-
Your Money or Your Life
- 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018
- Narrated by: Vicki Robin
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $28.00
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
The Simple Path to Wealth
- Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
- By: JL Collins
- Narrated by: JL Collins, Peter Adeney
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things - mostly about money and investing - she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical.
-
-
Misleading, heavily biased
- By Cody Peralta on 07-19-19
By: JL Collins
-
The Millionaire Next Door
- The Surprising Secrets of America's Rich
- By: Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., William D. Danko Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Cotter Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Listen to the incredible national best seller that is changing people's lives - and increasing their net worth. Also available:
The Millionaire Mind.
-
-
Its OK to drive a Taurus!!
- By Stephen Dix on 03-30-05
By: Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., and others
-
The Psychology of Money
- Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- By: Morgan Housel
- Narrated by: Chris Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
-
-
Could be summarized in one sentence
- By Alex on 05-30-21
By: Morgan Housel
-
Quit Like a Millionaire
- No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required
- By: Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung, JL Collins
- Narrated by: Kristy Shen, JL Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of 31, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next Snapchat in her garage, or investing in hot real estate. Learn how to cut down on spending without decreasing your quality of life, build a million-dollar portfolio, fortify your investments to survive bear markets and black-swan events, and use the four percent rule and the Yield Shield - so you can quit the rat race forever.
-
-
She gives some bad advice.
- By Brian Bingham on 02-13-20
By: Kristy Shen, and others
-
Set for Life
- Dominate Life, Money, and the American Dream
- By: Scott Trench
- Narrated by: Scott Trench
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Are you tied to a nine-to-five workweek? Would you like to “retire” from wage-paying work within 10 years? Are you in your 20s or 30s and would like to be financially free - the sort of free that ensures you spend the best part of your day and week, and the best years of your life, doing what you want? Building wealth is always possible, even while working full-time, earning a median income, and making up for a negative net worth. Set for Life gives young professionals the fiscal confidence they need to conquer financial goals early in life.
-
-
Amazing content! a must for young professionals!
- By Cassandra Geary on 05-16-18
By: Scott Trench
-
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition)
- By: Ramit Sethi
- Narrated by: Ramit Sethi
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Buy as many lattes as you want. Spend extravagantly on the things you love. Live your rich life instead of tracking every last expense with Ramit Sethi’s simple, powerful, and effective six-week program for gaining control over your finances. This isn’t typical advice from a money expert. In this completely updated second edition, Ramit teaches you how to choose long-term investments and the right bank accounts. With his characteristic no-BS perspective, he shows how to squeeze every hidden benefit out of your credit cards.
-
-
Surprised by the negative reviews
- By Amazon Customer on 05-07-20
By: Ramit Sethi
-
The Simple Path to Wealth
- Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
- By: JL Collins
- Narrated by: JL Collins, Peter Adeney
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things - mostly about money and investing - she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical.
-
-
Misleading, heavily biased
- By Cody Peralta on 07-19-19
By: JL Collins
-
The Millionaire Next Door
- The Surprising Secrets of America's Rich
- By: Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., William D. Danko Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Cotter Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Listen to the incredible national best seller that is changing people's lives - and increasing their net worth. Also available:
The Millionaire Mind.
-
-
Its OK to drive a Taurus!!
- By Stephen Dix on 03-30-05
By: Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D., and others
-
The Psychology of Money
- Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- By: Morgan Housel
- Narrated by: Chris Hill
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
-
-
Could be summarized in one sentence
- By Alex on 05-30-21
By: Morgan Housel
-
Quit Like a Millionaire
- No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required
- By: Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung, JL Collins
- Narrated by: Kristy Shen, JL Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of 31, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next Snapchat in her garage, or investing in hot real estate. Learn how to cut down on spending without decreasing your quality of life, build a million-dollar portfolio, fortify your investments to survive bear markets and black-swan events, and use the four percent rule and the Yield Shield - so you can quit the rat race forever.
-
-
She gives some bad advice.
