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Publication Date: September 6, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0137079273 | ISBN-13: 978-0137079278 | Edition: 1

In Psych Yourself Rich, TV’s newest personal finance star shows how to develop the mindset, discipline, and spirit you need to build a strong financial foundation so you can grow wealth on your own terms, without fear, anxiety, misery, boredom, or even advanced math!¿ Farnoosh Torabi (as seen on NBC’s Today Show, Yahoo! Finance, and SoapNet’s Bank of Mom & Dad) combines the latest behavioral psychology with real attitude, without lectures! Psych Yourself Rich shows young professionals how to build a healthy view of money, investing, wealth, and aspirations. Torabi discusses how to get beyond "lend-and-spend" to a deeper, more holistic view of money, how to map out a plan of action that matches your needs and goals, and how to put that plan into action! You’ll learn how to stop agonizing and start organizing; become your own biggest "money advocate;" assert yourself to stop getting ripped off by financial institutions; make your money count; build momentum; embrace an entrepreneurial spirit; and get where you want to go, while others spend decades running in place.

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“ In this marvelous ‘journey within,’ and with elegance, wit, and concrete specificity, Farnoosh Torabi helps individuals focus on the psychological and behavioral elements that are critical to financial and investment success.”

--David M. Darst, CFA, Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and author of The Little Book That Saves Your Assets and The Art of Asset Allocation

 

“Farnoosh really gets it. Her insights are amazingly practical, thoughtful, and sophisticated; a very rare combination when it comes to personal finance experts. Psych Yourself Rich achieves a lofty goal: explaining a complex problem within practical everyday terms--without pulling any punches. Her advice is always actionable, and her deep commitment to really helping young people through tough financial problems comes across loud and clear. I would love to see more experts follow Farnoosh’s lead.”

--Ian Cohen, CEO and President, Credit.com

 

“As the crisis shifts from the fi nancial to economic to social sphere, empowerment and awareness are the greatest allies of the individual investor. Farnoosh paints an enlightened path on our journey to better tomorrows.”

--Todd Harrison, Founder and CEO, Minyanville Media, Inc.

 

“Get ready to shift to entrepreneurial thinking and reap the rewards in your career and financial life. Farnoosh Torabi prepares you for the changing landscape of work and gives you a blueprint for success.”

--Fabio Rosati, CEO, Elance.com

 

In Psych Yourself Rich, TV’s newest personal finance star shows how to develop the mindset, discipline, and habits to grow wealth and achieve your goals on your own terms--without fear, anxiety, misery, or too much sacrifice. Farnoosh Torabi combines the latest approaches in behavioral psychology with a disciplined attitude to help you psych yourself

into a place of financial well being. You’ll learn how to build a healthy view of money, investing, wealth, and aspirations...get beyond “lend-and-spend” to a deeper, more holistic view of money...discover why “he who dies with the most stuff” doesn’t win.

 

Then, you’ll map out a personal plan based on what you really care about in life--and learn how to get in gear, move forward, and transform your plans and dreams into reality.

  • STOP AGONIZING--AND START ACTING
    Overcome the behaviors that keep you from achieving your fi nancial, personal, and professional goals
  • ASSERT YOURSELF, TAKE CONTROL, AND STOP SHORTING YOURSELF
    Shift the power balance in all your financial transactions
  • GET MORE OUT OF THE MONEY YOU ALREADY HAVE
    Make more sensible decisions about what to buy and how to invest
  • LIVE YOUR PASSION: IDENTIFY WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO YOU AND GO AFTER IT
    Learn what it takes to succeed on your own terms, make the commitment, and do it

About the Author

Farnoosh Torabi is one of the nation's newest and most fascinating personal finance experts. The New York Times calls her advice "perfectly practical."

 

A nationally recognized author, her first book, You're So Money: Live Rich Even When You're Not, is an acclaimed tell-all for young adults searching for financial independence. Farnoosh's work has been featured in Money, Entrepreneur, Glamour, Marie Claire, and many other national magazines. She is the money coach for Credit.com, financial expert for LearnVest.com, and contributor at MoneyWatch.com.

