guidance on finances and how to make them work for you. I loved the checklists at the end of each chapter, which showed me how to take next steps and improve my financial literacy/investments.

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

good basic primer for finance. easy read!

[Nikki Perkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great starting book on finances!

[Janel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Encouraged reflection and was insightful.

[Ameena · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one of the most approachable introductory books on personal finance I've read so far. I am definitely going to be recommending it to anyone looking for a good place to start on personal finance.