- By Brian Bingham on 02-13-20
By: Kristy Shen, and others
-
Set for Life
- Dominate Life, Money, and the American Dream
- By: Scott Trench
- Narrated by: Scott Trench
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Are you tied to a nine-to-five workweek? Would you like to “retire” from wage-paying work within 10 years? Are you in your 20s or 30s and would like to be financially free - the sort of free that ensures you spend the best part of your day and week, and the best years of your life, doing what you want? Building wealth is always possible, even while working full-time, earning a median income, and making up for a negative net worth. Set for Life gives young professionals the fiscal confidence they need to conquer financial goals early in life.
-
-
Amazing content! a must for young professionals!
- By Cassandra Geary on 05-16-18
By: Scott Trench
-
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition)
- By: Ramit Sethi
- Narrated by: Ramit Sethi
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Buy as many lattes as you want. Spend extravagantly on the things you love. Live your rich life instead of tracking every last expense with Ramit Sethi’s simple, powerful, and effective six-week program for gaining control over your finances. This isn’t typical advice from a money expert. In this completely updated second edition, Ramit teaches you how to choose long-term investments and the right bank accounts. With his characteristic no-BS perspective, he shows how to squeeze every hidden benefit out of your credit cards.
-
-
Surprised by the negative reviews
- By Amazon Customer on 05-07-20
By: Ramit Sethi
-
Financial Freedom
- A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need
- By: Grant Sabatier, Vicki Robin - foreword
- Narrated by: Grant Sabatier, Vicki Robin
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Financial Freedom is a step-by-step path to make more money in less time, so you have more time for the things you love. It challenges the accepted narrative of spending decades working a traditional nine-to-five job, pinching pennies, and finally earning the right to retirement at age 65, and instead offers listeners an alternative: Forget everything you've ever learned about money so you can actually live the life you want.
-
-
Meh...
- By bobby on 02-10-19
By: Grant Sabatier, and others
-
Work Optional
- Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way
- By: Tanja Hester
- Narrated by: Tanja Hester
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting - or not! Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life-designed by you, not by an employer or clients.
-
-
This has it all.
- By bobby on 02-22-19
By: Tanja Hester
-
Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence
- By: Chris Mamula, Brad Barrett, Jonathan Mendonsa
- Narrated by: Chris Mamula, Brad Barrett, Jonathan Mendonsa
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Distilling the best of the popular ChooseFI podcast, this audiobook pulls from the collective knowledge of those who have decided to build a lifestyle around their passions instead of allowing their finances to dictate their future. These stories demonstrate universal principles, giving you the opportunity to pick the elements that are the most applicable to your financial situation and “choose your own adventure”. The audiobook covers a wide range of topics that will help you build a strong financial foundation.
-
-
Keep and invest you money instead of this book
- By Janice Irizarry on 01-29-20
By: Chris Mamula, and others
-
The Automatic Millionaire
- A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
- By: David Bach
- Narrated by: David Bach
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple (he's a low-level manager, she's a beautician), whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids through college, and retire at 55 with more than $1 million in savings.
-
-
Common sense, but...
- By Jonathan on 09-12-04
By: David Bach
-
Rich Dad Poor Dad
- What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
- By: Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Narrated by: Tim Wheeler
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With an incredible number of 5-star reviews, Rich Dad Poor Dad has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. With perspectives that often contradict conventional wisdom, Kiyosaki has earned a reputation for irreverence and courage. He is regarded worldwide as a passionate advocate for financial education. His easy-to-understand audiobook empowers you to make changes now - and enjoy the results for years to come.
-
-
Wow. This book is one big bad advice
- By Amazon Customer on 12-20-18
-
Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)
- How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom?
- By: Scott Rieckens
- Narrated by: Scott Rieckens
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott was creatively stifled, depressed, and overworked trying to help pay for his family’s beach-town lifestyle. Then one day, Scott listened to a podcast interview that changed everything.
