Most people think becoming the millionaire happens when you finally have the money to show for it. That makes your identity dependent on a number, with your bank account deciding when you get to see yourself as a woman who creates and has substantial wealth.

What if you reversed that relationship and established your Millionaire Identity first?

In this episode, I’m sharing what it means to claim your Millionaire Identity right now and three ways to start cultivating it in your financial life. Because creating wealth, accumulating substantial money, and taking ownership of your financial future are all part of the woman you can decide to be today.

In this episode, I talk about:

• The difference between reaching a million-dollar milestone and having a millionaire identity.

• Why your current income, savings, and net worth don’t define who you are with money.

• How to recognize yourself as a woman who creates wealth.

• What it means to steward money beautifully, not perfectly.

• Three ways to begin cultivating your millionaire identity with the money you have today.

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Yet opening your banking app to see exactly how much money you have?

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There are plenty of women entrepreneurs who love making money but feel considerably less enthusiastic about looking at their numbers.

I’m not talking about whether you understand a profit and loss statement or know how to read a balance sheet. I’m talking about the simple act of looking at your money.

Your bank balance. Your savings. Your credit card debt. How much you actually paid yourself last month.

Since when did opening your banking app require so much courage?

The number in your bank account is one thing. What you believe that number says about you is something else entirely.

Your Bank Balance Has Never Had An Opinion About You

Imagine opening your banking app and seeing $8,427. That’s the number. But your money story has plenty to say about it.

I should have more money than this.
After everything I’ve earned, how is that all I have?
I’m never going to get ahead.

Within seconds, you’ve gone from checking your bank balance to questioning your financial future.

And the bank hasn’t said a word.

This is one of the most revealing things about your money story. It assigns meaning to your numbers, often before you’ve had a chance to consider what those numbers actually tell you.

Two women can look at the same bank balance and have completely different reactions. One feels pleased with what she’s accumulated. The other feels disappointed that she hasn’t accumulated more.

Same number. Different money stories.

Knowing your numbers is a money habit. How you feel about those numbers is part of your money story.

Avoidance Has Its Rewards

There’s a reason avoiding your numbers can become such a familiar habit. It gives you immediate relief.

You don’t have to experience the disappointment of seeing less money than you expected. You don’t have to confront a credit card balance that’s grown.

You don’t have to wonder why your business generated revenue but you paid yourself so little.

You can get on with your day, blissfully unaware of the number you’ve decided you don’t want to know.

Of course, your money doesn’t stop doing what it’s doing simply because you’ve stopped looking.

Your expenses continue. Your debt remains. Your savings stay exactly where they are until you do something to change them.

Here’s the tricky thing about avoidance: the longer you go without looking, the more emotionally loaded looking can become.

What began as putting off a five-minute task can turn into weeks of imagining what you’ll discover. Your imagination is perfectly willing to fill in the blanks, and it isn’t necessarily generous.

Women Have Enough Things To Be Judged On

For generations, women have been subjected to expectations about being good, responsible, sensible, and careful with money.

Spend too much and you’re irresponsible. Want too much and you’re greedy. Make a mistake and apparently you should have known better.

Women can end up bringing those same judgments into every encounter with their own money. Plus, those messages don’t automatically disappear when you become an entrepreneur.

You can be making more money than you’ve ever made and still hear an old belief telling you what your bank balance says about you.

Your numbers are information about your money. They are not a verdict on YOU.

A lower-than-expected balance deserves your attention, absolutely. But it doesn’t require you to turn against yourself.

You can be disappointed with a money result and still approach it with curiosity, clarity, and the expectation that you can create a different result.

Let’s Look At Your Money

Here’s a simple exercise. Open your banking app and look at your current bank balance.

Before you start explaining the number, criticizing yourself, or mentally calculating everything that’s coming due, give yourself a moment to recognize what you’re feeling. Your bank balance isn’t asking for a character assessment.

Then ask yourself: What am I making this number mean about me?

Be specific. Your answer will reveal something important about your money story.

Then ask: What is the actual number, without any judgment attached to it?

One question reveals the beliefs and emotions you’ve attached to your money. The other brings you back to the facts, where you can begin making intentional choices.

You don’t have to wait until your bank balance reaches a certain amount to become a woman who knows her numbers. You can begin today, with the money you have.

Your money story doesn’t get to decide whether you look. You do.

Looking at your numbers is an important money habit. Changing the beliefs and identity behind your money habits is how you create a whole new experience of making, keeping, and having money.

That’s the transformation at the heart of Feminine Money Mastery™ Gold.

You can create substantial savings, eliminate debt and pay yourself generously by changing who you are with money.

Feminine Money Mastery™ Gold is money mentoring for women entrepreneurs ready to transform their money story into a powerful money-making asset.

Gold is for you if:

• You’re a Solo CEO making 6-figures or more, and you have every intention of making significantly more.

• You want bigger savings, less debt, and substantially more money paid to you.

• You’re ambitious about your business and ready to change your beliefs, identity, and habits with money.

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Your money story has enormous influence over those results. Imagine what becomes possible when you start using that influence intentionally.

This week, I have something special for you! I’m sharing the audio from my brand-new training, The Money Story Advantage.

Come listen and discover why your money story deserves a place at the very top of your money-making asset list.

In this episode, I talk about:

• The missing piece in traditional money advice and common money mindset approaches.

• How your money story shows up in your savings, debt, income, and owner’s pay.

• The three forces at the heart of your money story and how they work together.

• How to pinpoint the part of your money story influencing the result you most want to change.

• A practical exercise to identify where your money story is influencing the financial result you most want to change.

