Financial Diet

Chelsea Fagan and Lauren Ver Hage argue that financial indifference is the silent saboteur of otherwise capable people. Their Financial Diet framework treats money management like nutrition: structured, intentional, and built on a bank account pyramid with checking at the top, emergency savings below, semi-liquid funds for mid-term goals, and long-term investments at the base. From the 401(k) employer match to therapist Olivia Mellan's research linking divorce rates to unresolved money conflicts, this book turns abstract anxiety into concrete weekly habits.

You'll learn:

- Why checking your balance twice weekly prevents budget drift

- How the bank account pyramid structures every dollar's purpose

- What Mellan's research reveals about couples and financial conflict