Reviews for It Pays to Talk : How to Have the Essential Conversations With Your Family About Money and Investing: Library Edition
AudioFile Reviews 2003 June/July
Charles Schwab and daughter Carrie offer listeners a crash course in organizing personal finances, growing investments, and planning for the unplanned in this abridged look at financial health. Read by the authors, this piece has a down-home quality as the Schwabs' talent lies with financial planning rather than performance. But considering the inaccessibility of much financial information, the Schwabs' lack of polish lends itself well to the average listener, whether they're discussing how to invest, write a will, do estate planning, hire a personal planner, or teach kids about budgeting. The broad range of topics and casual, enthusiastic reading will help any family make money matters regular conversation rather than a family taboo. H.L.S. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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AudioFile Reviews 2003 December/January 2004
The authors Schwab have an extraordinary grasp of the investment field and an uncanny ability to explain it. Anna Fields's narration allows the material to speak for itself as this audio offers clear advice on saving, investing, managing risk with insurance, taxation, infirmity, investment advisors, wills and trusts, and overcoming taboos about money talk. The examples and research are excellent and will push you to get these topics on the family discussion table. The focus is the basics of family finance, and little is said about the new rules of today's volatile investment climate. A written guide to the program's contents would help an audio that many will use as a reference guide. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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Booklist Reviews 2003 June #1
These audios shine strobe lights on the use and abuse of money by presenting unique approaches for sharpening family financial skills. Schraf persuasively introduces the creative money-making methods set forth in How to Help Your Husband Make More Money So You Can Be a Stay-at-Home Mom as she ably pauses, emphasizes, and punctuates every hard-won kernel of financial wisdom with the gusto of a seasoned performer. Next, Field's straight-from-the-shoulder, matter-of-fact delivery is perfect for It Pays to Talk. This money primer makes painfully clear the importance of contingency planning and financial stability. In Surviving Financial Storms, a pastor at a large suburban Chicago church is on a strategic and moral mission to convert the overspending, undersaving souls of the world. With the fervor of a true believer and the precision of a veteran practitioner, the full-throated Hybels drapes his message of thrift, charity, and salvation with a cloak of humor and brotherly love as he challenges listeners to prepare for financial calamities. Nancy Spillman Copyright 2003 Booklist Reviews
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