Girl, Get Your Money Straight: A Sister's Guide to Healing Your Bank Account and Funding Your Dreams in 7 Simple Steps

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Chapter 1: The Road to Financial Healing
If you're tired of feeling powerless over your finances and are ready to start funding your dreams, then come on girl-it's time to get your money straight! Author and financial expert Glinda Bridgforth knows that healthy money management is rarely

Chapter 1: The Psychology of Money Management
People of all races and both genders are products of distinctive cultural histories and family messages that are passed on from generation to generation. These familial and social expectations influence the capabilities, competence, and expectations

Chapter 1: The Secret Spendthrift Syndrome
My client Corliss, a vibrant and youthful forty-six-year-old sister who wears attractive baby dreadlocks, is blessed with an annual income of $57,000 and had $8,000 in debt. Her income puts her in the top 2 percent of African American women earners

If you're tired of feeling powerless over your finances and are ready to start funding your dreams, then come on girl-it's time to get your money straight! Author and financial expert Glinda Bridgforth knows that healthy money management is rarely just about dollars-it's about getting to the root of why we spend what we do and recognizing the emotional and cultural issues that play out in our unhealthy financial habits. Girl, Get Your Money Straight! presents her seven-step program for holistic financial healing-an upbeat, empowering road map that you can use to identify your heart's desires, break away from negative spending patterns, pay off outstanding debts, develop a spending plan, conquer the checkbook blues, and create new wealth. Filled with Bridgforth's warmhearted wisdom and advice, and complete with worksheets exercises, affirmations, and inspiring stories of African American women who have found financial peace of mind, Girl, Get Your Money Straight! is a fresh, fun, and eminently practical guide to healing your bank account and building a life that you love.

is founder of Bridgforth Financial Management Group, a company that emphasizes holistic coaching. In 2006, Glinda appeared on Oprah in a five-part series called "America's Debt Diet." The author of the bestsellers Girl, Get Your Money Straight! and Girl, Make Your Money Grow!, she writes articles for Essence and is featured regularly on television and radio programs nationwide.

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