I recently hired a new business coach and she recommended this book by Amanda Frances. I had never heard of her, but knowing I have some mindset issues around money, I immediately got this book from my library and started reading.
Let me just say that this book is not for everyone. It’s all about energy and ”vibration” and mindset around money, so if that’s not something you can get behind, you won’t get anything out of this book. Personally, I’ve been exposed to the more ”woo woo” side of life for a while now, and although I was skeptical at first, I’ve slowly been coming to terms with the concepts. A lot of what I’ve learned has resonated with and makes a lot of sense to me, so by the time I read this book, I was ready for it.
I really enjoyed it. If you’re at all familiar with energy work, you know it’s work. It’s not enough to just know the concepts, you need to put in the work to apply the concepts. That’s why I appreciate that this book comes with what Frances calls ”homework” at the end of each chapter, in which she asks a series of prompts designed to get to the root of your thoughts and feelings around money and address them.
Throughout the book, Frances describes her personal history with money and how she became a multimillionaire. She describes her upbringing, the way her parents talked about money, how she has thought about money in the past, and the ways in which she has decided to consciously think about money so she can get to a point of always having more than she knows what to do with.
I should probably point out that Frances is white, and I can hear a lot of you saying, “Sure, easy for a white woman to say.” I was glad to see Frances address this in the book. She does not deny that her whiteness gives her privilege, but she also believes in the work she is doing and she believes it can work for people of all races. Yes, she is white, but not all of her clients are white.
Frances also includes several case studies of people who have paid for one of her programs and the results they got from it, but it never felt salesy. If anything, Frances appears to be in awe of all the ways in which money seems to find its way to her clients.
I got a lot out of this book and I definitely recommend it, but only if you’re open to learning the lessons it contains.