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Write down five things you’re grateful for. Appreciate what you have. Focus on the positive. Preferably in a beautiful journal purchased specifically for becoming a more grateful person.

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There’s nothing wrong with any of that. But the kind of gratitude I’m talking about goes much deeper, especially as a woman entrepreneur whose income can swing from one month to the next.

Million Dollar Gratitude is gratitude that doesn’t need your circumstances to cooperate first.

This is gratitude that doesn’t wait for the payment to clear, the client to say yes, the launch to work or the bank balance to give you permission to feel good.

If gratitude only arrives after something goes your way, your circumstances are still in charge of your emotional wealth.

It’s easy to feel abundant when money is flowing in. It’s easy to appreciate your business after a fabulous month. It’s easy to trust yourself when the evidence is sitting right there in your bank account.

The real opportunity is being able to access gratitude before the evidence arrives.

Stop Making Gratitude Wait For The Result

One of my favorite ways to practice this is ridiculously simple: I feel grateful for money before it arrives.

Before the payment clears, or a client says yes, or before I know how the month will turn out.

This isn’t pretending money has arrived when it hasn’t or trying to manifest a Stripe payment through sheer enthusiasm.

It’s refusing to make my emotional wealth dependent on today’s circumstances.

There is an enormous difference between I’ll feel grateful when I have a reason to versus gratitude is something I know how to create.

Otherwise, you’ve essentially put your sense of abundance on a month-to-month performance review.

Uncertainty Can Make You Forget What You Already Have

One of the trickiest things about uncertainty is how quickly your attention can narrow around what isn’t happening.

Uncertainty has impeccable recall for everything that isn’t going well and remarkably poor recall for everything you’ve spent years becoming.

Suddenly, everything you already have as a result of years of being in business gets pushed to the edges of the picture.

Your coaching skills. Your reputation. Your creativity. Your voice. Your experience. Your ability to create ideas, solve problems, sell, serve clients and figure things out.

A disappointing result can change what happened this month. It cannot erase what you know, what you’ve created, or who you’ve become along the way.

These aren’t consolation prizes you appreciate because the month didn’t go the way you wanted. They are valuable assets you possess on your best revenue day and your worst one.

Gratitude has a way of correcting uncertainty’s very selective memory.

It lets you look at an uncertain moment without allowing that moment to become the entire story of what you have.

Give Your Brain Better Receipts

Our brains can be remarkably selective historians.

One difficult month? Vivid detail.

The dozens of times money arrived unexpectedly, an opportunity appeared, a client said yes or you solved a problem you initially had no idea how to solve?

Apparently those files have been misplaced. So bring them back.

I love keeping what I think of as money memories: specific moments when money showed up in surprising, meaningful or powerful ways.

Ask yourself, What are five times money came to you in a way you couldn’t have predicted?

This isn’t using the past to guarantee the future. You’re simply reminding yourself that today’s uncertainty doesn’t erase everything you’ve already experienced and created.

Who Said Gratitude Had To Be So Modest?

When fear starts spinning a dramatic prediction about the future, gratitude helps me remember there’s more available to focus on than what I’m afraid will happen.

When I catch myself focusing exclusively on what didn’t happen, I can deliberately remember what did.

None of this requires me to deny reality, pretend I love uncertainty or slap a positive thought over a real concern.

Being Grateful For What You Have Doesn’t Mean You Stop Wanting More.

And wanting more doesn’t have to make what you have today feel insufficient. I have every intention of creating significantly more money, more opportunities, and more of what I want.

I also want to deeply appreciate the money, opportunities, and abundance that are already here.

The more I practice gratitude, the less it feels like something I perform after life hands me good news. It becomes part of who I am with money.

Gratitude is one powerful expression of who you are with money. But your money identity reaches into every part of your money story: how much you make, how much you keep, how generously you pay yourself, and the future you create with money.

That’s the transformation at the heart of Feminine Money Mastery™ Gold.

You can create substantial savings, eliminate debt and pay yourself generously by changing who you are with money.

Feminine Money Mastery™ Gold is money mentoring for women entrepreneurs ready to transform their money story into a powerful money-making asset.

Gold is for you if:

• You’re a Solo CEO making 6-figures or more, and you have every intention of making significantly more.

• You want bigger savings, less debt, and substantially more money paid to you.

• You’re ambitious about your business and ready to change your beliefs, identity, and habits with money.

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But at some point, the money has to make it out of the business and into your life.

In this episode, I’m challenging the assumption that if you keep growing your business, more of that money will eventually trickle down to you. It won’t. Money doesn’t trickle down to you. You direct it there.

We’re talking about the difference between funding your business and endlessly feeding it, why more revenue doesn’t automatically become more money for you, and what changes when you intentionally direct that money toward generous owner’s pay, substantial savings, and financial independence.

If you’ve ever looked at your revenue and thought, Where is my money?, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I talk about:

• The difference between funding your business versus endlessly feeding it.

• Why money doesn’t trickle down to you and what to do instead.

• How reinvesting in your business can keep you out of the money equation.

• Making sure the money your business creates gets to make YOU richer.

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Don’t love the number in your bank account? Make more.
Credit card balance higher than you want? Make more.
Not sure where all the money went last month? Make more.

It’s a very entrepreneurial answer. 😉

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“Make more” creates urgency. There’s money to find, clients to sign, sales to create. Your attention immediately moves toward getting more money in the door.

But underneath all that urgency is a message that gets reinforced every time you reach for more as the only answer: there isn’t enough.

