More Than Just Making It: Hope for the Heart of the Financially Frustrated
Written by Erin Odom
Narrated by Michelle Lasley
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
More Than Just Making It is your invitation to reimagine what the good life can be. Join Erin Odom, a mom thrown into low-income living, to learn how to overcome your circumstances, find creative ways to earn and save, and reset your heart and budget according to God’s designs.
When you're trapped in a cycle of financial frustration, and you feel like you've tried everything only to end up with more month than money yet again, More Than Just Making It is your promise and pathway to thriving again.
Take it from someone who's been there. Erin Odom grew up in the private schools and neatly manicured lawns of Upper Middle-Class America but was thrown into low-income living during the economic crash. She was a stay-at-home-mom, her husband was supporting the family on a teacher's salary, and even though they had no debt to their name, they were scrambling to make ends meet. Suddenly Erin found herself standing in line for food stamps, turning down play dates because she couldn't afford the gas, and ultimately walking into bankruptcy court in the eighth month of her third pregnancy.
More Than Just Making It tells the story of their breaking point, as well as the triumph of their comeback. It took hard work, creativity, and faith in God's provision to reset their bank account as well as their hearts, but ultimately, they found a new way to thrive and freedom from financial anxiety. You can do the same.
Learn how Erin and her family saved enough money to put $30,000 down on a home, buy a minivan in cash, and begin sending their daughter to private Christian school. More Than Just Making It will encourage you to rise above your circumstances, empower you with money-saving tips, and reimagine the good life as God designed it outside the myth of the American Dream.
Erin Odom
Erin Odom is the author of More Than Just Making It and You Can Stay Home With Your Kids and is the founder of The Humbled Homemaker, a blog dedicated to grace-filled living designed to equip and encourage mothers in the trenches. She is passionate about Jesus, motherhood, crunchy living, and seeing women use their God-given gifts and passions to overcome life's challenges. Her Southern charm and wealth of inspirational, practical content has drawn an audience of millions over the years. Erin and her husband, Will, live in North Carolina, where they raise their three spirited redheaded girls and sweet and spoiled redheaded boy. Follow Erin at thehumbledhomemaker.com. +
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Reviews for More Than Just Making It
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a blessing. This book was just what I needed to keep pushing forward on our financial journey.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Privileged ... That's the one word I would use to describe the book. "You can be a stay at home mom too" was a much better book. She spent almost the whole book talking about her pride and how life was unfair and she was the working poor. Hmm. She has a degree, her husband has a masters, the only debt they had was the house. Smh. This book didn't invoke anything good in me except the last part when she said pay your debt. Everything bad that happened was a result of choices, including the "accidentally" pregnancies during their rough patch
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Written in such a nice friendly voice. Great uplifting book.