-
-
Unrelatable and nauseatingly privileged
- By Phil Royer on 03-25-19
By: Scott Rieckens
-
You Need a Budget
- The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want
- By: Jesse Mecham
- Narrated by: Jesse Mecham
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For most people, budgeting conjures up the same feelings as, say, prison and dieting. But your initial instinct couldn't be further from the truth. You just haven't budgeted the right way. You Need a Budget will teach you four simple rules to completely revolutionize the way you think about managing your money. With a budget, you'll break the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, get out of debt, and save more money. A liberating, enabling, empowering budget will actually make you feel more free, not more restricted.
-
-
Some Good Pointers but...
- By Carmelo on 12-26-18
By: Jesse Mecham
-
Money: Master the Game
- 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
- By: Tony Robbins
- Narrated by: Tony Robbins, Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tony Robbins has coached and inspired more than 50 million people from over 100 countries. More than four million people have attended his live events. Oprah Winfrey calls him "super-human". Now for the first time - in his first book in two decades - he's turned to the topic that vexes us all: How to secure financial freedom for ourselves and our families.
-
-
MEH... way too much RAH RAH RAH, not enough advice
- By The Carcissist on 01-21-18
By: Tony Robbins
-
The Total Money Makeover
- A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
- By: Dave Ramsey
- Narrated by: Dave Ramsey
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a well-toned budget? Do you want to transform your sad and skinny little bank account into a bulked-up cash machine? Then get with the program, people. There's one sure way to whip your finances into shape, and that's with The Total Money Makeover. It's the simplest, most straight-forward game plan for completely making over your money habits. And it's based on results, not pie-in-the-sky fantasies.
-
-
This guy makes sense
- By Alexandra on 02-11-14
By: Dave Ramsey
-
Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this timely and enlightening book, the best-selling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.
-
-
How To Live The Good Life
- By Loïs Talagrand on 02-12-19
By: Cal Newport
-
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
- Second Edition
- By: Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf, and others
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing is a DIY handbook that espouses the sage investment wisdom of John C. Bogle. This witty and wonderful book offers contrarian advice that provides the first step on the road to investment success, illustrating how relying on typical "common sense" promoted by Wall Street is destined to leave you poorer. This updated edition includes new information on backdoor Roth IRAs and ETFs as mainstream buy-and-hold investments, estate taxes and gifting, plus changes to the laws regarding Traditional and Roth IRAs, and 401k and 403b retirement plans.
-
-
Reads you charts,why no PDF supplement?
- By m on 05-22-20
By: Taylor Larimore, and others
-
Early Retirement Extreme
- A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
- By: Jacob Lund Fisker
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
More than just a book on how to retire extremely early by spending less and earning more while investing in a few funds and hoping they go up in the long run. Written for those wanting a deep and detailed understanding of the strategies and building blocks required to design and live an interesting life independent of the winds of the economy. An information-dense study of economic resilience and how to thrive in an increasingly fragile job- and consumer-oriented world hitting its limits.
-
-
Terrible advice, had a few good laughs though
- By spin on 03-24-21
Publisher's Summary
Brand new for 2018: A fully revised edition of one of the most influential books ever written on personal finance with more than a million copies sold
“The best book on money. Period.” (Grant Sabatier, founder of Millennial Money, on CNBC Make It)
"This is a wonderful book. It can really change your life." (Oprah)
For more than 25 years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance.
This fully revised and updated edition with a foreword by "the Frugal Guru" (The New Yorker) Mr. Money Mustache is the ultimate makeover of this best-selling classic, ensuring that its time-tested wisdom applies to people of all ages and covers modern topics like investing in index funds, managing revenue streams like side hustles and freelancing, tracking your finances online, and having difficult conversations about money.
Whether you’re just beginning your financial life or heading towards retirement, this book will tell you how to:
- Get out of debt and develop savings
- Save money through mindfulness and good habits, rather than strict budgeting
- Declutter your life and live well for less
- Invest your savings and begin creating wealth
- Save the planet while saving money
- And so much more!
