Now is the time to get a handle on your money.
She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband, three children, and Corgi..
In 2015, Brown was named one of the ten young advisers under the age of forty to watch by Financial Advisor magazine.
Brown\'s financial advice has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC.com, and Yahoo! Finance, and she is a regular columnist for Kiplinger\'s wealth-creation website.
Her motivation is to educate women at an earlier age to take control of their finances, be prepared, and make wise decisions with their Money that will have a profound effect on their entire lives.
Lisa has taken two decades of experience in the financial services business to teach real-life Money lessons to women in her Girl Talk, Money Talk book series.
Scared.
These women have relied on their fathers, husbands, or partners to handle Money matters throughout their lives, taking a back seat to this critical part of their world, and then suddenly found themselves on their own.
Over the years, she has been alarmed and frustrated by the number of single women approaching her for financial advice who shared the same unsettling characteristic: a lack of self-confidence when it came to making Money decisions.
Brown\'s childhood experience is at the opposite end of the financial spectrum from her professional experience.
This perspective laid the foundation for the appreciation she has for Money today.
Raised by two schoolteachers in a rural farming town in upstate New York, Brown learned at the age of twelve how hard work translated into money, rising at six o\'clock in the morning during her summer breaks to pick strawberries on a farm for twenty-five cents per quart.
Although Brown\'s clients are affluent, her own upbringing was far more modest.
About author(s): Lisa Brown is a partner in a wealth management firm located in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in high-net-worth clients.
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This practical, real-life guide for women will help you navigate Money issues in your forties and fifties and help bring you more confidence and wisdom.
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Now is the time to get a handle on your money
