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Overcoming Underearning(TM)

Author : Barbara Stanny
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061856665
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Underearning(TM) written by Barbara Stanny and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to money, are you controlled by fear? Do you live in financial chaos?Do you underestimate your worth? Are you ready to go to the next level, but can't seem to get there? If the answer is yes to these questions, you may be an underearner. Underearners are self-saboteurs who never live up to their earnings potential, says Barbara Stanny, a financial educator, motivational speaker, former journalist, and career counselor. Underearners tend to live paycheck to paycheck. They rarely balance their checkbooks and are often in debt. Ironically, many work incredibly hard. Yet they are ashamed to admit that money matters to them. They all have a high tolerance for low pay. The good news is that underearning is often self-imposed. By focusing on overcoming underearning, you will not only earn what you deserve, but you can live up to your full potential. With techniques and exercises that have helped thousands of people who have participated in her Overcoming Underearning™ workshops, Stanny teaches you five essential steps to financial independence. Once you understand these steps, you will be confident asking for a raise, increasing your prices, or getting a better job. "Now I'm making more than my friends, all because I had the guts to dream and ask for more," says one Stanny fan. First, Tell the Truth: be honest about your financial situation and figure out your attitudes toward money. Second, Make a Decision: decide that you want to make more money. Third, Stretch: take action, face your fears, and be willing to be uncomfortable. Fourth, Create Community by finding supporters and asking for help. Fifth, Respect and Appreciate Money: learn to save and invest. Overcoming Underearning is filled with inspiring, real-life stories of underearners who turned their lives around. Stanny brings a message of empowerment and hope to all those who chronically undervalue themselves. "I'm making more, working less, feeling healthier, have more energy, and I'm so much happier," concludes another Stanny believer.

Sacred Success

Author : Barbara Stanny
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1940363535
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Success written by Barbara Stanny and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Success®: A Course in Financial Miracles shows women there is a better way to achieve wealth and power: on your own terms—as a woman. Barbara Stanny, the leading expert on women and money, has helped women take control of their finances for two decades—and she knows there is much more to success than how much you earn. In her work with powerful, successful women over the last 20 years, bestselling author and financial educator Stanny has found that most women's problems with money have little to do with money itself, but rather with their fear of, or ambivalence toward, power. Instead of pushing women to pursue financial success in the traditional fashion, Sacred Success seeks to redefine power from a feminine perspective. More than a financial guide, Sacred Success is a primer on power for women—a tutorial for taking charge of your life by taking charge of your finances, and not only growing your money but creating a deeper, richer, and more meaningful life. Best described as "A Course in Miracles meets the Wall Street Journal," Sacred Success gives you a proven process that uniquely blends the practical, psychological, and spiritual work of wealth. You can be financially successful without sacrificing your soul or compromising your values. You can create wealth and exercise power by staying true to your authentic self and personal mission. Start now.

Earn What You Deserve

Author : Jerrold Mundis
Publisher : Wolf River Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earn What You Deserve written by Jerrold Mundis and published by Wolf River Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Money

Author : Bari Tessler
Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 1941529216
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Money written by Bari Tessler and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEET YOUR FINANCIAL THERAPIST: Improve your financial literary and heal your relationship with money using this 3-part framework combining mindfulness, radical self-love, and body awareness. “An exciting, important voice to the money conversation . . . at once spiritual and practical, this is the education we've been waiting for.” —Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money For many of us, the most challenging and upsetting relationship in our lives is with our finances—and it often brings feelings of shame or powerlessness. Enter Bari Tessler, your new financial therapist and money-savvy best friend. Her “Art of Money” program gives you the tools you need to improve your financial literary and heal your money anxiety in 3 phases: • Money Healing: Heal money shame through body-based check-ins, transformative money rituals, and by reframing your “money story”. • Money Practices: Learn to approach money as a self-care practice—with advice on values-based bookkeeping, finding financial support, and setting up helpful tracking systems. • Money Maps: Designed to evolve with you over time, the 3-Tier Money Map helps you make good money decisions and affirm your money legacy. Bari Tessler’s gentle techniques weave together mindfulness, emotional depth, big-picture visioning, and refreshingly accessible money practices. A feminine and empowering guide, The Art of Money will help you transform your relationship with money—and in doing so, transform your life. Check out The Art of Money Workbook for more insights and teachings.

