4 Books Empowering Financial Freedom

Berna Anat is an award-winning producer, podcast host, and speaker, and is known as the Financial Hype Woman who’s ready to talk about money out loud. Anat wrote Money Out Loud: All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us to educate many readers on the subjects of money that many are ashamed, anxious, or silenced from talking about. Some of the topics that are covered are how to actually budget, save, and invest money while making it fun, how to use money to fund our biggest dreams, how our traumas shape our most toxic money habits, and how to create new patterns, just to name a few. Many readers found this book to be highly relatable and recommend it to anyone seeking to get on track and improve their relationship with money. Money Out Loud is the fun approach to learn about money management without the gatekeeping and financial jargon.

Paris Woods, Ed. D is an author, education leader, philanthropist, and nonprofit founder who wrote her debut book to educate readers on financial freedom. The Black Girl’s Guide to Financial Freedom: Build Wealth, Retire Early, and Live the Life of Your Dreams is a guide for Black women of any age, whether they are young professionals or mid-career women who are ready to live life on their terms. Woods took real-life stories and actionable advice to teach Black women how to build generational wealth, avoid common financial traps, achieve financial independence, and more. Woods wrote this book based on her real-life experiences of wanting to build wealth without changing her career as an educator and taking the traditional business or real estate routes. This book provides the actionable advice and research that helped her.

Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole is a guide to introduce readers to the concept of building wealth through a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems. This book reveals the ten-step process along with helpful checklists, worksheets, resources, and advice from Tiffany herself. Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche is an award-winning teacher of financial education. She has created a financial movement that has helped millions of women worldwide save money and pay off their debt. Aliche is frequently featured as a financial expert on The Real daytime talk show, is co-host of Brown Ambition, a financial podcast, and has also been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, Good Morning America, and more. Get Good with Money breaks down short-term action items that lead to long-term goals.

Why Should White Guys Have All the Wealth? How You Can Become a Millionaire Starting From the Bottom by Cedric Nash gives readers insight into what they need to do with their money to become a millionaire. Nash provides his wealth-building system that shows readers how to develop the right mindset, adopt the right values, and make the right money moves. It is designed to make you a millionaire even if you are starting from the bottom. Readers will learn to take what they have and earn more, which will build wealth and lifelong income. Cedric Nash is an entrepreneur and investor whose mission is to educate, inspire, and motivate wealth building in the African American community. Nash is the founder, owner, president, and CEO of Oakland Consulting and also the founder of The Black Wealth Summit. His approach is to show people how to use old principles to build wealth and sustainable income.