Summer is officially in session. For me, that means much shorter work days and a lot more time cooking, chilling at the beach, reading and gardening.
It’s my core time to recharge and reconnect with what’s really important. I also like to look ahead at what I want to create in the upcoming year.
One of the most important areas of my life that I’ll be diving into this summer is finances. While it’s a subject I’ve been studying and actively engaged in for years, I’m a big believer that there’s always more to learn and another level of mastery to experience.
I know the topic of money can be a real hot-button issue for many of us. In fact, it’s often one of the most emotionally charged areas of our lives. Conversations about money can be loaded with fear, shame, embarrassment and a whole lot of guilt – no matter how much you have or don’t have!
Add a significant other and family into the mix and things can really get complicated.
One of my goals with MarieTV is to empower you to have the business and life of your dreams. I have no interest in you “just getting by,” I want you to live an extraordinary life that includes freedom on every level: physically, emotionally, spiritually and yes – financially.
And I believe the best way to experience freedom around money is to dive head first into the subject and start getting honest about where you’re at and where you want to go.
In this special episode of MarieTV, I’m interviewing Amanda Steinberg, CEO and founder of the wildly popular daily email for women and money, DailyWorth.com. You’ll learn three smart actions you can take right now to start taking control of your financial destiny.
Plus, you’ll hear Amanda and I discuss the controversial notion that women are becoming the richer sex.
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In the comments below, tell me where you’re at with your money. What’s the single biggest action step you’ll take as a result of watching this video? Challenge yourself here. Remember, insight without action is useless!
I’d also love to hear your future vision. What’s the one change you’d like to see in the world as a result of women becoming the richer sex?
Whether it’s a micro change related to your own economy or a more sweeping change that you’d like to see in the world, what’s your vision?
Thank you, as always for reading, watching and contributing your genius to the conversation. If you found this video useful, share it with your friends!
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I’m sooo on the same page as Marie, in regard to investing… Great advice on the curve ball account – similar to “emergency fund, right?
I like the concept of ‘curve ball’~ it seems to cover more bases than ‘emergency fund’.
me too, it sounds a lot more fun than ‘emergency fund’
I like the idea of a curve ball, too, but mostly for fun things. Kind of like vacation days that you “have to” spend or you lose. We already keep a minimum $5,000 emergency fund, but there’s no “fun” in that.
Exactly – curveballs are completely different than EFs — EFs aren’t to be touched. Expect your curveball will get eaten about every three months.
I just opened up a Curveball account! I already have an Emergency Fund, but the Curveball account is nice to have too. And psychologically more pleasant…
yes! Love this – as they were speaking, I logged into my “rainy day” account to check out the balance – $381 and then upped my automatic payment from $17/week to $30/week. Every little bit counts!
That’s awesome, Denise! I’m at $50 per month right now. There’s times when I was so tempted to stop it because of some tight squeezes but now I’m so proud of myself for sticking with it. Every bit does count because that savings saved my but when I got retrenched from work!
I got a double dose of Amanda Steinberg today and never visited Dailyworth.com before now so I’m taking this as a sign to get on it (I actually just signed up)! The one thing that I would like to see in the world when women have more money and influence would be more stronger networks of support within all communities. I feel that many times there is envy and negativity toward women who are doing well because of an attitude and belief of “lack”. My desire is that when the majority of us are confident and feeling empowered, we reach out and offer support, love, and education even more to each other.
Keasha,
I love your response. Its very true that we need to support each other more. And to remember to continue the support if one person is getting ahead faster. I knew a woman who once she had 500 followers on FB decided never to share or post anything about others except herself. Even though our businesses didn’t clash. Its really sad. So yes I believe in support, love and education for ourselves and each other!
I really love this Keasha! I think that networks and community are how women can really lead during this change.
Yes, we need to love and support each other more. I wish we would all stop using negative language towards each other too! I personally take offense to name calling, like using the “b” word. We women need to wake up and realize that that just degrades all of us, and it’s NOT ok.
What a coincidence, Marie,
Women and money are two of my favorite subjects, too!
People are more willing to talk about their sexuality than personal finance- I think that is why it isn’t taught in early education, or by parents. I have no issues with women stepping forward and becoming the dominate breadwinner. How many women can you name that are in the upper ranks of Wall Street? Look at where that organization has left us that is dominated by men.
On a Macro level, I hope women do step forward and use their increasing wealth to conscientiously change working conditions around the globe, create social justice and make a paradigm shift in the world.
My gender hasn’t done such a great job of progressing in these areas.
Without getting too political, I suggest storing your cash reserves in a Credit Union, rather than a Bank.
Thank you so much Marie and Amanda for speaking on the topic of money! Not knowing much about investments or the language often feels like a limitation to my success and financial growth. Its what keeps us being less credible in the eyes of many men and society.
My vision if women were to become the richer sex is to truly be an example of richness not just in money but in our lives. We need to show the world that compassion with ambition can be profitable and paradigm busting at the same time! Let’s go girls!
Rachel, I love your vision!
I also agree that not knowing money lingo makes me feel less credible too. I just signed up for Amanda’s newsletter, so I’m on my way!
It would be so great if we would all take care of our planet in a much better way. With a long term vision, knowing that we’re all connected and that we thrive when the earth thrives. I have good hopes that when women take their power we will make great progress in this
And I totally agree with Rachel: let’s show the world that ambition and compassion can go together!
Thank you Marie and Amanda for speaking on the topic of m.o.n.e.y it’s a topic that is seriously under-addressed in familial life and needs to become an upfront conversation so that we don’t attach guilt and anxiety. I know too many people who attach their self worth to their net worth. Bad.
I am working on a new book called ‘The Legacy Project’ which shares the idea that our legacy is not in the gifts we leave behind, rather it’s the gift of our lifetime. That’s my vision. A world full of inspired passionate leaders – from all walks of life that are living their legacy, right now!
Embrace your ambition. Step up to the plate. Own it. Work hard and make it happen. It will be the most rewarding experience of your life.
Love your videos Marie. You are a fine example of what I call ‘legacy in action’. Thank you for all you do
I love this video, Thank you Marie & Amanda! This video really spoke to me and coincidentally (or not..) I happened to watch this video after arguing with my very Asian mother today about being in charge of cleaning the house and cleaning up after my brothers. I absolutely hate the old traditional Asian view that Asian girls should be housewives and devote their lives to the men (& husband) in the family. I’m trying to change that tradition & break out… This is why I love finding websites like Marie’s and Amanda’s to get inspiration and REAL information.
So here’s my future vision on a micro family level… the one change I’d like to see in the world as a result of women becoming the richer sex is mothers encouraging daughters to dream big, make big money, and be independent!
Brava, cammy. YOU are changing the world all ready! Your comment here is what this video, all of us WOMEN are waking up to participate in every day. BEING the change we seek in this world. I love the topic of women and money and freedom!
Thank you for your kind words Collen! I’m definitely working on being the change!
Unbelievable Cammy – you’re up against a lot. Please let me know how we at DailyWorth can help you.
Amanda, thank you for reaching out to me! You creating DailyWorth is so much help to me already; I’ve been quite busy digesting the amazing amount of information on DailyWorth & CreateWorth!
Marie I really enjoyed your video today. You and Amanda bring such energy and tenacity to a subject women rarely discuss.
But on to the questions.
My view of money is simple. I love money. I love the opportunities it provides for me and my family.
In regards to the video I need to get real about my ambition. I didn’t realize until now that I have no real vision of how I want my business and wealth to grow. So my next action step is to find my ambition and OWN IT.
Finally my future vision for women as we become the richer sex is a world where this discussion becomes redundant. I remember the first time I heard that women didn’t have the right to vote at the same time as men. As a 16 year old girl I thought that was ridiculous. I hope my daughter, when she becomes 16, looks back to the conversations about wealth we are having right now and thinks the same way.
Wealth creation has nothing to do with gender.
Great topic.
Ainslie
Parents have a massive influence over how a young girl prepares herself for the adult world. My parents divorced when I was in my early teens, and my mother’s goal was to put a roof over our heads and food on the table. Up to this point, my goal has been just an extension of hers. Roof over my head, food on the table, AND be in control of the income. My mother was always saying to put a little something away for a rainy day. But while I was young and healthy I couldn’t see the point of depriving myself of the latest ‘must have’ shoes.
My vision is that, the young girls are encouraged by their mothers, to be significant and successful ladies whatever their ambition.
Marie and Amanda do great work teaching the importance of following our dreams, identifying the pitfalls and share with us, their knowledge of the ‘How to..’ .
Young girls are still being influenced way too much by the media, but Marie TV and Daily Worth are just two of the exceptions. Thanks girls, you’re both truly inspirational.
I totally agree Sally… bring on Marie TV for young girls, I have my daughter finally watching Marie and reading her book… be it she is 27…. it’s never too late!
Sally! Yes, and it is so easy to fall in that trap of over consuming just to keep up with the latest trends, or sacrificing your savings because of someone you think is special. And at the end of the day you are sacrificing your own future.
Adrien! Over consuming doesn’t begin to tell the story. I just gave away a couple of pairs of shoes that cost me thousands of dollars. I had only worn them once, but they don’t fit me anymore! To me that is waste multiplied by stupidity!
Thank you for this video. I’ve been getting The Daily Worth in my email inbox for a while now and have loved it. Now, I’ll be paying even more attention.
My vision would be to help educate the younger generation [girls & boys-but mostly girls] about money; how to earn it and align it so it works for us.
The Daily Worth is something I need to get my recent high school grad looking at. She is The Teenage Miser I was when I was her age..she’s good at saving…[spends well-she finds the deals] yet, I don’t feel I’ve taught her how to get her money to really work for her.
Thank you Marie and Amanda for such good advice! Oh, and I too L-O-V-E the term ‘curve ball account’.
And thanks for giving me the much needed nudge to help my daughter…just what I needed with my morning cup of joe.
Keep up the great work!!
What a coincidence, Marie!! I just posted my first videopost on my blog talking about women’s finances and some mistakes with make when we are in a relationship. I had the idea after I made one of those mistakes, and I wanted to share my learning with friends and readers.
http://exprimiendolaneurona.com/2012/06/17/errores-financieros-que-cometemos-las-mujeres-en-una-relacion/
It’s in spanish but if you wait till the end, you’ll hear your name
I say something like: “…and, as Marie Forleo says, if we want to be rich, happy and hot we have to start taking care of our money and forgetting about being rescue by our men”.
Hope you like it
Best,
Daniela
I feel like I am one of the 10,000 who took the survey! I match all of the statistics. I am the larger salaried spouse, I “manage” the funds although I don’t have a handle on them. I have subscribed to the Daily Worth, and need to actually start reading it! My husband and I took Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace course and it was insightful, but I have a hard time being the “responsible one” and doing alll the budgeting and planning stuff.
But, I do know I that I can create consistency in my life as well as discipline. I think my action from watching this video is to commit to understand my money and being more aware of where its going. I can also begin with Etrade, I have a curveball account already (Dave Ramsey also suggested this type of account called the Emergency Fund) and finally I can begin to own my ambition.
I related with the comment of Ambition, and yet I recognize that old doubts that I can do it get it my way. Right now, with B-School i am struggling with doubts about my ambition, and am pushing myself to “own it” and give myself a chance.
Thank you for the motivation!
What an inspirational video!! Thank you Marie and Amanda for putting this topic on our URGENT list.
For me, one of the things I want to change in the world is: NO MORE abandoned children, because their mothers cannot afford raising them.
NO MORE!
Oh my gosh! Watching this lit me up…because it’s something I know is happening around me, but I haven’t heard it spoken about in such a REAL way. It’s exciting and motivating:) Thanks for this video, Marie and team! My vision for the world: Women in all cultures able to raise, love, provide for, protect, and inspire their children to become healthy, stable, and compassionate adults. How great would that be?
I’m Chinese Marie, LOL!
Great interview, thanks so much for sharing!
Somthing I learnt immediately is to engage the feeling with money – enjoy visualising the freedom and all the resource that money can help us in our lives.
As for the change in the world, my take is that Gaia energy really has kicked in now. If we want more money, we must have these quality: compassion, understanding & authenticity – women are good with these in general perhaps.
Parents don’t teach us these is mainly because no one taught them about relationship/finance/self-worth etc either. Good thing is that it only takes 2 generation to change the whole situation. We are learning now, and we will teach our kids. And their kids are pretty much sorted in the future
with love
Yiye
I love the idea of a curve-ball account! I was introduced to it a few years ago and I have to tell you, when I needed it, it saved my life. An absolute must have for everyone! Cheers.
