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Barbara Stanny's mission is to motivate women to become financially empowered. Her background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master's degree in psychology, her extensive research, and her personal experience with money give her a unique perspective and makes her the foremost expert on women's financial issues. She is an accomplished motivational speaker, author, and former career consultant who empowers women (and men) to live up to their financial and personal potential.

Her own journey to financial independence began when she interviewed financially savvy women from diverse backgrounds. She discovered a surprising series of insights that all these women shared -- insights that enabled them to feel 'smart' about money. Those insights turned her life around, and became the core of her first book, Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money (Penguin).

Once Barbara had completed her first book and had a solid feeling of financial security, she shifted focus to women's earnings. But rather than concentrate on the wage gap and gender barriers, she turned her attention to the women who were breaking those barriers. Barbara interviewed over 150 women who make $100,000 or more. Her goal: to find out how they did it, if others could too, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. From this new research came her book, Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life (HarperCollins).

For the past five years she has been giving Overcoming Underearning® workshops, corresponding to the title of her book, Overcoming Underearning®: A Five Step Plan to A Richer Life (HarperCollins). This book is the result of interviews with hundreds of women who had been through these workshops and successfully achieved higher earnings.

Stanny has been featured on "Good Morning America", "The View", "Extra", "The O’Reilly Factor", and many times on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, PBS, and NPR, as well as the New York Times and USA Today. She also travels the country as a popular keynote speaker.

Follow Stanny on Twitter @BarbaraStanny.

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