Invested: How I Learned to Master My Mind, My Fears, and My Money to Achieve Financial Freedom and Live a More Authentic Life (with a Little Help from Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and My Dad)

by Danielle Town and Phil Town

New York Times bestseller!

A 12-Month Plan to Financial Freedom

"A terrifically informative and thoughtful book." - Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project and The Four Tendencies

In this essential handbook-a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project-the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town.

Growing up, the words finance, savings, and portfolio made Danielle Town's eyes glaze over, and the thought of stocks and financial statements shut down her brain. The daughter of a successful investor and bestselling financial author of Rule #1, Phil Town, she spent most of her adult life avoiding investing-until she realized that her time-consuming career as lawyer was making her feel anything but in control of her life or her money. Determined to regain her freedom, vote for her values with her money, and deal with her fear of the unpredictable stock market, she turned to her father, Phil, to help her take charge of her life and her future through Warren Buffett-style value investing. Over the course of a year, Danielle went from avoiding everything to do with the financial industrial complex to knowing exactly how and when to invest in wonderful companies.

In Invested, Danielle shows you how to do the same: how to take command of your own life and finances by choosing companies with missions that match your values, using the same gold standard strategies that have catapulted Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to the top of the Forbes 400. Avoiding complex math and obsolete financial models, she turns her father's investing knowledge into twelve easy-to understand lessons.

In each chapter, Danielle examines the investment strategies she mastered as her increasing know-how deepens the trust between her and her father. Throughout, she streamlines the process of making wise financial decisions and shows you just how easy-and profitable-investing can be.

Capturing a warm, charming, and down-to-earth give and take between a headstrong daughter and her mostly patient dad, Invested makes the complex world of investing simple, straightforward, and approachable, and will help you formulate your own investment plan-and foster the confidence to put it into action.

• ISBN10: 0062672673
• ISBN13: 9780062672674
• Publish Date: 27 March 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: William Morrow & Company
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[Joséphine]

Initial thoughts: Invested is a great book to get readers thinking about their finances, their goals. I loved the approach Danielle took to outlining her financial journey, how it impacted other areas of her life and the lessons that she learnt with regards to investing. I listened to it on audio, which helped me fully immerse my mind into why investing is so important over simply saving and how to get started. While stocks might not be part of my strategy just yet, I'm sure I'll revisit Invested in future. I'll then look to a print edition or the ebook, so I can sit down and work out the numbers as I reread.

On a personal note, like Danielle, I grew up with my dad constantly telling me about the importance of investing. He kept telling me that working a full time job alone, wasn't going to do me favours financially. Like Danielle, I didn't actually believe that investing was for me but I've come to a point that I've realised that it's not such a stretch after all, and I am capable of learning and going down that road too. With that parallel, I felt even more connected, which in turn made me feel like book was very applicable to me as well.