https://www.jembon.com/tags/personal-finance/Recent content in Personal Finance on Jembon BooksHugoen-usWed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.jembon.com/family-money-ladder/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.jembon.com/family-money-ladder/<h2 id="why-we-chose-this-book">Why We Chose This Book<a class="anchor" href="#why-we-chose-this-book">#</a></h2> <p>At Jembon Publishing, we read hundreds of manuscripts a year. Most of them are competent. Some of them are good. Very few of them make us stop and think about our own lives.</p> <p>Rachel Whitfield&rsquo;s manuscript did something we hadn&rsquo;t experienced in a long time: it made us uncomfortable — in the best possible way. Within the first three chapters, every editor on our team had privately admitted to at least one financial blind spot they&rsquo;d never examined. One of us realized she&rsquo;d never explained to her twelve-year-old what a mortgage was. Another discovered he&rsquo;d been unconsciously avoiding all money conversations with his children because his own parents had done the same.</p>