Your Money Mentors

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The tone of a caring adult mentoring a cherished family member moves Your Money Mentors from dry financial literacy tome to trusted heirloom. Inspired by a group of seasoned high-level financial professionals and fellow grandfathers, the book builds on the real-world challenges experienced by their millennial grandchildren.... Robb provides fundamental information and a wealth of resources that readers can use to focus on areas of particular interest. The reviews following each chapter guide individuals as they process and adapt the content to move along their unique pathway. The authentic experiences and insights shared by granddaughter Katie make this highly relatable for readers while modeling the "take what you need" approach to using the guide. As relevant for Gens X and Z as it is for millennials, the book is a great supplement to learning in financial literacy programs and would work well as an aid to parents delivering needed practical guidance. Your Money Mentors is a much needed, accessible addition to public and school library collections. * Booklist, Starred Review * Your Money Mentors, as written by a senior citizen and his millennial granddaughter, provides a handy guide to economic survival for 85 million young adults. It contains bountiful and practical advice, distilled wisdom, and lived experience, which define boundaries and conditions for success in life and business. It is especially valuable for parents who overlooked opportunities to impart market advice to their children as well as for those young adults who ignored parental advice and are now starting young families of their own. Your Money Mentors is timely, as the structure of business is changing rapidly to adapt to digital media and technologies, but the ground rules of ethical practice have not changed, and the Robbs sum them up succinctly. -- Brian Rosborough, founder, Earthwatch; trustee, Princeton University; Mount Holyoke College What makes this book unusual is its wide-ranging focus, starting with the foundations for success-personality factors, friends and mentors, and the continuing education, which places all that follows in context. Tools are less than useful unless they are tempered by an awareness of who you are and who has influenced your life. Rarely does a book offering guidance emphasize these crucial aspects when one is setting off on a professional career. -- Walter Birge, former headmaster, Fenn School for Boys and former president, Concord Free Library This highly informative, timely, and readable book of advice for millennials, as well as their parents and grandparents, draws superbly on the author's years of financial and business experience and his great wisdom regarding career choices attained over his life journey. It is both a must and a most enjoyable read. -- Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr., MD, associate physician-in-chief and deputy chairman, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, and William Berenberg Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics Your Money Mentors offers well-researched advice for young people, with a grandfatherly tone and plenty of good, practical suggestions on friendship, mentors, jobs, and especially financial matters. I wish I had this book when I was blundering my way into the world. -- Alan Lightman, professor, MIT, author of "Einstein's Dreams", and founder, Harpswell Foundation