Stimulus Wreck: Rebuilding After a Financial Disaster
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About this audiobook
Understanding money—how to make it, save it, and grow it—has always been fraught for most people, even in the best of times. So what went down when a global pandemic threw a monstrous wrench in the works was sadly-predictable. What was already confusing and stressful became overwhelming and existential, even for someone like Gaby Dunn, who’d spent the past few years researching and reporting on financial literacy for the underserved.
In March 2020, as COVID-19 began to bring the world to a stuttering halt, Dunn—author of Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together and host of the Bad with Money podcast—watched as their income dropped by roughly 50 percent. Suddenly, what had been more of a passion for helping others became a renewed struggle for survival in the midst of economic disaster.
What Dunn has learned in the interim takes center stage in this conversational how-to guide on navigating our new reality, including finance hacks not in pursuit of the ever-elusive American dream but, rather, a thoughtful, more inclusive approach to making the most of your money and surviving amidst financial jargon, shame and judgement.
From worker advocacy, scam awareness, and positive thinking to earth-friendly practices, bill negotiation, and overlooked assistance programs, Stimulus Wreck serves as a primer on putting more power in your own hands. It’s also an inspiring reference for those who would take advantage of a system that is always taking advantage of you.
With immense empathy and enlightening experience, Dunn doles out dozens of helpful ideas for common-sense steps you can take to turn things around and rebuild when all might seem lost—“so that people can afford to take care of themselves and their families and to plan for a future that allows them basic human rights like food, water, health care, shelter, and more.”
Editor's Note
Toward financial stability…
If stagnant wages and rising inflation have you worried about making ends meet, this sympathetic money advice will help get you on the right track. “Bad with Money” podcast host Dunn has invested years learning how to get their finances in order and sought all avenues on the path to financial stability; in “Stimulus Wreck,” they guide you through the myriad of resources they find helpful.
Gabe Dunn
GABE DUNN is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian and LGBTQ+ advocate living in Los Angeles. Gabe has served as a writer on BIG MOUTH (Netflix) and has developed original television pilots with MTV, 20th Century Fox, YouTube Originals, FX and Netflix. Gabe is the host and creator of the podcast, BAD WITH MONEY WITH GABY DUNN, now in its eighth season, where they have interviewed guests like Suze Orman, Andrew Yang, and Elizabeth Warren. A non-fiction book based on the podcast was published by Simon & Schuster in 2019. Gabe co-wrote the novels I HATE EVERYONE BUT YOU, a New York Times bestseller in 2018, and the sequel PLEASE SEND HELP… published in 2019. Both of Gabe's latest novels garnered a placement on The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019 list by Harper's Bazaar. They also created, and starred in the Audible Original series APOCALYPSE UNTREATED and co-host of the JUST BETWEEN US podcast on the Forever Dog network.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doesn't have the information I was expecting to hear before I started the audiobook. But it was okay still.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a fan of Gaby Dunn's work, this was a great "sequel" to "Bad With Money".
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good advice, especially for people who are just starting out.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Listen! So refreshing and straight to the point! You will benefit ?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not bad. A lot of on the surface insight but much needed
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Those who nana about the authors voice has no idea about the fan bass who are downloading this app just to listen to THEM SPECIFICALLY ??
Loved this continuation of the first book.
If you haven’t listened to Apocalypse Untreated yet please put that on your todo list.
Xoxo - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was very informative. They acknowledged they don't know everything, they make mistakes and it was a very to the point book. Highly recommend if you need a how to and a swift kick in the behind.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gaby gave so many great resources and I especially loved the example about reframing their thinking with their emergency fund. Can't wait to share it with my friends!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very refreshing and practical financial education, delivered in a fun and engaging manner
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Financial advice with a positive attitude for real people in the middle class. No time wasted on crypto or this other crap that we can’t afford. Wouldn’t have chosen it but it popped up on my feed. Thanks for the suggestion.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is so right on time. I am impressed with the up-to-date details, especially, the urgency of having and/or putting an emergency savings plan in action like—right now! Offers actionable steps towards financial relief.
Keep up the good work, in filling a need, Gaby. If no one new where or how to get started in getting basic, financial direction in order to learn how to manage their money, save money, and raise credit scores, then this narrated book would be a great informative, listening tool for starting the process.
Thank you,
Gaby Dunn - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lacks a clear focus, message and approach. Passionate story but low in content
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Unlistenable narrator. Bad advice. Read something by someone educated in these matters.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Unbearable to listen to. I couldn't even finish the first chapter. The author should have hired someone to do the audiobook.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Condescending, LOUD, and obnoxious narrator. I was unable to finish and will avoid this author in future.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The narrators voice was like nails on a chalkboard. This book is more for how to whine and look like you’re budgeting. Or how the woke don’t go broke. I would suggest you stick with the classic information of Dave Ramsey or John Cummata.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5That voice! I couldn't keep listening to it for more than 5 minutes. The author should dedicate herself only to writing, not to narrating.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Not worth the time! No real financial advice, just political b.s. mostly and the little financial ideas that were discussed were not realistic or were just plain common sense! Waste of time!
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While I liked that the author was more down to Earth than someone like Dave Ramsey (and therefore didn’t assume that everyone needs to set aside $ for religious tithing), bringing up the costs associated with being non-binary/bisexual and things experienced within personal life was unnecessary.
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