Financial Advice Books - Secular


Some of the authors of the books below are Christians.

Most are probably secular.

100 Tips, Tricks, and Ways to Make It Work on a Budget

By: Erin Odom

https://thehumbledhomemaker.com

Investing your life in your family brings you joy, and doing it on a single income doesn’t need to stress you out! Join Erin Odom as she shows you how you can live frugally—and thrive—while you raise your kids at home!

1,134 Days to 0: Triumph over $37,000 of Debt in Three Years, One Month

By: Heather DeVito

https://www.amazon.com/134-Days-Triumph-Three-Years-ebook/dp/B079J4L7R4

https://www.amazon.com

Mountains of bills and credit debt dont appear overnight, nor can they be erased by the time you wake in the morning. Debt is not something that happens to you. Debt sometimes comes from poor choices and the desire to have more than you can afford. Its time to give instant gratification an overhaul and realize whats important. This may require a return to the days of a more simple life when we earned it before we spent it. Engulfing debt, sleepless nights, and never-ending worry can be rectified with three easy tools:

5 Money Personalities Assessment

By: Scott Palmer

https://if169.infusionsoft.com/app/storeFront/showProductDetail?productId=26

https://themoneycouple.com

Welcome to our Money Personality Assessment! With the help of Dr. Kirk Cameron, Statistical Scientist, we’ve developed this tool to give you insights into how you think about and deal with money. This simple assessment will take you less than 15 minutes to complete, but the results will have a profound impact on your relationship. For more information and a short history about the Money Personality Assessment, click here.

6 Week Money Challenge

By: Steve Repak

https://steverepak.com/six-week-money-challenge/

https://steverepak.com

Managing your money isn’t rocket science, but it can be terrifying. Steve’s financial expertise and faith-based wisdom, laid out beautifully in this book, are sure to help."
We are being ravaged by debt-soaring credit card bills, mortgage arrears and letters from debt-collection agencies are common in many homes. Debt doesn't just bring financial worries; it attacks our sense of self-worth, affects our health and often destroys our relationships. The Sixty Minute Debt Buster is written with the express aim of bringing practical help that is easy to understand and can be put into practice quickly. If you want to avoid debt, this is for you; and if you are one of the many for whom debt worries are a daily trauma you dare not miss this book-it has the power to save your home and your health, and set you on the road to financial freedom.

60 Minute Debt Buster: An Hour to Transform Your Finance

By: Katie Clarke

https://www.amazon.com/Sixty-Minute-Debt-Buster-Transform/dp/0745953425

https://www.amazon.com

We are being ravaged by debt-soaring credit card bills, mortgage arrears and letters from debt-collection agencies are common in many homes. Debt doesn't just bring financial worries; it attacks our sense of self-worth, affects our health and often destroys our relationships. The Sixty Minute Debt Buster is written with the express aim of bringing practical help that is easy to understand and can be put into practice quickly. If you want to avoid debt, this is for you; and if you are one of the many for whom debt worries are a daily trauma you dare not miss this book-it has the power to save your home and your health, and set you on the road to financial freedom.

A Declaration of Financial Independence

By: Josh Gilliam

https://www.christianbook.com/a-declaration-of-financial-independence/josh-gilliam/9781604775297/pd/775297

https://www.christianbook.com

In our culture many corrupted ideas of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have been promoted and accepted for so long that they bear the superficial appearance of being right. Americans design lifestyles and build financial plans around these "ideas" without realizing oppression lies just beneath their surface-a tyranny far worse than the British Crown ever stamped on us. By exploring the causes and the destructive effects of excess, A Declaration of Financial Independence is a rallying cry for preserving our sacred freedoms. It empowers the reader with a Biblical perspective for financial decision-making and reveals the secret of contentment in an age of unprecedented-but often unfulfilling-wealth. This one-of-a-kind composition is principled, clever and instructive the lives of the less fortunate.This book will help us on that journey." Lloyd Reeb, director, The Halftime Group, and author of From Success to Significance

Alas para tu economía (Spanish)

https://www.christianbook.com/alas-para-tu-economi-a/9789872766153/pd/766152?event=ESRCG#CBD-PD-Description

https://www.christianbook.com/

In Wings for Your Economy the author presents us in a clear and entertaining style, the way to become wise administrators, and offers the tools that will help us: Stop being slaves of our possessions; Break with beliefs and wrong habits to begin to act in the right direction; Define clear and specific economic objectives; Intelligently manage money, income and expenses; Strategically give to ensure an ongoing supply; Develop a cash lifestyle that takes us out of the place of permanent debt; Determine a financial dream knowing that "if we apply principles that work" will stop being a dream to become a new way of life.