Love hearing that Katya
Hello Marie, Yes I always thought women had the brains, and the looks,so of course they would be highly paid. Men like me who are over fifty, need a good looking woman to keep them going !!!!! Terry
Bravo, Marie and Amanda! Women and Money/Investing have been my passion for 20 years… LOVE that you’re giving the topic such pizazzy
visibility !
My vision is that all young children have access to a Head Start program while their moms are working towards their career dreams.
In a world where I have more influence, I see companies & corporations of all types and products operate under the paradigm that the employer / employee relationship is a RELATIONSHIP. That corporations recognize that the best value is brought to the company by employees who are genuinely valued & appreciated both in financial compensation and in influence. That the focus of corporate leadership is willing to put more resources in the hands of it’s employees as well as its stockholders…. And that financial professionals look at the overall product of what a company creates, not just its so-called financial metrics, which seem to be almost entirely disconnected from the company’s products and operation.
Oh yes. And that all people everywhere (especially those people with lots of it, and the financial industry in general) remember that money was created as a means of exchange to trade corn for a live chicken, and to make that exchange portable. You can’t eat it, drive it, tuck it in bed at night, and it wouldn’t make great clothing material. Money is a figment of our collective imagination. Remembering this changes your relationship with the “almighty dollar”
Married 1908, divorced after 26 years, I had nothing for a resume’ even though I had started several successful businesses while raising the 5 kids we had together. (A produce market, a consignment shop and several quite successfully run MLM businesses) I still felt like I couldn’t get a job.
Who would hire me?
I went back to school AGAIN and during a course called Women’s Literature I wrote this song and did this video for youtube thinking Who the F I thought I was doing this kind of thing in the first place, but I had to.
JUST GET MARRIED is the title (it is what my generation was told you know) http://youtu.be/_tNXTwyKjks At the time I was cleaning peoples houses to earn enough to eat and pay my bills, (my own business, but certainly not what I wanted to be when I grew up)
It was what I was doing while trying to build my business http://www.TheTidyTutor.com and continue my education…
The funny thing is… even though I am doing it, still, while frustrated with all the HTML and auto responders and Wordpress Membership Site DAP sh#! All the internet tech baloney that you have to do to have a internet business… I still yell out loud “Why can’t I just get a man?! and have him take care of me!”
If I wanted that, I would have that. obviously I don’t want that, I will make my business a success, I already am
But I find it so interesting that it is still in there. I still go to that wish when I feel afraid and challenged.
Thank you for this episode Marie, I will surely go to DailyWorth.com and hook up with Amanda.
oops, 1980 I was married, not 1908 (sorry)
Kathy – I know exactly what you mean. I was the big earner in my marriage until health problems a couple years ago. That led to two years of getting unemployment benefits (which were still more than my husband was earning!) which I no longer receive. I blew through an inheritance (the only one I will ever get) by spending it instead of investing most of it because I resented being the primary wage earner. Not good. Now I am working on what to do next at 59 years old.
But my main comment is – you can hire people (women, even!) to do some of that Internet shit! Delegate, woman, and put your energy into the creative side of your business!!
brilliant video – totally love how you chat so casually and yet share super mega information! My vision would be to have everyone understand that earning money doesn’t have to mean destroying. That earning is a creative thing, not destructive. That goes for the environment, people’s lives, homes, foods, happiness, hope for the future. Everything is about getting creative and not about destruction.
love to read this. Yes, that’s it.
This may be a vision for the future that is stereotypically female, but if women were in charge, would there be as many wars? If women were making more money and having more influence, I hope that we would both give more money to further our pet causes…not just to charities but also to pollitical candidates (check out the amazing candidates on Emily’s List). Early money can scare away potential competitors in the political arena. Why not make the great women candidates more “scary” by making them “richer”. Lastly, my vision would have more women not be afraid to run for political office. That is all about recognizing ambition for a better society.
Thanks as always. Well, money = power so I envision less war and violence as women become really comfortable in their power and wealth on a global level.
Wow, two of my favorite ladies in the same video! I agree with several of the above comments, the change I’d like to see is better financial and social education of the next generation, girls and boys alike. Many companies try to catch kids’ loyalty while they are young, hoping to keep it throughout their lifetimes. My teenage daughter has several loyalty cards at perfumers, skin care shops and clothing shops, but I haven’t been able to get her interested in DailyWorth yet. Perhaps a younger version of DailyWorth, aimed specifically at younger kids or teens would be able to get change rolling in the right direction.
Anyway, excellent video and I really look forward to more like this!
Laura – I love the idea of one for teens, but I’m not sure they’d read it! Also not clear on the revenue strategy. Ideas welcome.
Ha! I will give birth to my daughter in 4 weeks. Where can I sign her up?
I would read it to hear you bet!
Hi Amanda,
how about setting up an online game that explains and shows the benefits of words like “interest rates” in the sence that it makes accounts grow on its own, or an online game similar to or combined with elements of “Monopoly” or “The Stock Exchange Game”.
There are a lot of games on the marked that could inspire such a game, any game that is about exploring and founding a city or a civilisation, really.
Let me know when it’s up and running …
Love
Manu
I know that the creator of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad book series made such a game. I think it’s called Ca$hflow.
Giant “Like-A-Lot” to the two of you. It is time for us women to start saving more of the money we make. I really like that we begin to put as much money into investment every month as we spend on clothes and shoes. And I hereby declare that I will start doing that as from today !!! Thank you for great inspiration.
I’m such a fan of both of you; what a treat!
Can I hear an AMEN?! I completely agreed with Amanda about as the earning shifts that women would not have to stay in abusive marriages and that as a result children would be safer more cared for! At the same time let’s hope that effects the Family Court System in the US.-More female judges, attorney’s, and lawmakers! Amen and Amen!
Adored your message!
Women taking over in wealth? Who cares? We are all people. The more wealthy, empowered people we have all around us, the richer the world becomes for everyone.
And it need not be a worry that women are less “savvy” about investment. Remember, it was the investment banks that created our current financial crisis. This is an opportunity to evolve a better way of doing things, based on deeper human values.
With financial freedom comes time and travel freedom, respect, security, joy, generous living … all sorts of things that build a sound foundation for our new world.
Excellent video, Marie and Amanda. Thanks for creating and sharing it. My passion is in the field of health and wellness. If I could wave my ‘magic wand’ I would want to encourage women to make wiser spending habits on the foods they purchase. I hear it so often in my practice, ‘It’s too expensive to purchase healthy, organic food’. That is so UNTRUE. There are many wonderful places to purchase organic, healthy foods for much less than you ever thought possible. Nearly all communities have organic ‘co-op’ farms you can get involved with. (Look up Community Supported Agriculture) For me, a healthy, vibrant life is every bit as important as a financially secure life.
I wanna see a shift in the medical system, one that promotes health instead of fighting disease. An integration of traditional medicine and modern. A focus on prevention and treating underlying root causes. I would be so pumped to walk into a hospital and see doctors working with herbalists, aromatherapists, acupuncturists, yogi’s etc…
And along with women having money wisdom, I’d love some nutritional and herbal wisdom part of mainstream knowledge as well. These are things we should be learning in school.
I second that Genevieve. Current medicine practiced in hospitals is breaking down the body into parts and mechanics, but the human being is a mulit-dimensional highly complex interconnected system between mind, body and spirit. Have you heard of Meta Medicine? It is the scientific link between stress and the biological meaningful disease the body runs to heal itself. Profound info! Let me know if you are keen to learn more xo
God I REALLY needed this!! I have been limiting myself – in my career & finances – for years based on my beliefs that women shouldn’t or couldn’t earn more than men. I’ve taken jobs because they fit the ‘female’ role when I really want to big up my own business. I am in debt because I live outside of my earnings (my salary is reflective of what I think I should earn, rather than what I could earn) and as a mid-twenties gal I am tired of being broke!
I have already set up my retirement fund, I just need a curve ball account now. I am signing up to The Daily Worth asap. This advice I need! Thank you gorgeous ladies for sharing x
Hello Marie,
I have just recently gottne involved in your community and I am lovin’ everything you are offering!
As the world moves toward a more female energy many fabulous vision are sure to evolve. Here is my contribution: I felt rejection for the first time rather young and then lived in an abusive relationship for about 8 years, my self esteem was shot and I fell victim to the “acceptable soceital norm” of successful women; skinny, pretty, financially stable and talented. For years, I laid down and played “poor me” and I, as many others I am sure, was always looking for some quick way to become financially stable. But my low self-esteem and negative self-focused thinking has kept me stagnet. I never looked inside me and tried to unleash my passions or ambition. I turned to vices like drinking and eating to mask my complete disappointment the world. Just recently, however, I have discovered you, Kris Carr and lots of other super Fab ladies who have helped me re-think my thinking, my life and my goals. I cannot wait to have my wellness website for women with low self-esteem and soon my wellness center where I can encourage complete female wellness and success. My vision is to help inspire women and men, of course, to be happy, healthy and well.
Thank you Marie for your energy, I appreciate you and soon, I hope you are visiting me and talking about my success that you have inspired. Cheers!
If everything in the universe is made from energy, then so is money.
Johnathan Randolph Price called money My Own Natural Energy Yield.
So what level of energy are you yielding in life? Looking at the deeper seated stories about money is a big eye (and heart) opener
As we are shifting to a more globally awakened consciousness, I’m a supporter of those people who bring consciousness to media.
Thanks ladies for an awesome topic today!
Ohhh! I love talking about money and I too am fascinated by the fact that women, my girlfriends, top notch, stellar women who have amazing jobs, shy away from talking about money.
So happy to say that I totally feel like I have a great handle on this topic. I have had an IRA for years, I have a curveball account and am constantly checking in with my financial company to see what’s going on.
I have in recent years spent lots of my investment on travel which was exactly my plan. Now I am working my butt off to recharge those accounts.
I struggle with this topic about money with my partner. Every single time, he gets super defensive about it when I am totally not trying to, but just to be able to talk openly about it.
Suggestions?
Signed up for the dailyworth!
xo Johanna
I really wish you’d addressed same-sex issues…this relates to women and women, men and men, not just men and women…
Hey Sarah! Thanks for your comment. I believe what we shared relates to all relationships. We all have masculine and feminine energy and that dance occurs in both straight and gay relationships. Regardless of your gender or sexual orientation, many of us have not looked at our money life and hoped someone else (a partner, our parents, “someone else”) take care of that for us.
Well said Marie!
Huuuuuum. Interesting: usually I can come up fairly quickly with an answer to your questions Marie but the questions you are asking today will actually be my homework for the week, maybe even the month.
“1.) What’s the single biggest action step you’ll take as a result of watching this video?”
Sounds easy (save more) but for me it’s more specifically thinking about a plan I will implement and stick to for the long run.
2.) I’d also love to hear your future vision. What’s the one change you’d like to see in the world as a result of women becoming the richer sex?”
The answer to the second question will become my new, powerful, guiding money mantra.
A lot to think about…
On a micro level- owning my own economy and being more savvy with finances would allow my little family to live comfortably, allow me to give my husband some lovely gifts (he’s the greatest guy EVER) and teach my daughter how to be financially independent. On a macro level, I would love to see (worldwide) women buying more of their clothing from fair trade/women’s initiatives or co-ops that help to support women in less developed countries rather than continually supporting sweatshop labour that exploits women and children. I know that those people in sweat shops need to work but hopefully as everyone shifts where their dollars are going by making that choice of fair trade, clothing manufacturers will take note and up their game and do the right thing by paying their workers fairly and giving them safe working conditions…then again maybe I am naive…but nonetheless, it is something I care about and hope to see in the future.
Wow, the universe always delivers in perfect time!! Thank you Marie and Amanda! Usually I cringe at the topic of budgeting and educating myself about money. Only as recent as last week, I made a decision to get organized…I mean REALLY organized with my finances!! I’m taking some serious current steps towards loving my money so that I can finally access the beautiful energy of it to earn more and grow my business! My vision is for the current generation of parents to children with money beliefs that are constructive and motivational rather than destructive and self defeating! Let’s teach our children how to access abundance with intention and mindfulness so that they can experience the freedom of creation in every area of their life! Wooohooo!
“…to *raise* children with money….” lol
Another great video, Marie! I didn’t even know about DailyWorth.com… can’t wait for my first email.