"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management." (The Los Angeles Times)
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Critic Reviews
"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management." (Los Angeles Times)
"Vicki Robin wrote the book on retiring happy. Now a whole new generation is taking her advice. [She is] the millenial money whisperer." (Money Magazine)
“Vicki Robin’s Your Money or Your Life offers readers the gift of meaningful, applicable advice so that they can achieve true financial independence on their terms. It is deservedly one of the most acclaimed and referenced financial advice books of our time and will undoubtedly continue that legacy for generations.” (Farnoosh Torabi, best-selling financial author and host of the award-winning podcast So Money)
Featured Article: 20 Best Finance Audiobooks for Amateurs and Masters Alike
Whether you’re a complete newbie or a seasoned investor, there’s sure to be a finance audiobook that will provide you not only with helpful, interesting information, but also with a listening experience sure to keep you engaged and focused. We’ve cultivated everything you need to get started, from long-term investing principles to increasing your overall net worth in big ways, with this list of the 20 best finance audiobooks from our catalog.
More from the same
What listeners say about Your Money or Your Life
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Tristan
- 09-24-18
Not A Book About Finances
I had a lot of problems with this book. If you're looking for something that will teach you about money look elsewhere. The author spends the whole book talking about people who used "this step" of her program or "that step" but it isn't very practical. She seems to think that working full time just leaves people lonely and bad parents or bad partners and the only way anyone is going to be happy is by buying land in the middle of nowhere and learning to farm and fix your own stuff when it breaks. The only way to reach financial independence is by not spending any of your money, giving it to charity, working for some kind of a charity and never going shopping or buying anything.
When I figured out that this book was less about how to get your money to work for you and more about how to figure out what is "enough" I tried to shift my thinking but the author insistence that people will never be happy unless they quit their high paying jobs as computer programmers to teach children to write code for a quarter of your previous salary was just down right annoying.
If you're actually interested in what her program entails and not listen to a bunch of stories about how a hotel maid in WA paid off thousands in debt by just being a reliable person who was fortunate enough to be available when her boss needed to promote someone, skip to the end. She tells you the steps in the last chapter. There is a few useful bits of info in this book, more particularly the chapter on investing but she never really goes in depth and just talks about these well known money folks like JL Collins and Mr. Money Mustache.
Overall, I'm pretty disappointed with this book. Not sure what all of the hype is about.
133 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Abigail
- 09-03-18
only useful to the utterly clueless
I was hoping to hear tips about how Vicki Robin made it through decades of market ups and downs after early retirement. Instead, I got a loooong, chiding lecture about my terrible materialism and how dumb I must be about my life and my money. The author addresses all criticism directly at the reader as though we're all white-picket-fencers with 2 enormous homes and an out-of-control shopping habit.
I'm a self-employed single person planning to retire in my mid-forties, so basic financial management is not new to me. I *would* like to hear about how she managed decades of changing markets without income, but this book was totally useless in that regard.
If you feel that your spending is out of control and this is your FIRST book on personal finance, it might be worth reading.
73 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Paul Blair
- 03-13-19
More spiritual than financial.
Not what I was expecting at all. This book contains very little real financial advice. It's mostly spiritual self improvement kind of stuff. Rich Dad poor Dad is 100x better and if you want something to that's short and gets down to the nitty gritty that is short and solid advise, try total money makeover. 1/10 I would not recommend this book.
19 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jes_074
- 09-11-19
Better than any debt free book to date
I've read all kinds of debt freedom books out there. All off them have the same basic after line. Put a budget together and track everything you spend! From there you work to eliminate any debts you have in your life. At the same time you're investing and saving. Nice and it works.
Here you learn to look at your money as you spend it by eliminating budget categories. By doing this I saw where I could cut $200-$300 from my budget! That is a huge number when you break down what that would do to a bill if added to the current payment. Alone I can be free of student loans Oct 2019!
The author also takes a minimalist approach to life which I feel great about! I had to downsize to move giving up 50% of what I owned by donation it selling it. I love not having a lot! what to do with it all was annoying when it was in my house! Now I have lots it's space and want to get rid of more of it!
Then the book takes you into how to track your wealth and where you're at I in the whole process!