Building Your Financial Fortress in 52 Days: The Lessons of Nehemiah

By: Kevin Cross

https://www.christianbook.com/building-financial-fortress-lessons-nehemiah-ebook/kevin-cross/9781458712509/pd/33812EB

https://www.christianbook.com

This book will revolutionize the way you view and use money. It will open the doors to financial freedom and success. Most people scrape by in life, anesthetizing their hearts with meaningless diversions. Many have no breathing room and find themselves in an endless struggle to survive from one day to the next. God's Word has the answers for them. The Bible contains 2,350 verses that have to do with money and possessions. God desires a life for us that is free of debt and the entrapments and common pitfalls related to financial difficulties. This 7-week plan will rock and roll the finances of every reader and will challenge them to take hold of the life that is true living.

Clark Howard

https://clark.com

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Cherie Lowe

http://www.queenoffree.net

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Crystal Paine

https://moneysavingmom.com

Want to make money with Ebates? It’s so easy! Let me teach you how to earn money from Ebates by shopping online and taking advantage of cash back offers.

Debt Free by 30 & Beyond

By: Ebony Barrier

https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Free-Beyond-Ebony-Barrier/dp/1503223329
https://www.amazon.com

https://www.christianbook.com/debt-free-by-30-beyond/ebony-barrier/9780692365656/pd/365656?event=ESRCG
https://www.christianbook.com
The main focus point of this book is to encourage the readers that becoming debt free can be done. Through my trials and tribulations of Love & Life, I was able to overcome the current Debt Crisis. Everything I have was the result of me working hard. Through my challenges, I’ve learned that I had to take some steps back, in order, to get ahead. I hope that my testimony will, indeed, help others who are going through this financial slavery called debt become debt free.

Ease the Squeeze

By: Doug Hagedorn

https://www.christianbook.com/ease-the-squeeze-doug-hagedorn/9781591601715/pd/601711#CBD-PD-Description

https://www.christianbook.com

Though we are more prosperous as a nation than ever, we save less, give less, and declare bankruptcy more often than any generation preceding us. We are also more stressed, more counseled, more divorced and more in debt than ever before. This book provides solutions to lead you to a financially free life and helps you develop purposeful plans for getting out of debt, saving, setting up a budget, giving, seizing back control of your time, your plans, your relationships, your finances and more.

Estate Planning for Dummies

By: N. Brian Caverley, Jordan S. Simon

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Estate+Planning+For+Dummies-p-9780764555015
https://www.wiley.com

https://www.christianbook.com/estate-planning-for-dummies/n-caverley/9780764555015/pd/555015?event=ESRCG
https://www.christianbook.com

If you’re like most people, you want to be sure that, once you’ve passed on, no more of your property and money will be lost to the government than is absolutely necessary. You want to know that you’ll be leaving your heirs your assets and not your debts. You want to be absolutely certain that your will is ship-shape, your insurance policies are structured properly, and that every conceivable hole in your estate plan has been filled. And most of all, you’d like to do all of this without driving yourself crazy trying to make sense of the complicated jargon, jumble of paperwork, and welter of state and federal laws involved in the estate planning process.

