Join the Georgia Center for the Book for an evening with Amanda Holden, author of How to be a Rich Old Lady, a life-changing path to the financial freedom we all deserve. How to Be a Rich Old Lady is filled with humor, heart, and real-world perspective. Amanda will be in conversation with Kiersten Saunders. Bring your questions about money and your friends! This conversation will feel more like community and essential resource-sharing than a lecture about your budget.

This event will be in the Auditorium of Decatur Library, on the Ground Floor. Due to our security protocols, guests must enter the building through the upper level, rear doors, and then take the elevator to "G." Elevators open at 6:30. Please arrive early to ensure extra time for security.

About the Book:

Amanda Holden spent years working in investment management, where she saw exactly who gets access to the power, ease, and opportunity money can bring—and it wasn’t people like her friends. She also saw how the financial system is designed to feel exclusive and confusing, and how it blames individuals for economic problems they didn’t create. So, Amanda left her finance job to launch Invested Development, a financial education company where she has taught more than twenty-five thousand students how to invest with radical clarity, accessibility, and joy. Here, all her expertise is packed into a guide that won’t feel like getting cornered by a crypto bro. Instead, it reads like a text from your smartest friend: “Let’s figure out money, so we can stop thinking about money.” Because this practice isn’t just about planning for your wild and glorious future—it’s about the relief of knowing you’re doing everything you can right now.

In these pages, you will:
-Set up a fully automated investing strategy—so you can move on with your life
-Use hands-on tools and worksheets to guide you to financial independence
-Learn about investing in a way that is truly memorable
-Demystify retirement accounts and tax rules
-Learn who to trust in the finance world—and who to avoid
-Master how to research, buy, and track the right investments for you
-Explore what it means to live a wild, beautiful life beyond Roth IRAs

How to Be a Rich Old Lady is a step-by-step road map to financial freedom. It’s not just about numbers on a spreadsheet but building a life that feels secure enough to dream into. Maybe your Rich Old Lady is wearing belly chains at the beach, tanned and wrinkly and totally unbothered. Maybe she’s befriending the birds at her cozy forest cabin. Maybe she’s leaving $500 tips on her diner coffee. Whatever your vision, this approachable guide to investing and wealth-building will help you build a plan to greet her with confidence, security, and genuine hope for tomorrow.

About the Author:

Amanda Holden is the founder of Invested Devel­opment, an investing education business, as well as a leading voice at the intersection of money and feminism. She spent six years in investment management and holds degrees in economics and communications from UCLA. Known on social media as @Dumpster.Doggy, Amanda also shares about her advocacy work and signature secondhand “trashion” looks.

About the Conversation Partner: 

Kiersten Saunders is co-creator of the award-winning blog and podcast, rich & REGULAR, and author of the bestselling book, Cashing Out: Win The Wealth Game By Walking Away. She is also the producer and host of the original YouTube series, Money on the Table, which blends her passion for food with conversations about money. Together, with her husband Julien, she’s on a mission to inspire better conversations about money. The couple used frugal living, investing, and their online business to build wealth and pay off $200,000 in debt. Their story has been featured on Good Morning America, The NY Times, Forbes, CBS This Morning, Marketwatch, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and more. When she's not talking about money, she's a mom to her son Beau, traveling, or searching for her next great meal.