It’s graduation season, so why not gift your graduate with the gift that keeps on giving: financial knowledge! Author Freddie Grant provides a succinct, easy-to-read book for teens to understand Personal Finance. The subtitle of the book captures its essence: The Ultimate Guide to Budget, Save, and Invest for Early Financial Independence. Set up coffee dates, a book club, or mentoring sessions with your teen, learning how to create and share each other’s financial vision. (If you have a college graduate, scroll below into episodes 14 and 15 of Season 2 for the book review on The Talk: About Money.) Army Endorsement not implied. There are several financial books for teens and young adults to choose from. Olivia simply wants to help you get a jump-start on your research.

It’s graduation season, so why not gift your graduate with the gift that keeps on giving: financial knowledge! Author Freddie Grant provides a succinct, easy-to-read book for teens to understand Personal Finance. The subtitle of the book captures its essence: The Ultimate Guide to Budget, Save, and Invest for Early Financial Independence. Set up coffee dates, a book club, or mentoring sessions with your teen to hold each other’s “money-making mind” accountable. (If you have a college graduate, scroll below into episodes 14 and 15 of Season 2 for the book review on The Talk: About Money.) Army Endorsement not implied. There are several financial books for teens and young adults to choose from. Olivia simply wants to help you get a jump-start on your research.

Written by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, Happy Money address that you may be spending your money wrong if it’s not bringing you joy. Olivia flips the script and applies the pay now, consume later to retirement, where the act of saving becomes an investment in our future well-being. The benefits of delayed gratification, the joy of anticipation, and making a future experience taste free are also explained.

Written by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, Happy Money doesn’t discourage spending in and of itself but rather encourages incorporating new spending behaviors. Olivia continues where she left off, introducing the concept of buying time and paying now/consuming later.

Written by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, Happy Money encourages the consumer to experiment with various spending habits that truly cultivate a sense of overall well-being, such as buying experiences, buying time, making purchases a treat, and practicing delayed consumption (aka Happy Money principles). Notably, these spending methodologies will not require an increase in income, but rather a strategic reallocation of existing assets to make your money happy again.

You may not consider your finances a likely vulnerability when pondering everyday threats. Whether perpetuated intentionally or unintentionally, insider threats can manifest in the form of personal financial mismanagement or significant emotional events, such as death, divorce, job loss, or illness. Outsider threats also compromise your financial security, such as predatory lenders, identity thieves, scammers, and even family members! To mitigate these risks, Olivia provides you with the safeguards necessary to remove or counter the impact of potential financial threats, equipping you with the knowledge and resources necessary to create a healthier relationship with money.

Register for the 3rd HYBRID Financial Symposium! Use the link below.

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Financial Literacy Training: Meeting Financial Developmental Milestones

Olivia and the Army Headquarters Deputy Chief of Staff, G-9’s Financial Education Program Manager, Robyn Mroszczyk, discuss what’s in it for leaders to promote financial literacy and address financial developmental milestones. We take our children in for well-child checkups to ensure physical developmental milestones are met. But what professional will see you or your loved ones to ensure financial milestones are met? Who’s teaching us how to develop our financial muscle to move towards financial independence? (Although the DoD has military-specific milestones, Olivia has outlined Civilian-equivalent milestones below to consider as you or your loved ones are financially developing.) Olivia can be reached at 256-876-6299.

Vantage Tracker for Leadership: https://www.financialfrontline.org/soldier/leadership/

Financial Literacy Training

Army: https://olms.armyfamilywebportal.com/

Air Force: https://myvector.us.af.mil/myvector/PublicHome/NoticeAndConsent

Navy: https://learning.nel.navy.mil/ELIAASv2p/

MILITARY Financial Milestones

Future Service Member Training

Initial Entry

Arrival at First Duty Station

TSP Vesting

Promotion

Permanent Change of Station

Marriage

Birth and Adoption

Leadership

Life Challenges

Deployment

Continuation Pay

Transition

CIVILIAN Financial Milestones

Future Consumer Training

Preparing for First Job

First Paycheck

Investing

Promotion

Moving

Marriage

Birth and Adoption

Developing Others

Significant Emotional Events (illness, divorce, death)

Civilian Deployment

Bonuses and Contracts

Career Change

Helpful Financial Sites

https://finred.usalearning.gov/

https://www.financialfrontline.org/

https://www.milspousemoneymission.org/

https://www.finra.org/

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

Olivia and special guest Gretchen Bentler (LPC/AFC®) illuminate how Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques can assist you in being more mindful in your spending and financial practice. Now that you’ve learned and practiced the first three modules of DBT that required “internal” practice (go back and listen), you are now ready to apply this practice “externally” with other people. Olivia and Gretchen walk you through assertiveness skills to help you set and maintain financial boundaries. If you are a Redstone Arsenal employee, please call Olivia at 256-876-6299. If you are a Tobyhanna Army Depot or Picatinny Arsenal employee, please call Gretchen at 570-615-6682. For more information on Army Financial Literacy Training, visit HTTPS://www.financialfrontline.org/soldiers/