Books
Thrive Beyond Divorce
You are the superstar you’ve been waiting for, and the world needs you to Thrive. In every sector, the world will thrive if enough women take up the task of mastering their own money game and use that freedom to change the world. This international bestseller will show you how to completely change your relationship with money so you stop feeling financially fragile. You will experience the author’s painful authenticity and candid self-reflection as she unpacks her own flawed thinking that left her overwhelmed and broke. She will convince you to get real, and exactly how she did it, to establish new thinking and habits and become the joyous, prosperous woman we are all meant to be.
It's Not the Math
This is the flagship book and the most comprehensive book in my library. It is the one that changes everyone that reads it. Most financial books assume the problem is information. This one starts from the truth: you already know WHAT to do. The reason it is not working has nothing to do with the math. It has to do with the beliefs, the patterns, and the story you are still living out-the one that was handed to you long before you had any say in the matter. This is where we change that.
Breaking Free
This book began as a conversation I didn’t want to have. For years after rebuilding my life, people would gently press for my story—how I went from a $300,000 high to utter ruin and somehow clawed my way back. I handed out the sanitized version. I choked back the raw truth: the endless insomnia, the bankruptcy that hollowed me, the guilt that shadowed every decision. But that safe, shortened story won’t save you. It can’t prepare you for the suffocating panic of a compound crisis—the mistakes that hollow you out or the desperate strategies you must find to stagger through calamity after calamity. So here it is. The whole, hard truth. I’m writing it not because it’s easy—it isn’t—but because someone, somewhere, is staring at a precipice I know too well. Maybe my pain can keep you from plunging over the same edge.
Who is this book for? This book is for the 1.17 million people who faced job cuts in 2025. It’s for the 77,999 whose jobs were eliminated by AI in just the first six months of that year. It’s for the 59% of Americans who can’t cover a $1,000 emergency. It’s for the 33% who have more credit card debt than savings. It’s for anyone who’s ever thought, “I’ve always figured it out before,” while their world was falling apart around them. It’s for the confident professional who doesn’t seek help until it’s too late; the parent making desperate choices for their kids; the person drowning in shame, making life choices alone, too embarrassed to ask for guidance.
If you’re reading this, you may feel the brutality I once felt: catastrophes colliding all at once. Forces tearing up everything you’ve built. Each desperate, split-second choice hauled up from a place of panic. There’s the grinding dread of losing it all—and the cold ache of shame when you realize: you had no safety net. You thought you were too smart to need one.
When Life Falls Apart
When my life fell apart, I went looking for the book that would tell me what to actually do — not platitudes, not budgeting advice from someone who’d never missed a mortgage payment. I couldn’t find it, so I wrote it.
I made one catastrophic decision during my divorce — refinancing to pay the settlement instead of getting advice — and when the recession hit, I lost everything. Foreclosure. Bankruptcy. My son moving in with his dad. I drove north to Oregon with nothing and cried myself to sleep every night for over a year. That’s my credential for this book.
When Life Falls Apart is the financial and emotional playbook I needed and couldn’t find. It walks you through it in four parts: the first 72 hours when you can’t think straight; a dedicated chapter for whatever you’re living through — job loss, divorce, serious illness, death, or retirement; the long rebuild, from legal survival to scams to rebuilding your money; and finally the emotional reconstruction on the other side. Every chapter gives you specific steps, real talk without the toxic positivity, scripts for hard conversations, and worksheets you can actually use.
I’m not going to tell you this happened for a reason. What I will tell you is: you can survive this, and you can rebuild. I did. And if I could, you can too.
No Way Back
Some cages don’t have bars. They’re built from things you decided were true about yourself — maybe when you were eight, maybe when the money ran out, maybe when someone you trusted told you who you were and you believed them. I built mine one belief at a time. That I wasn’t good with money. That people like me didn’t get to start over. That the mess I was in was somehow proof of something broken at my core. No Way Back is the story of how I figured out that most of what I believed about myself — the stuff that felt like fact — was a cage I’d built and then handed the key to everyone else. This isn’t a book about positive thinking. I don’t do affirmations. This is about the specific, uncomfortable work of looking at what you actually believe versus what’s actually true, and what happens when those two things are not the same. If you’ve ever felt stuck not because of your circumstances but because of something deeper — something you can’t quite name but can absolutely feel — this book is for you. There is no way back to who you were before you knew this. That’s exactly the point. What you’ll find inside:
- The beliefs that kept me financially and emotionally stuck — and how I identified them
- Why logic alone never changes a deeply held belief
- The moment I realized the cage was mine to open
- Practical questions to surface your own hidden belief system
- What “breaking free” actually feels like when it’s real life and not a self-help montage From Grace Tinsen, author of It’s Not the Math and Breaking Free, and founder of The Reasoned Life Collective — a community for people rebuilding money and life after things fall apart. A note on length: This is a focused, single-sitting read — approximately 6,000 words. It is priced accordingly. If you’re looking for a long book, this isn’t it. If you’re looking for the right question asked the right way at the right moment, it might be exactly what you need.
It's Not Too Late
If you’re starting over financially after 40, 50, or 60 — whether from divorce, a career ending, or simply never having the runway you needed — this is the only retirement plan that starts from where you actually are. Not where you should have been ten years ago. Not where some hypothetical version of you started saving at 25. Right here. Right now. With what you actually have. This is what’s possible.
Financial Success After Divorce
Divorce doesn’t just end a marriage. It ends a financial life — and starts a new one whether you’re ready or not. This is the financial recovery roadmap I built across 21 years of sitting across from women in exactly the moment you’re in right now. It covers what to do first, what mistakes cost people the most, and how to build real financial independence — not just survival — on the other side.
Financial Independence Blueprint
I lost our home to foreclosure just before Christmas. Within 18 months I had gone from a deep six-figure business to nothing — no income, no house, all my assets in bankruptcy. I was in poverty so suddenly I didn’t know what had hit me. This is the book I wish someone had handed me the day that happened. What I discovered on the other side wasn’t just how to survive — but how to build financial independence in a way that actually holds.
21 Mindset Shifts That Actually Move the Needle
Not motivation. Not hacks. The real mental rewiring that makes a comeback possible. Whether the knock came from divorce, bankruptcy, job loss, or simply decades of absorbing the wrong messages about what you deserve — these 21 shifts work because they start from what is actually true, not from what you were told. This is the book for the moment you’re tired of trying to feel better and ready to actually think differently.
Starting Over Workbook
When life falls apart, your brain narrows. The pressure to fix everything immediately is overwhelming — and almost always counterproductive. This 28-page workbook is for the person who needs to know what to do first, not what to do eventually. It walks you through the exact steps to take in the first days of a financial crisis — before you have a plan, before you can see clearly, before you even know where to start. If you are in the middle of the storm right now, start here. Everything else can wait.
Face the Numbers
At some point — through divorce, loss, job disruption, or unexpected change — you may find yourself fully responsible for your financial life for the first time. This workbook is designed to help you meet that moment with clarity instead of fear. It’s not therapy, and it’s not a lecture. It’s a structured, practical tool for getting the full picture in front of you — because you cannot fix what you cannot see. You are not bad with money. You were never properly taught.
Money Mindset Guide
You already know your money beliefs are getting in the way. This 6-step guide walks you through the process of actually changing them — not just identifying them, but dismantling and replacing them with something that works. Each step builds on the last, moving you from awareness to action. This isn’t theory. It’s a structured walk-through of the exact mental shifts that make a financial comeback possible — starting with the beliefs you inherited and ending with the ones you chose.