Get A Financial Life

By: Beth Kobliner

Narrated by: Beth Kobliner

If you're like most people, you don't feel like you're in control of your financial life. Get a Financial Life shows you how to mange your money and make it grow.

With this unique audio program, you'll learn how to:

• Start investing in the right mutual funds
• Refinance your high-rate credit cards and student loans
• Stop getting nickeled and dimed by your bank
• Use tax-advantaged savings plans to build a serious nest egg

From 401(k)s to stocks and bonds, this audiobook focuses exclusively on what you really need to know at this stage in your financial life. Whether you earn $15,000 or $150,000, whether you're single or married, financially inclined or financially challenged, Get a Financial Life will help you manage your money with the smallest possible investment of time and effort.

©1997 Beth Kobliner (P)2009 Simon & Schuster

Clear, Concise, and Complete

Fantastic primer for those looking for a "how to" on personal finances. Author found the "goldie locks" balance between providing context and offering immediately actionable advice.

Great for those just getting started - or - those looking for gaps they may have missed along the way.

Outdated, but a good guide for beginners

Fairly shoot coming in at under two hours but covered the basics and helped me get a better understanding of smart money management

A must listen for people in your early 20s

great basic financial information for you to get started. if anyone is looking to learn financial basic this would be the book I recommend

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The information in this book regarding credit and debt is accurate, but a terrible approach to finance. If you only read one book, this is well rounded, but I recommend starting with books like "The millionaire next door" or "The richest man in Babylon."

Nazle voice and irrelevant data

I would probably request my money back for this book if I hadn't used a free credit to purchase it. There are some common sense things that are good to remember here, but nothing you can't figure out from shopping around on bank/loan/credit card products.

There is also some BAD advice that could get people without a ton of financial literacy further into debt (for example, transferring your CC balances to new cards every time you can't pay a bill). This book is not a set of sound advice. It's a set of tools the author has used in the past with no strategic thinking tying them together which would help her readers decide if the tools made sense for them.

The amounts she uses are ridiculous and not useful - $125,000 for q mortgage??!!

I really wish someone else had narrated the audiobook. Her voice is really unpleasant to listen to for an hour and a half.

outdated

fine introduction I suppose, but horribly out-dated and assumes you don't live in poverty.