The change I would like to see in the world as women grow richer is a more caring and compassionate world. Where the average person is giving back – to Cancer research, building community gardens, helping the underprivileged and sick, contributing the the arts – not just a handful of privileged wealthy people. I would like to see businesses universally engage in these activities and think beyond the bottom line. I hope that as more women take charge and become top decision makers they still maintain their innate compassion and concern for humanity.
Well said!
Marie, you gave me the best money advice ever, which was to read I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi. What a game-changing book. For anyone who watched this video and felt confused or overwhelmed, get Ramit’s book! It really helped me to understand the money basics AND take action.
My vision is to be an equal earner in my relationship.
Love and prosperity!
Kerry
I wish I knew all this in my twenties and been more confident and conscious about my finances.
As a stay at home mum starting my internet business “Adrienn Csoknyay Organizing” I wouldn’t be so dependent on my partner or parents if I had saved more before. But I guess it’s never too late!
I’d like to see women financially and emotionally empowered to make choices about their children– when to have them, who takes care of them when they are young, where they go to school, etc. based on what they want, and not what they feel they “have” to do.
I am really feeling the “curve ball” account. I think I will set up one of those up accounts today. Thanks Marie such great content as always.
Great video, Marie and Amanda! I receive the Daily Worth and I’m happy to say I’ve already implemented Amanda’s other suggestions as well!
I practice tithing, so I give a lot of money to people and organizations that “feed me spiritually”, and one of my favorites is Kiva, a person-to-person micro-lending website, engaging individuals to lend to entrepreneurs around the globe.
I’ve also created my own “lending team” and I’d love to see it get BIGGER. I named it “Dando Luz,” which is Spanish for “giving light” but also means “giving birth,” and provides micro-loans to Latinas living in my community (in Western North Carolina) who are achieving their entrepreneurial dreams.
(It’s very hard for these women, as “undocumented” residents, to get anything but the most low-earning jobs, but their children were born in the US and I want them to see their moms building lucrative businesses and thriving!)
I have lots of other dreams, too, and I’m constantly updating my “3-Year Vision” to include more freedom, as you said, on every level — physically, emotionally, spiritually and YES! – financially. (Creating 3-year vision encourages me to dream BIGGER than a 1-year vision, but still keeps me grounded in the day-to-day steps I need to achieve it.)
Hi Marie,
I really loved this video. The subject of ambition definitely hit a nerve with me. You have given me a lot to think about.
In a world where woman hold more of the financial power and influence I would like to see more money going towards supporting a woman’s choice to be out in the work place while having a family, or the choice to stay at home. Better, (not just some), family leave for both mom and dad. Insurance coverage of postpartum care and an emphasis placed on the importance of compassionate family centered births. This would involve a lot of education and in some ways a real paradigm shift. We would have to acknowledge that this is where it can all go right or all go wrong.
I agree with Amanda – even as a fashion stylist I would like to see women spend more on investment accounts than their wardrobes. Many clients and women I know spend tons of money on clothes they don’t even wear (or look good in!).
Ladies, a closet full of 10 quality key pieces is better than a closet full of 40-50 mediocre pieces.
Earn more. Save more. Spend smarter! EXCELLENT interview. I will sending a link to this video to family, friends and clients. xo
Love, love, love this video you two! Definitely shared today. It’s so important for women to feel it’s okay to talk about and get stronger in the area of money. It pushes soooo many buttons. I still get twinges every time I share something telling women (and anyone, for that matter) to get to know and love their money more – although it’s really simply about learning what to do with it.
My mission is to show inspired entrepreneurs how money is their friend and can be used to be of highest service in the world. This is accomplished by understanding how powerful our numbers are, because knowing our numbers is the foundation to propelling the realization of our dreams.
Great job, super ladies!
Love it!
I will set up my 2 accounts ASAP!
My goal is also to empower women to achieve what they want in their life and not be stuck in a marriage that bring you unhappiness because you feel you cannot move forward and you are not capable of something big. Yes! That was my story =( Now, I am moving out with nothing and starting a new life for me and my daughter. =) Yes, I feel great and so happy to see my bright future ahead of me. I am so happy to brake the cycle of marriage abuse from past generations in my family. =) I did it and I want to inspire others too.
BTW: I love love love love B-school!!! I doubted myself about it with everything it is going on, but I am so happy I followed my instinct and I took the risk. It turned out a blessing and not a risk anymore!
Thanks Marie!!!
I’d like to both become and join with a world wide network of super influential and super affluent women entrepreneurs who unite with funds and fabulous-ness to put an end via their nous to animal factory farming.
The biggest change I’d like to see is in ME! I am working on changing my “money story” so fear and lack become abundance and possibility. Honestly, I love that my husband manages the money. We are amazing partners. But, I am totally embracing my ambition and potential. He is so supportive and is actually allowing me to step back from my “contributor” role right now so I can really invest in my future. I am so elated about how far I can go with my company and my own growth as a children’s entertainer. I am also going to heed your advice and learn as much as I can so that perhaps I can step into more of the management part of our finances one day. I am looking forward to more Marie TV and signing up for Daily Worth. Thank you to two amazing role models!
Thanks!
I want to see a world where all types of work are respected. “low” and “semi skilled” or dare I say traditional womens’ work is valued highly.
Cheers Lu
Wow, Cammy. Good for you on wanting a better role for yourself! Your comments really moved me.
Actually this made me grouchy. Not every woman has no idea how investing works. My parents didn’t teach me about money management or investing, I read books about it and learned.
And part of what I learned is that investing advice aimed at women is dumbed down and in books w pink covers. Read the “scary” books if you want the best advice, not the hand holding, oh let me help you dear advice that helped cause this issue to start with.
With that said, if something is too technical for you to get now, doesn’t mean you’re dumb, means you should come back to it and try again later when your knowledge is more established.
This isn’t meant to be an ugly comment btw, I’m not a morning person and this hit a lot of my buttons. Financial literacy is something everyone needs, and most of the guys I know only THINK that they have a handle on it. It’s not just a women issue, it’s that guys don’t know that they suck at it.
Ha! Shannon! I love it when people go against the grain.
Good point. I know lots of savvy women and female financial advisors.
I am not one of them however. I think I would be a good money manager if only I had some money to work with.
I’m working on it – and when I have lots to work with I plan to share. I plan to help not only the desperate cases of those who can barely afford to feed the kids, (to whom I will buy a years’ worth of groceries), but also the gal who is dying to go to university or night school to reinvent herself but is stuck in a go-nowhere job bc she has to pay the bills, (to whom I will give an amount that will train her and pay her living expenses for the duration of school so she can focus wholeheartedly on her dream).
I’d like to see more random acts of sharing the wealth, like popping in to a shop and I’ll buy everyone in there 1 free thing from that shop- whatever they want. Standing up at a restaurant and exclaiming “dinner’s on me folks!”. At the pedi-palace and buy all the mani pedis for everyone in there. Organize an exercise fest the first 100 people that sign up get a new bike! At the pet store, buy everyone in there a years’ worth of their pet’s food. To the single moms I know, a year’s worth of massage/pedi’s/hairdo’s.
Stuff like that.
I think that would make a difference.
Thanks for this generous, educational and inspiring information (as always).
My biggest action around money is to focus on “earning” more – again. I am in a period of my life where I left a high paying industry and have had a long period of confusing transition and questioning (employee vs. business owner? additional education? what’s my passion?…) Happily, I am at the point of “Done with this” – no more hedging and indecision and I am getting my old courage and focus back. I guess I just needed a break. I’m looking forward to the dailyworth emails to increase my financial intelligence as I get back into major earning.
In terms of a change in the world as a result of women becoming the richer sex – I hope to see a time when compassion is the major requirement for political leaders as opposed to the size of their bank accounts. And, if women having bigger bank accounts will help us make that transition (and I think it will), then this trend is awesome!
Thanks again.
Where am I? at 53 years, I just finished a naturopathy degree, I have not worked for a year and my husband has a very part time job. We have nearly spent all our retirement fund. So I am starting again.
what did I get out of this, is to restart the curve ball account. Very important.
Totally loving these longer episodes of MarieTV! Keep them coming!
This is such an important topic, thank you for addressing it. Funnily, I just yesterday listened to Gabby’s Hayhouse radio show with you and Amanda. Apparently someone is trying to tell me something.
I have been working on opening the orange chakra for a while now and couple of weeks ago my acupuncturist made a miracle work on the left hip and now all this financial information is flowing my way. Aren’t we miraculous creatures. And I’m not even anxious about it just, just letting flow. Just wonderful!
Hello Marie and Amanda.
Wow, wow, wow… Especially the last part. I’m a seperated mother of one. This year I decided to teach yoga privately. For many years I’ve been relying on my husband and a stay at home mom.
Needless to say, I found myself a little unfulfilled, wanting to work doing something I love, getting paid my worth…
Only one problem, husband did not agree.
So I’m seperated because my need to reach for my ambitions… Well, I’m going to live my life with his support or not.
Here’s the catch. I find myself @ a cross roads. I have just reached the point financially where I can almost support myself, but not enough to get out of house sharing, or to have my kid live with me. I live close and see him everyday, but I work super early and super late which doesn’t allow me to take care of him at those times. I see him in the day.
I’m torn between giving up a dream I know can be successful and finding a desk job (I have no university degree just talent and last year I got my first yoga qualification). On the other hand, I can stick with the yoga, watch it grow… Risk getting a little tired and my son stays with dad and grandma.
In order to be completely financially free and to have my son, I need to work different hours, earn 8 times more than what I am now. The fastest way there is to quite my dream and dsomething that’s soul draining for me.
My little yoga business is called Mad About Yogam. I created it with will-power and all my ambition, blood, sweat and tears. I love my porivate clients and I have the best job in the world. But it comes with a big price… Why does it feel like I have to choose?!!!
Any thoughts and ideas you can share would be great.
Lots of love from
Head Mad Yogini, Madelain Burgoyne
Mad About Yoga
Cape Town, South Africa
I completely hear you Madeline! I’m a yoga teacher too, straining to make ends meet. (check out Susi Hately and her business of helping yoga teachers earn big bucks) It’s a major competitive industry and I don’t want to be a contestant. Yoga is quiet and personal and I don’t jive with the trendy style that has emerged in my area.
So, I have to do something else, but I also don’t have any uni. I’m currently enrolled in part time courses in technology and have started writing my first book! Thanks to Marie and other fabulous female power houses I feel supported in my quest for self-upliftment.
There is no money to save let alone invest and it is a sad burden, to not be able to buy the kind of healthy, organic groceries I want, to not be able to fix and upgrade my computer, to be considering taking a room mate after living happily on my for 20 years!
I believe it will come, but patience wears thin at times.
Thanks for the weekly reminder to unabashedly own our biggest dreams. I’ll be setting up the etrade roth ira as specific action. And my vision when all women own their power, earn more, save, more, spend smarter? Humans of both genders are inspired to do the same. The imbalance of gender, psyche, unbridled capitalism (money with a heart!), creates the power struggles that have us locked in more of the same. Breakin free…
I’m really inspired by everyone’s passion on the topic of money. My biggest peeve is that I’ve been in 2 major/long-term relationships (with males) and, in different ways, in both of them I’ve been the partner with more savings, a better sense of financial responsibility, and who has often contributed more to major expenses (cars/houses), yet outsiders usually assume I am the “kept woman,” and I imagine it is just because I’m female. It puts me in a weird position, as one doesn’t usually mention personal finances with friends or strangers, yet to set them straight you end up doing it.
I imagine it is only though financial education and awareness that these deeply grained attitudes may be changed. I look forward to it.
“ingrained” attitudes.
I have the same issue – I make less money than my husband does as I’m building a new business but I cover the vast majority of our expenses for various reasons. I (usually) don’t mind shouldering the responsibility of planning and paying, but I do mind the comments from friends and acquaintances about how I’m so lucky to have a husband to support me while I quit my job and start my own business. Or the questions – Do you work? Are you going to keep working now that you’re married?
Perhaps it bothers me that my husband doesn’t correct these people? That’s not something I ever thought about until writing this post…
I’m grateful that I had the good sense to save much more than I spent since I graduated college, but it seems that no one acknowledges that because I’ve been ‘saved’ by my knight in shining armor.
Love it! I just signed up for DailyWorth and I’m heading over to ETrade Right Now!
Thank you!
Sarah
Great video! As a member of the first Kibbutz in Israel, which is now over 100 years old, society here was built on “to each according to his needs; from each according to his ability”. The result was not utopia, it led to a lot of waste and some confusion in the society, but our children certainly were raised with a strong work ethic.
