Mark Skousen attributes much of his success in life to his partnership with his wife of 27 years, Jo Ann. Currently associate editor of Forecasts & Strategies, she also co-authored several of his investment books and managed their home-based publishing business for several years.

An investment writer in her own right, Jo Ann is the former editor of Money Letter for Women, speaks at investment conferences, and often serves as master of ceremonies at the conferences where Mark also speaks.

Jo Ann learned the principles of money management at an early age, when her parents put her in charge of their household budget at the age of 14. Those principles of hard work, frugality, saving, and debt avoidance eventually formed the foundation of the Skousens' best-selling High Finance on a Low Budget.

While the Skousens have collaborated successfully in the business world, they consider their family of five children to be their most important collaboration. Jo Ann has lived the philosophy espoused in her favorite quotation, "No success can compensate for failure in the home," by being a full-time mom while working as a part-time business partner, writer, student, and eventually teacher.

She is now an adjunct professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where the Skousens raised their five children on beautiful Lake Virginia.

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