A Purse of Your Own: An Easy Guide to Financial Security

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Simon and Schuster, Dec 29, 2009 - Business & Economics - 320 pages
THERE IS NO BETTER TIME THAN NOW TO STRAIGHTEN OUT YOUR PURSE

In A Purse of Your Own, wealth coach Deborah Owens draws from more than twenty years of experience in the fi nancial services industry for a revolutionary and simple approach to investment literacy: Women can take control of their lives and purses by leveraging the feminine powers of intuition, creativity, and empathy to build personal wealth.

Filled with quizzes (Pursercises), resource guides (Pursessentials), and examples of real women from housewives to executives who have drastically changed their lives (Purseonality Profi les), A Purse of Your Own will show you how to:

Apply the 7 Wealthy Habits you MUST learn to be fi nancially secure
Buy stocks, bonds, and mutual funds and create a well-balanced portfolio on any budget
Understand the language of investing and how to manage risk
Find a good fi nancial advisor (and recognize the warning signs of a bad one)
Protect what you will build

Creating and maintaining wealth can come only from understanding how money works. Use Deborah's "Power of the Purse" wealth-building strategy and your money will work for you!

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About the author (2009)

Deborah Owens is a 20-year veteran and former vice president in the financial services industry. She is the CEO of Owens Media Group, which creates financial empowerment content for the web, print, radio and TV. She is a sought after speaker on the topic of financial empowerment and entrepreneurship and has toured nationally with TD Jakes Enterprises, Working Mother Media, and the NASD. The Power of the Purse Tour begins in 2010 with the mission of engaging, enlightening and equipping one million women to become financial empowered by forming Purseonal Support Groups. For more information visit www.deborahowens.com.

Brenda Lane Richardson, an award-winning journalist and active public speaker, is the author of seven nonfiction books and Chesapeake Song, a novel.

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