Betty Liu Books In Order

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Betty Liu
Betty Liu is a journalist, author, anchor, and executive. She was born in Hong Kong in the year 1973, and moved to the United States when she was three years old. From the age of twelve was raised in Philadelphia, and she attended Central High School. In the year 1995, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with an English degree.

Betty began her career in financial journalism as a Hong Kong based regional correspondent and was the youngest Taiwan Bureau Chief for Dow Jones Newswires.

After leaving Dow Jones, she worked for many years as the Atlanta Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, where she broke some stories on top political and corporate leaders like ex-US President Jimmy Carter, Coca-Cola ex-chief executive Douglas Daft, ex-Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli.

When she went back to Asia as a correspondent and anchor for CNBC Asia, Liu covered the daily market action in the Greater China region for all of CNBC’s morning shows, which includes CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Along the way, she has also written pieces for Far Eastern Economic Review, Philadelphia Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. She has also written about personal finance as an author. She published a lifestyle and financial guide, “Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond”. Which was later turned into a month long weekly series on CNBC Asia which was titled “The Good Life”. This book led her to penning a bi-weekly personal finance column in The South China Morning Post.

From 2007 until 2018, she worked for Bloomberg Television, formerly anchoring “In the Loop with Betty Liu” starting from the show’s inception in 2007 until it got canceled in 2015. The show later got replaced by “Market Movers”, before she anchored a morning program called “Daybreak Asia” out of NYC and was an Editor-at Large at Bloomberg. On Bloomberg Radio, she hosted “In the Loop, At the Half”.

In the year 2017, she founded RadiateInc.com, which is a subscription website that offers business micro lessons from top CEOs. That same year, she became High Point University’s Media entrepreneur in Residence.

In the year 1997, she got a Dow Jones Newswires Award for covering the Asian financial crisis. She earned a spot on TJFR’s “Top 30 business journalists under 30” list from 2000 to 2002 for her coverage while at FT of the largest Fortune 500 companies based in the South (FedEx, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and UPS). In the year 2011, she became the first Asian and female student to get inducted into Central High School’s Alumni Hall of Fame.

She has been married twice, once to Benjamin L. Walter (a neurologist and a Central High graduate) that she married on September 14, 2002 and divorced in 2006, with whom she has twin sons (Dylan and Zachary) who were born July 21, 2004. And again to William Browning, whom she met in Hong Kong and is an Australian news executive. The couple divorced in the year 2012.

Betty speaks a bit of Cantonese and is fluent in Mandarin.

The scariest thing that she has ever done is scuba dive off of the coast of Sumba with her sons despite being a horrible swimmer. Once she got down to the bottom, it was truly beautiful.

“Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond” is a non-fiction book that was released in the year 2006. Americans have been embracing a whole new way of aging: one which is based on staying productive, active, and keeping young in mind and body. Betty and Jeffrey A. Rosenweig share their strategies for bringing together all of the elements of a fulfilling, happy, long, and connected life.

Beginning today, you will learn how to take advantage of the latest sciences of longevity and health. Keep or find the work that you love. Leverage today’s most powerful techniques to protect your financial security. Pursue a path that will deepen your personal spirituality, whatever form it might take.

No Pink Pants is filled with easy-to-use guidelines and tips for everything from your portfolio to your medical insurance. At the core of the book: intimate interviews with individuals celebrated for what they have learned about actually getting better with age. These are powerful role models that range from Helen Gurley Brown to Jimmy Carter, C. Everett Koop to Robert Mondavi. Learn from these people’s own experiences, then use this book’s easy worksheets to help take control of your future!

“Work Smarts: What CEOs Say You Need to Know to Get Ahead” is a non-fiction book that was released in the year 2013. Betty compiles the wisdom of some of the best CEOs in the world into an insightful, fun, and practical guide for success.

Betty is famous all around the world for asking difficult questions of the most successful people today, and for her uncanny knack for getting straight answers when others cannot. As a Bloomberg Television anchor and an award winning financial journalist, she has sat down with politicians, CEOs, celebrities, and billionaires to get their perspective from the top.

Now in this, she helps get you the reader to the top by distilling the wisdom of some of the most prominent CEOs in the whole country. Anne Mulcahy, Warren Buffet, Sam Zell, John Chambers, Jamie Dimon, and Elon Musk, just to name a few spill the beans about what it truly takes to be successful. They give practical, “from the street” type advice how you can get ahead in your career.

Packed with candid, and often humorous, revelations from leaders in the world of retail, finance, technology, entertainment, and telecom, as well as others, this delivers a ton of practical guidance. Things such as: what your boss is thinking when you ask for a raise, winning every negotiation, being a standout job candidate, the importance of being likable, how to actually network, and the secret skill that every successful person needs.

This provides some outstanding insights into what truly matters in business, as well as accepting and learning from the mistakes that you make.