Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, Founder of The Fiscal Femme, to release Financial Adulting, an informative and fun guide to becoming a confident and conscious financial adult. Financial Adulting is set to publish on March 2nd.
Hoboken, NJ (February 9, 2022) - Despite its critical importance, many young adults move into adulthood without receiving any meaningful education in personal finance. That deficit is invisible until its consequences, including credit card bills, student loan defaults, empty retirement accounts, and more, begin to mount. In the forthcoming book, Financial Adulting: Everything You Need to be a Financially Confident and Conscious Adult, celebrated personal finance expert Ashley Feinstein Gerstley delivers an accessible, informative, and fun guide to becoming a confident and competent financial adult.
The book offers all the personal finance education that most young adults wish they had received when they were younger, but didn't. It's filled with step-by-step guidance that allows readers to take concrete action and create systems that set themselves up for success in the months and years to follow.
In 2012, Gerstley founded The Fiscal Femme, a feminist money platform on a mission to end inequality through financial well-being. Financial Adulting is told from a feminist and systemic perspective, acknowledging the reality that personal finance cannot be decoupled from principles of equity. Whether that means encouraging the reader to use their position of privilege to help close racial and gender wealth gaps or recognizing a historical disadvantage stemming from systemic oppression, Gerstley's realism emphasizes the "personal" in personal finance.
She shares advice on everything from budgeting and building a rainy-day fund to retirement investing, understanding insurance, filing taxes, improving credit scores, and planning for student loan repayment. Gerstley explores every aspect of personal finance that's relevant to modern adults. Rather than insist that readers give up the things they love, Gerstley provides practical, commonsense advice real-world adults can actually follow.
The book was highlighted in Publishers Weekly's look ahead at business and finance titles for 2022, and has received praise from many of Gerstley's peers in the personal finance space. Farnoosh Torabi, host of the So Money podcast and author of When She Makes More, calls the book a "step-by-step guide we all wish we had when we graduated college," and explains, "Ashley provides the perfect toolkit for uncovering a lifelong financial planning strategy while also investing in a more equitable world." Similarly, Erin Lowry, author of the Broke Millennial series says, "Ashley provides an engaging and inclusive path towards becoming a money savvy grown-up. She also brings in rarely talked about lessons from history and ways we can better align our spending with our values."
About the Author:
Ashley Feinstein Gerstley is an author, speaker, and personal finance expert. In 2012, she created The Fiscal Femme, a feminist money platform on a mission to end inequality through financial well-being, and has helped thousands of people feel financially confident, achieve major financial goals, and destress their relationships with money.