There isn’t enough money coming in, enough in the bank, enough to feel secure or enough to finally exhale around money.

The moment “there isn’t enough” takes over, your attention races toward earning more instead of looking closer.

Because as long as you’re focused on getting more money in the door, you don’t have to do the thing that can feel far more vulnerable:

Look closer at the numbers you already have.

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There’s a Difference Between Making Money and Being Comfortable Looking at It

“I’m not a numbers person.”
“I hate spreadsheets.”
“My bookkeeper handles that.”
“I know roughly where I am.”
“I’ll look when I have more time.”

Every one of these lets you stay at a comfortable distance from your numbers. You don’t have to look too closely, stay with what you see, or feel whatever comes up when you do.

The trouble is, your numbers don’t become less charged while you’re avoiding them. How charged they feel only escalates.

You can run a business for years this way. Money comes in. Money goes out. Taxes get paid. Bills get paid. Your bookkeeper sends reports. You glance at your bank balance when you need to.

The only problem? Looking at your numbers never gets any less nerve-racking.

And the less frequently you look, the more emotionally loaded looking becomes.

Looking at your numbers becomes this major event, complete with nervous anticipation about what you’re going to find and everything you’re afraid that number might say about you.

That’s when “I need to make more” becomes such an attractive escape hatch.

What If You Looked for Eight Minutes?

You don’t need to spend hours poring over spreadsheets or force yourself to become fascinated with numbers.

Start with eight minutes. Once a week. That’s it.

Eight minutes is short enough that there’s no need to make a production out of it, yet consistent enough to begin creating something incredibly valuable with money:

Familiarity.

When you look every week, you stop having to wonder what you’re going to find. Your numbers become part of your regular relationship with money instead of this looming thing you have to work up the nerve to look at.

Meanwhile, your nervous system is getting the message you actually want it to receive:

I can look at this.

You don’t have to immediately fix the number. You don’t have to make it mean something about your success. You don’t have to launch anything, sell anything or make more money before you’re allowed to feel better.

You can simply look.

Then you come back the following week and look again.

Looking Closer Changes Your Power Balance With Money

A number you’re avoiding has enormous power in your imagination.

It can make your stomach clench before you’ve even seen it. It can convince you there’s a problem before you know what the problem is. It can send you racing toward “make more” before you’ve spent eight minutes with what’s actually true.

But the moment you’re willing to look, the number loses its power to loom so large in your mind.

The number is no longer lurking somewhere outside your awareness, waiting to surprise you. You know what it is. You’ve seen it. You can stay in the room with it.

And each time you do, you’re creating a different experience with money: the number gets to be the number, and you get to remain you.

That is money empowerment.

Embrace “Look Closer”

When “make more” becomes your automatic response to money discomfort, it keeps you moving before you’ve given yourself the opportunity to become comfortable with the numbers already in front of you.

The next time your entrepreneurial brain offers up its favorite solution, I just need to make more, give “look closer” eight minutes first.

You may discover that one of the most empowering things you can do with money has nothing to do with changing the number.

It starts with becoming comfortable enough to look at it.

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You uplevel your expertise, your offers, your marketing, your sales, and how you lead as a solo CEO. But the money story underneath all of it rarely gets the same attention, even though it’s influencing how much you believe you can make, what you expect yourself to save, what feels normal to pay yourself, and the financial independence you believe belongs in your future.

In this episode, I’m putting your money story where it belongs: at the center of how you create more money. I’m sharing how your identity, beliefs, and money habits work together to influence your results, and why I want you upleveling your money story as deliberately as you uplevel everything else in your business.

Your money story is a money-making asset and it belongs right alongside your expertise, intellectual property, reputation and client list as an asset worth deliberately upleveling.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why your money story is happening right now, not sitting somewhere in your childhood.

• How your money story leaves its fingerprints on the numbers you create.

• The glaring gap between traditional money advice and money mindset

• Why your money story belongs on your business asset list

• What becomes possible when you uplevel your money story as deliberately as you uplevel your business.

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Well, I had that launch.
That one client paid in full.
It was an unusually good month.
I can’t count on that happening again.

Before long, one of your biggest money accomplishments has become the month you’re pretty sure you can’t repeat.

Yet when revenue is lower, it’s easy to give that number a completely different meaning. Instead of treating it as one month, you start believing it says something bigger about your business.

Are sales slowing down?
Do I need to adjust my income goal?
Can I really expect to make as much as I thought this year?

Your best month gets explained away. A lower month gets treated as a more credible picture of what your business can create.

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Why Does The Lower Number Get More Authority?

You created your best month. Clients said yes. Money came in. Something you offered, communicated, sold or decided produced your highest revenue month.

Yet it’s surprisingly easy to treat your biggest month as the exception and your smaller months as the more accurate reflection of what your business can create.

That gives the smaller number the authority to shape what you believe is possible, what you expect to make, and the income goals you set.

Meanwhile, your highest revenue month gets treated like it needs to prove it belongs.

Your Biggest Month Shows You What You Can Create

Instead of explaining away your highest revenue month, get curious about how you created it.

What worked?
What did I do differently?
What did I believe was possible?
What would I repeat?

These questions make your best month useful. Instead of admiring the number and moving on, you get to understand how you created it.

You’re looking at what created it and giving that result a legitimate place in what you believe your business can produce.

That doesn’t mean assuming every month will match your highest one.

It means refusing to make a smaller month more credible simply because it feels easier to believe.

Stop Making Your Best Month Defend Itself

Your highest revenue month doesn’t promise you’ll create that exact amount every month.

