Chelsea Fagan

From The Financial Diet blog, the hugely popular website that inspires over a million women a month to talk about money, comes a beautifully designed, smart, and practical step-by-step guide for how you can save, spend, date, dress, decorate, and dream your way to your best financial life. In 2014, a frustrated Chelsea Fagan started a blog about how she was bad with money and determined to take charge of her life. She called it The Financial Diet because she didn’t want to keep treating her financial health the way she was treating her body—by eating an entire bag of jalapeño kettle chips at night and then wondering why she felt terrible the next morning. Today, the blog has grown into a vibrant web community—one where money is finally interesting to talk about. The Financial Diet will be a savvy older sister, a trusted friend, and the girl at the office who always seems to have her sh*t together. It also brings in money experts who really know their stuff to help you make the best choices for your financial health. The Financial Diet gives you tools to make a budget, consider investments, and deal with your credit. But, The Financial Diet also understands 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 the food you put in your kitchen (instead of ordering in . . . again). The book includes quick and cheap recipes, tricks to give your wardrobe longevity, and affordable DIY projects for your home. It also tackles how happiness and love relate to financial success, gives you tips about negotiating a raise, and shares the perfect cocktail recipe to celebrate your new salary. The Financial Diet is the only diet that works—it will cut the junk out of your life and your wallet, get your finances in shape, and empower you to want to talk about money as much as you want to talk about sex. Beautifully designed, and full of relatable humor, The Financial Diet takes everything that makes the site a unique destination and turns it into the book every smart, successful woman has to have on her shelf.

The Financial Diet

Lea Mortimer has everything under control. As a highly sought-after consultant specializing in transforming dilapidated French country estates into boutique hotels, she relishes her freedom as a single, childfree woman. And her life is full, occupied as much by her impeccable historic renovations as by the aristocratic -- and often exhausting -- French families she works for. But after the heated divorce of her closest friend and cousin Stephanie Bryce, Lea finds herself taking Stephanie and her college-aged daughter to the Loire Valley in France for the summer. As they tag along for Lea's latest work assignment, despite their best intentions, they threaten to complicate the tightrope act of launching the hotel on time. And when Lea unexpectedly falls for the much-younger son of her boss, she quickly learns the beauty and danger of losing control. As affairs bloom in the idyllic chateau, wars of inheritance play out between the family, and betrayals threaten even the most solid relationships. Lea realizes that it's not just a broken heart she's risking, but her entire, meticulously-constructed life blowing up in her face.

A Perfect Vintage

Lauren Ver Hage

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).

A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money

Offers a humorous perspective on the life of a misplaced twenty-something, sharing advice on finding and keeping a job, making friends, and surviving adulthood.

A Complete Guide to Reluctant Adulthood

I'm Only Here for the WiFi

"Public school is a daunting, tedious, occasionally bloody experience shared by millions of students, current and former. Classroom fights, incompetent teachers, sex in bathrooms, rigid social castes - it's shocking most of us graduated able to read. "Take Out Your Earrings Before You Fight" takes a dry, witty look at all the things you learn - and everything you don't - while slogging through the K-12 system."

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