Personal Finance in Plain English
Most people will earn over $2 million in their lifetime. Most will retire with almost none of it.
Not because they were irresponsible. Because nobody ever taught them how money actually works.
Personal Finance in Plain English changes that — one book, no jargon, no shame, no assumptions.
What This Book Is:
A complete, plain-English guide to every part of your financial life, organized around the Nine Pillars of Financial Health: Mindset, Budget, Earn, Save, Borrow, Invest, Tax, Protect, and Give.
Most personal finance books cover one or two pillars. This one covers all nine — because strength in one area doesn't compensate for weakness in another.
Retirement in Plain English
You know you should be planning for retirement. You don't know where to start.
Every article, calculator, and advisor seems to speak a language you never signed up to learn. This book fixes that.
Retirement in Plain English covers every major decision — savings, investing, Social Security, Medicare, taxes, estate planning, and the life you're actually retiring to — in language anyone can understand, with exercises that turn reading into doing.
If you've tried other retirement books and given up halfway through a chapter on asset allocation, this one's built differently.
Your Estate Plan in Plain English
Most people spend their entire lives meaning to do this.
They know they need a will. They know they should update their beneficiary forms. They have a vague sense that a trust might be relevant — or might not be — and they're not sure how to find out. They intend to get to it. Life keeps being more pressing.
This book is for the people still meaning to get to it — and for the people who have something already: a will from 2009, a 401(k) with an ex-spouse still listed, a healthcare directive nobody's sure how to interpret. People starting to suspect that what they have isn't what they think they have.