I am passionate about children, right from pre-school, being trained in handling their finances, within the school system. So many hours are spent studying useless material which nobody remembers, it would be great if they could be learning something which can really be termed as “life skills”.
I have been the main breadwinner in our family for years, and mainly in charge of the finances, but know I have a lot to learn regarding investments. A couple of months ago I resigned from my corporate international marketing job, and am now setting up an indepedent heart-based international marketing enterprise, aiming to do good things for good people. As I plan to earn a much better income than I had as an employee (when I just made my employers rich!), I’m very grateful for the tips on dailyworth.com, which I have just signed up for. However I’m not sure if they’re specifically for the US. Any plans to set up a UK or Israeli version of dailyworth?
Thanks for an inspiring video once again, Marie. With women earning more than men and becomming influential with their spending, I’d like to see the following change: I dream of businesses and corporations reflecting more colorful, innovative, and diplomatic upper tier positions. I believe this would help create a stronger economy where business may work together to tackle greater social issues that need strong, organized support. I want to see social business emerge on a world wide level.
LOVE LOVE LOVE. THANK YOU.
This post brought me to tears. As I approach my 40th birthday, I’ve been reflecting on all my BAD money choices in the past – not to beat myself up over them, but to learn from them and finally say: ENOUGH.
OWN YOUR WORTH. The biggest AMEN I’ve taken from this post.
“There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.” ~ Marianne Williamson
I’ve also noticed that as women we are even afraid to use the word MONEY. We replace it with fluffier terms like abundance, financial flow, energy, etc – which is all fine (I use them too) however the bottom line (no pun intended) is that it is, after all – MONEY that we want, right? And not necessarily to buy jacked up SUV’s with chrome spinning wheels (unless that’s your thing) but to GIVE BACK and to HELP OTHERS by EMPOWERING ourselves.
Thank you for inspiring a blog post
Interesting conversation. Question: Does owning your ambition also mean owning your ambition for your personal life, as well? It gives me pause that both of the women you called out as potential mega-wealth role models (Oprah and Martha Stewart) are essentially married to their work. Most ultra-wealthy men are married to their work, as well, IMHO. I think that there is a trade-off, or personal price to pay, for that kind of mega-ambition.
Hi Marie and Amanda,
Still today in the 21st century in many countries girls, if they are allowed to be born, are not given education, health care and even food.
One reason is that they believe the boys will be able to take care of them and the family name as they have more earning power.
This is what I see changing through the information I saw on your video today. That in my lifetime I may be able to witness this change.
I am an ESL teacher with dreams and goals of building schools in Latin America to educate children, specifically girls.
I am just getting started with an on-line business to help provide finances for this dream. Women like yourselves provide me with support and encouragement to keep on keepin on when my doubts and fears step in.
Stressing the importance of take care of my own finances so I may be able to help others.
Thank you!
Pamela Dale
I think the biggest action step I can take right now is to get on it with a curveball account. I don’t make a ton of money at the moment as my biz is just starting to take off, but I should still be putting something aside for those ‘uh oh’ moments.
As far as the thing I’d like to see change with women and money?
I absolutely hate hearing women say that they don’t want to “immasculate their man”. I’ve never met a man of value who would be immasculated by a successful woman. The fact that women even think they need to say that is absolutely baffling to me.
My mum always said that every woman should have “running away money” that her husband didn’t know about. That seems like the previous generation’s “curveball money”!
Great video – thanks!
I’m off to sign up for DailyWorth.com!
PS. The change I’d like to see in the world is for kids taught about money in school – we throw them out into the world without any idea of how to budget, save, start a business plan for retirement … no wonder the economy is tanking!
My husband and I were chatting over the weekend about how all of this is changing… money, career, male/ female division of labor. We came up with two big ideas, one is that men don’t want to work in the same way anymore either, and that we need a mindset shift because there is no more work for 40 years for one company and then you are done. You are never done (until you die) so you might as well enjoy what you’re doing.
yes very enjoyable . ive always want to be financially free . This give me the freedom to help more people .
Such useful advice! I just automated savings for my son’s education fund (he’s 2), and I envision a world where every child will have the resources to get the education they need to live happy, productive , successful lives. So many, paricularly in some parts of the world, barely even have access to the basics. I see education as the foundation for everything.
completely fantastic….
i would like to see women earning more so that they have the time to find internal peace…. when we find internal peace we bring that spaciousness to the world and love with big hearts. this will heal all of us… men, women and children.
thank you marie… i love you.
and ps…in regards to the video you did awhile back on my artwork… i have moved to a new gallery and they want to double my prices… you were right… brilliant you!
Two of my favorite ladies in the same video! Whoa!
As a mom of three children and an entrepreneur who is approaching a six-figure income for the first time in my life, my big vision for women and money is to educate and empower women/moms to create a better life for themselves and alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship.
I see so many women (some in my own family) and moms struggling to make ends meet, stuck in jobs they hate (or worse, jobs that are literally making them sick) and feeling financially powerless. I would LOVE to show them that, by starting their own business, they CAN live the life of their dreams and have control over their finances.
and LOVE the ambition part!
watch out world… here come huge oil paintings of famous horses…
and my earnings will be thoughtfully placed thanks to dailyworth.com….thank you amanda! looking forward to getting on your site…
xox! ~ s.
My husband and I believe the best investment we can make is in ourselves. With that stated, we took a step about two years ago to learn more about investing. We made an investment in a stock market education series. The man that taught these classes has been a pastor for over 30 years and has never taken a salary. He was born a millionaire and didn’t need the money. Instead he advised the congregation to purchase a life insurance policy on him, so that at his death they would have the funds available to hire another pastor. Brilliant! When I heard this story on the radio, I was impressed and very interested in his training program. Then I realized that I knew this man. I had actually gone to high school with him! I convinced my husband that this was the training we needed to take and we have never looked back or regretted our decision. We purchased the program and we continue to have the opportunity for more advanced knowledge. We opened a trading account and are building our money! Not only are we growing our money, we are growing our friends with the people we are meeting during these training sessions. This has definitely been a win-win for our family!
As a 7+ year breast cancer survivor, I have spent the last 8 years learning about getting healthier. My cancer was hormone receptive. One of my biggest challenges has been finding food that is hormone free. Organic is somewhat available, but more expensive and the labeling is misleading…all natural, hormone free (sometimes only means hormone free for the last 6 months) can be confusing. I have learned so many things that need to be changed or corrected in our food system, things that Europe and Canada have already outlawed or banned! This is why we started our business to help educate people about what they are consuming and help them make healthier choices. As a mother of 5 and grandmother of 9, I see the need to teach our mothers of young children about the healthier choices. Optimal health is the goal to help raise healthier, happier kids. My desire is to get rid of hormones, harmful chemicals, preservatives and pesticides in America’s food supply. If people are educated and making healthier choices, the “big” food companies selling unhealthy food (GMO’s) will have to make changes or not have customers to purchase their products. By changing the air we breathe in our home, the water we drink and the food we nourish our bodies with, we feel better and look better than we ever have. My desire is to share this information and help raise a generation of healthier, happier kids that will continue this training with their children.
My boyfriends Mum says “Your Health Is Your Biggest Wealth” and I think it’s so true! It’s so easy to forget this. What a wonderful mission and huge good luck with it- we all need to be educated to make better choices when it comes to our healthy and well being.
What is the name of the course you took? I am interested in that course, too.
Great video on personal finance. I cannot stress enough that women need to be responsible for their finances. Any secure man will be happy his S.O. earns more than he does! Ladies …. save regularly, start early, and don’t touch it. It is amazing what compounding over time can do for your financial bottom line! My wish: for women to be openly acknowledged as equally (or more!) talented, smart and capable as men in the workplace. This is too long in coming!
My motto is buy lots of investments not lots of shoes.
Such great advice. I force myself to MATCH my clothing purchases with $ amount invested. Last month I spent about $400 on clothes, so I added another $400 to my investments. Why go without if you can afford it?
Another great video Marie.
I feel the challenge with managing our finances is about balancing enjoying life in there here and now and saving for the future. For example, if we get too obsessed with the ‘saving for the retirement’ mentality we can end up scrimping and saving and not really enjoying the life we have! Balance is the key….
As a wardrobe stylist and part online boutique owner I love helping women look good from the inside out. I would like to see more women taking charge of their lives and not settling just because of what they have been taught to believe. One of the main reasons I love what I do. I am able to help women build confidence within self all while helping them create their own unique style.
Wow… really? Someone took a lower salary then their husband???
As a child, my father told me again and again that I needed to have a solid career (to be self-sufficient) before marriage and my husband is always asking me to be his “Suga Mama!” And … I’m doing my very best to get there!
Great video Marie! I am really loving these interview episodes! I started investing my money about 10 years ago. First through work with a 401(K) and then got involved with an investment manager and started investing in a fund and eventually the stock market. I love talking money with him and understanding why and where to invest. As much as I love the idea of e-trade, I think people really need to educate themselves, or find a good investment manager to guide their investing.
One thing I would like to see in this new era is more women in important roles in both business and politics. I think it has been shown that our sex has a viewpoint that is more inclusive, collaborative and more willing to think long term (instead of quick fixes) and think about the global impact of our decisions. Think of the decisions we make every day for our own families ~ that’s how women think. Not just for themselves, but for their families and communities.
I have fallen in love with Marie Forleo TV. I’m now signed up for the DailyWorth and the Daily Love newsletters. Recently, I’ve become a true believer that everything happens for a reason. Well, there was a reason I found Marie Forleo…to become a woman and to be proud of it, become rich and happy, to find love, and now how to save that money and invest. I am a woman chiropractor in the Dominican Republic right now, and my dream/goal/vision is to change the way the world views and manages their health from the inside, out through what I call the 5 essentials…a maximized mind, a healthy spine & nervous system, quality nutrition, exercise and detoxification/minimizing toxins. I have this new-found power and this ambition inside me that’s fueling this vision to change the world through true HEALTH! Thank you Marie & Amanda!
I would love to see women take over and reform the world to be a more honest and open place. Lets stop the less than ideal politics, the shady financial industry practices, do away with the federal reserve, and reform education to help kids become entrepreneurs and follow their passions at a young age.
I already have my ‘curveball’ account and Roth IRA as well as a 401k but I have signed up for DailyWorth to learn more about budgeting and making investment decisions. Also, I am in the process of starting my business!
To answer Amanda’s question, I want to empower women to take control of their health and happiness by taking a holistic look at their life (nutrition, exercise, stress, relationships, career, etc) and making small changes daily . I am revamping my site http://www.amyjobeaver.com and starting a new one http://www.hipholistic.com.
I would like to see more women investing in Property whether it be a house, land or commercial real estate. I bought my first mobile home for $3500 when I was 17 years old. I didn’t have the money, but asked my husband’s (yes…out west we get married that young) grandma for a loan that would be paid back with interest. I offered her $350 for 12 months and she said yes. I’m not sure where I got the idea or the balls to do this, but it would be nice if more women knew about their options when it comes to buying property. They don’t always have to go to a bank…sometimes there are other ways of getting what you want for a lot less if you are willing to negotiate with the property owner.
I think women will be the richer sex, at least for a while, because we’ll be leading the way in following your heart.
One change that’s definitely on the macro level: We fundamentally tweak our root cause of capitalism to replace “scarcity” with “sustainability”.
A question: I’m signing up for DailyWorth.com right now, but I’m an ambitious Canadian woman. Is some of the advice still relevant to our banking system?
xxx.
i’m a financial disaster but working to change that. would love to be able to support myself & my kids, get out of debt, take a luxury vacation without guilt or fear. open my own profitable live music venue, lead a top-notch blues & jazz band, and help other female musicians find success in the music business.
Hi Marie! Thank you for another timely Marie TV. You always have the exact information I need, exactly when I need it. Rock on Sista!!
Like most, money is a huge hot button issue in my life. I’m about to launch my blog. It’s not quite ready for me to add a link just yet. However, the concept is to help single women maintain solid self-esteem while navigating life in the city. The tagline for my site is Self-Esteem Zen for the Single City Girl.
It’s an issue that all my life’s choices have been built on and as I find new ways to bolster my self-worth and continue to land on my feet and be happy in or out of a relationship, I want to share everything I’ve learned with other women and I mean everything!!!
I truly believe that money is a huge part of our inner framework, when it comes to how we view ourselves.
