Brooke M. Stephens

Author, Lecturer, Seminar Leader, Financial Advisor

A 15-year veteran of Wall Street, Brooke Stephens started her career as an international trade officer in West Africa with Chase and was a senior investment consultant for Citicorp Investment Services in New York. She has also been a certified financial planner, a stockbroker, an insurance agent and a registered investment advisor. She completed her studies in marketing and finance at Harvard Business School and has a BA from Fisk University in Nashville and an M. A. from Western Michigan University.

In addition to Financial and wealth building titles Ms. Stephens' has a published book called Men We Cherish: African-American Women Praise the Men in their Lives. MWC is a collection of 30 essays and memoirs written by women who have some positive life experiences to share about the men who have shared and shaped their lives: fathers & grandfathers, brothers, uncles, sons, grandsons, husbands, lovers, best friends and mentors. The writers include Bebe Moore Campbell, Connie Porter, Marita Golden, Rosemary Bray, DorisJean Austin, Norma Jean Darden and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

Visit Ms. Stephens' Web Site at http://www.brookestephens.com

Wealth Happens One Day at a Time: 365 Days To A Brighter Future
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Author: Brooke M. Stephens
Publisher: Harper Business
Date Published: August 1999
Format: Trade Cloth

From the Publisher:
A Wall Street veteran provides daily doses of financial wisdom to empower readers in overcoming their resistance to investing.

Filled with the wisdom and advice of a seasoned expert, Wealth Happens One Day at a Time is the key to mastering money and taking charge of your financial future. It’s easier than you think. As Brooke Stephens writes, “the journey to wealth begins with the first dollar.” With Stephens as your guide, take the first step down the road to wealth and prosperity - today.

By spending just ten to fifteen minutes with the book every day, you’ll learn:

How changing your attitude can change your life
How to break out of debt and control your spending
How to choose investments and make your money grow
How to protect your gains and prepare for a comfortable retirement
How to give your children or grandchildren a secure start in life
How to build a stable, satisfying financial future

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Title: Talking Dollars & Making Sense: A Wealth Building Guide for African-Americans
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: October 1996
Format: Trade Paper

The African-American community controls more than $400 billion in income. Yet we save and invest less than one percent of our money for the long term! Financial advisor Brooke Stephens, a Wall Street pro who regularly appeared on FX cable TV's Breakfast Time and America Online's Net Noir site, says we just can't afford to "think poor." For ourselves, our children, and our community, we must begin building wealth, one person at a time. Surprisingly, it isn't hard. Not if you're willing to apply a plan. And that, she says, begins with having the right attitude - and the right information. This is the book that will show you how to strengthen your financial position, step-by-step. It also offers a rare perspective on what African-American history can teach us about our financial freedom. Using lessons drawn from the lives of black entrepreneurs and investors, the author tells how to get comfortable with finances, develop an investment strategy, save more money at higher returns, set goals, manage credit, get the most for your housing dollar, insure yourself wisely, save for college, form an investment club, and retire with security. Brooke Stephens tackles controversial issues about how middle-class African-Americans are made to feel as if we've abandoned our roots when we pursue wealth ... why we tend to overspend on luxuries ... how to overcome the emotional baggage of our economic history ... and how to hold onto hard-earned prosperity.

MEN WE CHERISH: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN PRAISE THE MEN IN THEIR LIVES

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Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: November 1997

Review from the Publisher:
One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the news and the black man she was writing about suddenly seemed enormous. Where were the black men she knew? Stephens wondered. Why were they never featured on the evening news? Never publicly discussed or shown? From these questions, the idea for Men We Cherish was born.

Waiting to Exhale and the Million Man March to the contrary, good black men are neither fantasy nor unanswered prayer. In Men We Cherish, thirty African American women celebrate these everyday heroes: fathers and grandfathers, brothers and best friends, sons and husbands. These essays, memoirs, and love letters offer moving portraits of the three-out-of-four black men who never make the headlines. The men in the lives of established black women writers, including Bebe Moore Campbell, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and the Delany sisters, reflect the diversity, honesty, generosity and depth that is the reality of African American men.

With Men We Cherish, Brooke Stephens has created a groundbreaking collection that stands alone in the market as a literary memoir, a social critique, and an affirmation of faith.

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