In today’s economic climate, it is crucial that we understand how we make our money decisions and how we can improve them. Don’t wait another day, you have nothing to loose!
What you will get from Crazy About Money
Connect With Others with real-life stories and the story explanations, you’ll become more aware of the complexities of money and the emotions and beliefs embedded in it.
Learn How To Recognize and sort out your own money beliefs and emotions.
Identify What You Need To Change in your money behavior and develop awareness to choose to change it or not change it.
Learn To Make Smarter Choices with money, whether in saving, investing, spending, or giving.
Emotions & Money Choices
If our money emotions and beliefs are balanced and clear, we will act wisely with it. If our feelings/beliefs are confused, we will make poor decisions, creating financial havoc and deep unhappiness. Crazy About Money helps readers identify the unconscious emotions and beliefs that usually come from childhood and drive money decisions as adults. It also shows readers how to change misguided attitudes that lead so many into money trouble.
Crazy About Money uses real and composite cases drawn from the author’s 30 years of psychology practice. Readers learn about Mary, who has a basement full of Internet purchases she made to get even with her seemingly indifferent husband. And about Harry, an 89-year-old multi-millionaire bachelor who nearly decided to move into a state assisted living facility for fear he would run out of money. Readers also meet others who, like themselves, over-spend, under-save and make poor investment decisions.
Kent EngelkeChief Market Strategist/Managing Director of Capitol Securities Management, often quoted on Dow Jones Newswire
In Crazy About Money, Dr. Maggie Baker taps into her 30 years of counseling clients and distills her advice into an entertaining blend of actual cases, why we REALLY see talking about our money as the last taboo, and what just understanding what money type we are is so important to understanding why we handle it the way we do. Those childhood experiences with money, and how they fit into the rest of our background, doom us to being enslaved by old and destructive patterns until we see them, clearly. Because we see other people’s cases, we can painlessly recognize our own money blind spots. As a person who has worked with couples and individuals full-time for 30 years, I find this book is the most down-to-earth, absolutely useful tool I’ve seen. Financial advisors will find it indispensable, and will want to hand copies to clients, for sure. Funny, humane, and to the point, this will be the most fun you’ve had while learning why we act as we do. This will be a bible for anyone who teaches or counsels people about their money.
Rick Kahler M.S., CFPKahler Financial Group and Board Member, Financial Therapy Association
Maggie Baker’s Crazy About Money is unique in describing how we form and act on money scripts at various stages of life, from childhood through retirement. Using her own story as well as her experience as a clinical psychologist, she has created a readable, useful book that can help you build a healthier relationship with money.
G. Scott Budge, Ph.D.Psychologist/Managing Director, RayLign Advisory, LLC
Maggie Baker’s Crazy About Money is a critical and extremely timely contribution to dialogues about money, our number one source of stress. Bringing together personal, clinical, and behavioral finance knowledge in a clear and understandable way, Maggie suggests real solutions for individuals and families across the wealth spectrum who have difficulty dealing with money. Read this book — and insist that your financial advisors read it as well!
In Crazy About Money, psychologist Maggie Baker helps us grapple with our “money devils.” Through her insights and exercises, we can understand more deeply and fully where our money attitudes originate, learn how to change them, and eventually become Money Masters. A priceless contribution to the field of money psychology, this book is a must-read for individuals and couples facing money conflicts or money avoidance. Mental health professionals and financial professionals will also find it a great resource.
Leslie Gordon Mayer, Ph.D.President &CEO, Mayer Leadership Group; Fellow, Wharton School of Business
Crazy About Money takes a uniquely direct approach to how and why so many of us struggle with money. Dr. Maggie Baker draws on her extensive professional experience with financial psychology and her personal journey with her own finances to teach us that a healthy relationship with money is both freeing and attainable. Her straightforward tell-it-like-it-is style makes this book a great read for anyone looking to understand his/her own attitudes and spending habits. For the financial professional, this book is a valuable tool to help build a strong, open and honest dialogue with clients.
In today’s economic climate, it is crucial that we understand how we make our money decisions and how we can improve them. Don’t wait another day, you have nothing to loose!
In today’s economic climate, it is crucial that we understand how we make our money decisions and how we can improve them. Don’t wait another day, you have nothing to loose!