It proves you created it once. And once is enough to stop calling it impossible, unrealistic or beyond what your business can produce.

Your numbers tell you what happened. Your money story decides what you make those numbers mean about you, your business and what you believe you can create again.

Which Revenue Numbers Does Your Money Story Believe?

Every revenue number gets interpreted through your money story.

It influences which results you trust, which ones you explain away, what you expect to make again, and how high you’re willing to set your next income goal.

That means your money story isn’t simply reacting to your money results. It’s influencing the money results you create next.

Your best month belongs in your money story as more than an exception.

Let it change what you believe your business can produce. Let it influence the income goals you set. Let it have a voice in what you decide is possible from here.

You created that best month, now stop treating it like a fluke.

The Money Story ADVANTAGE

Your money story leaves fingerprints all over your money results, from the income you create to how much you save and how generously you pay yourself.

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Debt does not get first claim on every extra dollar you create. You get to pay off debt and become a woman who accumulates substantial savings.

In this episode, I’m busting four beliefs about saving that can keep your savings far smaller than you want it to be. I’m also sharing how I went from $3,000 saved to $1 million in cash savings, and why the amount sitting in your account today says nothing about what you’re capable of having saved in the future.

If you want substantially more money sitting fabulously in your savings account, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why waiting to earn more can keep you waiting forever to start saving.

• What to do when “something always comes up”.

• The belief that having “too much” cash sitting in savings is wasteful.

• How even being “a saver” can keep you maintaining a familiar number instead of increasing your balance.

• Why debt and substantial savings get to exist in your money story at the same time.

• The four questions that reveal the beliefs influencing how much you allow yourself to save.

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A money story puts guardrails on where the money will come from, what you’ll have to do to create it, who will buy from you and which income opportunities deserve your attention.

Once you’ve believed something about money long enough, you start making plans around it. You rarely stop mid-revenue goal and say, Hang on. Who decided this was the only way I get to make more money?

I uncovered exactly that while delivering a Money Uplevel VIP Intensive last week with a client making $250K a year, who came to me to double her revenue.

She has an established audience and an extensive library of successful offers. She also knows the people who have followed her for years like buying new things from her.

True.

The money story running her income was: “If I want to make more, I need to keep creating something new for the people already in my audience.”

That money story keeps her in constant creation. It keeps the size of her audience minimized. And it puts excellent offers she’s already created on the sidelines while she invests significant time creating the next thing.

Which is a very expensive rule when your goal is to double your revenue.

For example, one of her courses had enrolled 24 women, with five going on to join her certification. A 20% conversion into a much bigger offer tells me her money story had her looking right past a proven income opportunity.

She had dismissed the course as an income opportunity. I wanted it back on the table.

Clearly, that course deserved a much bigger role in her income strategy. She had already done the hard work of creating something people wanted and proving it could lead clients into her certification. Her money story had her chasing what she could create next instead of fully valuing what she had already created.

And once it does, perfectly good money opportunities become easy to dismiss.

That’s why I want you to get a little nosier about the assumptions underneath your next income goal.

What if the offers you’ve already created have significantly more income potential?

Who hasn’t seen your work yet?

Where is your money story dictating how you make more money?

And here’s the question I especially want you asking:

What have I decided is “just how money works” when it comes to making more money in my business?

That’s the one I’d put under a bright light.

You may discover that the next significant income opportunity in your business doesn’t require another creation from you. It requires a different belief about where more money gets to come from.

This is the money coaching we’re doing inside Feminine Money Mastery™ Gold.

When you’re ready to create significantly more money, I want us looking at the money story underneath the numbers. The beliefs setting the guardrails. The assumptions influencing what you see as possible. And the ones that have been running the show for long enough.

Gold is my new money mentoring program for women entrepreneurs who want to make significantly more money, create substantial savings, eliminate debt, and pay themselves generously without working more hours.

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In this episode, I’m introducing you to the top 5% of your money potential and challenging the money results you’ve gotten used to simply because they’ve been around for a while.

Think of it this way: your current money results tell you what you’ve created. They do not get to decide what you’re capable of.

Listen in and I’ll show you how to stop using where you are today to set the limits on where you go next, wake up your ambition with money, and define what being in the top 5% of your money potential looks like for YOU.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why your current money results and your money potential are two completely different things.

• Why “good” is a ridiculously low bar when it comes to your money potential.

• How to stop giving your current numbers the power to define what you’re capable of.

• What it means to create a new normal with your income, savings, pay, debt, and financial independence.

• How to define the top 5% of your money potential in actual dollars.

• The coaching questions that will wake up your ambition and help you envision a much bigger money story.

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There’s a version of you with money you haven’t met yet.

I realize this sounds suspiciously like I’m about to tell you to close your eyes, picture your future self and ask what she’s wearing.

I’m not.

I’m much more interested in what she believes.

Somewhere between the money life you have today and the Top 5% of Your Money Potential, you’re going to change your mind about a lot of things. Including yourself.

This is one of the strange things about money. We take our current experience with it and give that experience tremendous authority over what comes next.

Your current money results don’t reveal anything definitive about your Top 5% that you’re capable of creating.

I remember early in my business when I had managed to save $3,000.

Three thousand dollars.

If you had shown me a picture of my future bank account with $1 million sitting there in cash, I’m not sure what I would have stared at longer, the number or my name above it.

There was nothing about having $3,000 that suggested $1 million was waiting somewhere in my future. No logical progression from one to the other. No evidence I could point to and say, “See? Clearly this woman is on her way to seven figures in cash.”

Yet I was.

If I had treated $3,000 as evidence of my capacity, I would have given one tiny chapter of my money story the authority to write the ending.