Financial Recovery

Author : Karen McCall
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 157731929X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Financial Recovery written by Karen McCall and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After healing her own unhealthy relationship with money, and transforming her financial disaster into prosperity and security, Karen McCall created a recovery program she has now used for more than twenty years to help individuals, couples, and businesses large and small. In the midst of her money troubles, she saw a need for something other than financial planners, accountants, and credit counselors. These experts could tell her what she should be doing differently, but she needed someone to help her understand the underlying causes of chronic, self-defeating overspending and credit card debt, underearning, and low or no savings. To save herself, she created practical, holistic tools that address these sources of pain and shame. McCall’s program supports people as they uncover their deep-seated attitudes about money; provides simple, step-by-step tools for healing areas of physical, emotional, and spiritual deprivation; and teaches skills and strategies for experiencing lasting personal and financial fulfillment even in the midst of economic challenges and reversals.

Rewire for Wealth: Three Steps Any Woman Can Take to Program Her Brain for Financial Success

Author : Barbara Huson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 1260464245
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Rewire for Wealth: Three Steps Any Woman Can Take to Program Her Brain for Financial Success written by Barbara Huson and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking program to help women create a habit of building wealth—from renowned financial therapist Barbara Huson (formerly Barbara Stanny) The men in her life had always handled Barbara Huson’s money: First her father (the “R” of H&R Block), and then her husband, a stockbroker who turned out to be a compulsive gambler. When tax bills arrived for over $1m for his illegal deals, her ex left the country, her father refused to help, and Huson—who’d always been “scared and intimidated by money”—realized she had to grow up financially, fast. Since that dramatic financial wake-up call, Huson has devoted herself to learning everything there is to know about women and money, and in Rewire for Wealth she goes to the very core of the disconnect between the two: According to multiple studies, women’s and men’s brains process information differently—and that has a profound effect when it comes to money. (Men, for example, view investing as a challenge; women see it as a threat.) Fortunately, you can “un-learn” previous bad lessons—and train your brain to process differently. In Rewire for Wealth, Huson offers a proven and integrative approach to re-wiring your brain. Using the latest neuroscience, psychology, and mind-training techniques with original research that includes more than 20 years of hard-won financial expertise, she shows you how to quickly but methodically eliminate maladaptive financial behaviors, and expand your ability to build wealth. By repeatedly applying a practical three-step formula—recognize, reframe, and respond differently—old brain circuits become weaker and new ones grow stronger, paving the way to a more confident approach to wealth building. You may never get a financial wake-up call as dramatic as Huson’s, but the real, positive, and life-changing power to take charge, now, is at your fingertips.

Prince Charming Isn't Coming

Author : Barbara Stanny
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201630
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Prince Charming Isn't Coming written by Barbara Stanny and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated: the classic guide that teaches women how to take control of their own finances When this groundbreaking yet compassionate book was first published ten years ago, it lifted a veil on women's resistance to managing their money, revealing that many were still waiting for a prince to rescue them financially. In this revised edition, which reflects our present-day economic world, Barbara Stanny inspires readers to take charge of their money and their lives. Filled with real-life success stories and practical advice - from tips on identifying the factors that keep women fearful and dependent to checklists and steps for overcoming them - this book is the next best thing to having one's own financial coach.