It took me a long time to learn that my now six-figure student loan debt was an albatross around my neck. As a freelancer, it was always so easy to keep putting off and for years, I denied myself the freedom and confidence of forcing myself to pay it off so I wouldn’t have to punish myself for it on a daily basis. Once I put everything in perspective about how to manage it, my self worth and my “self” worth immediately started to improve. I am now a work in fast progress.
I know that getting my finances off the ground will not only give me freedom, it will help to support my love for myself and my love for others. Thank you for everything you bring!! XOXO
Truly loved this video! My vision for the future of our world when it comes to money is to see women change the public face of finance. Marie and Amanda touched on this in the blog: Still, today, we find that the financial services industry is a BORE with a capital “B.” Up until this past year, I resisted learning more about finance because it seemed like something I would hate, get confused with and waste my time on. Even though I was raised to have good financial acumen, when it came to investing and getting really technical with money, I simply wouldn’t do it. Thanks to women like Marie, that started to change, and I want to see all of us sisters rise up and put a smart, sexy and satisfying spin on money and finance. We can rename things like IRA as Amanda talked about, create awesome rituals for paying our bills and investing in new businesses – Kate Northrup talks more about this subject – pass down our knowledge in a fun and inspiring way to our daughters, etc… The sky is the limit here, but this is definitely what I hope to see!
Great vid! I have to wholeheartedly agree with Amanda in that, my vision would be that no woman stay in a horrible relationship because of money. I wish all women were financially solvent so they can navigate their lives independently, engage in relationships and raise children free from monetary ties to a spouse or SO if needed.
Thank you for the wonderful info! I already have a curve-ball account for business, but not a personal one. That’s the first thing I’ll work on this month
I agree with you on this. Women should never stay in a relationship because I money. I know some who are miserable because they are afraid the “rich” lifestyle will disappear if they leave and others who are dirt poor, but away from a bad relationship.
I have been working the last year to really learn more about finances and living a happy life with my kids.
My husband has been supporting our family for 15 years and even put his music career on hold to do so having been told all his life ‘you can’t make $ in music’! so now that our boys are young teens and I am transisitioning into phase two of my iconic plan for my life, it is my intention to up my wealth game and take over the finances or at least contribute in a big way- this is good for me, my man and our boys to see and experience my budding empowerment with money.
This topic supported me just today to gave notice with several magazines I write for pro bono despite the ‘exposure’ as it’s another way I spend too much time on non-income producing projects. I also tend to blog alot and fb/tweet because I do love to share great content and value, but it isn’t balanced with equal time spent converting readers into clients.
I’m realising that Iconic women must LIVE their Legacy, and we require certain supports structures in our life- vibrant health, radiant beauty, inner and outer wealth, internal authority etc
I dream of a world where all who desire, step into their legendary path that includes success, which will inspire and heal our men and children, the planet and each other.
I want women to feel empowered to own their own money.
Since 2008 I started blogging about how I learned to do just that, since then I have been writing articles for magazines, giving webinars and conferences about the topic wherever I am allowed to do it so.
My site http://www.elpesonuestro.com (sorry , is in Spanish as I live in Mexico) is suited for general public, but I realized that my biggest demographic are profesional women that are looking in how to become independent.
How you can do it? Find a mentor besides of opening the savings and investment accounts, because is not just a matter of doing …is also a matter of being and becoming.
This is great- thank you- I love connecting to a site dedicated to, in essence, creating great positive concepts around financial wealth and organization. I signed up.
As a astrologer, I would like more women to know and understand their own Birth Charts. This is priceless!!!
Great video, I am signing up today!!
Hey Marie.
Always sharing the wealth of abundance–another great inspiring empowering video!
My vision: to be free to be me. Men are beautiful sexy creatures but the male way of life (dog eat dog/fierce competition, etc), I hope is ending and with women I hope life can become way more symbiotic, nurturing, supportive, and from the heart. My goal is to build and establish my business so I can fulfill my need to create and express and inspire. I want to travel the world and share my discoveries and incite others. And above all–to know my self worth and the wealth of my being. I think money is a lot like love–we need to be open to it, let it enjoy us and us enjoy it, and trust we are worthy to be surrounded and supported by it. Anyway, auspicious times for sure. Potent. And, we are all grouped together not in a red tent but a cyber temple trusting each of us will give birth to our dreams–no miscarriages allowed. Big love and ambition to all!!
I’ve been a full-time (female) investor for the last 5 years. Honestly, I didn’t realize this was such an issue. But I’m a tomboy who still hangs out with guys more than girls.
My vision is that finances will be something that will just be part of the way kids grow up. Kind of like kids don’t know a world without computers and technology today. That it doesn’t need to be taught as a subject when they get older.
Second vision is that we eliminate the entitlement mentality that seems so prevalent today and that people realize they earn in proportion to the value that they provide.
I’ve been working on systemizing one of my businesses so that my 5-year old can make a real contribution to it and learn finance and also that earning is based on the value provided at the same time. And she can earn real money instead of lemonade money.
My vision for the future would be that we have more healthy images in the media for women. I hope that we can use our additional power and influence in the financial world to create a healthy and realistic vision of a woman’s body! Amen!!!
I’d definitely like to see women being taken more seriously in business. I still find today in business our ideas and strength and talents and not acknowledged as often, and we have to fight more to be heard. Both sexes have their own strengths and together we can accomplish much, than separately.
Hi thanks for some really helpful info.
I’m a guy and I don’t think that ‘rescue fantasy thing’ exists only amongst women. I think it is a type of overall mentallity, some people will go ahead and do things and some will have this idea that something is bound to happen if we just wait and be patient.
I did the same with my efforts of trying ot get back into shape. Everyday I would wake up thinking that my tummy will just shrink and amy abs would be ripped if I only cut down on cakes. Well I can see my abs now but it certainly wasn’t just through cutting down on cakes and I didn’t ‘wait’ for anyone or anything so in terms of the financial side I think it sort of is a general habit or maybe of we’re just unaware of what exactly we need to do, so we just leave it.
My husband and I believe the best investment we can make is in ourselves. With that stated, we took a step about two years ago to learn more about investing. We made an investment in a stock market education series. These classes were taught by a man that has been a pastor for over 30 years and has never taken a salary. He was born a millionaire and didn’t need the money. Instead he advised the congregation to purchase a life insurance policy on him, so that at his death they would have the funds available to hire another pastor. Brilliant! When I heard this story on the radio, I was impressed and very interested in his training program. Then I realized that I knew this man. I had actually gone to high school with him! I convinced my husband that this was the training we needed to take and we have never looked back or regretted our decision. We purchased the program and we continue to have the opportunity for more advanced knowledge. We opened a trading account and are building our money! Not only are we growing our money, we are growing our friends with the people we are meeting during these training sessions. This has definitely been a win-win for our family!
As a 7+ year breast cancer survivor, I have spent the last 8 years learning about getting healthier. My cancer was hormone receptive. One of my biggest challenges has been finding food that is hormone free. Organic is somewhat available, but more expensive and the labeling is misleading…all natural, hormone free (sometimes only means hormone free for the last 6 months) can be confusing. I have learned so many things, that need to be changed or corrected in our food system, things that Europe and Canada have already outlawed or banned! This is why we started our business, to help educate people about what they are consuming and help them make healthier choices. As a mother of 5 and grandmother of 9, I see the need to teach our mothers of young children about the healthier choices. Optimal health is the goal to help raise healthier, happier kids. My desire is to get rid of hormones, harmful chemicals, preservatives and pesticides in America’s food supply. If people are educated and making healthier choices, the “big” food companies selling unhealthy food (GMO’s) will have to make changes or not have customers to purchase their products. By changing the air we breathe in our home, the water we drink and the food we nourish our bodies with, we feel better and look better than we ever have. My desire is to share this information and help raise a generation of healthier, happier kids that will continue this training with their children.
Marie, there really is a science to investing. I’m a Certified Financial Planner, so I’m an expert at investing, and I’m happy to talk with you any of your readers about helping them invest the way experts do. Investing is so low-cost these days, and doesn’t involve any guessing. Signing up at e*Trade is okay, but how are you going to invest once you’re there? I can help with that.
I am so happy to be encompassed in this movement of women taking control of their destiny! Each day, i am encouraged by so many women who are truly doing more in a single day than we could have ever imagined! we are taking care of our homes, working, and taking care of friends and family members, while also starting businesses…WOWZERS!!!! all while still maintaining beauty, mental, physical, and spiritual health. Thanks to the power ladies such as Tiphani Montgomery, Marie Forleo, and Now Amanda, for giving me a daily extra dose of encouragement to ROCK the WORLD!! Go Girls!!!
oops i forgot to answer the question as for my vision for women…I am one who occassionally has a few “whoa me” moments, especially as a single mother, often feeling like “i cant do it all by myself”…but why not??!! whenever i’m feeling a little sorry for myself, i quickly rebuttal with WHY CANT I??!! These are my cards for now, so play em smart!! It is my hopes that women will begin to take ACTION, and chase after the dreams you have for yourselves, make time and create time for yourself, to do the things you want to do. Life is too short to not achieve and share the dreams God has placed in your heart. We all have purpose to make this world better in some sort of way!
Wow this is awesome!
My hubbie is really excited about me earning more than him so that’s cool!
What I’d like to see is real financial & entrepreneurial education in the schools so that kids understand they need to create their own results.
This old model and machine is broken as you know and I think women play such a huge part in the new economy and in teaching the next generation that money is a good thing.
Love this and have just subscribed to the Daily Worth. Thanks
Wow, almost didn’t watch the video today because I thought abou staying in denial just a little bit longer about money. I hadn’t heard of a curveball account and feel like I may already have one personally but perhaps could use one for my recently started business. I have had it on my list for months to learn more about investing than I know today. My two big takeaways: OWN MY AMBITION and OWN INVESTING IN MY FUTURE. I am so right on with you about wanting the cute food and cute little outfits and big shoes even as a hiphop granny!
Timely interview, Marie!
I am re-reading one of Suze Orman’s books as I am re-energizing my money mojo, and want to “bone up” on more financial knowledge. One of the messages that struck me from Suze’s book (from what I read last night) was the reminder that most financial advisors/investors want us to think that we can’t do it on our own, so we have to hire them. But we forget that *we* are our best financial advisor! She reminds us to not fall for the marketing / misnomer that finances are hard. Not true.
I am ready to soak up as much current knowledge about todays financial marketplace, as I am not in business to just break even or simply make a profit — I want to ensure that I can continue to be able to live a comfortable and simple life outside of work, too.
Just signed up for the Daily Worth — excited to give it a test drive! It can’t hurt.
xo
Aimee
Hi Marie,
What a great program! I am in a sticky situation as I am married yo a man 20 years older than me who does not want me to succeed financially (!). And he does not have the means to support my basic requirements. I do mean basic such as grooming, dentist etc. So a lot of resentment has welled up as he interferes with work prospects (I am a musician) and protests personal expenses, Being a teenager was simpler! Clearly this is old and my focus is to abandon this arrangement. I must have my money to live, advance, invest and grow!
Bev
Amazing Video!! I love the thought of the paradigm shifting, not just consciously, but economically! As the financially shift begins to happen I can only hope that our world will began to ran with more humanity and regard for all life. It is my sincere hope that all corporations and businesses are ran to benefit the whole, in some way. It is my belief that there is enough resources if we learn to share and manage them properly. Most women (at least the ones I know) live more from the heart…so I can’t wait to see the LOVE-ly world we create…with our men by our sides.
As far as my own financial situation goes, I’m a good saver. I always keep bits of money in multiple different savings accounts, I call them my ‘oh shit fund’. Some of these accounts I keep secret from my significant other, so not matter what, I can take care of me. This last year has been one of the worst financially for me, while starting a new business, and relocating cross country with my man. I invested every dime (almost;) , and not having my ‘oh shit fund’ scared the crap out of me. So I secretly started tucked away little bits of cash here an there, and at the end of the year it added up! I decided to invest my fund in me, and paid for B-School…cash! I even had a little left over. Now I am hoping to really create some financial leaps and bounds. What I most need to work on: investing. I have a lot of fear about investing in our current economic system. Time to learn and research more.
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and insights!
I’d like to see excellent, inspiring and free education for all.
Wonderful vid. Thank you.
WHEN I’m earning more income, my goal is to fund a network of INTERNATIONAL School of the ARTS and make it available / free to underserved youth, most especially war orphans.