I really enjoyed this book and will lead it again
7 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 08-02-19
A new Money headspace
If you want a completely different look at money work and how we meaningful changes, stick with this book. A significant portion of the book is focused on social and evironmental issues and values. I could see people having trouble with this part, but I feel the solutions proposed are practical and refreshingly individualized. In fact the steps in themselves are easy and straightforward. The true value is how many ways they can be applied.
7 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 03-18-19
Brutal and simplistic
The FIRE concept is great and has and will change lives. This book/audio book was very boring to listen to. I feel like it’s can be distilled down to a 1/3 of its current size/length. The narrator was not the best I have heard. The portion on logging how much you spend went on and on.
15 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Gus C.
- 03-26-19
Not what you expect
This books is literally hours and hours of Vicki rambling on and on about how Americans are ruining the environment. I expected a book about how change my relationship with money. What I got was guilt trip about how I am ruining the earth for the future generations. Waste of my money.
18 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jeremy Cote
- 08-14-19
Start here!
Start here, find your why, there is more than personal finance and budgeting here.
This book speak volume about lifestyle and life choices.
I read this one twice already.
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Craig
- 01-07-20
boring boring boring
boring
then it went off on a tangent about consuming Earth's resources and being green. had to shut it off.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- JulyZ05
- 10-08-19
Just buy and learn
Great book. Lots of practical advice of stuff you already know you should be doing. I like how the author breaks down the steps to help you along the way and hey “no shame no blame,” get on your way.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 09-26-18
Inspires Action to Work towards being F.I.
A good listen that I would recommend for people interested in the idea of financial independence and living with less. Definitely some good ideas but is certainly a plan that would need commitment as it is very detailed and would require a lot of time.As a European, I find it a little difficult to translate some of the actions and ideas as the book is based on American culture and lifestyle, particularly the investing section but still worth a listen for a bit of inspiration.
13 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- slipperychimp
- 03-28-19
Practical but obvious
I think this book is geared towards those caught in a consumer/debt cycle. It does contain practical steps which can be implemented, no doubt, but if you have any sense then I can guarantee you’re doing most of them anyway.
If this is the first book you came across on Financial Independence and aren’t doing simple things like tracking your expenditure & income, then this is the book for you. Personally though I found Rich Dad Poor Dad more useful as it’s geared towards changing your whole thinking and approach to managing money.
9 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Toby
- 08-04-19
Bored after two hrs
This is more of a well being mindset book over a functional finance book, I got bored after the first two hrs and had to stop. Also Should have paid for someone to narrate rather than doing it herself.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Nure
- 09-20-19
Talk talk talk.
talk talk talk talk and more talk and nothing else than talk. Invest you money and your time somewhere else.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 07-23-19
Much more basic than I was expecting
Quite dated and not really that useful if you already have some basic financial knowledge.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Stanley Impkiss
- 11-07-19
Sensible but a slog to get through
I enjoyed the reasoning and rationale behind the approach, but found the voice and performance exceptionally irritating and slow. Very repetitive and over emphasising...very Amarican. This book could have been a third in length. I have no doubt though that the content is solid and will help loads of people
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Xeon333
- 12-11-19
Good book but unnecessarily long
Very US biased but principles which can be used globally. Everything is explained with quite a lot of examples which can seem a bit unnecessary at times. Great book for understanding the basics but in my opinion could have been condensed into about 2 hours from 12.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- BestEver
- 05-09-22
Very boring
A very boring and dull book, they seem to talk about the most random topics for 2 hours in a chapter, when the point could have been made in one sentence! I know all books do this, but this really takes the cake, this is just completely ridiculous. I normally love listening to finance books as I’m going to sleep as they’re interesting enough but also not overly stimulating so my mind can relax when I’m going to sleep, but with this book even as I’m falling asleep I’m wondering what the heck I’m listening to, it’s literally complete waffle and I find myself skipping chapters hoping that something new would be said, but always to no avail.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Andi
- 01-06-22
Good concepts
Overall some good concepts. Makes you reflect more about effectively using money as a tool.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- StefanH
- 10-08-21
Some good ideas but repetitive
The book raises some interesting ideas, but in most parts it keeps repeating what should be common sense. It relies heavily on the reader hating his/her job. It may be suitable for financial illiterates and people in debt.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Scripturient
- 03-10-19
A few good aspects but there is better out there
There is some genuinely solid advice for transforming your relationship with your finances here although I suspect the extensive note-taking and graph-making would be too impractical for most readers to actually maintain over the long haul. In order to really get the most from this book you will need to fully commit to tracking your data. From my perspective, this text is overly long, very repetitive, and way too focused on American practices and systems.