Secrets of Six-Figure Women

Author : Barbara Stanny
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061843008
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Six-Figure Women written by Barbara Stanny and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Department of Labor, the average woman in 1998 was bringing home less than $25,000 a year. For every dollar that a man makes, a woman makes between 50 and 75 cents, and that is hardly news. But what you may not know is that, quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is rapidly increasing. Currently, over fifteen million women make $100,000 or more, and the number continues to rise at a rate faster then for men. And these women come from every industry - psychologists, dot com founders, consultants, freelance writers, and even part-timers. What makes these particular women able to do so well in the workplace? Fueled by curiosity, Barbara Stanny, author of Price Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money (Viking Penguin), set out to research this phenomenon. What she discovered was that, though the high-earning women she interviewed came from different backgrounds and had had greatly different work experiences, they all had certain characteristics in common. Secrets of Six Figure Woman: Surprising Strategies of the Successful High Earners will be a ground breaking book for high earners who want to ensure their wealth, enhance their success, and learn from others who are in the same boat. It will also offer inspiration, guidance, and motivation to those who aspire to make more.

Money, a Love Story

Author : Kate Northrup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781800683
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Money, a Love Story written by Kate Northrup and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Live It, Love It, Earn It

Author : Marianna Olszewski
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101171162
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Live It, Love It, Earn It written by Marianna Olszewski and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your heart race when your credit card bill arrives? Are you one flat tire or one emergency room visit from financial ruin? If you think a secure financial future is out of reach, you're wrong. Let Marianna Olszewski teach you how to love your money instead of running scared from it. Marianna didn't start out rich, happy and fabulous. A strapped-for-cash childhood motivated her to strive for abundance and financial independence-goals she exceeded by age thirty as a successful business owner and respected Wall Street player. Now Marianna reveals the lessons she learned on her own road to success and the savvy strategies of other amazing women. She shows how to let go of stress, break your bad money habits, take control of your finances, and finally achieve your goals and a happier, richer life. You'll learn to: -Say Yes to Yourself: Turn toward people and situations that enhance your life and well being, and away from those that don't. Until you start affirming your future through both thought and action, your efforts to improve your finances will fall flat. -Fall in Love with Your Money: Having a cavalier attitude toward money is part of the reason many of us find ourselves in a financial pickle. But when you treat your money with respect, keep track of it and spend and save it wisely your money will always love you back. -Act as If: If you think that change is impossible, think again. Start your transformation by acting as if you already are as successful, intelligent, and prosperous as you want to be. Live It, Love It, Earn It is full of true stories of ordinary women who have overcome tough challenges, such as climbing the corporate ladder, getting out of debt, and changing jobs mid-career, to get the life you want. Marianna also shares insights from other successful women like designer Diane von Furstenberg; shoe mogul Tamara Mellon (of Jimmy Choo); fashion entrepreneur Tory Burch; the first woman to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, Muriel Seibert; and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn. Let Marianna give you the tools you need to create and maintain and abundant and fulfilling life. For more information, visit: www.LiveItLoveITEarnIt.com

The Keys to the Ladies' Room

Author : Adri Miller-Heckman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477298320
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book The Keys to the Ladies' Room written by Adri Miller-Heckman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keys to your future success! Women are a goldmine of opportunity for any financial advisor looking to accelerate business growth. The key is knowing what women want and how to apply that knowledge to attract more female clients and generate more referrals. This book is your personal roadmap to making that shift. With the Keys to the Ladies Room you will discover how easy it can be to: • Understand the difference in how men and women relate to money – and convert that knowledge to create a more purpose driven business model. • Develop your personal story which inspires more trust and confidence with both prospects and clients faster • Share what you do in a way that leaves the listener sitting up and craving for more. • Incorporate a more purpose driven process that engages both clients and prospects simultaneously, uncovering more assets and opportunities. • Articulate your true value as a financial advisor (and it's not what you think!)that wins you the big business With time-tested scripts and practical, step-by-step guidance from a former Smith Barney National Training Officer, this book promises to transform your marketing and accelerate business growth by attracting more women clients and creating more loyal raving fans. "This book is destined to start a new revolution in the financial services industry. Adri has artfully combined the strengths of women with the experience and wisdom of men to create a new, refreshing business model for financial advisors. She speaks directly to what advisors need – and what clients want. This is a must-read for any financial professional looking to create a deeply meaningful and highly profitable advisory practice." Barbara Stanny, Bestselling author of Prince Charming Isn't Coming, Overcoming Underearning, and Secrets of Six-Figure Women

Refuse to Choose!

