Financing Your Life A Guide to Controlling Your Finances, Today
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Today is the release day for the Financing Your Life program—which includes a novel and a workbook. Want to know more about the project? Read on for a complete description of each book and a link to all of the excerpts that have been posted.
Descriptions and Book Links
Financing Your Life is a novel that follows four families as they struggle to overcome debt, spending addiction, and unrealistic expectations in order to create financial security.
McKenna, a single mom of two boys, works hard every day as a waitress, but she can’t make ends meet. When her ex-husband has an accident that prevents him from paying child support, the walls of poverty begin to crush her.
Toby and Shannon, two professionals battling a layoff and personal spending demons, must find a way to work together with honesty—a proposition that’s tougher than Toby expected.
Blake and Christine, a newlywed couple in a hurry to start living the good life, whether they can afford it or not, work together to figure out how to get the house they dream of while starting a family and battling depression.
Marcie and Kurt, two young parents struggling to keep up in an image-obsessed world, must decide whether “fitting in” is more important than financial security.
Financing Your Life Action Guide: It’s impossible to create the life of your dreams if you don’t have your finances under control. Yet, how many people do you know who have actually accomplished this? The truth is debt continues to spiral, savings balances remain anemic, and spending continues unabated. Financing Your Life is an innovative workbook devoted to teaching you how to take total control of your financial life. Within, you’ll learn about:
-The secret behind financial planning
-Budgeting
-Insurance
-Repairing your credit
-Getting out of debt
-How to develop financial compromise with a spouse or partner
-Saving and investing
-Mortgages
Designed as a tool to do more than just tell you about financial concepts, this action guide will also help you immediately integrate what you learn into your own financial life. It includes worksheets and exercises, providing everything you need to take control of your finances, once and for all.
Excerpts
Term and Permanent Life Insurance
Shannon and Toby: Separate Finances and One Lost Job
Kurt and Marcie: Two Young Children, a Dog, and Debt
McKenna: Single, but Not Alone