Thank you for this week’s edition of MarieTV! Everything right now is so Bass Ackwards for women and money. I’d like to see budgeting and investing and money management started to be taught, from the beginning, in elementary school (and supported by the parents at home too, of course). From there, women will see managing their own affairs as natural as breathing. They won’t hand over all the financial duties to their husband automatically. They won’t stay in abusive marriages. They will feel fulfilled in many ways they don’t now. They will be calm because everything is taken care of. If they run into a hiccup, they have a back up plan, rather than having to figure it out in a panic because cataclysmic change has been thrust upon them from an unexpected crisis. Learning financial management from the beginning will change everything. Women are collaborative in nature, so they will share and, naturally, assist women in developing countries to do the same. That’s my wish for how to change the world for women financially.
As incredible as this motivational video is, I am in awe of the comments I am reading from a wonderful group of women. Everything from choices of eating healthy food, teaching our children about abundance, it is hard to come up with something original. I do believe that women focus on abundance not only for themselves but for future generations. It is a natural tendency due to our ability to give birth to life. When women are fed,housed,prospering they look towards what they can do for others. My vision is to see all basic needs met, so the natural process of teaching and growing can be unchecked. We already know how to create abundance for ourselves and others, but it can be daunting in face of scrambling on a day to day basis to provide for the basic necessities. Maybe because I have lived in Latin America most of my life, I see a different side of things, although there is much poverty in the US. But when I see what $25 can do through KIVA I see the ability of women worldwide to change only their own consciousness about success and money, but show their children through example about abundance.
Marie & Amanda – brilliant topic! Thank you!
I want to see a BIGGER shift for women to OWN WHAT THEY LOVE in life. Our culture has created a lot of expectations for women today – and with this comes many feelings around trying to be or what others think we should be – or more specifically – what is an acceptable career.
For as long as I can remember I have had a love affair with stationery and paper goods, however, after completing a bachelor of design I felt this overwhelming pressure to be a designer that works with big companies and fat marketing budgets, I should be aspiring to be an art director at some fancy design firm, or move to a bigger city where dreams come true. When really, what I truly wanted to do was design wedding invitations. It has taken me MUCH work to get past the expectations (or at least what I thought were expectations) of a respected design career and take ownership for what I love. This year I launched a stationery company!!
If we can be empower all women to live true to their passion, what a world this would be!!
Another winner Marie & Amanda! My friends at Girls Inc. have a program they have named “A Man is Not a Financial Plan” (thought you’d like that)
As for my vision: I would love to see a world where each person chooses to “pay it forward” & do something to help others. The impact & ripple effect is exponential!
Feel the LOVE!
Love it.
I have been following MarieTV for a long time and have received so much benefit from it! I thank you so much for that. I recommend people to your materials constantly.
I want to lovingly bring up a point that’s important to me. This is something I felt in watching this video and also I felt when watching last week’s video on “Couples in Business.” My partner is a woman, not a man. Please just be conscious of the written parts of your blog as well as videos that 10% or more of us women who love you don’t have a man or husband, and won’t have one.
I often get a lot of benefit by just adapting what I can from the content that’s presented in the context of heterosexual relationships, but still – something to consider.
Thank you for all that you give!
Marie, this is so helpful! And true. I out earn my boyfriend right now and the bulk of the financial burden falls to me. Sometimes I feel bad and he makes comments about my business books that make me feel like I shouldn’t want money. His attitude is that he can either make a lot of money and be unhappy or be happy and do what he wants but live on peanuts. Not my philosophy AT ALL. I’m committed to being happy AND rolling in the dough.
The change I want to see is that I never want a woman to stay stuck in a low paying job that doesn’t juice her up because “that’s all she can get for work.” Too many brilliant, talented women end up doing jobs that don’t even come close to tapping into all their skills because they have a mindset that they don’t deserve a big salary or that they would have to “become someone they’re not” to make more money.
What I love about Daily Worth is that the massive world of money is handed to us in easy, manageable, bite-sized pieces. It’s a lot easy to take one bite a day than to stare at the daunting mountain of finance holding a teaspoon.
Thanks Marie & Amanda
I LOVE this! I got in credit card debt when I graduated college in 1990 and quickly realized this was not the life I wanted to lead. It took a couple years, but I got myself out of debt and still have no debt today. Such a happy feeling!
My future dream vision is for all women to learn how to run a business so that they can have flexibility when their children are growing up.
I would also love for all these entrepreneurial women to figure out how to funnel money into our public school system without having to sell gift wrap and candy bars! There’s got to be a better way and I am certain that once we’ve all built up our entrepreneurial and investor muscles, we can figure it out!
When I was raising my kids
P.S. I just had to tell you that when I was just a kid, in, like, second grade, I would stay awake at night and worry that I didn’t know how to write a check. I was afraid no one would ever teach me how to do that.
I was afraid no one would ever teach me about bank accounts and money. No one ever did. I had to make horrible mistakes and go through a lot of pain and stress to figure out money.
Thank you, Amanda, for doing what you do! It’s a tremendous service.
I’ve been ill since I was 19yrs (I’m 35 now), and therefore was off work for several years and can only work part-time now. My career development and financial growth have obviously suffered for this. I went from being financially dependent on my mother to now being financially dependent on my boyfriend. He controls most of the money in the house. I hate it, but when I bring it up he doesn’t understand. I really want to develop my independence and financial identity as a woman, but I don’t know how to do this on 150$ take-home pay per week… I pay my bills and buy a lipstick and I’m done, you know? As my health and energy improve (thank you Kris Carr), I’m starting to slowly allow myself to imagine the possibility of fulfilling my dreams career-wise, but I don’t know where to start. How do you advise women who can only earn a limited amount due to circumstances? How do I create financial independence and identity within myself and my relationship when I’m inherently dependent? It’s a hmm question.
Thanks for all you do,
Michele
Hey Marie and Amanda,
Great conversation. As women take the financial lead globally, I’d like to see money put in service of the well being of ourselves, our families, and the ultimate Mother: Earth! This means that instead of making money for the purpose of domination or ego elevation, money is used to nurture, support, enliven and make cool things happen! As Lynn Twist says, “it’s about allocation…not accumulation.”
Hello Marie and Amanda, many thanks for sharing the wealth (pun intended!)
One thing I’d like to see as women become the richer sex is creating an environment where people think beyond themselves by making decisions that will benefit each other and generations to come. Women are natural communicators and build social networks, so let’s let loose to form a global community that cares and takes action!
A take away for me is to OWN MY WORTH! Why is it we are so averse to doing so? I know what I do is amazing and I want to share it with the world in situations that are mutually beneficial.
Thanks for the tips, tricks and enthusiasm ladies!
When I was raising my kids I always wished my husband and I could both work 20 hour weeks. That way we both could experience and understand each other’s worlds and pressures, both have time with the kids, both have time for ourselves, both have the opportunity to grow in a rounded way. Instead, I was home all the time with the kids and my husband was gone all day being the sole wage earner. I didn’t want to be a mother doing two jobs at once: raising kids AND working full time. My hope is that this model will become financially feasible for both entrepreneurs working at home and for those working in the business environment at large. With inspirational role models like you and Amanda and with the power, creativity and political clout of the communities you are forming, I think this can come to pass for those who wish it. Thank you Marie for being you.
I feel like I’m the only one who has left a comment that didn’t LOVE this.
My boyfriend and I run a virtual training business together. I love what I do but I don’t love money.
I am currently working my way out of irresponsible, post-college credit card debt as we speak and of course I want out of it! And of course I want to spend money on yachting around the Mediterranean and if an emergency came up, I’d like to have the spare cash saved up to pay for it.
But nothing inside of me cares AT ALL about retirement savings.
My boyfriend always says “well if we do this, this and this, then we can make $243747632!!!!” And I cannot help it, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
At the end of the day if I need money to pay a bill or if I want to buy this really cute pair of shoes I want to be able to pay for them. Of course I want to be able to support myself until I’m 105 (which I intend to live to be) but money just bores the heck outta me!
I guess I just want enough money to pay someone to do my retirement anf finances for me!!!!!
Hi Marie,
I really enjoyed this weeks show on building financial wealth. What I would like to see most in world with regard to women, is the elimination of health care worries and concerns and the inability to purchase healthy food for their families. We all know that one catastrophic illness can bankrupt a family. To be able to live without the worry of what will happen if I lose my job…saving and investing is key to eliminating these issues in lives of women and their families. –It is a sad state when you we can’t afford healthy food and/or healthy care for your families.
Marie,
So happy you did this video and post.
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I’m here to tell you that even if Prince Charming does come, YOU – yes YOU need to be proactive with your finances. Men don’t usually ask for directions when they are driving, why do we assume that they will ask for directions with finances and financial planning? It is up to you to be your own “princess charming.”
Thanks for reading.
Holli
Great, great episode. My spending and saving habits have been on my mind lately and this is a great reinforcer!
I would like to see a world where women embrace their passions and trust that money will follow. Maybe naive or simple, but women are beautiful, ambitious creatures and the world will be a better place when they follow their bliss!
I have a lot to learn about investing, but I know I will get there.This video inspired me to set up an IRA with etrade and it was totally painless, thank you! I really believe women becoming the richer sex will lead to wonderful changes in the world. I vision better education, more love and less hate. It’s all about giving back.
Marie,
I love when Amanda talks about the IRA account. I’d like to add that what most people are not aware of is that you can have a SELF-DIRECTED IRA so you are in control. I strongly recommend this to my clients.
Let me know if I can help,
Always have a positive mindset so you can live healthier and wealthier, and happier with passion,
Holli
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I was so inspired by your show and I know it was an answer to a prayer I will follow the steps and write in my vision. I have published a book http://www.createspace.com/3862778 I want Amanda to know my vision. I came from abusive relationships and have healed and have been with my husband for 18 yrs now. The book I published talks about the amazing results I have had with abused animals. If I could have more influence in the world it would be to help these incredible souls they are our greatest spiritual teachers and I have many spiritual gifts to share with the world to help people understand why their pet was guided to them. I am an animal communicator and a spiritual medium. The book I wrote is a maeesage of hope to help us remember the truth, “Love is Forever” it is a life transforming book and will change the way you at your animals and your life.<3<3<3 and Blessings, Karen Riordon Palmer
My girlfriends and I started a Smart Cookies Money Group a year ago July 2011. Since then we ( 5 of us) have payed off over $50,000 in debt combined and many of us have found ourselves debt free for the first time in 10 years. This Fall, in addition to our money group, we are starting an investment group to learn more about investing, so we cannot only be debt free but ALSO be better investors, as per Amanda’s suggestion. This money group was hands down been one of the BEST decisions I have ever made. There is no doubt I still have a lot to learn, but for the first time in my life, I am excited and confident that I am CAPABLE of managing/building my own wealth independently. Will keep you posted on how year 2 of our money group goes, in addition to our investment group. Thank you Marie & Amanda – you ladies ROCK!!!
What an awesome video! OMG so inspiring
I relate with lot of the topics that you guys were discussing in here.I also get that little voice telling me in the back of my head that “it might be too big” and what people will think of me or all kind of sort of negative things. But I just signed up for the daily worth and I hope to educate myself. I am tired of getting by, i have big dreams and a bigger vision for my life and I hope i can do the right thing. My desire for the world will be that people and woman in general stop talking about money in a negative way or referring as “too much” I feel that as woman we are the example of the next generation. Many little girls are growing up with no ambition to become better and do big things for themselves because we are putting our own fears in our girl’s brain. I feel that if we educate ourselves about money, we can educate our little girls in a better way and show them that our world is abundant and there are no limitations as what we can achieve in our future and how far we can go. 
Hey,
great video.
Im with Steve S above in part.
Seriously its a good think women earning more. I just wish we had equality not a move to women being better or richer or earning more.
I look forward to the day when the conversation is irrelevant. After all why don’t we look at Gay people and see if they make more or less? No angle just making a point.
You know in asia and africa organisation lend seed money to WOMEN only who then invest and start making more money. Reason 1) Women repay their debt and make better money decisions.
Great role models both of you.
I have so much ambition but no proper direction. I have spent quite a bit of money on credit cards and am almost maxed to try to do courses on living your dreams and having your own business. what would you suggest to move forward. (a business loan or a grant to be able to do things like B school and truly start something)??
