Book Review: Your Guide To Becoming A Financially Free Woman
- Dec 2, 2018
- 3 min read
This week I decided to read "Women & Money" by Suze Orman because I honestly feel like as woman we aren't taught how to handle money. We are simply groomed into becoming someone's wife and our husband will simply handle everything. I think it's important for me to have my own money, property, investments, etc there is just something about that sense of independence and not having to depend on anyone. One thing I've learned from watching reality shows is that you often see the wife being traded in for a younger model and left with nothing. So even if I do get married I want to make sure I plan the perfect escape, it's amazing what I have learned from someone elses mistakes. So in this book review, I will be discussing Suze's Humble Beginnings and Setting Up Your Action Plan. And be sure to read my last blog on the book "The Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey.
Suze's Humble Beginnings
Discovering how far Suze Orman has come in her life honestly inspired me, just hearing her story on how she struggled as a waitress at 30 years old. While going to the University of Illinois to get a degree in social work and making only $400 a month from waitressing. And even seeing how she even suffered from stuttering issues like Steve Harvey surprised me as well. Seeing how her speech issues also affected her overall reading, making her struggle on exams and test while in school. Getting to see this side of Suze amazed me because she really has come so far in her career, not having stage fright or stuttering in an interview.
Setting Up Your Action Plan
This is more than a book because it is nearly set up like a workbook, each month Suze assigns a new task for you to complete by the end of each month. And the task can easily align with what you are trying to achieve, except I feel like it was written for older women who may have lost themselves in their marriage or children. But I do think that if I was in this phase of my life I would use this book to guide me through planning my retirement, investing, and saving for children's education. Because from reading I can tell that each chapter and monthly assignment are incredibly thorough, I also think that some of the advice could also apply to men. Since I'm the kind of person that basically needs a schedule or plan for life, I feel like I can't just go with the flow and hope that everything will work out. I believe that planning for retirement and investing can easily leave you with nothing if you don't prepare for it.
Would I Buy Or Read Again? I do think I will read this book again, simply because I feel like I read this book at the wrong time in my life. My life is just getting started and I feel as though this book is directed toward women who are mothers or getting divorced. With that being said the steps in this I can't complete because I am not in that phase in my life yet if I had read this book in my 30's+ I would've gotten more from reading the book.
Catch up on my last blog on Rising to Be Thankful: Reasons Why I'm Thankful This Thanksgiving Season.
If you have any book suggestions add them below in the comments, and look out for new book reviews every Sunday. And remember “As we ‘Rise to Be’, we are becoming who we want to be” -Christina B. Rising🤗
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