Women do this with money all the time. We look at what exists and make assumptions about what is possible. Which is a peculiar thing for an entrepreneur to do.

Entrepreneurship itself requires a willingness to create something before there is evidence that it will exist. You create an offer nobody has yet purchased, decide you want clients you haven’t met, put a number on a revenue goal your business has yet to achieve and proceed as though this is a perfectly sensible way to spend your life.

Then we get to money and suddenly everyone wants documentation.

What does the Top 5% of your money potential look like?

There is an obvious way to answer this question, which is with numbers. Money has numbers attached to it, and I want your ambition specific enough that you know exactly what you’re claiming.

But after more than two decades as a money mentor to women entrepreneurs, the question goes much deeper than the numbers.

Who are you when you are experiencing the Top 5% of Your Money Potential?

There are beliefs you have about money today that feel completely true because you have spent years collecting evidence for them. We are all terribly convincing when describing ourselves.

“I’m this kind of person.”

“This is how I am with money.”

As though somewhere there is a permanent file on us and someone has laminated it.

There isn’t.

Your Top 5% is not asking you to simply add more money to the woman you already are.

It asks you to discover what else you’re capable of believing about money and what else you’re capable of believing about yourself with it.

That’s where this gets challenging. If every belief about your future with money has to be supported by your past with money, your past wins by default.

Of course the woman who has never created $500,000 cannot produce a stack of evidence proving she can create $500,000.

Of course the woman who has spent years seeing herself one way with money cannot already know everything about the woman she will be after years of expanding that relationship.

She hasn’t lived it yet.

At some point, reaching for the Top 5% requires you to give a new belief more authority than the evidence sitting in front of you.

There are beliefs about money you have repeated enough times that they now sound like facts. There are expectations you inherited so early you don’t remember choosing them. And conclusions you reached based on experiences that were completely real and still have no business determining the rest of your life.

Your Top 5% puts all of it back on the table.

What are you willing to believe about the amount of money you can have and your ability to create it?

What becomes possible when your beliefs about money are created for where you’re going instead of where you’ve been?

This is where you begin discovering a version of yourself with money you haven’t experienced yet.

She isn’t simply you with more money. She has expanded enough to have a different perspective on money itself.

She knows what happens when she stops editing an ambition to make it agree with her history and chooses a new belief before there is a reassuring pile of evidence underneath it.

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It worked. I taught it for 15 years. Hundreds of people were certified in it. I could have kept going.

I chose to retire it instead.

In this very different episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of the biggest evolution I’ve made in my business in years, why I’m bringing everything under Feminine Money Mastery™, and how getting fiercely focused has given me more freedom, more ideas, and more certainty about what I want to create next.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why success doesn’t obligate you to keep repeating yourself.

• The one question that helped me decide it was time to retire a successful certification after more than 15 years.

• How greater focus has created more freedom and creativity in my business.

• 3 key coaching questions to help you decide what stays, what goes, and what you want to create next.

• Why I’m bringing my work under the Feminine Money Mastery vision.

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Do you feel fantastic about the new number until you imagine saying it out loud?

Does one prospective client hesitate and suddenly the pricing decision you were completely happy with yesterday need another meeting with yourself?

Does a longtime client get grandfathered into her old rate for so long she may qualify for historic preservation?

Do you raise your pricing and then immediately start adding another session, more access, extra support, and a bonus until you’ve practically given the increase back?

Or do you have years of experience, consistently strong client results, glowing testimonials, and still find yourself wanting one more piece of evidence before you decide you’ve officially earned the increase?

Your pricing is telling on you.

And there’s a lot more packed into what you charge than the number itself.

There’s what feels safe to charge. What feels fair. What you believe your clients will pay. How quickly you trust a pricing decision once you’ve made it. How much evidence you require before you’re willing to charge more.

All of that ends up inside one little number sitting on your sales page.

Your Pricing Has a Pattern

Pricing decisions can feel completely individual when you’re making them.

Of course you kept that client at her old rate. She’s been with you forever.

Of course you reconsidered the increase after three people didn’t buy. That’s useful information.

Of course you added more to the offer when you raised the fee. You wanted to make sure it was worth it.

Of course you’re waiting until the next round to raise your pricing. You’re already planning the increase, you just want a little more evidence behind it first.

Every decision makes perfect sense on its own. But string them together and something much more interesting appears: a pricing pattern.

You can have a smart pricing strategy and still have a pricing pattern that keeps undoing it.

You keep reopening decisions you already made. Your expertise has raced ahead while your pricing has been taking the scenic route. One client tells you money is tight and suddenly you’re redesigning the payment plan you were perfectly happy with. You have enough testimonials to wallpaper your office and you’re still eyeing one more before the next increase.

Those aren’t random pricing moments. They’re clues. The fascinating part is that the pattern usually isn’t really about finding the perfect number.

It’s about what you’re trying to preserve when you choose that number, whether that’s certainty about your decision, the security of pricing you already know clients will pay, the connection you value with your clients, or confidence that you’ve absolutely, positively earned the right to charge it.

What you’re protecting with your pricing can end up putting a ceiling on what your business pays you.

The Most Expensive Part Is How Normal It Feels

Pricing patterns rarely announce themselves with a flashing sign that says, HELLO, I AM COSTING YOU MONEY.

They sound perfectly sensible.

“I don’t want to price people out.”
“I want to make sure I get the number right.”
“I’ll raise it after this next round.”
“I know I should be charging more.”