The reading by the author was obviously impassioned but I found the accent grating after a very short amount of time and the frequent issues with delivery were quite distracting (e.g. there are a number of verbal 'stumbles' that you would have expected a decent producer to address).
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 12-30-19
For new budgeters only
I liked how this book touched on the psychology of spending as some finances books can be very black and white and don't include this aspect. I feel the book is for people diving into finance for the first time and these concepts might be valuable for them. I found the author made her point early on and I understood what she was saying but then she continued to iterate her point throughout the book which I felt she didn't have to do. If you have dived into your budget and know the basics about finance I feel this isn't the book for you.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Devesh naik
- 11-17-21
Perfect for someone who is struggling with day to day money management
I tried reading the physical copy of the book in the beginning of 2021 but instantly thought it was book about how you can live a frugal life and how to save money by not spending it at all. I stopped reading it since. Again Nov 2021 i came across the audiobook version on audible and i just finished the book. I have to be honest it is a great tool for anyone struggling to manage their expenses or live from paycheck to paycheck.
I had a lot of moments of realisation about things that the author speaks about that i was doing wrong. Being from an accounting background a lot of the stuff was instantly understandable for me. Although i read a few reviews before starting that the author speaks about bonds as a medium of investment. That is not fully true. In the updated version the author does mention that bonds as a way of investing is no longer efficent and that ETF’s and property or individual stocks are way better nowadays. But there is not much focus on investing in general.
The main focus of this book is to try and get you to realise how much money you are wasting away on things that make zero to very little difference in your life and how people get so busy in day to day life that they end up with no money saved and the big question “Where did all my money go?”
I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling to create a financial budget for themselves and to live within their means.
If you are interested in books on investing and stock market then this book is probably not the best book for you.
-
Overall

- Rowan
- 09-24-21
Worth listening to
The book contains straight forward exercises and suggestions, which are relatively easy to put into practise.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Peter Burgess
- 09-12-21
must for all ages - Understand money in your life
multiple light bulbs moments throughout the book. clearly opens your mind to your relationship and lack of education about money in your life. wish I had learnt this 30 years ago, I would have 'enough' now. some useful tracking tools supplied as well.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 08-10-21
Too much waffling
This book takes far to long to get to the program, chapter 6 still talking about the program but not the actuals, just how good this program is.
Don’t recommend the purchase.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Mat
- 07-26-20
Good book for those who have no control.
I enjoyed this book, I had heard a lot about it and was excited to listen to it.
I did find it quite repetitive and no new information for me. Although I have practiced a lot of these ideas from a young age. I did think of several people I know who should certainly read it as they have no control over their finances, and this book is ideal for that audience.
Overall I thought it was well written and plenty of excellent concepts, but felt like I spent several hours listening to things I already knew (so nothing against the author, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would).
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 07-15-20
loved this!!!
I will definitely be rereading this book in the near future. so good I couldn't put it down.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 05-28-20
Excellent and life changing
amazing, amazing book. buy to listen, and relisten again and again. I learnt so much!!! about to relisten again. a book that truly delivers on ETHICS, SUSTAINABILITY, WEALTH CREATION, PRACTICAL KNOW HOW. so good. wish I'd been exposed to this book sooner. thankyou Vicki Robin
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 02-09-20
Excellent Advice
Excellent Advice that should be taught as a mandatory subject to every person during the later schooling years, this is as important to all young people's education as sexual education, both have the ability to make the later years significantly more enjoyable.