Enjoy Freedom from Financial Stress

by Kathy Kline Danner

https://www.amazon.com/EnJOY-Freedom-Financial-Stress-Danner/dp/1607912007
https://www.amazon.com/

https://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781607912002&HC_ISBN=
https://www.xulonpress.com

EnJOY Freedom From Financial Stress Whether you are a SAHM (stay-at-home mom) or a WAHM (work-at-home mom) or a Super Mom (who is doing it all), just finding the time to match a year's worth of mystery-colored socks can steal your joy. The last thing you need is the crushing weight of financial stress! Become a JAHM (Joy @ Home Mom) and use this book to: Choose a level of budgeting for moms: Crawler . . . Walker . . . Runner Start out a bargain crawler, become a coupon-clipping walker, OR go straight from being a crawler to a runner; and then become a debt-free runner and run all the way to the bank! • Live on one income • Attack your budget • Climb out of debt

Garrett's Guide to Financial Planning 2nd Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Garretts-Guide-Financial-Planning-2nd/dp/0872189198

https://www.amazon.com

Guide to Elder Planning; Everything you Need to Know to Protect your Loved Ones and Yourself

By: Steve Weisman

https://www.christianbook.com/elder-planning-everything-protect-loved-yourself/steve-weisman/9780133091922/pd/091922
https://www.christianbook.com

Whether you're concerned about your own future, your loved ones, or both, Steve Weisman's A Guide to Elder Planning, Second Edition brings together all the up-to-date knowledge and practical insights you'll need. Thorough, realistic, friendly, and easy to read, it covers all the financial, legal, and personal issues faced by seniors and their families. As one of the nation's most respected eldercare attorneys, he's helped millions of seniors and their families.

Fearless: A Journey to Financial Peace

By: N.M. Elliot

https://www.christianbook.com/fearless-journey-to-financial-peace-ebook/n-m-elliot/9781449794477/pd/42120EB?event=EBRN#CBD-PD-Publisher-Description

https://www.christianbook.com

After finding her brother dead from a financially motivated suicide, this gripping story shows one womans journey from her haunting financial past to financial hope. I harbored my own financial distress and secrets just like my brother. I knew that I needed to tell my husband about our own descending financial situation. The dread was back with its baneful eyes piercing my soul. I was utterly lost, and I needed to find a way out.
Money pervades all aspects of our lives; however, our past pervades all areas of our money. I was already married with a family when I found out how my childhood fears influenced my financial decisions. Looking back I remember my father as a mans man. Standing at six foot four, he was an imposing figure. He had a narcissistic personality which both attracted people to him and made people fear him. As a child, each evening when the sound of my fathers footsteps reached our front porch, one of us children would yell, Run! Katherine Paterson, national ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, said that a childs heart is a resilient thing. Bend in out of shape and it bends back but rough it up too much and it develops ruts. My heart had developed deep ruts, and for most of my life when I felt fear, I ran. This is a book about how I stopped running.

Financial Wisdom: 9 Timeless Principles of Personal and Business Finances

By: Tim Pollock

https://www.christianbook.com/financial-timeless-principles-personal-business-finances/tim-pollock/9781490802275/pd/802275

https://www.christianbook.com

Financial Wisdom is not just another book on household budgeting. It is rather a manual of timeless principles that work in every culture and era and also in any situation. While full of practical ideas, Financial Wisdom focuses on over 150 verses from the book of Proverbs that touch on finances. This simple, down-to-earth biblical guide will reveal

How to Create Financial Plan for the Year

By: Ruth Soukup

https://www.livingwellspendingless.com/2017/09/04/how-to-create-a-financial-plan-for-the-year-september/

https://www.livingwellspendingless.com

Welcome to the Living Well Spending Less blog where we provide practical solutions for everyday overwhelm. But what I really love about fall is that the the hustle and bustle of summer plans and mixed up schedules are behind us and we’re settling back into school year routines. What a great time to focus on finances!

Investing Secret Videos

By : Daniel Solin

https://danielsolin.com/investing-secrets-videos/

https://danielsolin.com/

My “Investing Secrets” video series will show you how to keep your investing dollars where they belong – with you.
If you subscribe to my YouTube channel, I will give you a free, digital copy of my ground-breaking book, The Smartest Sales Book You’ll Ever Read. It’s my way of showing my appreciation.

Jean Chatzkys - Women with Money

https://www.jeanchatzky.com/books/

https://www.jeanchatzky.com

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. Through a series of Happy Hour discussions (when money is the topic, wine helps) and one-on-one conversations, Jean Chatzky gets women to open up about the one topic we still never talk about. Then she flips the script and charts a pathway to this joyful, purpose-filled life that today’s women not only want but also, finally, have the resources to afford.

Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully

by James J. Cramer

https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Cramers-Get-Rich-Carefully/dp/0142181382

https://www.amazon.com

Tired of phony promises about getting rich quickly? How about trying something different? How about going for lasting wealth—and doing it the cautious way? In Get Rich Carefully, Jim Cramer draws on his unparalleled knowledge of the stock market to help you navigate our recovering economy and make big money without taking big risk

Kristina Ellis

https://www.kristinaellis.com

This finance mentor encourages students to believe in themselves and their potential. Her message inspires students to understand that, even if the odds are stacked against them, they can overcome their circumstances and achieve their dreams!

Learning to Live Financially Free: Hard-Earned Wisdom for Saving Your Marriage & Your Money

By: Marybeth Whalen, Curt Whalen

https://www.christianbook.com/learning-financially-earned-wisdom-saving-marriage/marybeth-whalen/9780825496479/pd/26507EB?event=ESRCN|M

https://www.christianbook.com
Is it time for you to take a personal look at what it takes to live debt free? In this timely new book based on their own financial challenges, Marybeth Whalen and Curt Whalen offer hard-earned wisdom and hope to families who struggle with debt and the consequences of financial mistakes. The Whalens draw from their own experiences of their first ten years of marriage to create a resource that provides both a helpful hand and a hopeful word for couples who need to get and keep their finances in order and nurture their marriage at the same time

Love & Money Lifestyle Series 90-Day System – Physical

By: Scott Palmer

https://if169.infusionsoft.com/app/storeFront/showProductDetail?productId=4

https://themoneycouple.com

Discover the OTHER side of money and gain love for a lifetime. This fun, entertaining, and engaging series will change your relationship forever!

Personal Finance Credit

By: Clark Howard

https://clark.com/personal-finance-credit/

https://clark.com/

Stacy Johnson (Secular)

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/author/stacy/

https://www.moneytalksnews.com

Michelle Singletary

http://www.michellesingletary.com/about-michelle.html
http://www.michellesingletary.com

http://www.prosperitypartnersministry.org/about-prosperity-partners-ministry
http://www.prosperitypartnersministry.org/

Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. Her award-winning column, "The Color of Money," is carried in dozens of newspapers and provides insight into the world of personal finance.

Mike Yorkey - Everyday Finances for the Everyday Family

http://www.mikeyorkey.com/about-me.html

http://www.mikeyorkey.com

I started writing for publication during my junior year at La Jolla High School for the hometown newspaper, the La Jolla Light, covering the exploits of the high school football and basketball teams. I thought a fun way to go through life would be sitting in the press box at San Diego Chargers and Padres games, eating a free hot dog and taking notes about what happened on the field.

New Money Mind Set

By: Brad Hewitt

https://www.newmoneymindset.com/meet-the-authors/

https://www.newmoneymindset.com

Have you ever thought: If I just had a little more money I would be happy? Research has shown this belief to be false*. Through personal experience, Biblical passages and timely research, coauthors Brad Hewitt, CEO of Thrivent Financial, and Dr. Jim Moline, consulting psychologist, reveal that financial happiness and security have little to do with how much money you have, and a lot to do with the role money plays in your life.
Your New Money Mindset isn't just another book about managing finances. It’s a book about reshaping your relationship with money by examining your attitudes and beliefs around money.

Overworked, Overwhelmed, and Underpaid: Simple Steps to Go from Stress to Success

By: Louis Barajas

https://www.christianbook.com/overworked-overwhelmed-underpaid-simple-stress-success/louis-barajas/9781418574468/pd/5511EB?event=EBRN

https://www.christianbook.com

In Overworked, Overwhelmed, and Underpaid, Louis Barajas shows you how to make thoughtful, purposeful choices that will lead you toward financial security. His four step process helps struggling workers leave a life of quiet desperation and enter into their full potential. Paperback.

