Take off your shoes, curl up on the sofa, grab your favorite drink, let down your hair, and get ready for some straight-from-the-heart girl talk from Emme!
Regardless of the kind of emergency you’re facing, Emme comes to the rescue! And she calls on some of the smartest women around for “been there, done that” advice-women like Naomi Wolf, Aida Turturro, Trisha Yearwood, and Camryn Manheim. Life’s Little Emergencies is the perfect companion for any woman driving along life’s bumpy roads.
I’m a banker’s daughter, so I’ve had to balance my checkbook since I was five years old. My sister and I had savings accounts when we were little to teach us about saving money and being able to financially take care of ourselves. I never felt like I needed to depend on anybody. I had a checking account by the time I was a teenager to teach me slowly how to manage my own money. Sometimes I’d put money right in the piggy bank-sometimes I went to the mall with it. That was okay, too.
I work in a very unpredictable industry. Some years are great financially and then there are also the lean years. The banker’s daughter in me made me a very conservative spender. I always ask my accountant and my business manager when I want to buy something. It’s good. I’m thirty-seven years old. I’m probably not going to be on a tour bus at eighty years old singing, “She’s in Love with that Boy,” so I save for my future.
A woman learning how to take care of her money is not a feminist idea; it’s just a practical idea. So what if you meet Prince Charming and he takes care of everything.
I know some women whose husbands took care of everything and when their husbands passed away, they didn’t know how to write a check! In my sister’s family, all the credit cards are in her husband’s name and she learned a few years ago that she didn’t have any credit! What if she needed it? Here she was, a grown woman with good money and no debt, and she had to work really hard to get a credit card!
~Trisha Yearwood, Singer
My surefire, guaranteed-to-work, absolutely best prescription for de-stressing is swimming with wild dolphins off the Kona coast in Hawaii. Sure, it takes some planning and not a small amount of cash, but if you have the opportunity, jump at it. Being in the presence of something that heartbreakingly pure, beautiful, and free could change your life.
~Mariska Hargitay, Actress