Hi Ashley, it’s great that you recognise your ambition and want to follow your dreams. There are a lot free content at Marie’s site and elsewhere for you to kick off your business. I’d suggest you start off testing your ideas, research your model (they don’t require much investment at all), while you are doing all the testing/research, aim to clear your debt as much as possible. (Even Marie was working in a bar to fund her dreams at the early days). Then consider bigger investment. I’m in B-school now and the stuff really rocks, but I’d highly recommend you get grounded and improve your current finance first. I was once very frustrated too, but what really helped was getting my immediate ‘shit” done properly first. I trust that you’ll realise your dreams, but the more you are ‘present’, the quicker you’ll get where you are heading to! with love Yiye
The combination of being on the live call with Tara Gentile and Amanda Steinberg last night, and this video is the high heel kick in the booty I really needed.
The two presentations hit me at my core and I am still digesting the What Now question? The curve ball acct. is a great suggestion, as is the investor site. Thank you Amanda!!
This is a moment when I have to forgive myself for not having my financial affairs in order, rather than beating myself up and being negative, but more importantly ask What Will I Do To Change IT and set goals to change it. That is what I am prioritizing from this day forward.
Thank you both for a super thoughtful generously loaded with sound tips video! This one is one I will share with all of my women friends for sure.
You ladies are amazing!
Wow. You really got your double dose! Please, no shame and no guilt. Just waking up to money and not running away (as I did for many years) is a huge gift.
One change I’d like to see in the world as women become the richer sex is that all women begin to finder a fuller richer sense of who they are beginning with their bodies. Embracing and learning about the instrument we walk through life in and how amazingly we are designed. Simple imagery and understanding can improve each woman’s quality of like immensely!!!
One ambition that I have (in addition to making delicious cupcakes) is to be a “Soul Coach” and to help women realize the importance of having a healthy Emotional Guidance System (follow their gut instincts/intuitions). Once women know who they truly want be, they will no longer be financially dependent on other people’s $ and opinions of them. I believe this is the foundation of obtaining true wealth in all areas of our lives….espeically getting and staying RICH and Happy
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This just rocks. Mindset and money, especially with women, needs to be examined. You 2 ladies take the scary factor out of money and make it delicious and divine. Thank you for this high value content. Your video blogs is one of the few I watch each week
I think the single biggest action would be that by the time women are 50 years of age they have X amount of dollars in savings, only X amount of debt and are doing what they love for a living. That is what I would like to see change!
The one change I would love to see is a new “Home Economics” into the Real Home Economics. Instead of teaching young women how to sew a pillow case or carry and raw egg around to make sure your a good mom they teach personal finance. Teach about savings and being debt free.
There is nothing like standing in your financial power.
My hope is that as women become richer, they will also feel more entitlement in terms of their worth. Women experience much more discomfort and anxiety around negotiating for themselves and tend to concede too soon and accept less. Not to mention that men negotiate four times as often as women, so they tend to get more because they ASK and don’t give in so quickly. I would like to see women see more value and worth in themselves, be bold enough to ask for what they deserve, and for men and women alike to agree that they should get it.
I’ve always found this quote inspiring for owning our ambitions AND negotiating: “Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.” – Marianne Williamson
My vision is to see woman taking more time for themselves. Not just more time to shop or fix up their houses, but sincere time for themselves. Where they reflect on where they are in life, how they are feeling and what their highest intentions are. For me this happens on my yoga mat, for others it may be a walk or Am tea ritual. Connecting fully to the “authentic selves” within each of us, is my vision for the world. Thanks for inspiring this ladies!
A topic that speaks right to my heart!! As an independent bookkeeper, I get a little window into the finances of small businesses. I can say that I get a lot more questions from the male business owners who hire me than the female business owners and they also seem to scrutinize their monthly reports more than the women do. As I type this, I realize I want to change my focus from just providing financial information to my clients each month to actually getting them excited about the information.
I love the concept of owning your ambition and my approach to my business has completely changed since getting to work with several inspiring entrepreneurs. My most and least profitable clients are in exactly the same industry, but have completely different mind-sets. The owners who think big and are strategic, are succeeding big. When I first started, I was happy to be my own boss and have flexibility, but now I don’t see any reason why I can’t build a bookkeeping empire and be able to help tons more small businesses than I originally intended! For me, I just got bit by the entrepreneurial bug.
As far as a change I’d like to see is that women use their financial success, along with their inherent empathy and compassion to build up non-profit organizations in which they believe. Take care of themselves, then spread the love.
Signing up for DailyWorth! I think women can end the political polarization in this country.
I’m just starting to really focus on building my business and don’t have a lot of money. I am a single mom and have two teenagers in the house. No support from their father. Not a good thing, but that is the way it’s been for about 6 years. I’ve had to have a full time job while doing small freelance graphic jobs and now I’ve found myself in the state of unemployment like so many. I have learned how to spend the money I do make by just paying the bills and sometimes really struggle with that alone. I need to focus on earning more money, then I can save it or invest it wisely. Any tips that I can get is what I look for. Also, my services are for hire as well. Check out my website: http://www.newdaygraphics.com and give me a shout if you have an upcoming project you’d like help on FOR HIRE!
Thought the video was great AND inspiring. Presumptive, though, in that it assumes every woman has the extra money to to put away. Often women are not only the breadwinners but are taking care of children. Which is why I would like to see women helping other women who struggle financially AND have to do it all…I would especially like to see help with the financial burden of women struggling with alcoholism/addictions. Having gone through it myself, the financial fears can be unbearable at times!! Many women who could benefit from your educational programs don’t even have access to computers. … FYI, I work with those cute little old ladies you were talking about & some of them are still way cool!
“The best way to experience freedom around money is to dive head first into the subject and start getting honest about where you’re at and where you want to go.” Ahh, but it’s not easy being this honest!
Thinking about money always brings up a straight-from-the-gut fear reaction. I grew up poor and always had the fear that there would never be enough from a very young age. Or, as Dooce puts it, “The world will end and we will all die homeless and naked.”
Type A personality? I don’t know. Even at my most successful and abundant moments I’m at that point with money; thinking small, acting small, just trying not let the fear take over.
Every day I’m focusing on how to be abundant- which a lot of times has nothing to do with finance, to rewire my brain and stop a very deep ingrained fear reaction from becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy.
I’d like to be comfortable with having money so that I can make more money. Does that make sense? It’s a weird dynamic.
Great video! Personally, I have had a pension since I was 25. This was largely circumstance rather than foresight – my father died when I was sixteen and we struggled financially after that, so for me, money isn’t necessarily the key to happiness, but it is the vehicle that creates choice. Why choose the toad when you can buy your own castle. Besides, Prince Charming Economics just don’t work, so a gal has to save for a rainy day…
My maxim has always been that I would make my own money, rather than marry it! And to respond to today’s challenge…if I could change the world of women and money, I’d love to make networking and personal finance a compulsory subject in schools, so the next generation of female entrepreneurs are confident about their own worth in the world.
So often while putting all your money back into our business, investing is overlooked. Thanks for reminding me to put something away for a rainy day.
I already have a Roth IRA – yeah:) however – I need to set up the curve ball account – great idea! love it
At 24, I got married and, just as my mother did, let my husband do all the boring finances. At age 40 I finally started to realize he had been spending above our means since the beginning. It was bad. I tried talking about it, getting a financial advisor, cutting up credit cards, but nothing worked. He wasn’t going to change. He was too busy keeping up with the Joneses. I spent years nagging and worrying about money. I felt I couldn’t leave because of the kids and because I could not support myself financially. Now, at age 49, I have filed for divorce. I’m finally going to jump off the Titanic. I can manage the small (currently) amount of money I earn better than he can manage the large amount of money we earn. I can beat myself up about all the financial mistakes I have made and the stupidity of trusting my husband with my financial future, or I can educate myself and prove my worth. It’s pretty scary stuff I am dealing with – literally six figures in debt and no assets – but amazingly I have never felt more empowered because I am moving forward.
I’ve subscribed to DW for about a year and it’s one of the first things I read as I scan my inbox. Great advice in plain English. A lot of people have commented on educating our children about finances early and I can’t agree more. I wish someone had done it for me. And now I plan to include my two teenagers in the process of educating myself.
Keep it comin’ ladies!
Great interview. Just last week I signed up to receive my Daily Worth. Great advice: simple, to the point and on the ball. I feel I’m a newbie when it comes to investment and managing my money. So much to learn. I love the advice about the Curve Ball Account, although right now I’m having a hard time saving . I’m happy thought, that years ago I opened a Whole Life plan and have been putting a little bit there. I’m also putting a little bit in my Roth 401K. Guess that’s a beginning. I do believe that the conversation about women earning more and having their own businesses and how that affects there relationships is something that still needs attention.
As usual, I love your videos! Love it. Well produced, fun and just the right about of wit and information. Love your work!
Women live a life they love. Whatever it is. That women live a life of their own design.
I looooooove this video. Such an important conversation. In the future “ladies be makin’ bank” world, I want more women OWNING their ambitions and drive so that they can spread love and support around the world by GIVING BACK and supporting causes that are important to them.
Hey….great vid!!! I was TOTALLY clueless about investing…and I laughed when you guys broke down IRA…that used to be me! Until I landed a job at a value investment firm as the receptionist and I learned a lot! One of the books that all of my bosses had on their book shelf was The Millionaire Next Door. Excellent read! It’s not a “get quick rich book” …might sound like it from the title…but a study of millionaires and how they spend there money. It is really practical info….even how they train their children so as not to be dependent on them financially as adults.
Anyhow…thought you or the other ladies might find it a good read.
Awesome video! Super useful and very easy to understand
I love the idea of having a “curve ball” account, I’m going to open one up this week! I have never really thought of myself as being able to empower myself financially, but this video inspired something inside of me that knows I can!! I feel like this is the first step in my own financial empowerment and freedom, and I wish the same for ALL women 
Thank-you Marie and Amanda!
Great job on the video Marie! I would love for this subject to go viral! I was in a marriage for 17 yrs with an attorney raising our 5 children, I definitely felt under his financial control. When he walked out it was my wake up call, I started my own business and am following my passion so please ladies…do not wait..do it now!! Back on my feet with eyes wide open!
Thanks Marie and Amanda for great advice!
Not to be a downer but I got these statistics off of the UN Woman’s website: http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_against_women/facts_figures.php
Among women aged between 15 and 44, acts of violence cause more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, violence against women devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.
It takes many forms and occurs in many places — domestic violence in the home, sexual abuse of girls in schools, sexual harassment at work, rape by husbands or strangers, in refugee camps or as a tactic of war.
Femicide
In the United States, one-third of women murdered each year are killed by intimate partners.
In South Africa, a woman is killed every 6 hours by an intimate partner.
In India, 22 women were killed each day in dowry-related murders in 2007.
In Guatemala, two women are murdered, on average, each day.
Trafficking
Women and girls comprise 80 percent of the estimated 800,000 people trafficked annually, with the majority (79 percent) trafficked for sexual exploitation.
Thank you Marie for teaming up with Amanda at Dailyworth.com to spread empowering information to woman about wealth building, saving and investing. When we look at what is going on all around the world to our fellow woman – we can recognize that through embracing and embodying our FULL AMBITION that we woman can make a major difference in the world – especially in the lives of other woman. Guatemala is one of the most beautiful countries I have ever traveled to. The culture and people are amazing – and I was so shocked to learn on NPR that one of leading causes of death to woman is by being murdered by their husbands.
My vision is to be brave, bold and take action to grow my business as big as I can to help empower woman in countries where they most need assistance, help fund clean energy technology and preserve and protect forests around the world. I guess I better get back to work! I could go on and on…. : ) Lots of love woman! Keep playing full out the world needs you to! Hugs Bella xo
LONG day at work…. I meant women : )
Stoked to know I already intuited the curve ball account plan! Great tips.
Hi, Marie–The idea of “the money you either have or don’t have” is one which shows most folks’ ignorance of the nature of money. Money is stored-up energy, denominated in agreed-upon units for use in commerce and trade, yet at its base all we can do is be stewards of money. We attract to ourselves the experiences we [Souls] need in order to learn more of the operation of the divine laws which govern the physical vibrational state in which our physical bodies exist. Money is powerful yet neutral, while the emotions we express or do not express about that money color our relationships with money, with ourselves, and with other people. Freedom begins with the practice of the attitude of gratitude, and of being in a position similar to “third person universal,” in which one views life and its foibles from a state above the activity which seems to engage us. Attachment to money will drown us every time…
Definitely out of my league here, but totally willing to jump on in and begin to learn. Signed up for Daily Worth, thank you ladies!
