This is NPR's Life Kit and I'm Janice Torres Rodriguez.

Usually I'm hosting my own show about all things money,

Yolkieto Dinedo.

I'm here on Life Kit to talk with personal finance expert and author,

Michelle Singletary, about her new book,

What to Do with Your Money when Crisis Hits.

For me, the first thing I thought of when I was reading the book

was like that pamphlet that you see in the airplane

before you're going to take off.

Like it's not going to tell you how to drive the plane,

but it's going to tell you how to survive if something goes wrong.

Oh, I wish I had thought about that because I think that's so explain this book.

There are plenty of great personal finance books out there,

but when you're in the middle of a crisis,

when you're trying to figure out what to pay,

you're not going to grab a book on retirement savings.

I read it, you know, 200 pages of that.

You want a quick answer that will get you on the right track.

In this episode of Life Kit, buckle up.

We're going to help you weather financial turbulence

like when the country is in a recession or you lose your job.

And we'll answer those hard questions about where to turn

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