Very helpful.

This book answered most of my questions in a fun and interesting way. Totality recommend it.

3 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Unhelpful

Book is mostly the author's autobiography so it presents a narrow experience of wealth and is not widely applicable

3 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Informed and Informative

Thank you for writing this book, and especially for your guided conversation suggestions between chapters. Your leadership In conversation about this taboo subject will bring more equity, justice and peace.

2 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Nothing here to really appreciate.

Striving, overly self consciousness, confessing not a single scrap of insight. Gee...look at how well I navigated being super rich.

2 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Balanced perspective

A memoir of a middle class person who accidentally got ridiculously rich and how she maintains value and meaning in her own life and her family's. I learned a lot from this listen. Highly recommend.

2 persone l'hanno trovata utile

We Need To Talk: a memoir about first world problems

7 hours of a women talking about how it’s hard to be rich.

I heard about this book on the Stacking Benjamin’s podcast and it sounded interesting. Unfortunately, it was not what I expected and reading it just made me angry for purchasing I and thus contributing to her wealth and thus contributing to more first world problems and thus a second edition of this book at some point :(

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

Worth Reading!

The first half, covering childhood and early working days did not appear to me to be worth publishing, although it do provide context to better appreciate what was to come. The second half, on the other hand, addressing the issues the author and her family faced. as a consequence of their becoming, super rich, was interesting, enlightening, and well worth communicating too an audience beyond the “one percent.” I am grateful to the author for sharing her story and subjecting herself, once again to the opinions and judgments of others. It is a fascinating window into the lives of those who the “ninety-nine percent”do not encounter frequently, if ever. It confirms, among other things, that the most valuable things in life do not require the possession of a fortune. Thank you, Jennifer!

so bad. dnf

This is a did not finish for me. I tried hard to stay with it because the idea is interesting and the questions after each chapter are important and thoughtful. But someone else will need to write that interesting book. This one is repetitive (so repetitive), poorly written, and bogs down with minutia. Author gives weirdly irrelevant, endless details about some topics. Then she glosses right over others, barely touching on them. Grateful it was a freebie and not a wasted credit.

Oh my God!

I listened to five chapters and I couldn’t take it anymore. The author completely failed to draw me in. I get it-you have issues with wealth or just plain money in general. That’s ok but every single chapter?
I gave the performance a 5 because the narrator was good. And the questions at the end of chapters—is this a self help book? How does it help.
Maybe she comes to terms with her anxiety but at this point I don’t care.

Fascinating listen.

I couldn’t stop listening! Fascinating and honest look at the impact of wealth. Anyone who wants to better understand money psychology will enjoy this book.