Author : Barbara Sher
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1594866260
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Refuse to Choose! written by Barbara Sher and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies seven personality types that share a common quality of having numerous unrelated interests, explaining how to prioritize and pursue multiple goals simultaneously in order to enjoy a successful and varied life.

Build Yourself Up Without Limits

Author : Andrew Deutsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Build Yourself Up Without Limits written by Andrew Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Yourself up Without Limits a Strategy to win in all Areas of Your Life will give you a new superpower for living life! The ideas are simple as well as the techniques in which to apply them. Acquiring love, success, and wealth all have their challenges that can pop up daily. When they do, they can drag us down under the weight of their stress. What you will learn in this book is about having the power to maintain and grow prosperity in all its forms one day at a time! Have you ever wondered what the core issue is that gets in the way of improving the choices we make in our daily lives? Fear! It's the main reason that our personal growth and transformations are slowed down and unfortunately for many, it is the main reason they give up on their dreams and aspirations all together. Why? Because we become paralyzed by our fear of the unknown. This kind of fear can raise its ugly head and hinder your career, creativity, relationships, money, or even your pursuit of success.Speaking about success, let's look at what the word success really means. In this book, I will teach you how simple it really is to achieve success because it's all about process. Yes, that's it: Process! If you make coffee with a used coffee filter from yesterday, I guarantee you will make an unsuccessful cup of coffee. However, use a new filter with fresh coffee grounds and you will create a successful cup of coffee. Just like making a quality cup of coffee is about the process, the outcome of our lives is all about the quality of our process. If you want to have an outstanding process for your health, career, or life in general, you must first overcome your fear.All motivational self-help books are about improving your process to find success and achieving your dreams! Sounds great, right? So, what's the problem and why are these books not successful in the long term? Because they don't offer the techniques to deal with fear in all its forms when it pops up, and folks, it pops up every day for everyone! Fear is like an enemy that has access to a 24 hour a day dressing room so it can emerge in various disguises at any time for any reason. It can appear in your head like a slacker voice saying, "Dude that report can wait till next week, let's just chill." Sometimes you may hear its voice as a lawyer, "You have no chance of succeeding so why are you putting so much energy into this project?" Even the voice of a well-meaning relative, "Fat? Nah! Your just big boned. Have another slice of cheese cake!" Then, there's also everybody's favorite pastime of "beating yourself up"; which usually follows suit after we give in to our fear and have been derailed from our process. Everybody does it, but nobody knows why! I will teach you how to deal with this fear and overcome it in a healthy manner. I've written this book to give you a new way of living and yes, a new superpower! Is that a bold claim? Perhaps. But seeing is believing and after speaking and coaching clients around the world, I've seen how the spiritually based power of building yourself up without fear-based limits has transformed the quality of life for many because it transformed the quality of their process for success. I believe in the power of this process because I live and teach it daily! That is why I'm excited to start this journey with you as you read through the pages of this book together. By doing this, you will begin to acquire for your life, a new superpower!

