communityspotlight
Local Attorney is Liaison
for Peace
ConstanCe d’angelis’s
presentations inClude:
T
he U.S. Department of the
Treasury recently tested 46,000
high-school students in a National
Fresh Start: How to retune your
Financial Literacy Challenge. The aver- personal financial life (based on book,
age score was a dreadful fifty-four per- The 7 Laws of Money and Credit, A
cent. According to author and attorney Guide for Young Consumers)
Constance d’Angelis, “We’re failing
Attract What You Want Without
in teaching our young people about
Struggle or Worry: Apply “The 7
money and credit. Our kids are getting
Laws” to attain success (based
F’s in personal finance.” So, why do we
care whether our middle and high-
on the book The 7 Laws of Inner
school children know how to handle
Peace)
money and credit? Enhance Relationships Within
One of the reasons that young a Corporate Culture: (based on
people are living at home for extended twenty years of arbitration experi-
periods after college is that they’re
ence and her workbook, Transform-
deeply in debt. d’Angelis states that
ing Conflict)
debt creates a form of slavery because
Managing Stress to Increase Life:
debtors have to keep working at jobs
for which they may be unsuited or in
Experience (based on “Feeling
which they are oppressed just because
Fabulous & Fantastic after Fifty,”
mom in her early twenties, she was
they must keep paying student loans
on welfare and food stamps while she
presented on Norwegian Cruise
or minimums on their credit cards.
attended college. She acquired a B.S
Lines and Holland America)
d’Angelis explains, “Knowing that
(cum laude) in Life Sciences, was hired
we have a problem allows us to find
by a Fortune 500 company, and then
solutions.” Seeking solutions is why
went on to law school at Stetson Uni-
Constance d’Angelis is writing a new
versity obtaining a Juris Doctor degree. of creating a peaceful and harmonious
book, The 7 Laws of Money and Credit,
Constance has a vested interest in life,” says d’Angelis. She applies the
A Guide for Young Consumers. “Wise
helping young people understand the philosophical self-actualization prin-
use of credit can build success and
credit traps and inspiring them to be the ciples of her book, The 7 Laws of Inner
improper use can bring financial ruin,
best they can be. Her passion is helping Peace, to the new book for teens and
which contributes to domestic violence
women to succeed, and she says that a consumers. “All of us want peace in
and hopelessness,” says d’Angelis. The
big part of success is awareness of how our communities, and living in peace
author knows from personal experience
to function in our society. “Like it or isn’t easy sometimes,” d’Angelis says,
the effects of being broke. As a single
not, money and credit are a large part “but peace begins at home.” Constance
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