Syndicated personal finance columnist and best-selling author Mary Hunt knows how terrified women can get when it comes to taking charge of money matters. With saving for retirement a daunting task for many in today’s economy, Hunt explains in her own accessible style what women need to know in The Smart Woman’s Guide to Planning for Retirement: 

How to Save for Your Future Today (9780800721138, $17.99), releasing Nov. 5 from Revell (Baker Publishing Group).

By their own admission, 92% of women surveyed do not feel educated enough to reach their retirement savings goals. In her new book, Hunt serves as their teacher and guide, assuring readers that it’s only too late if they don’t start saving for retirement now.

“I think women need a different kind of book,” writes Hunt. “One without all the 

jargon, charts and mind-numbing data—one that simply and honestly cuts through the miles of complicated information and gives you just the facts and the motivation you need—in a warm and conversational way, the way we’d chat over coffee about something that is very important to both of us.”

The Smart Woman’s Guide to Planning for Retirement is built on six strategies every woman needs to prepare for the future. Hunt shows women specifically what to do during each decade of their lives, and offers financial catch-up moves for women in each age range.

Women have an advocate in Hunt, who openly shares her own financial blunders.

“I’ve done all the hard work of making lots of mistakes,” Hunt said. “I’ve suffered my share of failures as well. Let me save you time and money.” 

Earlier in life, Hunt had to dig her family out of more than $100,000 in credit card debt, so she knows from experience the psychological and emotional struggles that come with debt. It took her 12 years to rack up the debt and 13 years to be debt-free. 

After that harrowing experience, she set out to help others live debt-free, founding DebtProof Living, an organization dedicated to helping men and woman battle the impact of consumer debt. Today, her website has thousands of members who look to her for needed financial tools and resources.

For more information on The Smart Woman’s Guide to Planning for Retirement, visit www.bakerpublishinggroup.com, or to order, call 800-877-2665.

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