MONEY IS EVERYTHING Personal Finance for the Brave New Economy

Lilsa Ivary narrates this empowering guide with vocal confidence that will make listeners pay attention. Her calm tone and deliberate phrasing conjure the type of maternal wisdom we long for when working through the challenges of personal finance. This vocal feature makes her sound a generation older than the Millennial listeners the author targets, but it works well with this material. The author blames our monkey brains for the short-term thinking and impulsive spending that too often sink our long-term financial plans. We're hard-wired to focus on immediate gratification, so we should get past shaming ourselves for this universal trait and instead put our energy into the basic tasks of making money, spending it wisely, and managing it carefully with prudent borrowing and saving strategies. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2019]