First Finance

Your successful career in real estate starts here! The first 365 days of working in real estate can be one of the most tumultuous times in your career - full of hard lessons, heart breaks, and hard work. Just because you have a license, doesn’t mean you have a business. But if you get the important stuff right, a great future is yours for the taking. This honest, eye-opening, and completely practical insider's guide shows you how to get where you want to be - even if you're starting from nothing.

TEDx speaker and financial activist Mel Dorman went from dumpster diving to a multimillion-dollar portfolio—not by winning the lottery or working 80-hour weeks, but by cutting out the banks and partnering directly with sellers. Now, she’s sharing the exact blueprint that helped her do it.

Your first investment property will no doubt be the hardest. Even choosing an investing strategy and coming up with a plan can seem impossible. Then you add in finding the right market, conducting property analysis, and the many facets of funding—and you’ve got yourself a classic case of analysis paralysis!

Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

If you dream of entering finance as a trader, wealth manager, sales pro, analyst, etc., but unsure of how to do it? Wayne explains why you may be the best candidate in the world, but that doesn't matter if you don't have this one thing. In this book he shows you how to get it. If you are serious, then learn from someone who has been on all sides of the job table, as an employee, Regional Manager (responsible for hiring investment bankers), entrepreneur and finance career coach. Wayne shares knowledge gained from working globally in finance from New York City, London, Scandinavia, Latin ...

In Own Your Time: 10 Financial Steps to Put Your Family First and Escape the Corporate Grind, Andy Hill, husband, father of two, and award-winning family finance coach, walks listeners through simple yet highly effective steps families can take to achieve family financial independence. Covering the two biggest causes of parental stress, financial anxiety and being overworked, this book features real-life examples of couples who’ve conquered these family financial independence milestones and found better lives for themselves because of it.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in “the ultimate guide to thinking about risk” (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). “A big favorite among...

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten...

Get your financial life in order—from saving and investing to taxes and loans—with this comprehensive, accessible guide to everything you need to know about finance. Managing your finances can be overwhelming at times. But it doesn’t have to be! Personal Finance 101 will provide you with...

No matter how much you want to escape the renters cycle, buying a house isn't always a good investment. Your home can make or break your chance to generate wealth and freedom and this book will show you how to make the right decisions to give you the most financial flexibility possible.

The book Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) hailed as “essential reading” for anyone who wants to “make informed decisions” and “have a basic understanding of the economy”: an illustrated guide to economics from one of the internet’s favorite financial educators. “Few people can...

One of the few Black women to break into the boy's club of Silicon Valley offers her secrets for how anyone can build a legacy of wealth and impact. Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan...

Cultura and Cash is a practical and jargon-free money guide to help you tackle your finances as a First Gen Latina. In this valuable book, The First Gen Mentor, Giovanna “Gigi” Gonzalez, uncovers cultural and systemic barriers First Gen face in their financial journey and provides actionable solutions on how to overcome them. Through storytelling and real-life examples, she’ll go into depth and explain best practices for creating a solid financial foundation through emergency funds, credit building, budgeting, debt payoff, and investing.

Did you know that there is more than one way for retirees to meet their financial goals? Not everyone is comfortable relying on stock market returns from their investments. This book explains a different approach that first builds safety through a floor of reliable lifetime income. This is the meaning of safety-first retirement planning. In this book you will learn: How risk-pooling through insurance works Why risk pooling is a source of additional spending that is competitive with potential stock market returns How commercial annuities provide this risk pooling in the same manner as Social...

Real estate investors have systems for almost everything—to make the phone ring, to find deals, and to fix, rent, and sell their properties. What they don't have is a system for their finances that ensures positive cash flow and profitability. This is why many investors end up scrambling to cover payroll, taxes, and even their own bills. In Profit First for Real Estate Investing, real estate finance expert, David Richter, reveals his simple cash flow system that not only makes "pay yourself first" possible; it makes it easy.

YouTube powerhouse and self-made millionaire Rose Han shares the practical tools to overcome financial struggle and watch your net worth grow—one zero at a time There's no doubt about it: the financial struggle is real, especially in a world that isn’t designed to help you get ahead. But...

Get Found is a straightforward, no-fluff guide that empowers entrepreneurs to flip the script: instead of chasing, start attracting. Learn how to use search engine optimization (SEO) not just as a technical tool, but as a trust-building strategy that makes you the obvious choice in your market. The result? A business that works for you 24/7, even when you close your laptop.

Many felt blocked by the Property & Casualty exam — dense with technical definitions, policy forms, and tricky distinctions. From my experience, almost 80% of candidates who struggle do so not because of lack of effort, but because they try to memorize instead of understanding the logic behind the material. That’s the real challenge: it’s not about intelligence, it’s about structure. With the right step-by-step method, everything becomes clear, logical, and easy to retain — no more endless, confusing manuals.

Every real estate investor has to start somewhere. The first steps are often the hardest. The desire to start your real estate investing journey is strong, but there are many unknowns: How do I avoid overpaying? What if I buy a house with an expensive issue? What if my tenants stop paying rent and trash the place? How do I get a mortgage? How can I find a real estate agent I can trust? This book is written with all the information you’d get from picking a veteran landlord’s brain for a few hours over coffee or an adult beverage.

In their quest for trading commodities profitably, beginning traders spend a substantial amount of time studying market theory, various types of market analysis, and paper-trading in the futures and options markets. Yet, almost all of them fail to take the necessary steps to ensure their trading environment is conducive for the profits they seek.