You'Ve Earned It, Don't Lose It

Covering such topics as investment advice, trusts vs. wills, joint tenancy and gifting, durable power of attorney for health care, long-term care insurance, and early retirement--all which need to be understood for a successful retirement--Suze Orman puts together financial advice in the friendliest, most caring, and dramatic way ever, using the stories of real people to demonstrate her points.

Suze Orman is the author of three consecutive New York Times bestsellers, The Road to Wealth, The Courage to Be Rich, and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, and the national bestseller You've Earned It, Don't Lose It. Her most recent book is called The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life: Keep What You Have and Create What You Deserve. A Certified Financial PlannerR professional, she began her career as an account executive at Merrill Lynch and went on to become a vice-president of investments at Prudential-Bache before founding her own firm in 1987. Currently a contributing editor to O: The Oprah Magazine, Orman is the Personal Finance Editor and hosts special programming titled, "Suze Orman's Invest for Success," on CNBC. She appears regularly on QVC as host of her own "Financial Freedom" hour, and has a nationally syndicated weekday radio talk show, "The Suze Orman Show." Orman has appeared numerous times on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Dateline, and MSNBC and in Newsweek, The New Yorker, People, and Modern Maturity, and has hosted three PBS specials. She lives in California. Linda Mead is a writer and editor based in San Francisco.