Books by Opportunity Knocks Stars
Learn how to make and keep more of your own money with books by Opportunity Coaches Jean Chatzky, Patrice Washington and Louis Barajas as well as other trusted financial experts.
How to Money: Your Ultimate Visual Guide to the Basics of Finance
Learn how to money in this in-depth, full-color illustrated guide from New York Times bestselling author and financial expert Jean Chatzky, Kathryn Tuggle, and the team at HerMoney -- the perfect gift for graduation season, back-to-school, and beyond!
Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever
Jean Chatzky has heard all the excuses for why women don’t deal with their finances. She used to make them herself. For the first time, Jean tells you how she made every financial mistake in the book—not paying her bills, going into credit card debt, letting her 401(k) lapse—before finally making the decision to take control of her money and her future.
Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve
Get paid what you're worth, build secure relationships, and make your money last with this valuable guide from a Today show financial editor and bestselling author.
Ask successful women what they want from their money and they'll tell you: independence, security, choices, a better world, and--oh yes--way less stress, not just for themselves but for their kids, partners, parents, and friends.
Money Rules: The Simple Path to Lifelong Security
A powerfully simple, must-have manifesto on money with more than 90 wealth-building rules from the Today show's finance guru.
In a time of great financial uncertainty, this is the book everyone must read. The bottom line: Money is simple-people make it complicated. Now, bestselling personal finance author Jean Chatzky has distilled this simplicity into a smart, immediate, and entertaining set of rules that will change readers' financial lives.
Age Proof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip
All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're frazzled about five figures worth of debt. Today Show financial expert Jean Chatzky and the Cleveland Clinic's chief wellness officer Dr. Michael Roizen explain the vital connection between health and wealth--giving readers all the tactics, strategies, and know-how to live longer, healthier, more lucrative lives.
Redefine Wealth for Yourself: How to Stop Chasing Money and Finally Live Your Life's Purpose
Personal finance expert, America's Money Maven turned go-to holistic lifestyle integrator, award-winning author, Patrice Washington has used her platform, The Redefining Wealth Podcast to teach millions that wealth is so much more than money and material possessions.
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Now she's written the template to make it plain and remove the mystery surrounding wealth so that it frees you to create a wealthy life your way. Through stories, principles, and practical exercises based on her Six Pillars of Wealth, she guides you, step by step, through the process to create a life of peace, purpose, and prosperity.
Real Money Answers for Every Woman: How to Win the Money Game with or Without a Man
Real Money Answers for Every Woman teaches you how to take responsibility for your financial future, whether you’re just starting out or need a fresh start. In a handy Q & A format, it offers relatable and easy to understand and implement advice on everything from managing credit cards, home ownership, and student loans to affordable childcare and even negotiating for a higher salary. Following Patrice’s practical advice, you’ll learn to form “wealthy” habits, establish an “opportunity fund,” stop collecting STUFF that causes debt, and discover the freedom that comes from feeling financially secure.
Real Money Answers for Men: The Ultimate Playbook for Financial Success
No quarterback would go into a championship game without studying his playbook, assessing his strengths and weaknesses and making sure he and his team are on the same page. Similarly, no man should jump into the money game unprepared, but far too many do. And because of misguided and outdated gender roles, by the time men acknowledge needing help, the game is unfortunately just seconds away from being over. . . And they are not in the lead. Fortunately, when a quarterback sees that a play isn’t going to work, he can call an audible and change the plan midway through. Like football, best-selling book, Real Money Answers for Men is your financial audible. It’s a practical, no fluff guide designed to awaken a shift in how you make, manage and relate to money so that you can actually win the money game and leave a legacy you can be proud of.
Real Money Answers: College Life and Beyond
As the Straight Talk No Chaser of personal finance books, this question and answer guide, gives quick, straightforward, practical money advice simple enough for anyone to both understand and implement immediately. Real Money Answers: College Life & Beyond presents a myriad of basic personal finance concepts and strategies for how to: Set a solid foundation for personal finance success. Create and embrace wealthy habits. Establish credit the right way. Budget income no matter how little or inconsistent. Pay for college without student loans as a first choice. Figure out how to make money from what your good at now. Understand how friends and family can affect your finances.