Nothing particularly dramatic there. Except you repeat one of those decisions across ten clients. Or twenty. Or for another year. Then the pattern has a hefty price tag.

The expensive thing about a pricing pattern is that you don’t pay for it once. You pay for it with every client.

For example, a $500 difference in what you charge becomes $5,000 across ten clients. A $1,000 increase you postpone for another twenty sales is $20,000 that never enters your business.

That money doesn’t only disappear from revenue. It’s money that could have paid you more, grown your savings, eliminated debt, been invested, or moved you closer to financial independence.

Which is why I want women entrepreneurs to get much more curious about their pricing. The question isn’t simply, “Should I charge more?”

The question that will tell you far more is, “What keeps happening when I make pricing decisions?”

Because when the same thing keeps happening, you’re no longer looking at an isolated pricing decision. You’re looking at the pattern influencing what you earn.

Once You See Your Pattern, You Can’t Unsee It

This is the part I love. Once you recognize your pricing pattern, you start catching it in action.

You hear yourself mentally negotiating your own fee before the client has said a word. There it is.

You decide on an increase, then spend three days trying to improve the number. Hello again.

You’re about to tell a longtime client about your new pricing and immediately start inventing reasons hers should be different. Caught you.

That awareness lets you see exactly where a pricing decision stops being about the number and starts becoming about your pattern.

And once you can see the pattern, you get to decide whether you want to keep paying for it.

Which brings me to something brand new I created for you.

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I created four Pricing Profiles, and I have a feeling you’re going to recognize yourself pretty quickly. More importantly, you’ll see exactly where that pattern has been costing you money.

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More clients. Longer days. More launches. More responsibility. Suddenly, the income you want comes attached to a workload you have zero desire to sustain.

Here’s the thing: you’re not resisting more money. You’re resisting the amount of work you believe comes attached to it.

In this episode, I’m unpacking the money story that equates more income with more work, what you may have decided your next income level will cost you, and how creating greater value gives you a completely different path to making more.

In this episode, I talk about:

• How every income goal can have an unconscious workload attached to it.

• Why your money story can make more income look expensive.

• How to uncover what you believe you’ll have to sacrifice to make more money.

• How to stop using “more work” as the answer to “more money.”

• A new Bankable Belief™ for creating more income.

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If you have debt, you’re supposed to tighten everything up, stop spending on anything remotely fun, put every available dollar toward paying it off, and feel appropriately uncomfortable until the balance finally hits zero.

Owing money has somehow become a reason to put yourself on financial restriction until you’ve paid your way out.

That’s a lot to attach to a balance.

Debt already has a cost. There’s the interest you pay, the monthly payment coming out of your account, and the amount of money you eventually want to pay back.

Then there’s everything women can pile on top of it.

The guilt when you spend money on yourself. The hesitation to put money into savings when you “should” be paying off debt. The feeling that you shouldn’t celebrate a great income month because you still owe money. The pressure to make getting out of debt the most important money goal in your life until it’s gone.

None of that reduces the balance. It simply makes debt more expensive to live with.

Debt Doesn’t Require a Penalty Period

Paying off debt can become a priority. Watching a balance go down feels fantastic, and deciding you want it gone can create tremendous momentum with money.

But somewhere along the way, commitment to paying off debt got tangled up with the idea that you need to deprive yourself while you do it.

That’s where the punishment begins. Deprivation can start masquerading as responsibility.

You skip something you can comfortably afford because spending money on yourself feels wrong while you have debt. You hesitate to save because every extra dollar feels like it belongs put towards the balance. You postpone something important to you because you’ve decided you’ll do it once the debt is gone.

You can be fiercely committed to eliminating debt without requiring yourself to live under financial punishment until you do.

Pay the debt. Make the plan. Be intentional about getting rid of it.

But don’t confuse suffering with commitment.

When Debt Starts Making Business Decisions For You

The punishment doesn’t only stay neatly contained in your personal money life. It can follow you straight into your business.

You hesitate to invest in something that could increase your income because you have debt. You hesitate to raise your pricing because having debt makes you question whether you have the right to charge more. You have a great month and immediately decide every extra dollar needs to go toward a balance instead of asking what would create the greatest opportunity for your business.

Debt starts getting a vote in decisions that have very little to do with debt. That’s where it can become far more expensive than the interest you’re paying.

If carrying debt causes you to make smaller decisions about your business, you can end up limiting the very income that gives you more power to eliminate it.

Paying off debt is a money goal. Growing your business is a business goal.

Increasing your pricing, creating more profit, pursuing a lucrative opportunity, or making an investment that expands what your business can create does not become irresponsible simply because you have a balance owed.

Debt Deserves a Plan, Not a Punishment

There is nothing wrong with wanting your debt gone. Get ambitious about it. Decide what you want to eliminate this year and put real money behind that decision.

Just don’t make paying off debt the price of admission to the rest of your money life.

You can grow your savings while you pay off debt. You can raise your pricing, make lucrative investments in your business, enjoy what your money makes possible, and create more income while that balance is coming down.

Your debt can be one money priority without becoming the ruler of every other money priority.

That’s a very different relationship with debt.

You’re still looking at the numbers. You’re still paying what you owe. You’re still committed to eliminating it.

You’ve simply stopped requiring guilt, deprivation, and smaller decisions as proof that you’re serious.

Debt already has a financial cost. You don’t need to add a punishment tax on top of it.

So pay it off. Just keep creating a bigger money life while you do.

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Maybe you still say, “I’m not good at saving.” “My income is inconsistent.” “I’m bad with numbers.” “I can make money, but keeping it is difficult.”

