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The Financial Diet

By: Chelsea Fagan, Lauren Ver Hage - designer
Narrated by: Chelsea Fagan
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How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.

The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance. Whether you're in need of an overspending detox, buried under student debt, or just trying to figure out how to live on an entry-level salary, The Financial Diet gives you tools to make a budget, understand investments, and deal with your credit. Chelsea Fagan has tapped a range of experts to help you make the best choices for you, but she also knows that being smarter with money isn't just about what you put in the bank. It's about everything — from the clothes you put in your closet, to your financial relationship habits, to the food you put in your kitchen (instead of ordering in again). So The Financial Diet gives you the tools to negotiate a raise and the perfect cocktail recipe to celebrate your new salary.

The Financial Diet will teach you:

  • How to get good with money in a year.
  • The ingredients everyone needs to have a budget-friendly kitchen.
  • How to talk about awkward money stuff with your friends.
  • The best way to make (and stick to!) a budget.
  • How to take care of your house like a grown-up.
  • What the hell it means to invest (and how you can do it).

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2018 Chelsea Fagan and Lauren Ver Hage (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
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Excellent Check List, Beware Profanity For Effect

Great Daily deal. A must buy if you have any issues YOU want to face, but have not!
Easy material, well worth the listen, and the download is a good visual to actually help you. Get started or boost you to the next level you want in your life.
I certainly am not a prude, and I can swear with the best of them, but as a member of Toastmasters International, the profuse use of profanity was a bit distracting as author used it to reach out to her core audience of Millennials. There are great speakers and comedians who don’t rely on so much profanity. I am fairly confident author will improve her delivery just as she has done with the aspects in her life as demonstrated in this book.

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Maybe Useful for Privileged Teenagers?

OK so when they say "total beginner", they really, REALLY mean it. As in, someone who knows literally not one thing about the absolute basics of money. I appreciate what she's trying to do here and think there are some useful tidbits in this, but I was really disappointed at the lack of detail concrete tools/ideas in the book. She glosses over really meaty subjects then goes into weird detail about non-essentials. It's also written through the lens of someone whose parents paid for college (are you really the right person to advise on millenial finances when you haven't experienced the main issue?) and generally seems to have lived an extremely privileged life - her idea of being "bad with money" is juvenile, laughably low stakes and gives zero consideration to "real life" circumstances that most people deal with. For the average person with real problems, a recipe for a yummy and affordable quiche is going to do precisely nothing to help them out with their finances. In fact it's a bit insulting to suggest otherwise. Really the biggest takeaway from this is being raised in a well-off family and entering adulthood with no meaningful debt is the best way to go - go figure.

Giving an extra star because if you are a teenager or very very young adult without life experience, this would be a great starter tool.

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A must read for financial novices

I consider myself fairly financially savvy, and I thoroughly enjoyed this book- but as I listened to it I couldn’t help thinking that I wanted to send it to all of my friends who hadn’t yet found an interest in finance. I recommend the book to my 22 year old sister and several of her friends, they all loved it. I highly recommend this book- though I’d suggest downloading the pdf materials from the website and having them handy while you listen.

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pretty good listen

Some sage advice and some redundant common sense. There is no need for the recipes but it was written for an actual book and not audible. you miss out on the PDF files she references.

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Great book!

This year one of my goals was to find strong, smart, badass women to act as mentors in my life and to look to for inspiration and I definately found that with this book. I bought it initially for the financial advice but this book comes with so much more than that. It is a beautiful balance of practical information and empowering advice and is presented in a very relatable way. I am very grateful to have found this book! Thank you Chelsea Fagan from one boss lady to another!

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Worth the $2

Quite good synthesis of all the core things the TFD youtube channel tries to do in clickbaity list videos. If youre interested in the videos do yourself a favor and opt for this instead. Read by the author, quite good if stilted and her voices of other contributors are kinda funny
and mostly dont distract.

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Good but not as expected

The main subject of this book is more lifestyle than financial. In fact the 2 first and the 2 last was on the subject and the other was a filler.

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practical and fun

This charismatic book highlights the smaller, practical aspects of life that add up to saving money and still living well

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Left me wanting more....

I discovered TFD thru their YouTube channel. I really enjoy Chelsea's approach & presentation on what can be a very dry & uncomfortable topic. When I saw the book, I figured it would expand on the TFD YouTube channel.
While I did enjoy the book & would recommend it to friends who haven't seen their YouTube channel.... personally, I would stick to YT - I felt like I gleaned more useful info from them thru that platform.

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I love the youtube but the book...

I expect deeper content compare to YouTube post. Unfortunately the book not delivered. So sad and disappointed

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