My Street Money: A Street-Level View of Managing Your Money From the Heart to the Bank
ARE YOU FED UP with financial experts going on and on about the woes and wins of Wall Street and Main Street? Do you feel that the financial issues on “Your” Street—about how to take care of your family and provide for their future—never get the attention they deserve? Are you ready for a commonsense, down-to-earth guide to using money to help create the secure and happy life you want? You hold the answer in your hands. MY STREET MONEY is “street-wise” book that talks about real people’s real financial goals, dreams, and challenges.
Small Business, Big Life: Five Steps to Creating a Great Life With Your Own Small Business
All too often, small business owners settle for less than the best life has to offer thinking they have to choose between financial success and family time.
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Renowned financial planner Louis Barajas knows you can have both. You don't have to choose between giving up successful finances and abandoning your family. Written for "ordinary folk who have more dreams than education, capital, or resources," Small Business, Big Life will show you how to build a business that creates both money and meaning, and that provides a legacy for you and your family.
The Latino Journey to Financial Greatness: 10 Steps to Creating Wealth and Happiness for You and Your Family
The Latino Journey to Financial Greatness gives Latinos a clear guide to basic financial principles as well as identifies the cultural barriers that have prevented them from making the most of their money. In helping Latinos discover their own powerful and personal reasons for creating wealth and happiness, Louis Barajas – named as one of America’s Top Advisers by Money Magazine – offers priceless wisdom people need in order to live a better life.
OVERWORKED, OVERWHELMED & UNDERPAID: Simple Steps to Go From Stress to Success!
Financial planning expert Louis Barajas teaches all professionals--from CEOs to front line employees--how to make the most of their lives. Now, in this desperately needed and insightful guide, he introduces his straightforward and proven plan to help you achieve financial freedom and go from stress to success. Readers will learn how to transition from: feeling overworked to living a balanced life; feeling overwhelmed to being relaxed and in control; and feeling underpaid to achieving success through meaningful work.
Small Business Big Life for Women: 7 Secrets for Designing a Business to Help You Live Your Best Life
Women are opening and running more small businesses than ever before. Yet they’re getting caught in the age-old trap of believing they have to choose between family life and financial success—while putting themselves last when it comes to time, care, and attention. Small business and personal finance expert Louis Barajas believes that the true purpose of a business should be to give you more life, not less. He has written Small Business, Big Life for Women in collaboration with his wife and business partner, Angie Barajas, and a select group of female entrepreneurs to address the specific issues and advantages that women experience in small business.
​Community Capital: Race, Equity, and the Credit Union Movement
Cliff Rosenthal, shaped by the movements of the 1960s, fought for decades against government indifference and systemic bias—finally seeing change come after the death of George Floyd. Michael McCray, a renowned whistle-blower, led an unprecedented court challenge to the unjust federal termination of his fraternity’s Kappa Alpha Psi Federal Credit Union. Here for the first time you’ll find the inside story of the landmark KAPFCU v NCUA federal court case. These stories will inspire all those working to fulfill the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the financial system.
Democratizing Finance: Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions Movement
Democratizing Finance traces the roots of community development finance over two centuries, a history that runs from Benjamin Franklin, through an ill-starred bank for African American veterans of the Civil War, the birth of the credit union movement, and the War on Poverty. Drawn from hundreds of interviews with CDFI leaders, presidential archives, and congressional testimony, Democratizing Finance provides an insider view of an extraordinary public policy success. Democratizing Finance is a unique resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and social investors.
How to Turn $100 into $1,000,000
A thorough introduction to finance from the people behind BizKid$, How to Turn $100 into $1 Million includes chapters on setting financial goals, making a budget, getting a job, starting a business, and investing smartly – and how to think like a millionaire. Plus: a one-page business plan template, a two-page plan to become a millionaire, and a personal budget tracker.
“As you follow their plan, your interests will grow––and so will your money. Meanwhile, excuse me, I’ve got to reread a few sections.”––Bill Nye the Science Guy