Good Money Revolution

Author : Derrick Kinney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510772928
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Good Money Revolution written by Derrick Kinney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALL STREET JOURNAL and USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Do you feel like you deserve to make more money? In Good Money Revolution, you'll learn to make more money, live the life you deserve, and change the world, too. Derrick Kinney is the fresh financial voice to guide you there. This book gives you a shame-free, simple success plan for your money—without cutting out your favorite latte! You hate debt and worked hard paying it down. Now you wonder, What’s next? As you worry about the future, you can’t afford to get it wrong and need a financial plan that fits your unique goals and dreams. You want to make more money and make the world better, but you don’t have a clue where to start. You should have a bigger paycheck, enjoy real financial freedom, and live the life you’ve always wanted. If you’re not making the money you deserve, and you’re not making the impact on the world you’ve always wanted, there’s a better way for your money today. Money is good and you should have more of it. But not for the reasons you might think. Here’s a secret: lots of money won’t make you happy—until you add meaning to your money. When you connect your cash to a cause, your money to a movement, and your profits to a purpose you love, you will make more money and create a life full of meaning and purpose. In Good Money Revolution, you’ll discover: The secret to making more money—your Generosity Purpose 5 money mindsets keeping you from cash How to teach your money to make you money—and use it for good The 3 Levers of Money: Save More, Crush Your Debt, and Earn More How to transform your business and create a raving customer base Don't just make money. Make Good Money. This book will show you how. Welcome to the Good Money Revolution.

What Every Woman Should Know about Her Husband's Money

Author : Shelby White
Publisher : Dissertation.com
ISBN 13 : 9780595003013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book What Every Woman Should Know about Her Husband's Money written by Shelby White and published by Dissertation.com. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelby White's book, What Every Woman Should Know About Her Husband's Money, is a necessary and empowering financial survival manual for every woman. Whether a bride-to-be, married, widowed, or divorced, this clear, up-to-date guide is an education in financial well-being, providing important advice on pooled incomes and shared investments, separate bank accounts, wills, prenuptial agreements, insurance and divorce settlements, and much more.

The Thoughtful Dresser

Author : Linda Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171645
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Thoughtful Dresser written by Linda Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear. For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter, whether you are interested in fashion or not, because how we choose to dress defines who we are. How we look and what we wear tells a story. Some stories are simple, like the teenager trying to fit in, or the woman turning fifty renouncing invisibility. Some are profound, like that of the immigrant who arrives in a new country and works to blend in by changing the way she dresses, or of the woman whose hat saved her life in Nazi Germany. The Thoughtful Dresser celebrates the pleasure of adornment and is an elegant meditation on our relationship with what we wear and the significance of clothes as the most intimate but also public expressions of our identity.

Bringing Home the Birkin

Author : Michael Tonello
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061473332
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Bringing Home the Birkin written by Michael Tonello and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's hilarious, whirlwind account of his years spent globe-trotting in search of the holy grail of handbags: the Birkin For more than twenty years, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of celebrities, there is a fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Hermès, and the average fashionista has a better chance of climbing Mount Everest in Prada pumps than of possessing one of these coveted carryalls. Unless, of course, she happens to know Michael Tonello . . . Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, a vanished job assignment, no work visa, and an Hermès scarf sold on eBay to generate some quick cash. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Hermès to part with one of these precious bags. Millions of dollars worth of Birkins later, Michael had become one of eBay's most successful entrepreneurs—and a Robin Hood to thousands of desperate rich women. With down-to-earth wit, Michael chronicles the unusual ventures that took him to nearly every continent, from eBay to Paris auction house and into the lives of celebrities and poseurs. Flirting with danger, Michael recounts the heady rush of hand delivering his first big score to famed songwriter Carole Bayer Sager in Paris; how he had to hire thugs to rescue a bag that one of his "shoppers" held for ransom; and the story of the Oscar-worthy performances that allowed him to snag "reserved" bags from other, less dogged Birkin seekers. Whether he's relating his wining and dining, buying and selling, dodging and weaving, laughing and crying, or schmoozing and stammering, Michael is a master raconteur who weaves together tales of hunting Birkins in the world's most posh locales, memories of meals that would make any gastronome salivate, anecdotes of obsessed collectors with insatiable desires, and sweetly intimate stories about his family, friends, and finding true love. The result is a memoir that is distinctive, fun, page-turning, and as addictive as its namesake.