Pocket your Dollars- Secular

By: Carrie Rocha

https://www.pocketyourdollars.com

No More WRONGFUL monthly payments. Resolve your Debt once and for all

Richard Carlson

https://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?Ntt=richard+carlson&N=0&Ntk=keywords&action=Search&Ne=0&event=ESRCG&nav_search=1&cms=1ok

https://www.christianbook.com

During his life, Richard Carlson, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world and was a frequent featured guest on such shows as Oprah, The Today Show, The View, NNC, CNN, Fox, PBS and over 2000 other shows.Don't Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon with over 20 titles in the brand franchise, two of which were co-authored and authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.

Stacy Johnson

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/author/stacy/

https://www.moneytalksnews.com

If you’ve got less than $10 million, you’ve got a retirement problem. But don’t lie awake at night worrying. Now there’s a solution.

The Marriage Challenge

By : Art Rainer

http://www.artrainer.com/category/money/

For many couples, the collision of marriage and money is the beginning of relational havoc. But does it have to be this way?
What if the collision of marriage and money no longer tore couples apart but brought them together? What if money was no longer a topic to argue about but a topic around which couples rallied? What if the collision of marriage and money actually helped couples find contentment and purpose?

The Money Challenge Book

By : Art Rainer

http://themoneychallengebook.com

In The Money Challenge, Art Rainer takes you on a journey to financial health. But it is not simply for the sake of financial health. The Money Challenge was written to help experience God’s design for you and your finances.

The Money Personality Insights Report

By: Scott Palmer

https://if169.infusionsoft.com/app/storeFront/showProductDetail?productId=66

https://themoneycouple.com

Experience TOTAL Freedom With Your Buying Decisions
Discover How Your Money Personalities Equip You To Make Confident Spending Decisions

The Richest Man in Babylon

https://stantoler.christianbook.com/the-richest-man-in-babylon/george-clason/9780451205360/pd/205360?event=ESRCG

https://stantoler.christianbook.com

Through a series of delightful short stories, straight from the heart of ancient Babylon, learn economic tips and tools for financial success that have withstood the test of time and that are applicable still today. Enjoy reading, and start saving today!

The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life

By Jim Stovall Secular

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Financial-Plan-Balancing-Money/dp/1118073533

https://www.amazon.com

The latest volume in the bestselling Ultimate series, Jim Stovall and Tim Maurer's The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life is a one-stop, comprehensive, personal financial planning book exploring the intersection of money and life. The Ultimate Financial Plan examines the connection between actions, thoughts, and feelings when it comes to all things financial. The key to getting the most out of your wealth, the authors argue, is certainly found in the wise utilization of tools, like budgets, bank accounts, 401(k)s, IRAs, Roth IRAs, education savings plans, and real estate, as well as home, auto, business, health, disability, and long term care insurance, but even more so in the contentment found in balancing money's influence in our lives with personal values and goals.

The Value of Money: Uncover the Hidden Wisdom of Money

By: Susan McCarthy

https://www.christianbook.com/value-money-uncover-hidden-wisdom-ebook/susan-mccarthy/9781440638596/pd/47166EB?event=ESRCG

https://www.christianbook.com

In The Value of Money, veteran financial advisor Susan McCarthy provides readers with the tools they need to build a stronger, more secure financial picture as they achieve greater self-understanding. Identifying your "money type" as a foundation, she teaches you how to turn around self-defeating responses. Hardcover.

Walk Financial Darkness

by Vanessa Derrico

https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Financial-Darkness-Vanessa-Derrico/dp/1609574907
https://www.amazon.com

https://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781609574901&HC_ISBN=9781609574918
https://www.xulonpress.com

Walk Out Of Financial Darkness is a fun and entertaining story that allows you to take a journey with Annie, a young woman not unlike many Americans today. She has maxed-out credit cards, pays bills late because she refuses to open her mail, and feels as if she is drowning where money is concerned. When Annie feels there is no hope left, an unexpected helper named Simon arrives, to teach her ten lessons on basic money management. Instead of lecturing, he creates situations that she must experience. This method will allow Annie, and you, to easily understand how the financial concept works and how it could be applied to your situation. Vanessa Derrico won multiple awards, including First Year Top Achiever, while working as a financial advisor. During that experience, she found her true passion was financial education, not getting a set number of clients or a specific amount of funds to manage. She discovered there were many people who needed help with financial basics



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