Best-selling author Barbara Salsbury, a nationally recognized personal-preparedness expert, is one of America’s leading authorities on self-reliance. For more than twenty-five years, she has been teaching self-reliance and showing people how to get more for their money. In November 2002, Family Circle Magazine named her one of the “Top Five Penny-Pinchers in America.”

She has appeared on The Phil Donahue Show, Sally Jesse Raphael, Gary Collins Hour Magazine, The Merv Griffin Show, AM San Francisco, The Great American Homemaker, and Financial News TV Network. She is a regular on KUTV-2, Fresh Ideas (Utah).

She has produced two national newsletters and three videos. In addition, she is the author of several books, including Beating the High Cost of Eating; Plan, not Panic; and her newest book, Preparedness Principles.

Active in church and community, Barbara serves as a personal preparedness consultant for Sandy, Utah, and has served as assistant director for San Francisco Key Cities Area Public Affairs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her husband, Larry, live in Sandy, Utah. They have two children and seven grandchildren.