I have never been a fan of books about finance, mostly because don’t want to read them, because money is scary. But I took the plunge with Financial Adulting and I’m glad I did. Ashley made everything in the book not scary and everything had very easy steps to follow to accomplish the goals. I also have a much better understanding of things that were always foreign to me like life insurance, estates, and investing. All things that used to foreign to me, I now feel like I have the tools to be able to have an educated conversation on these topics.

I also applaud Ashley for not shying away about being honest about how it is harder as a BIPOC woman to achieve the same level of financial success as most of our peers. The fact that the one of the early chapters of the book was about equity floored me in a good way. There are very few white authors who would actually take the time to acknowledge the racial inequities that come with the way the financial system is built. This has been something as a woman of color that I have always shied away from addressing outside of my close circle of friends as most of them know that it is true but don’t know what to say to make it better. While Ashley doesn’t have all of the answers she brings it into the forefront so that it can’t be ignored.

I was lucky enough to be able to read an advance copy of the book, but I have already gone out and ordered a copy for myself and a friend so that that I can share this knowledge with others and I have a copy for myself as a reference in the future.