Start Thinking Rich

21 Harsh Truths to Take You from Broke to Financial Freedom

By: Dr. Brad Klontz, Adrian Brambila

Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett

Start Thinking Rich delivers an inspirational, tough-love, and step-by-step guide for listeners to finally start building their own legacy of wealth no matter where they're starting from. Filled with proven money-making, saving, and investment strategies, this book helps listeners take an honest look at their spending habits, unconscious biases about money, and self-sabotaging money behaviors in order to start living their best lives.

Heavyweight institutional finance executive Dr. Brad Klontz and self-made millionaire Adrian Brambila combine their expertise, grit, and firsthand knowledge to provide unparalleled and eye-opening perspective on topics including:

- Your ideal path to success as either an employee, entrepreneur, or "grinder"

- Trauma-based psychology that leads to a counterproductive "broke mindset"

- The value of education in sidestepping common financial pitfalls

Start Thinking Rich earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all ambitious individuals who are sick of tepid, uncontroversial, and ultimately ineffective financial advice, and want to cut through the noise to discover highly effective wealth-building moves that are proven to work.

©2025 Dr. Brad Klontz and Adrian Brambila (P)2024 Tantor

The relatable stories, feelings and emotions the authors expressed really assist in listening of the book

I felt like a sense of genuine concern for the personal finances of the listener/reader.

You Hit the Nail on the Credit Head

I loved your honest you both were. I loved the call to action from where we are today. I recommended this book to a lot of people.

Already producing ROI

I’ve read so many books on mindset and money that I wasn’t expecting to learn much I hadn’t heard before.

But here I am solidly in my forties and about to make some changes to my investing game AND my mindset.

Highly recommend

Very helpful easy read!

Good, practical advice. Very informative. Many parts of the book made me think and motivated me to change my mindset.

Hard truths, but good advice

This advice isn’t always easy to hear, but if you’re open minded and can be self reflective you’ll learn some great habits and mindset shifts. Love the combo effort of these two, fun and evidence based! It’s not a step by step, there’s work to be done after you read the book but it’s a good starting place! And they let you know it’s never too late to start!

content

It had a unique and confident perspective. It was surprisingly informative, and had an inspirational tone. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Start thinking Rich

I really liked the content on this book. Things that were in my face without a name now make way more sense.

Great book!

It is some harsh truths but we need to hear some. Even if you're already on your way financially, there are a lot of good nuggets.

Excellent

Well written and well thought! I have learned a lot and the information is clear cut

Great insights

I became a fan of Brad Klontz’s work when I started studying behavioral finance. I immediately understood his money scripts and other financial psychology information that he shares. Now I understand why. His psychological knowledge came from the school of hard knocks. I know that school too, it teaches you a lot if you pay attention. I got interested in psychology for similar reasons as Brad, to understand my tough upbringing and difficult people I grew up with. So behavioral finance is easier for me to understand because I already knew the psychology. Brad spearheaded a knew financial industry with financial psychology. The industry is paying more attention to the human being behind the numbers.

Thats why I bought the his book and I wasn’t disappointed. Brad and Adrian Shared great insights that I’m going to incorporate into my life in my road to financial freedom. ❤️‍🔥🙏🏿