 

Recently Farnoosh starred in Bank of Mom & Dad, a reality series on SOAPnet, where she coached young women struggling with debt. Farnoosh has made numerous appearances on such national programs as The Today Show, Good Morning America, Larry King, and The View. She was formerly the senior financial correspondent and host of Wall Street Confidential with Jim Cramer for TheStreet.com TV. 

 

Learn more about Farnoosh and her advice at PsychYourselfRich.com.

 

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (September 6, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137079273
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137079278
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi is a personal finance journalist, author and TV personality. The New York Times calls her advice "perfectly practical."

In 2008 she published You're So Money - Live Rich Even When You're Not, a tell-all for young adults searching for financial independence. Her second book Psych Yourself Rich arrives September 2010.

Farnoosh recently wrapped SoapNet's "Bank of Mom and Dad," coaching young women struggling with piles of debt. Previously Farnoosh appeared in REAL SIMPLE. REAL LIFE., a makeover series on TLC, where she helped busy women better understand and manage their financial challenges.

Farnoosh attended Pennsylvania State University - Go Nittany Lions! - graduating with honors in finance and international business. She also holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.

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53 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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This book contains sound financial advice that will help even the most financially clueless reader start down the path to riches. I have studied personal finance since 2002, and I consider myself a very frugal and informed person, and my review reflects this perspective. Let me begin with my positive impressions:

- Torabi's advice is solid, even though a lot of it is "commonsense." Unfortunately, in America today, saving money, identifying goals, setting and sticking to deadlines, spending within one's means, etc, have been replaced by the behaviors that led to the credit and housing bubbles. This shows that there is a wide-open market for "commonsense" wisdom. This book would be a helpful handbook for all students, and those entering the "real world" for the first time.

- Torabi has done her homework, and includes research, statistics, and other hard data that make her presentation stronger.

- The book is interesting. She loads the text with stories of herself and others. I was genuinely interested in reading what came next.

- Torabi explores psychological aspects of money and finance. Our spending or saving is a function of our personalities and past. Certain exercises in the book helped me see why I view money and finance the way I do. Chapter four was particularly helpful, and caused me to reevaluate my views on money and success. Looking back to my childhood, I heard the word "financial crisis" far more than I ever heard anything about investing. My relationship with money has not been very positive, and I plan to change the relationship!

- The last chapters, within the "Raising the Bar" section, were the most helpful to me, which makes sense given the knowledge of finance I already have. Here Torabi discusses overcoming fear of risk (and how this fear is conditioned into us in school), finding alternative investments, and embracing and nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit. I believe that if I want to earn good money and enjoy my work to the fullest, becoming an entrepreneur is the way to go.

Below are two reasons I would not recommend this book for everybody:

- Successful and financially informed people already know most of her advice. This book seems to be written for the type of people that Torabi helped on her reality TV show, those who are in a lot of debt, spend too much, and are financially clueless. If you have ever read a "Finance for Dummies" book, a lot of this content will be redundant. For example, I already know how to ladder CDs, set goals, pay my bills on time, and how to apply for college financial aid.

- The title misled me. I was hoping for a book that provided psychological techniques to get me over the mental blocks that stop me from earning the kind of money I know I am capable of making. The preface mentions Torabi's interest in behavioral psychology, which effectively gets people over their fears and hang-ups, so I thought the book would provide techniques to change the way I think. Such techniques do exist (Neurolinguistic programing "patterns," for example). Unfortunately, the book is mostly basic financial and goal-setting advice, with some self-exploration and psychology thrown in.

