Women & Money
Suze Orman · 2007
Women & Money (2007) is a book by Suze Orman on Money & investing. Suze Orman argues women's money troubles come not from ignorance but from self-worth: they care for everyone but themselves. She pairs an emotional reckoning, the 8 Qualities of a Wealthy Woman, with a month-by-month Save Yourself Plan.
Read this if you're brilliant at protecting everyone else's future and mysteriously helpless with your own. Orman's fix is emotional before it's financial.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Women & Money pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.
- Women's money trouble is a dysfunctional relationship, not an intelligence gap. Orman's puzzle: the same woman who fiercely protects her family's financial security will neglect her own, because on some level she believes putting herself first is selfish or unfeminine.
- The single biggest obstacle is fear. 'Imagine what you could do if you weren't afraid' is the book's opening challenge, fear, shame, and anger are the emotional roadblocks that freeze otherwise capable women into avoidance and denial about money.
The other 5 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 9 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- For Women Only: The Dysfunctional Relationship
- Imagine What You Could Do If You Weren't Afraid
- The 8 Qualities of a Wealthy Woman
- People First, Then Money, Then Things
- The Save Yourself Plan: Bank Accounts & the Emergency Fund
- Retirement, Roth IRAs & Your FICO Score
- The Must-Have Documents
- Protect Yourself: Insurance, Investing & Not Over-Giving
- Say Your Name: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
Finish Women & Money tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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