Here’s a giveaway for the New Year — check out The Money Code: Improve Your Entire Financial Life Right Now, by Joe John Duran CFA. And here he is!
Who’s Joe John Duran? He’s CEO and founding partner of the United Capital wealth counseling firm, and you may have seen him providing commentary on channels from CNBC to CNN or in publications such as the NYT or Smart Money.
OK, so what’s the book about?
The Money Code
Working from the knowledge that most of us never learned to think and communicate about money, The Money Code addresses people who want take control of their financial lives, learn to make good decisions about money and how to effectively discuss money with their loved ones. Through the story of one individual learning to make effective decisions about his own financial life, it walks through five Money Secrets and provides a handy checklist you can use when making your own financial decisions.
- You can download a sample chapter online, and you can also see some video clips and more on their Facebook page, if you want to check it out more for yourself.
On to the giveaway
What can you win?
- TWO lucky Mashup Mom readers will each win a $25 VISA gift card and a copy of The Money Code!
How do you enter?
- Just comment here and say why you think this book might be useful to you and your family.
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The fine print
The Money Code provided the products and information for this giveaway. I received a copy of the book for review; however, all thoughts and opinions here are my own. The winner will be chosen on or around 1/23/13 through random number generation at random.org and will have 48 hours to respond to notification email; Mashup Mom reserves the right to choose a runner up if no response is received in that timeframe.
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I am always looking for ways to save money and my family benefits. I firmly believe that there is always something to learn and more you can do to better manage your money.
I think it would be helpful in teaching us how to make good financial decisions. I read about the author’s background and I’m intrigued by the fact that he came from an abusive family yet managed to overcome that adversity to become a success.
I think my husband could use this, because each time we seem to discuss finances he gets nervous and kind of shuts down on me. And he’s an accountant!
I am looking for another way to approach handling everything and this may just be what we need. I would be so thankful.
I’ve been un employed for 7 months – any help would be appreciated
This book would be perfect to help me making money decisions which I avoid all the time.
With 2 boys currently in college and a third starting to look, squeezing every cent is important. That’s why I love your site so much!!!!
Would help with finding ways to save for a house.
It would be intersting to read the book, but since you are the one who have the book already, what do you think about it?
We have a new baby and are trying to save to buy a house. Any financial help we can get will help!
Having this book will show us a way to save up some money for college for our 3 daughters.
I sure would like to learn how to keep more of my money!
It would be interesting to read this book… I sure could learn to save emore money!!
I’m hoping to make some wiser choices when dealing with money.
I would love to read this book. I want to learn other ways to help me save money. This will be the year to be in a better financial situation.
I love learning new ways to save money! We are buying our first house in a couple of months and I’m still in school till the end of the year. Every little bit is going to help!
To save money. It’s always great to learn new things.
Gotta always keep learning ways to save more so I can support others in need.
Always love to learn more about making sound financial decisions. And I want to be able to communicate effectively w/my son about finances as he gets older.
Planning for retirement and need all the information that is available.
Would love to learn about smart ways to save money !
Always looking for new strategies, especially in these crazy economic times!
I would love to read this book. Always looking for ways to bump the retirement fund.
I don’t have a financial life, I need to learn how to get one!
Have twins going off to college in 18 months. Need all the help I can get.
We recently read Total Money Makeover and are committed to getting rid of our debt! But I would love love love to get more ideas and expertise.
It’s a different approach I haven’t heard of before. Sounds interesting! I’m always looking for ways to pay down my debt.
I also was not taught how to communicate or deal with money. Would be interested in his ideas. I would also be interested in that Visa card heehee!
As a single woman facing the an uncertain financial retirement (I’m a teacher) it is important that I take charge of my financial future. This book could help me understand and navigate the way.
I have over $100,000 in student loan debt, plus a house and car payment. Would love to learn how to better manage my money so I can get those student loans payed off before the time im 57 (27 more years of payment!). Thanks!
We’ve been struggling for a few years now, husband off work on and off. This past year he hasn’t worked at all, the coming year doesn’t look much better. With insurance costs, aspergers’s child in school, the only recourse is possible retirement. We could really use advice that’s in this book about both retirement and how to live in this changing world.
Who doesn’t need help managing money, planning for kids college expenses and retirement.
We’re planning for retirement (hopefully!) and we could use advice on how to make good decisions.
My husband just opened his own business, and we’re really struggling with our finances right now. I’d love to read this book.
we’re thinking about buying our first house…anything financial would help
I would like to learn to respect the money we have.
College & retirement! Top priorities.
January is always a good time to fine -tune the budget. This would be a great tool.
Let’s just say I have a family member who would benefit greatly from the info in this book. It wouldn’t hurt for me to see how well our money handling strategies compare..
We have lots of budgeting challenges lately. This would really help!
I feel that we do a decent job on budgeting money but it wouldn’t hurt to see if can do better.
Would hopefully benefit with budgeting advice as well as balancing college and retirement savings!
While couponing is great at saving money it is important to manage how I spend money. This book should help!
All the couponing in the world won’t help our family UNLESS we know what to do with the money that’s saved! The new insight will help us teach our children with valid wisdom … not just ‘because we said so’!!
This would help enormously as we prepare our finances for moving closer to where I work so that I don’t have to leave town every week. Thanks for the chance!
When it comes to money, there is never enough. Would love to pick up any tricks to make our dollar stretch. Also to have better discussions with hubby about money.
I never pass an opportunity to make some money!
Like many of you, any way to save money is well worth learning. Our extra savings would go towards either our kid’s college funds or family vacation. =)
we would love to learn the money secrets!
I am always looking for ways to manage my money better and to help my family save money.