Meet the Authors

Gerri Detweiler

Helping consumers find reliable answers to their credit questions has been the theme of Gerri Detweiler’s work for the past twenty years. She has been interviewed for more than 3000 news interviews including The Today Show, Dateline NBC, The New York Times, USA Today and Reader's Digest. She is also an international speaker and has testified before Congress on consumer credit topics.

Gerri is the author or co-author of four books. In addition to Reduce Debt, Reduce Stress (Good Advice Press 2009), she is also the co-author of Debt Collection Answers: How to Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights (2009): Invest In Yourself: Six Secrets to a Rich Life (Wiley, October 1998, 2001), which was recommended in USA Today and Kiplinger’s magazine; and The Ultimate Credit Handbook(Plume, 1993, 1998, 2003).

For nearly three years, Gerri hosted an Internet financial radio show, and several hundred of her interviews are still available for consumers to listen to online. Gerri is Credit Advisor for Credit.com, an independent personal finance education website, where she answers credit questions, develops educational programs and materials, and works on consumer advocacy initiatives.

Gerri holds a B.A. in International Business/Political Affairs from Taylor University, and an M.A. in Adult Education/Psychology from Vermont College.

Marc Eisenson and Nancy Castleman

Marc Eisenson, author of the best-seller The Banker’s Secret, is known as the expert on how to painlessly exit from debt, and is widely regarded as one of the foremost financial thinkers of our time. With his partner Nancy Castleman, Marc has spent the last twenty-five years teaching Americans the secrets to saving money, managing debts, and living better on less. Through books, software, audiotapes, and an assortment of other publications, their Good Advice Press has saved hundreds of thousands of families billions of dollars.

Dubbed by the media as the bible on mortgage pre-payment, Marc and Nancy originally self-published The Banker’s Secret. It was greatly expanded over the years, and was subsequently published by Villard, a division of Random House. The pair continue to distribute it to this day, from the home where they live and work (with varying numbers of formerly stray cats) in the foothills of New York State's beautiful Catskill mountains.

For many years, Marc and Nancy published the highly respected Pocket Change Investor newsletter, which helped consumers make savvy financial choices on subjects like refinancing, taxes, and credit cards. They also helped readers to tackle difficult lifestyle decisions, and have been championing the value of a debt-free, simple life since 1984 -- long before “downsizing debt,” “voluntary simplicity,” and “tightwaddery” were politically correct. For articles about living better on less go to their website

Hundreds of reporters, producers, and editors across the nation have received, ingested, and reported on their often provocative, but always well-documented, sound advice. Marc’s ideas have been showcased on radio and television, in virtually every newspaper, as well as in every personal finance, business, and women’s magazine.Nancy has spent the past few years writing and blogging about personal finance on the Internet, as well as running an online group in her community to help people find new homes for things they no longer want. Marc Eisenson and Nancy Castleman are also coauthors of Invest in Yourself: Six Secrets to a Rich Life (Wiley, 1998, 2001).

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