Why I Wrote ‘A Girl Needs Cash’
I wish that someone had written “A Girl Needs Cash” for me when I was a younger woman – it would have guided the course of my financial thinking and made life easier. So I had to write it myself after the years of experience that I had as an investment banker, and woman negotiating her financial life. What I discovered is that life had not given me a manual – even though I had an MBA – for managing my own security.
It was too easy for merchandising to impact my dollars (most women have more money invested in their closets and make-up drawers than they do in their savings accounts).
That was only the first issue: that A Girl Needs Cash. The second one was “what do you do with it once you have it”. You would have thought that I would have learned all about this – after all, I was a talented investment banker in the Wall Street world developing big dollar financings. What I discovered was that I was proficient in my career – but knew little about enhancing my own dollars and financial power. I also discovered that I wasn’t alone in this. Other talented people where asking the same question – “how do I manage the growth of my money?”
Because, as I talk about in my book – we all need a Money Machine (that houses our investable dollars) and grows to pay us an income in the future – allowing us to leave our day jobs. A novel concept – spend less than you earn and run your life like a business – unfortunately, not something that I incorporated from my B-School education. But I’m a quick study – and my mission has became developing insight – that gets to the specifics of growing money for the future.
Because, we’ll all need our Money Machines to support our well being long into the future. If you are healthy as a women through age 50, you’re life expectancy is 92 – and you don’t want to be working for a salary at that point. Women generally live longer than men and financial well-being is poised as a huge issue for us – and I have a personal passion to see women engage good lives, with financial resources, and personal strength. My focus is to teach and manage money to: Make Money, Invest Money, Grow Money and Protect Money.