Girl, Get Your Money Straight: A Sister's Guide to Healing Your Bank Account and Funding Your Dreams in 7 Simple Steps
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767904885 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Girl, Get Your Money Straight! presents her seven-step program for holistic financial healing–an upbeat, empowering road map that you can use to identify your heart’s desires, break away from negative spending patterns, pay off outstanding debts, develop a spending plan, conquer the checkbook blues, and create new wealth. If you’re tired of feeling powerless over your finances and are ready to start funding your dreams, then come on girl–it’s time to get your money straight! Author and financial expert Glinda Bridgforth knows that healthy money management is rarely just about dollars–it’s about getting to the root of why we spend what we do and recognizing the emotional and cultural issues that play out in our unhealthy financial habits. Filled with Bridgforth’s warmhearted wisdom and advice, and complete with worksheets exercises, affirmations, and inspiring stories of African American women who have found financial peace of mind, Girl, Get Your Money Straight! is a fresh, fun, and eminently practical guide to healing your bank account and building a life that you love.
A regular contributor to Essence and Black Enterprise, she is a frequent guest on television and radio shows nationwide as well as a sought-after seminar speaker. She divides her time between Oakland, California, and Detroit, Michigan. GLINDA BRIDGFORTH is the founder of Bridgforth Financial Management Group, a financial management a
(Jan. While Bridgforth's basic position, that financial stress can be relieved with a better attitude and better record-keeping, may offend readers with a more political perspective on wealth and poverty in America, her consoling advice on how to stay calm and cope, which is attractively packaged for its target market, isn't likely to do much harm. Feeling good, she maintains, is essential to the success of any plan, while low self-esteem, which Bridgforth feels is a particular problem for black women, can result in ruinous, compensatory spending. Bridgforth advises meditating and r
Awesome! I love this book because Glinda's writing style and information make me feel so comfortable. I feel as if I'm sitting at the kitchen table sharing with a knowledgeable sisterfriend, who understands what I'm going through from her actual experience. It's also good to know I'm not really going through this alone. The exercises help prepare me for t. A Customer said Useful Information. I was very excited about reading this book after reading an excerpt of it in Black Enterprise magazine. The section of the book which actually deals with the nuts and bolt of financial management is quite informative, however, the first section of the book reads too much like pop-psychology. Specifically, the author goes into a long discussion of. Five Stars The book was very insightful & will help you get back on track financially.