Favorite Books
NIL & Rookie Contracts:
New Money: Staying Rich
"Disrespect your money and you'll end up broke."
Most pro football players are terrible money managers. Sure, we earn plenty, but, generally speaking, we don’t know how to keep it. I almost went broke and became a negative statistic. Life after football is not easy. I had to re-invent myself as I navigated the playbook of life beyond sports.
New money is like a newborn baby: it doesn’t come with an instruction manual. You better learn how to deal with it, fast! Although they have a fiduciary duty, financial advisors should not care more about your money than you care about your money. And yes, your “fun friends” and family will view you as an endless ATM. Trust me, they will plead poverty and expect you to bail them out of their self-imposed financial emergencies. This book helps you understand the difference between “I truly need it” and “I’d really like it” when dealing with those closest to you. New Money will help you understand when you’re being an enabler or administering appropriate tough love.
by Adonal Foyle
Winning the Money Game: Lessons Learned from the Financial Fouls of Pro Athletes
A successful NBA veteran offers essential financial management advice for athletes, their families, and the fans to help them protect and keep their wealth.
Over his sixteen-year career, former NBA center Adonal Foyle has watched other pros burn through their salaries, endorsement, and merchandising money, creating serious financial and legal hardships. While top professional athletes make millions, many have little in their bank accounts soon after hanging up their jerseys. Sixty percent of NBA players are broke within five years of retirement. Nearly eighty percent of NFL players are strapped within two years of retirement.
Winning the Money Game offers much needed advice and insight to help these players—and the rest of us—manage money better. Drawing on experiences from his career, as well as interviews with current and retired athletes and financial pros, Foyle compiles a comprehensive list of money pitfalls as well as practical approaches to avoid them. In his straightforward, warm, and humorous voice, he breaks down expenses point by point, from taxes to luxury goods to family needs, outlining essential dos and don’ts to help you spend, save, and grow your money wisely.
by David Bach
The Automatic Millionaire, Expanded and Updated: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
avid Bach’s no-budget, no-discipline, no-nonsense system to help you finish rich automatically, now expanded and updated. Do you want to live rich and retire richer? Rich enough to do what you want when you want to do it? Rich enough to stop worrying about money? Rich enough to make a difference and help others? With The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach presents an easy, realistic system, based on timeless principles, with everything you need to know so you can put the secret to becoming an Automatic Millionaire in place from the comfort of your own home.
2nd Contract :
Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family - How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations, 2nd, Revised and Expanded Edition
This is the landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations - now revised and expanded. Charles W. Collier, Senior Philanthropic Adviser at Harvard University, hails this as, "A masterpiece. No one is more astute than Jay Hughes about the topics of family wealth and family life."
Family Trusts: A Guide for Beneficiaries, Trustees, Trust Protectors, and Trust Creators
Family Trusts is a step-by-step guide for anyone involved in family trusts: trust creators, trustees, beneficiaries, and advisors. It will help families create and administer a culture that recognizes trusts as a gift of love.
Marrying the practical and emotional aspects of family wealth, this book provides a hands-on primer that focuses on fostering positive relationships, and structuring the trust appropriately for the situation and the people involved. It tackles difficult topics with frank and honest discussion, from the first beneficiary meeting to working with addictions, and more. Written by a team of experts in family wealth, this information is becoming increasingly crucial to the successful execution of a trust; you'll learn what type of person makes the best trustee, how to be an excellent beneficiary, and the technical aspects that help you build a better trust from the very beginning.
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3rd Contract and Beyond:
Family: The Compact Among Generations
Why do some families thrive for generations? What accounts for the sad deterioration that others experience? This book takes families and the professionals who serve them beyond the now widely accepted practices offered in Family Wealthand offers a view of Hughes's panoramic insights into what makes families flourish and fail. It lays out the basis for the vision of family governance the author has been developing through his work and research. His advice addresses not only what to do but how to think about the complex issues of family governance, growth, and stability and the ongoing challenge of nurturing the happiness of each family member.
by
James E. Hughes Jr. (Author), Keith Whitaker (Author),
Susan E. Massenzio (Author)
Complete Family Wealth: Wealth as Well-Being
A primer for families of high net worth on how to manage their qualitative and financial wealth for generations
The second edition of this foundational work, Complete Family Wealth: Wealth as Well-Being provides proven tools and best practices for families of means to use in maturing, maintaining, and managing personal and legacy wealth long into the future. The book is divided into three parts: the "what"―what is meant by family, wealth, and enterprise; the "who"―the persons crucial to family enterprise flourishing; and the "how"―specific practices families can use to enhance and grow family wealth.