Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up: The Best Money Advice You Never Got
Sam Beckbessinger discusses her book 'Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up'. (Camera & editing: Nicholas Boyd)
We never get an instruction manual about how money works. We never have to pass a test to get our Money License before we can take a new credit card for a drive. Most of what we learn about money comes from advertising or from other people who know as little as we do.
No wonder we make such basic mistakes.
No wonder we feel disempowered and scared.
No wonder so many of us just decide to stick our heads in the damn sand and just never deal with it.
I wrote this book, because so many of the people I spoke to told me that they wished someone would. - Sam Beckbessinger
In this clear and engaging basic guide to managing your finances, Sam Beckbessinger covers topics from compound interest and inflation to “Your brain on money”, negotiating a raise, and particularly local South African phenomena like “black tax”.
The book includes exercises and “how-to’s”, doesn't shy away from the psychology of money, and is empowering, humorous and helpful. The book you wish you’d had at 25, but is never too late to read.
About the author
Sam Beckbessinger is a writer, user-experience designer and entrepreneur who is on a quest to help the emerging middle class understand how to take charge of their finances. She is the cofounder of Phantom Design, a company that has helped to build bitcoin wallets, cryptocurrency exchanges, smart credit cards and more.
She also lectures extensively on online culture, marketing, and behavioural economics. Sam holds a BA Honours Degree from the University of Cape Town, studied Strategy Design at the Gordon Institute of Business Science and was a 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow at Yale University.
Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up: The Best Money Advice You Never Got is published by Jonathan Ball Publishers
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