By Erin Wood
As Americans, we live in a consumer society that encourages us to buy and spend. However, during the pandemic, we are experiencing a savings rate that has soared to 23%.
For Little Rock-based financial planner, national speaker, and physician educator Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez (aka “Ladysplaining Money”), the pandemic has offered a previously unimaginable opportunity for young women to uniquely experience the value of paying themselves first and adopting saving as a practice that will empower them for a lifetime.
Following the release of her book, But First, Save 10: The One Simple Money Move That Will Change Your Life, on July 22, Gutierrez has been amazed at the number of women who have reached out to her to share that they themselves, their daughters, granddaughters, nieces, and other women they care about have made tangible changes to their savings rates and felt drastically more confident making their own financial decisions following the book’s advice.
Gutierrez shares, “I see young women learning that financial pain does not have to be a rite of passage and that building the pile of cash that will help them walk away all starts with one simple move: saving.”
But First, Save 10 casts aside self-judgment budgeting, demystifies common financial jargon, and teaches a simple approach designed to yield abundance and joy, applicable at any life point and at any income level. This 6 x 9 trade paperback available for $17.95 at www.etaliapress.com and through local and national booksellers.
A Hot Springs native, Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs Et Alia Press (www.etaliapress.com). Wood is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives (April, 2019) and editor of and a contributor to Scars: An Anthology (2015).
