NetGalley Review: Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap

Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap

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Rating:   ✩✩✩✩✩

This book was already on my TBR list thanks to seeing so much about it on TikTok.  Needless to say I was super excited to
have a chance to read an ARC and even more thrilled with how fantastic a resource this book turned out to be. 

While Financial Feminist

is absolutely a book about how to do the boring parts of adulthood: financial planning, budgeting, paying down debt and building savings, it is also a book about why we do (or don’t) feel the way we do (or don’t) about money.  The exploration of why women in particular are not taught about money, how attitudes about money get created and the many myths surrounding financial planning all prove to be very important building blocks of developing money-smarts.  Once the reader has a chance to explore the psychology around money, the concise explanations of how to go about achieving financial goals make a lot of sense.  The recommendations, and the supporting workbook pages, are also kind.  That may seem odd in the realm of money-matters, but the approach is very much based on the idea that we are all humans doing our best, and that “failures” in the realm of money are not moral failures and it is OK to not get it right all of the time.  A very comforting thought for those of use living in the endless pit of millennial finances. 

As someone whose previous experiences with financial planning have heavily featured men talking at me about what I should be asking instead of answering my actual questions, Dunlap’s application of expertise was a breath of fresh air.  Instead of feeling overwhelmed, dismissed and even more confused than when I started, I felt ready to start making some small changes to meet some of our savings goals. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get some money-smarts under their belt and/or start making some financial changes in their life. 

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Published by: Dey Street Books  Release Date: 27 December 2022