The Financial Diet

A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money

De: Chelsea Fagan, Lauren Ver Hage - designer

Narrado por: Chelsea Fagan

How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.

The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance. Whether you're in need of an overspending detox, buried under student debt, or just trying to figure out how to live on an entry-level salary, The Financial Diet gives you tools to make a budget, understand investments, and deal with your credit. Chelsea Fagan has tapped a range of experts to help you make the best choices for you, but she also knows that being smarter with money isn't just about what you put in the bank. It's about everything — from the clothes you put in your closet, to your financial relationship habits, to the food you put in your kitchen (instead of ordering in again). So The Financial Diet gives you the tools to negotiate a raise and the perfect cocktail recipe to celebrate your new salary.

The Financial Diet will teach you:

• How to get good with money in a year.
• The ingredients everyone needs to have a budget-friendly kitchen.
• How to talk about awkward money stuff with your friends.
• The best way to make (and stick to!) a budget.
• How to take care of your house like a grown-up.
• What the hell it means to invest (and how you can do it).

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2018 Chelsea Fagan and Lauren Ver Hage (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Excellent Check List, Beware Profanity For Effect

Great Daily deal. A must buy if you have any issues YOU want to face, but have not!
Easy material, well worth the listen, and the download is a good visual to actually help you. Get started or boost you to the next level you want in your life.
I certainly am not a prude, and I can swear with the best of them, but as a member of Toastmasters International, the profuse use of profanity was a bit distracting as author used it to reach out to her core audience of Millennials. There are great speakers and comedians who don’t rely on so much profanity. I am fairly confident author will improve her delivery just as she has done with the aspects in her life as demonstrated in this book.

Maybe Useful for Privileged Teenagers?

OK so when they say "total beginner", they really, REALLY mean it. As in, someone who knows literally not one thing about the absolute basics of money. I appreciate what she's trying to do here and think there are some useful tidbits in this, but I was really disappointed at the lack of detail concrete tools/ideas in the book. She glosses over really meaty subjects then goes into weird detail about non-essentials. It's also written through the lens of someone whose parents paid for college (are you really the right person to advise on millenial finances when you haven't experienced the main issue?) and generally seems to have lived an extremely privileged life - her idea of being "bad with money" is juvenile, laughably low stakes and gives zero consideration to "real life" circumstances that most people deal with. For the average person with real problems, a recipe for a yummy and affordable quiche is going to do precisely nothing to help them out with their finances. In fact it's a bit insulting to suggest otherwise. Really the biggest takeaway from this is being raised in a well-off family and entering adulthood with no meaningful debt is the best way to go - go figure.

Giving an extra star because if you are a teenager or very very young adult without life experience, this would be a great starter tool.

A must read for financial novices

I consider myself fairly financially savvy, and I thoroughly enjoyed this book- but as I listened to it I couldn’t help thinking that I wanted to send it to all of my friends who hadn’t yet found an interest in finance. I recommend the book to my 22 year old sister and several of her friends, they all loved it. I highly recommend this book- though I’d suggest downloading the pdf materials from the website and having them handy while you listen.

pretty good listen

Some sage advice and some redundant common sense. There is no need for the recipes but it was written for an actual book and not audible. you miss out on the PDF files she references.

Genuinely interesting!

THE FINANCIAL DIET is written by and mostly for for female millennials (Gen Y which includes people currently 23 to 37 years old). Being a 75 year old married male (very late "silent generation") I am not part of this group. My wife is early Baby Boomer generation, our adult offspring aand their spouses are all mid Gen Xers and all six of my grandchildren are all Gen Z. I first learned about this book when leafing through a copy of my wife's Real Simple magazine which recommends it. When it came up as an Audible Daily Deal I purchased it. (Ironically, I suspect that most Real Simple subscribers are older that the Gen Y target group for this book.)

Author Chelsea Fagan's financial recommendations are certainly sound. This audiobook is listed at 3.5 hours in length, but when the time to read and understand the 184 page PDF which is included with the audio book a better estimate of time is likely 8 hours. Lauren Ver Hage is the author/illustrator.

Interestingly, THE FINANCIAL DIET is also is also a cook book because it provides both kitchen supplies and recipes to avoid eating out as much (or at all) as part of becoming financially sound. The book does not use the term but it makes the strong case for "living below your means". Fagan's book also gives dating advice and financial advice within marriage (she should have her own money to spend as she pleases separate from the family money). My wife and I handled this differently after trying separate checking accounts by having her handle our money while I stayed out of it and did not question her decisions; since she is more conservative than I financially it has worked well. The author does a nice job of narrating her book. I did not expect to like the book as much as I do; nor did I expect to spend more than 8 hours with it.

I stated earlier that my three adult children (and their spouses) are mid Gen X (that generation is approximately ages 38 to age 53). The Gen Y group this book was written for takes frequent use of crude words that Gen X started to use in everyday language to a new level. The author writes in a conversational style. If you object to almost constant use of crude language you should skip The Financial Diet. Me? I am frequently around my 40-something daughters and daughter-in-law so I'm accustomed to crude language.

fan of the YouTube channel - fan of the book!

first off let me state that I am probably smack in the middle of the target demographic for this book. I already know TFD from their blog and YouTube channel, so I was exciting to read the book! it was nice to have an in order guide for really getting my $ life in order. and it's great to have digital copies of the info graphics available. the book is a good basic strating guide for getting you to think about money in the right way, it is not a textbook for answering all your financial questions more of a primer to get you going in the right direction. As a 20-somthing women it was inspiring and helpful, already knowing TFD there were no major surprises and already familiar with Chelsea Fagans voice from YouTube I didn't mind her as a narrator.

All young women should read this...

Very to the point, but still enough info to make understandable. It's not long drawn out. I thought the authors did a good job of making the financial diet relatable to others. I really enjoyed hearing stories and advice and interviews with others about their own financial experiences and careers. I think all young women should read this book.

Incredibly Helpful

I have been following the Financial Diet on YouTube for awhile. I'm really glad they came out with a book that takes many of the ideas they talk about on their channel. I will definitely be listening to this again.

Short and Sweet

Really gets to the heart of the matter with some solid advice and easy to listen narration.

Not quite on the mark

Struggled to finish. It has a really specific audience. Some decent information but ultimately filled with wordy round about stories. It struggles to focus and then brushes over some of the most critical points.