Here’s what’s fascinating: something that happened with money years ago can become a belief, and suddenly, a past experience has been promoted to a permanent definition of who you are with money.

But your money history does not get permanent authority over who you are today.

In this episode, I’m taking you deeper into your money story to uncover the beliefs and identity statements you may still be carrying from your past, even when the evidence of who you are with money today tells a very different story.

In this episode, I talk about:

• How a money experience becomes a belief and eventually part of your identity.

• Why your history with money doesn’t get permanent authority over who you are today.

• How to recognize an outdated description of yourself with money.

• Why changing your money story starts with noticing the evidence of who you are now.

• 2 powerful questions for uncovering the money identity you may have outgrown.

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When your family needs something, you find the money. When your business needs an investment, you make it happen. You pay your team. Take care of your clients. Cover the unexpected expense.

You’ve created a business that gives you the ability to do that and there is something powerful about being the woman who can say, I’ve got this.

But there’s a money question hiding inside all that capability: How quickly do you find the money when the person you’re taking care of is you?

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Women have inherited a deeply ingrained idea about what a good woman does with money. She takes care of people. She makes sure everyone has what they need. She finds a way.

The financial consequence is that her own future gets funded last. Her savings wait. Paying herself consistently waits. The debt she wants gone waits. The money she wants accumulating for her future waits.

I call this The Good Woman Money Tax. It’s what it costs when everyone else has a claim on your money before you do.

Being A Good Woman Has Come With A Money Rule

For generations, women have absorbed a powerful message about money and goodness: A good woman makes sure everyone else is okay first.

You may never have consciously agreed to that rule. Yet it can show up in remarkably ordinary money decisions.

You spend generously on your children while hesitating over something you want for yourself. You make sure the business has plenty of cash while your personal savings is hardly growing. You find the money to support someone you love immediately, then postpone funding something important to your own future.

One decision doesn’t create the Good Woman Money Tax. It’s the pattern of continually putting your own money priorities last that gets expensive.

Even just a few years of putting your own money priorities last can add up to a staggering amount of money.

How much have you paid yourself? How much have you saved? How much debt have you eliminated? How much closer has all the money your business has created brought you to financial independence?

You can create a business that takes excellent care of everyone connected to it while your own financial future gets a fraction of what you intended it to create.

The Good Woman Money Tax Is Hiding In Your Business Too

The Good Woman Money Tax doesn’t stop when you walk into your business. It can become even more expensive there.

For example, you keep a longtime client at an old rate because she’s been with you for years. You absorb an increase in costs rather than raising your price. You make sure your team is paid well while your own compensation is inconsistent. You add extra time, access, or deliverables because you want your clients to feel exceptionally well taken care of.

Each decision has a perfectly understandable reason behind it. Every one of those decisions can make perfect sense in the moment. But look at who gets the better end of the money deal: your client keeps more of her money. Your team receives more money. Your business absorbs more of the cost.

You receive less.

This is where the Good Woman Money Tax can hide in plain sight. It looks like generosity, loyalty, flexibility, or exceptional service while the financial cost lands squarely on you.

A business can be growing, serving great clients, producing excellent results, and taking very good care of everyone connected to it while doing surprisingly little for the woman who owns it.

Being last in line for the money your own business creates leaves a very expensive footprint.

That makes one question impossible to ignore. Who is your business taking care of?

Generosity Isn’t The Problem

You already know how to be generous with money. You can pay your team well. Be incredibly generous with your children. Give your clients an exceptional experience. Support the people and causes you care about. Spend money in ways that bring you joy.

What changes when that generosity includes you?

Your own savings, owner’s pay, and financial independence can sit right alongside all of that.

Here’s where the Good Woman Money Tax gets sneaky: generosity can feel completely natural until you’re the one benefiting from it.

Putting $10,000 toward your child’s education can feel loving. Giving an employee a bonus can feel generous. Helping someone you care about financially can feel deeply satisfying.

Put that same $10,000 into your own savings and suddenly it can feel indulgent, unnecessary, or easier to postpone.

A dollar funding your child’s future feels loving. Why should a dollar funding your future feel any less so?

Saving for your future is an act of generosity toward yourself. Paying yourself well, eliminating debt, and accumulating significant savings are all ways of making your own financial independence a priority.

Your generosity gets to include you.

The Good Woman Money Tax ends when your money priorities stop automatically going to the bottom of the list.

That means your name belongs at the top of the list when you decide where your money goes. Your goals deserve funding. Your savings deserve to grow. Your financial independence deserves to become something your business actively creates for you.

You can still be the woman who says, I’ve got this. Only now, that includes having your own back with money.

If your name moves to the top of the list, what would change about where your money goes?

Your business can take exceptional care of a lot of people. Make sure you’re one of them.

Your business is capable of creating a lot more for you than it is today.

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Save what’s left over. Put everyone else first. Don’t talk about what you earn. And if you have debt, you must have done something wrong.

These rules can sound so normal that you don’t even realize how much influence they have over the money you’re creating. But inherited doesn’t mean permanent.

In Part 2 of Inherited Money Rules Every Woman Entrepreneur Should Question, I’m challenging five more rules women have been handed about savings, debt, ambition, and putting yourself on the financial priority list. Because making your own money deserves to come with making your own money rules.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why savings deserves more than whatever is left over.

• How to prioritize your financial future while still caring for the people you love.

• Why shame has never paid off a credit card—but stewardship can.

• The staggering cost of women keeping money private.

• How to experience saving as accumulation instead of deprivation.

