Russell Robb is a seasoned financial professional, who has held top positions at highly prestigious firms. He is the author of Buying Your Own Business, and he edited and published a successful monthly newsletter, called M&A Today. Robb is the former president of The Hamilton Trust, and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. He also served as president for the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and was awarded their Meritorious Service Award in 1995. A former Lance Corporal with the U.S. Marine Corps, he has four children and seven grandchildren, whom he regularly advises on financial matters. He and his wife live in Massachusetts. Katharine Robb Meehan is an executive level administrator, working for nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Committed to deploying her skills to support organizations with impact, she served the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, The Nature Conservancy, and the Trustees of Reservations. Most recently, she supported the leadership team at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, a wellness retreat center in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. David Tabatsky is a writer, editor, and performing artist, based in New York City. Among his more than fifty book projects, he was consulting editor for Marlo Thomas and her New York Times bestseller, The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2: Your Turn, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul's, The Cancer Book: 101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love, coauthor, with Dr. Mark Banschick of The Intelligent Divorce--Books One and Two, coauthor with Dr. Randy Wright of The Wright Choice: Your Family's Guide to Healthy Eating, Modern Fitness and Saving Money, and has written essays for The Forward, Parenting, and Sesame Street Parent, among others. His memoir, American Misfit, was released in 2017. Please visit www.tabatsky.com.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Foundations for Success Chapter 1: The Personality Factor Chapter 2: Friends and Mentors Chapter 3: Continuing One's Education Part Two: Careers Chapter 4: Making the Most of Starter Jobs and Internships Chapter 5: Landing the Right Job for Any Stage in Your Career Chapter 6: Thriving in the Gig Economy Chapter 7: Advice for Entrepreneurs Part Three: Making Your Money Work Chapter 8: Setting Realistic Financial Goals and Making Sense of Loans Chapter 9: Budgeting Techniques to Keep You on Track Chapter 10: Marriage and Family Finances Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index About the Authors
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This highly informative, timely, and readable book of advice for millennials, as well as their parents and grandparents, draws superbly on the author's years of financial and business experience and his great wisdom regarding career choices attained over his life journey. It is both a must and a most enjoyable read.--Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr., MD, associate physician-in-chief and deputy chairman, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, and William Berenberg Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics What makes this book unusual is its wide-ranging focus, starting with the foundations for success--personality factors, friends and mentors, and the continuing education, which places all that follows in context. Tools are less than useful unless they are tempered by an awareness of who you are and who has influenced your life. Rarely does a book offering guidance emphasize these crucial aspects when one is setting off on a professional career.--Walter Birge, former headmaster, Fenn School for Boys and former president, Concord Free Library Your Money Mentors offers well-researched advice for young people, with a grandfatherly tone and plenty of good, practical suggestions on friendship, mentors, jobs, and especially financial matters. I wish I had this book when I was blundering my way into the world.--Alan Lightman, professor, MIT, author of "Einstein's Dreams", and founder, Harpswell Foundation Your Money Mentors, as written by a senior citizen and his millennial granddaughter, provides a handy guide to economic survival for 85 million young adults. It contains bountiful and practical advice, distilled wisdom, and lived experience, which define boundaries and conditions for success in life and business. It is especially valuable for parents who overlooked opportunities to impart market advice to their children as well as for those young adults who ignored parental advice and are now starting young families of their own. Your Money Mentors is timely, as the structure of business is changing rapidly to adapt to digital media and technologies, but the ground rules of ethical practice have not changed, and the Robbs sum them up succinctly.--Brian Rosborough, founder, Earthwatch; trustee, Princeton University; Mount Holyoke College