High school graduates
The graduation gift they will still use in five years.
Cash gets spent by July. Jumpstart Your Life gives a new grad 101 short, practical lessons on money, work, relationships and health, the things school never got around to.
Tuck it in a card with a little cash. Now the money comes with a plan.
They know algebra. Do they know how to budget?
A high school graduate is about to make a lot of firsts: first lease or dorm, first full-time job, first time handling money with nobody checking in.
School prepared them for tests. It did not cover credit cards, showing up to work, or how to tell the friends who build you up from the ones who drag you down.
This book covers exactly that, in lessons short enough to read between orientation sessions.
Lessons every graduate needs before fall
Plus 98 more across relationships, romance, wealth, health, diet, hygiene, work, education, influence and ethics.
Why it beats another gift card
- Built for the next step
- College, trade school, the military or a first job. The lessons apply to every path.
- Ten parts of adult life
- Relationships, romance, wealth, health, diet, hygiene, work, education, influence and ethics.
- Pairs with cash
- Give money plus the lesson on paying yourself first, and it turns into a habit.
- Easy to ship
- Order on Amazon and send it straight to the grad or to the party.
Three ways to give it
- Slip cash or a check inside the cover, bookmarked at "Pay Yourself First."
- Write one sentence in the front: the best advice you got at their age.
- Give it with a gift for their first apartment or dorm so the practical stuff travels together.
Written by two cousins, for the next generation
Nicholas Gabriel Irmo is a marketer, entrepreneur, husband and father. Vincent Palizzolo Polyanov is a public servant, military veteran and father of two. They wrote Jumpstart Your Life to pass on what their grandparents, Stephen and Helen Irmo, taught the family while raising seven children.
137 pages, 101 lessons, 10 topics, written for ages 13 to 25.
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Questions
Is it only for kids going to college?
No. The lessons on money, work, health and relationships apply whether they head to college, a trade, the military or straight into a job.
How long is it?
137 pages holding 101 lessons. Most take a few minutes to read.
Can I see inside first?
Yes. Every lesson has a free page on this site, and you can download the first chapter as a PDF.
Send them off with more than a card
101 lessons for life after high school.