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We can talk about sex, relationships, our businesses, our kids, divorce, menopause, and nearly every other formerly private subject. We can share what we’re struggling with, what we’re celebrating, what we’re changing, and what we want next.

But say how much you earn? How much you have saved? What you charge? How much money you want?

Suddenly you’ve crossed some invisible line between being a woman who has money and being a woman who has the audacity to talk about having money.

For generations, talking openly about money has carried the threat of being seen as tacky, greedy, materialistic, nosy, bragging, or simply far too interested in money for a woman.

And for women entrepreneurs, those messages have done more than make money an uncomfortable subject. They’ve kept women from sharing the very information that could make us more knowledgeable, more ambitious, and more powerful with money.

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Money Secrecy Has Been Mistaken For Virtue

The inherited message isn’t simply that polite women don’t discuss money. It’s that a certain kind of woman doesn’t.

A woman with class doesn’t talk about what she paid. A generous woman doesn’t focus too much on money. A humble woman doesn’t announce what she earns. A gracious woman doesn’t ask another woman what she charges. And a woman who already has plenty certainly shouldn’t talk about wanting more.

Suddenly silence about money starts looking like evidence that you’re classy, humble, generous, gracious, and satisfied.

So we learn to edit ourselves around money. We hesitate to say the numbers. Downplay the wins. Avoid the questions we genuinely want answers to. We talk freely about the work we’re doing while becoming weirdly careful about the money that work creates.

None of this means you owe anyone your salary, your bank balance, or your net worth. You get to decide what you share, with whom, and when.

Women should be able to talk openly about money without having our character called into question for doing it.

When we can talk about money without judging the woman doing the talking, something powerful becomes available to all of us: knowledge.

Money Silence Creates An Information Gap

When women don’t talk about money, we don’t simply know less about one another. We know less about money.

Think about how much of what you’ve learned in business has come from another entrepreneur being willing to share what she knows. You hear how she structured an offer, negotiated a contract, changed her pricing, or made a decision that dramatically improved her business, and suddenly you have information you didn’t have before.

Money deserves that same rich exchange of ideas and experience.

When women aren’t talking about what they’re charging, negotiating, saving, keeping as profit, investing, or learning from expensive mistakes, you lose access to information and wisdom that could significantly change your financial future.

You have fewer reference points for what’s possible, fewer examples to draw from, and less access to knowledge another woman may have spent years acquiring.

And that information gap has financial consequences.

You can’t learn from information nobody is willing to say out loud. You can’t benefit from another woman’s experience if she’s been taught that talking about the money part is a character flaw. And it’s much harder to imagine what could be possible for you financially when the women around you aren’t talking about what they’re actually creating.

Talking About Money Isn’t Bougie. It’s Smart.

Somewhere along the way, being openly interested in money became easy to dismiss as materialistic or bougie.

Personally, I’d love to see more women obsessed with money. Talking about a savings milestone isn’t showing off. Wanting to know what other women charge isn’t being nosy. And openly wanting wealth doesn’t require disguising that ambition as something more palatable.

For women entrepreneurs, the whole idea of money secrecy becomes even more ridiculous.

We openly exchange sophisticated information about creating demand, improving an offer, hiring a team, using AI, increasing conversions, and growing a company. We study what works, ask questions, learn from people who know things we don’t, and happily borrow insight that can save us years of figuring everything out ourselves.

Yet when the subject becomes what we’re actually earning, saving, profiting, and creating financially, we’re supposed to become coy? No.

Talking about money is business intelligence.

Knowing what other women are earning expands your reference points. Hearing how she increased her profit gives you access to decisions you can learn from. Understanding how she created significant savings gives you a tangible example of what accumulating money can look like.

Talking about money doesn’t cheapen our ambition. It makes us smarter about what we can do with it.

Money Ambition Deserves A Vocabulary

Women entrepreneurs need more examples of women talking about money in actual numbers.

For example, I raised my fee from $5,000 to $8,000. I created my first $100,000 in savings. My business made $300,000 and I kept $225,000 in profit. I want to make a million dollars. I want enough invested that working becomes a choice.

Specific numbers make what’s possible with money feel tangible. They also make it easier to put actual words and numbers to our own ambition.

It’s one thing to say you want more freedom, greater impact, or a bigger business. It’s another to say exactly what you want financially and let the number stand without immediately explaining or justifying it.

Imagine how normal money ambition could become if you heard other women talking this way all the time. Not because you should want what she wants, but because hearing her say it expands your sense of what’s possible.

That’s why I want women talking about the money itself: income, profit, savings, wealth, and financial independence. We deserve more examples of women creating significant amounts of money and being willing to say so.

The New Money Etiquette

Talking openly about money doesn’t mean giving up your privacy or sharing anything you would rather keep to yourself. It means we stop treating silence as the more virtuous choice.

You get to ask intelligent questions about money, celebrate another woman’s savings without making it weird, share what you’ve learned, talk about profit with pride, and name an ambitious money goal without apologizing for wanting it.

When another woman talks openly about money, we can get curious instead of uncomfortable.

Every time a woman shares something useful about money, another woman gets access to knowledge she didn’t have before.

Money knowledge becomes money power when women stop keeping it to themselves.

So let’s bring this directly into your business. What should you be charging? Where is your next significant increase in income? How could you be keeping more of what you earn?

In your Money Uplevel VIP Intensive, I pinpoint the specific pivots that can unlock significantly more income and profit, the pricing decisions that can increase what you earn, and the new Bankable Beliefs that allow you to flourish.

Then I map it all into your personalized Money Uplevel Plan: a clear strategy for creating more income, profit, and savings from your business.

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