Personal finance, money management, business & economics, credit reports, FICO scores, the cost of credit... each impacts our lifestyle and financial decisions, yet far too few Americans are aware of little-known secrets to our credit scoring system. Even fewer adults know it is easier than they imagine to effectively re-build credit, quickly and without a lot of pain-with the right help. Expert Alisa Glutz has a proven method to "color" credit; she is passionate to create a movement where people everywhere can take advantage of a fun, but effective approach, to repair bad credit that stems from life events such as identity theft, bankruptcies, personal financial upsets, and myriad unknowns that negatively impact vital financial opportunities. If you have ever wondered any of those things, then don't worry; you have come to the right place. Color My Credit will answer all your questions-and even some you don't know to ask! Her new release, Color My Credit, is designed to enlighten readers; compiled with tips, insider secrets, and advice and action steps to help you repair your credit quickly and easily. It is the ultimate guide for readers drowning in the despair of bad credit. It is designed to remove the guilt and trauma associated with limited choices based on low credit scores, and transform your life forever. Glutz helps you make course corrections in spending, credit errors, debt ratios, etc.-all of which can ultimately help you save thousands of dollars in interest paid, interest rates, and myriad other financial choices that are all predicated by your credit score. Awareness equals choices. The information in Color My Credit is timely; we are coming out of a long seven-year stretch where people had little opportunity to modify their damaged scores. The author is bold in her assertions of what can happen next for you, if you but step into the arena, learn the credit laws that both protect and impact you, and take advantage of the changing tides that are occurring now. In addition to the print version of the book, readers are encouraged to download a complimentary workbook that includes sample credit reports, forms, templates, letter samples, and other helpful tools to participate in this great Color My Credit Movement! This book is for you... if you have mediocre to downright bad credit-or, like many consumers-have no idea what is on your credit report because you are too afraid to look. It is for you if you want to better manage your credit to take advantage of better employment, reduced insurance costs, better pricing on banking and mortgage loans and more. This book is for you... if you have only an inkling of how the role credit plays in your financial life. Improved credit scores can open the doors for the best of everything financial. Color My Credit helps you put together and action plan not only for boosting your credit score, but learning exactly what steps are necessary to maintain it. The author answers many critical questions, such as how to request credit reports from the three nationwide reporting agencies, understanding why your score is low, and how to quickly recolor your credit score (FICO) picture! ADVANCE PRAISE Credit... A subject we all know is important, but let's face it, how many of us actually want to know about and /or take the time to improve our credit score? Color My Credit by Alisa Glutz, lets us know that it can be done, one just needs to begin, take things step by step as outlined in her book and big things can and will happen. Whether it just be making a marked improvement in one's score all the way up to buying that dream home. The relationship of credit to one's overall, ongoing financial plan is so important. What's comforting is knowing that there is someone like Alisa that has the unique combination of knowledge, know-how, and desire to help others. Matthew C. Munn Registered Investment Advisor First Financial Equity Corporation

Portable art-therapy for the over-worked and over-stimulated adult - Color Me Calm offers 100 coloring templates for grown-ups looking to calm down and relax in a demanding digital age.

Whether you're living paycheck to paycheck or just trying to make smarter financial choices, let award-winning writer and Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary show you the practical steps you need to take for the financial peace you long for. In The 21-Day Financial Fast, Michelle proposes a field-tested financial challenge: for twenty-one days, put away your credit cards and buy only the barest essentials. What happens next will forever change the way you think about wealth. With Michelle's guidance, you'll discover how to: Break bad spending habits Plot a course to become debt-free with the Debt Dash Plan Avoid the temptation of overspending for college Learn how to prepare elderly relatives and yourself for future long-term care expenses Be prepared for any contingency with a Life Happens Fund Stop worrying about money and find the priceless power of financial peace Join the thousands of others who have already discovered practical ways to achieve financial freedom and experience what it truly means to live a life of financial peace and prosperity.

Coloring books became a thing when adults discovered how relaxing and meditative they were. Jigsaw puzzles roared back into popularity as an immersive activity, not to mention a great alternative to television. How exciting is it, then, to introduce an activity that tops them both: reverse coloring, which not only confers the mindful benefits of coloring and puzzling but energizes you to feel truly creative, even when you're weary and just want to zone out. It's so simple, yet so profoundly satisfying. Each page in The Reverse Coloring Book has the colors, and you draw the lines. Created by the artist Kendra Norton, these beautiful and whimsical watercolors provide a gentle visual guide so open-ended that the possibilities are limitless. Trace the shapes, draw in figures, doodle, shade, cover an area with dots. Be realistic, with a plan, or simply let your imagination drift, as if looking a clouds in the sky. Each page is an invitation to slow down, let go, and thoughtfully (or thoughtlessly) let your pen find its way over the image. The Reverse Coloring Book includes 50 original works of art, printed on sturdy paper that's single-sided and perforated. And unlike with traditional coloring books, all you need is a pen.

Color is magic! No matter what kind of clothes you like to wear, the right colors can make the difference between looking drab and looking radiant! You can wear every color of the rainbow. Shade makes the difference. Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. What color season are you? Spring: Your colors are clear, delicate, or bright with yellow undertones. Summer: Cool, soft colors with blue undertones are right for you. Autumn: You look best in stronger colors with orange and gold undertones. Winter: Clear, vivid, or icy colors with blue undertones make you look best. Color Me Beautiful will also help you: • Develop your color personality • Learn to perfect your make-up color • Use color to solve specific figure problems • Save money by designing a color-coordinated wardrobe for all occasions • Discover your clothing personality • Determine the fabrics that are best for you • Use accessories successfully—from stockings to scarves

“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates “A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.” —The Atlantic “Extraordinary...Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America.” —Ezra Klein When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than 1 percent of the total wealth in America. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. With the civil rights movement in full swing, President Nixon promoted “black capitalism,” a plan to support black banks and minority-owned businesses. But the catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. In this timely and eye-opening account, Baradaran challenges the long-standing belief that black communities could ever really hope to accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. “Black capitalism has not improved the economic lives of black people, and Baradaran deftly explains the reasons why.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A must read for anyone interested in closing America’s racial wealth gap.” —Black Perspectives

The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change. In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine Johnson became a global celebrity. President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom—the nation’s highest civilian honor—for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA’s first flights into space. Her contributions to America’s space program were celebrated in a blockbuster and Academy-award nominated movie. In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement, she served as a beacon of light for her family and community alike. Her story is centered around the basic tenets of her life—no one is better than you, education is paramount, and asking questions can break barriers. The memoir captures the many facets of this unique woman: the curious “daddy’s girl,” pioneering professional, and sage elder. This multidimensional portrait is also the record of a century of racial history that reveals the influential role educators at segregated schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers like Katherine. The author pays homage to her mentor—the African American professor who inspired her to become a research mathematician despite having his own dream crushed by racism. Infused with the uplifting wisdom of a woman who handled great fame with genuine humility and great tragedy with enduring hope, My Remarkable Journey ultimately brings into focus a determined woman who navigated tough racial terrain with soft-spoken grace—and the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire future generations.