Miss Independent: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Start Investing and Grow Your Own Wealth

Written by Nicole Lapin

Narrated by Nicole Lapin

Read by the author. Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with Jesse Draper, the founder of Halogen.

Wall Street Journal BESTSELLER

New York Times bestselling author of Rich Bitch and renowned money expert Nicole Lapin makes investing accessible and fun so women can make bank and become Miss Independent.

You’ve worked hard for your money and now it’s time for your money to work for you. You will never earn or budget your way into real wealth. Growing your money significantly doesn’t require starting with a lot of money. It requires a little bit of knowledge about taking smart risks and as much time as possible to take advantage of the glorious power of compound interest, which Einstein refers to as the eighth wonder of the world.

From automating your savings to easy, no-stress investing strategies, Nicole will teach you how to take your financial knowledge and portfolio to the next level and start you on your journey to your ultimate destination: true financial independence.

In Miss Independent, you will learn:

• The freedom that wealth affords you, whether it’s the ability to leave a crappy job or significant other, go on the vacation of your dreams or otherwise live life on your own terms.
• The best method for establishing your “number”—the amount of wealth you want to accumulate before you retire—and getting it.
• The meaning of the most common investing terms, like stocks and bonds (and some more exotic ones like REITs or cryptocurrency) and how to make them work to your advantage.
• The ins and outs of big financial decisions and concepts, like taking out a mortgage, owning investment properties, and buying life insurance.

Miss Independent takes the fear out of money management and investing once and for all. Using her own vulnerable stories and her signature conversational style, let Nicole show you all the different ways and paths that you can take to become financially free at last.

Accompanying graphs, tables, and dictionary are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781400226344

Nicole Lapin

America's go-to money expert Nicole Lapin is the only finance expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. She got her start in the business world at age eighteen, reporting from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for First Business Network. Nicole went on to become the youngest anchor ever at CNN and then to claim the same title at CNBC, where she anchored the only global finance show on the network, Worldwide Exchange, while contributing financial reports to MSNBC and Today. She has served as a business anchor for Bloomberg TV and a special money correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Nicole is currently the host of the business reality competition show Hatched on CBS and contributes regular financial reports to Good Morning America and The Dr. Oz Show, among others. She also co-hosts a podcast on iHeartradio with the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, Jason Feifer, called Hush Money, which tackles taboo money topics.

Reviews for Miss Independent

[Mara Lyons · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Miss Independent by Nicole Lapin is a wonderful beginner book about saving and investing aimed towards women. This is a great place for beginners to start as it is written in a conversational, easy-to-follow manner. FYI, there is some mild bad language scattered throughout if that puts you off. Though she is obviously very wealthy and lives a different life than most of us, her tone is very friendly and motivating.

[spinsterrevival · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I do love it when I find books through library recommendations as I check something out, and this one ended up being better than the other book I checked out on women and finances and didn't read. I hadn't heard of the author, but it sounds like she's got a pretty amazing story (might have to check out her previous books) and really just wants women to be in control of their lives and especially their money. This really covered everything fairly comprehensively, and I learned a lot for planning and investing. This isn't the place to start if you haven't saved or budgeted, but once you do it's worth it to learn more about what to do with it for your future self.