Happy Go Money: Spend Smart, Save Right and Enjoy Life

Description

The Social's finance expert connects money and happiness in this fresh, feel-good guide to financial well-being. Everything tells us that what will make us happy can be bought, whether it's the latest gadgets, renovated kitchens, or luxury goods. But research has shown that having more money in the bank and more stuff around the house doesn't necessarily correlate with being a happier person. With Happy Go Money, financial expert Melissa Leong cuts through the noise to show you how to get the most delight for your dollar. Happy Go Money combines happiness psychology and personal finance and distills it into an indispensable starter guide. Each snappy chapter provides practical, easy-to-understand advice on topics such as spending, budgeting, investing, and mindfulness, while weaving in research, interactive exercises, and relatable anecdotes. Frank, funny, and empowering, this primer challenges everyone to revamp their relationship with their money so they can dial down their worries and supersize their joy.

Melissa Leong is a personal finance writer, keynote speaker, on-air personality, and bestselling author. She appears on CTV's The Social as its resident money expert and was a staff reporter at the Financial Post. She lives in Ajax, Ontario.

"A book that puts money, life and happiness in perspective. Loved every minute of it." -- Gail Vaz-Oxlade, author of Money Talks and Debt-Free Forever "Leong's breezy, relatable writing style will appeal to a broad range of readers." -- Booklist "Using humor and kindness, Leong shares a lovely starter guide to living a happier life with a better relationship to your money." -- Book Riot "While it's true that money isn't the first ingredient to happiness, lacking financial awareness can be a barrier to happiness -- and a barrier to advancement, which has been making women unhappy for a long, long time. During this movement of change, as women continue to interrogate the status quo, continue to demand more -- equality, opportunity, and respect -- we have been encouraged to talk more openly about money, to develop a relationship with it, and to understand how we can make money work for us. Melissa Leong has produced a valuable resource as we engage ourselves deeper in this conversation ... by giving new dimension to the conversation. Happy Go Money is informative but also accessible, smart and funny, silly and sexy, tough and also kind. It is, perhaps, the way money has always wanted to be represented. Melissa Leong has given her a makeover -- and she looks SO good." -- Elaine Lui, LaineyGossip.com, and author of Listen to the Squawking Chicken "A must-read for anyone who wants to fall in love with their money." -- Shannon Lee Simmons, founder of the New School of Finance