Money Myths: A Finance Guide for Solo Earners

By Renée Sylvestre-Williams and Ja'Air Bush

In Money Myths, an audio course from Scribd Coach, personal finance journalist Renée Sylvestre-Williams aims to help solo income earners understand the fundamental of personal finance and how to make educated decisions about major financial decisions by exploring and deconstructing common money myths solo earners often hear. Drawing from her expertise, Sylvestre-Williams breaks down such pervasive money myths as “don’t talk about money with friends,” “investing is for the rich,” “it’s too early to plan,” and more. She also shares exercises so you can begin putting what you’ve learned into practice.

Whether you’re aware of it or not, you’ve probably heard your fair share of money myths in your life. Let’s talk about them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Jun 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094442938

Renée Sylvestre-Williams

Renée Sylvestre-Williams is a journalist and the author of The Budgette newsletter and writes about the financial advisory industry, focusing on trends and practice management. To learn more about Renée Sylvestre-Williams and her work, follow The Budgette at budgette.substack.com.

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Money Myths

MONEY MYTHS

A Finance Guide for Solo Earners

RENÉE SYLVESTRE WILLIAMS

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2022 by Renée Sylvestre Williams

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ISBN: 9781094442938

First e-book edition: June 2022

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Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m Renée Sylvestre Williams and this is Money Myths: A Finance Guide for Solo Earners, a course from Scribd. Thank you for joining me. Let’s get started.

How often have you sought out financial advice only to find an endless library of resources that seem to apply only to couples or a family? How often have you thought, That’s awesome, but it’s just me and my bank account. Where’s the financial advice for solo income earners?

We live in a society where there's no shortage of financial advice -- make no mistake about it. You can always find budget advice everywhere. Sadly, this budgetary and financial advice is almost always targeted to a dishearteningly narrow audience -- so much so that you might start to think our entire society is only made up of these kinds of people!

If you're living alone or you are a solo income earner, this reality can feel a little alienating. Important questions like how much you need to save for life and whether or not you get any tax breaks often go unanswered, and finding the resources to answer them can be pretty difficult.

I’m a solo earner, and I know I’m not alone. A report by Statistics Canada found that the number of Canadians living alone has ‘more than doubled in the past 35 years’ -- making single-person households the most common type. Living alone is on the rise, not just in Canada but in other countries, too. So, there

Reviews for Money Myths

[422253 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I've read upto 14 pages of this Ebook and it's not really an helpful book; kind of a boring topic due to other books i've read!