Overall, if I were younger, or less informed, this book would be a godsend, worth 5 stars. If you are in a lot of debt, spend too much, can't seem to get ahead, etc, and need a way to get your finances together, this book will help you. However, I was looking for a book with psychologically based tips and tricks to help me get over any hang-ups I might have about money, success, etc. Because this book is more financial lesson than psychological session, it is a 3 star value to me. This averages out to a solid 4 stars, my overall rating.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I have proudly been a stay at home Mom for the past 9 years. It was a decision that both my husband and I both made together and although it was certainly tight at times, we managed it and I am so thankful that I have had an opportunity to do it.

We didn't have hoards of money growing up and I certainly didn't in my 20s when I met my husband and I am ashamed to say though that I've never been great at managing money long term so we've been 'one of those' households that my husband has managed our finances. He's great at it, I'm not so the job has always been his. Getting caught up with busy kids, it was easy to lost in the day to day and justifying putting off REALLY learning about money so I did. Some might say, how hard is it? Live within your budget and save your extra money. Now that our youngest has started Kindergarten, we now have a dual income household. Now what? I've decided that it's time that I REALLY learn about money and how to HELP manage, contribute and build our nest egg for our family.

This was the perfect book for me to review since I consider myself a beginner with long term finances. Some of it doesn't apply to me...it has a feel to the younger crowd at times (early 20s) but not so much where I couldn't benefit from learning. It's simple, easy to read, understand and to start to implement. IDEALLY I think it's great for parents to read then to encourage their college bound / 18, 19, early - mid 20s kids could read.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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With a title like "Psych Yourself Rich", you'd expect some really innovative and creative ideas and exercises about how you think about money. From the title I expected this book to talk about mental and emotional views of money and how we can change how we relate to finances. Sadly that was not the case and the title was a bit misleading. There is nothing about \mind, and all about matter (like one reviewer noticed).

It's a fine, solid book about finances but its not innovative at all. This book isn't any different than most other books about managing your money on the market. Its the same old, same old. It does read easier than alot of dry financial books, and the author does pepper it with some personal anedoctes along the way. Its a good book if you are young and need to learn basic finance help. For most readers, this has already been learned and is common sense.

The author is young and I think this is geared towards a younger audience who over indulge. If you are looking for something about changing your mental/psychological relationship with money this isn't the book for you.
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Good information
I liked the psychology angle but there isn't really much new here. It was easy to read and I think that if one follows it, success can be achieved. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Ursula
Average positive thinking affair
This isn't a very interesting book, I'm sorry to say. While I appreciate the message that you need to think positively to bring things into your life, that message is hardly new... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andrew Olivo Parodi
Great Advise for Young Adult Readers
This book is a great primer for the young adult reader wanted to get-it-together in terms of spending, saving and having money to invest. Read more
Published 5 months ago by KB
Good Basic Ideas for People Who Need to Get a Handle on Their Finances
Farnoosh Torabi's book, Psych Yourself Rich in built on the idea that your personal mindset has a good deal to do with whether or not you find money success. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Bill Cashell
Great book for Beginners
I'm a stay at home mom of 8 children. This book is not quite what I expected from the title, because I thought it might help me figure out some of my financial road blocks. Read more
Published 13 months ago by TC
Spend Within Your Means?
How hard is it to spend within your means? Our culture and society has been geared towards the idea that each person who resides in the US should have a certain level of material... Read more
Published 13 months ago by D. Sun
A Good "Get Started" Personal Finance Guide for 20 Somethings
As a 40 something who is trying to put my financial life back together after 2 divorces, an IRS audit, and raising 3 children on a small income, I figured I definitely needed to... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Jinger Jarrett
This Book Delivers
Psych Yourself Rich, may appear to just be a self-help book, but the book is about building your character and so much more. Read more
Published 13 months ago by J. Garton
Too much coaching, no new information
Perhaps because the author has spent much time coaching young women about basic finance in the United States, she may have come to consider their plights as universal, and... Read more
Published 14 months ago by FatChickDancing
Poorly written and edited
I am puzzled by the all positive reviews of this book.

The writing is clumsy: the book is filled with bloopers and clichés and it consists of run-on sentences,... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Petur O. Jonsson
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