As for ETrade is this a good website for us Canadians?
As well, if we’re setting up an IRA, why not just use a bank account instead? Perhaps we’ll get all investment savvy with Daily Worth and learn how?
Hope so!
All great tips. I especially like the tip about owning our ambition. I definitely need to get more comfortable with that. Dream big or go home!
Well, tonight I am afraid to watch this video. My partner just found out that we are in serious credit card debt. I tried to finance a new business with own earnings and credit cards, and although we both work really hard at what we do, the funds have not come in. I still feel that we are on the cusp of success, but we may have to give up our entrepreneurial dreams to get simple jobs that hopefully pay $8 an hour. Any advice would be appreciated.
Persist, Karen. So many stop just on the cusp of success – AND…you say you FEEL it right now. Don’t give up.
Marie and Amanda,
Thanks for another rockin video! Since I already have an IRA and GNO “girls night out” savings account, I’ll just share my vision for a future of women leaders. I believe that with a world with women leading, we will empower others, support them, and nurture future generations to their fullest potential. I particularly want to see young women and teens gaining greater confidence in their dreams and goals. It will help when they see their mothers and future generations as sexy, bold, and confident female leaders.
I have so much to say on women’s empowerment, alternate currencies, and economics! Thank you so much for this video, Marie and Amanda! This is my life’s work…
I have a vision ~ The End of Money ~ and I’m discovering and developing 8 pathways there. The first is empowering business owners to be in right relationship with their employees, through Leadership Coaching. I help small business owners who struggle finding and retaining staff to attract, interview, and hire superstars who generate brand trust, raving fans, and increased sales.
The 2nd pathway is an evolving perspective on Reciprocity, and I’m excitedly crafting a talk on it for TEDx tryouts next week! (fingers crossed!) The 3rd is redefining Obedience, which is the key to unlocking an infinite storehouse of individual power.
I’m gaining clarity on 5 other ways humanity is moving towards eliminating the “middleman” that is money, and want to share that it’s about healing and mastering our relationship with it and/or about taking the direct route – standing in our full power and calling to us all we need and desire. Our future is evolving from debt-mindedness to our natural state of prosperity and peace.
I’m so excited to be having this convo with all of you and look forward to watching us all blossom!
I haven’t commented in a while, but I always watch each video each week. Today’s video I found highly valuable. Thank you Marie and Amanda.
I was just having a conversation with a younger friend of mine yesterday about how little we learn about managing money / finances in our culture. A change I’d really like to see take place is more fundamental finance classes in school. In particular for high school seniors – like a college prep class. I took algebra, trigonometry & calculus in high school because I was good at math. And, I’ve never applied them in my life since. HOWEVER, a course on balancing a checkbook, understanding interest rates on a credit card, buying a house or car – practical things that all of us will (hopefully) one day get to experience and enjoy – that is something I think would benefit us all.
Thanks for the opportunity to share this.
Hey Marie and Amanda,
Thanks for the empowerment! I would love to see more openness to creating wealth through residual income. 75% of Network marketing businesses are run by women, lets support them. If everyone bought $100 worth of goods or services a month from your girlfriend’s business it would improve a sister’s income significantly. Spread the wealth in your community- It matters.
Owning My Ambition! So glad you spoke to this. Holy crap does it sometimes feel awkward to be a kick-ass business woman with big ideas. Thank you for every bit of this video.
Sooooooooooooooooo important.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo important.
Being in the field of yoga and healthy eating and nutrition…I envision more women taking control of their health instead of waiting till it is too late. We know what we need to do and the information is out there and I am hoping that I can be that someone who can reach girls and women from all backgrounds and empower them to care for themselves more.
Hi Ladies,
I sooooo appreciate this info and content. Actually, before listening to this video I was contemplating whether or not I want to be the next Martha Stewart. A less pretentious, more fun version. Seriously. Possibly the glass of chardonnay I enjoyed after putting my 4 little ones down and before pressing play. However, the thought that keeps popping into my head is that Martha’s kids hate her which leaves me wondering, can I have my ice cream and eat it too? (I don’t like cake) Can I be the spouse, mom, friend, person I want to be and build an empire at the same time? Oy vey. I love what I do, but I would rather make it to my son’s class party than a blogger get-together. Catch my drift?
I’m also an eager B-schooler and cannot recommend the program enough. Totally changing how I see things!
Much Love,
Rae
Hey Rae
You can have your ice-cream and eat it. I’m trying to do the same thing… Except I only have 1 kid.
I hope your husband backs you up. If your partnership is in place and he believes in your dreams and goals, I’d say that that is probably one of the biggest blessings you can have.
You go girl!
The change I’d like to see amongst women (including myself) is the belief in abundance. When we’re broke and struggling it’s hard to think or believe that there we can achieve and have more or do better. I want to see more women feeling empowered and believing that they can achieve more and be wealthier not just financially but mentally.
I also want to see more women role models- I’m talking women who are in charge of their financials and are inspiring others to do the same.
Also love the curve-ball concept and the fact that DW aims to educate women about making better financial decisions. I’ve been a subscriber for quite a while and appreciate the advise that they shared.
“When we’re broke and struggling it’s hard to think or believe that there we can achieve and have more or do better. I want to see more women feeling empowered and believing that they can achieve more and be wealthier not just financially but mentally.”
Yes, yes, and yes! I love the idea of abundance being more than just monetary wealth!
Yes ! How to manage $ was nor taught n schools, I would love 2 c women get out of their comfort zone and start learning & taking control.
We all dream & wish, & if we wouldn’t let $ intimidate us and learn that it’s a tool and not 2 fear it.
I 2 want women 2 feel confident enough n themselves so they don’t feel stuck n an abusive relationship.
Your question to viewers regarding our vision, what we’d like to see change in the world of women and money nagged at me – in a good way! I work in financial services, and I got into that field because of the educational aspect. When people feel they really can have control in their finances, there’s a cool “aha” moment on their faces that I love seeing. And I’ve seen that many women do handle the stress of balancing the household finances. And I’ve also seen women who don’t see their income potential the way I see it; there are a lot of talented women in our world who could be increasing their families’ wealth by pursuing their passions! My short term vision is see women use their talents and passions to take action to supplement their income. I know so many women who I KNOW could make extra income by being intentional with 10 hours of their week. But most of them don’t have enough belief in themselves that they could produce financial results by doing so…..because they’ve never done so before. Long term, I would like to figure out a way to set up a low interest loan program for women entrepreneurs. I feel like even if it’s only a few hundred bucks that someone borrows, there’s a sense of responsibility from the borrower to make something grow from that loan. My goal is that there’s a ripple effect: Women working on their passions produces confidence which spreads to their families, instilling a sense of respect for a “Let’s do this!” mentality with taking smart risks.
Wow! What a great interview. Marie and Amanda – you ladies rock!
Amanda I loved your example of what micro change you’d like to see in the world as a result of women becoming the richer sex. I think women leaving abusive relationships because they are financially independent is super important!
For me I’d like to see women creating kinder more ethical businesses. I’m not saying that men can’t and don’t do it (Hey I love Tom’s Shoes!) HOWEVER I think that woman are more conscious about the ethical aspect and feel a greater connection to it.
I really love the conversation you ladies have started!
P.S. Marie – I love your dress. It’s a gorgeous colour!
I am making it happen, and manifesting more and more every day! I am getting by, slowly paying off my credit card debt, have a shit load of student loans. No one has ever taught me about investing, etc. I am ready to learn and I am STOKED to have found you! Ready for more. Way more!
I LOVE THE DAILY WORTH!
(Please skip to the portion of this comment labeled vision to avoid reading my potentially boring life story ramble. In my defense, I am only 24, so it won’t be THAT long
)
In the third grade, I had a panic attack trying to decide where I wanted to go to college and at the time I was going to be a commercial airline pilot. And I had never been on a plane.
For my high school graduation, I asked for a Roth IRA from my parents. ::feel forehead, check for fever::
I have been a planner since day one. But I also am extremely spontaneous. Unfortunately, I think my spontaneity spawns from my fight or flight mentality, as I mentioned earlier I wanted to fly.
FAST FOREWARD >>>>
I currently work as a graphic designer. I have a BFA in Visual Communication, found out I am more of a brain and problem solver who works well as a discussion leader. Mostly because I ask a lot of questions. And I am less of a “put a bird on it”, sort of person.
I am still searching for the right way (personal fulfillment) to make the right amount of money (cash money rich, baby).
BUT I still know what I would do once I have the POWER of being the richer sex.
VISION:
Repurpose a building into a live-work space for creatives who are willing to work/love/guide non-profit organizations into solutions that allow them to do what they do better, in exchange for living space, experience, and a stipend.*
*Gives me smile tears just thinking about it. There are SO many wonderful organizations, doing wonderful work. How could I choose just one to get involved with?
PS Marie your videos make my day incredibly brighter, thank you!
Hi Ladies, I Love your stuff. I am working
on my own business, independent,
entrepreneurial, looking forward to
realizing my ambitions with no lid! I am
educating people in raising Healthy Happy
children, that have these same can do
anything, Love Life attitude and ideals.
– I had a thought and want to know what
you think… As we know learning from
History is important. One huge thing
history has taught us is. When women
decided we wanted to get into the work
place, do as well now better than men. It
created a world where now women have to
work to make it financially as a family,
both parents have to work leaving the
children to be raised by people, media…
other than themselves. I am excited that
we are finding ways to work from home to
be with our families. — I am afraid if
women are becoming the breadwinners, we
will be raising men that expect us to be
the “be all” for them. When we talk about
getting out of the abusive relationship.
That is what the abusive relationship is
about having control. Can you see this
might play into that. We will create a
world where we won’t have a choice we will
have to be the bread winner, child bearer,
nurturer, everything us women are great
at. Some women want to stay home and raise children in the traditional way. Which being in child development is a very Healthy way to raise children. What will the men do? not all women have the capacity to be able to do it all. Are we taking away our choice once again? — don’t mean to be a bummer but if we don’t address these things they might get out of hand… –please reply!
One my personal goals is to learn more about finance! Based on conversations with my friends, I agree that most women don’t know enough about saving/investing. Actually, I think all people in their 20′s struggle with these concepts. They don’t teach us this stuff in school – we must take the initiative to learn this stuff on our own. Thanks Marie and Amanda for bringing this into our awareness! I signed up for DailyWorth and am excited to get started!
What great information. I am on the Daily Worth band wagon…thanks! Marie you are so inspiring and make everything in my dream world seem obtainable:) much love!
The “Curve Ball” is such a cooler concept than “Savings Account”. I like it and thank goodness I got one because if I didn’t, I would’n be here right now!
Money, investments their both a tricky and sometimes complicated topic for me, as I’m sure with most. So simplifying it in lay terms is a super idea – thank you Marie and Amanda!
My vision – uber big (Marie style), where do I begin?! I’ll narrow down as best as possible; balance rocks and it takes both sexes to make magic (woo-la-la). I’m not a fan of men nor women being favored in the ranks. How about we just BE who we are, use each others strengths, respect one another and work towards being the best we can be – together!
That’s my vision and what I’m talkin’ about – BALANCE!
As a Bschool’er right now, this falls in my lap at the perfect synergistic time! I’m looking for website models and women to show me samples how they are building it big! Like you, Amanda and Marie, want to empower and advance women financially, I am in the process of creating a website that advances and drills down healthy holistic habits. I believe if we start with teaching and inspiring the Mothers and Women of the world we can change us all into healthy happy people who can live to their ultimate potential!
I follow both of you ladies and I think you are great.
From a young age I’ve always been encouraged by my family to think outside of the box and create my own financial security so that I never have to depend on anyone to provide a job for me (employer) or support me (hubby).
Thanks ladies:
Marie – for the inspiring videos
Amanda – for the create and daily worth
While I do have ambition to create an amazing, profitable health coaching business in the future, my ambition right now is to be the best mother I can be to my 4 children and the best wife I can be to my husband who is working to provide this opportunity for us all. Mother is my career at this stage in my life. In this day and time, living debt-free as a single income family of 6 is pretty darn ambitious.
My hope for the future is that women can support each other in whatever decisions we make career-wise.
Um, er, wow. Is it too much to confess that I shed a tear or two? Sooo much emotion and energy tied up in this topic for me.
I’m about to subscribe to Daily Worth and take FULL accountability (no more dabbling and/or head in the sand) for my financial future and ultimately help others do the same.
Thank you Amanda – I can’t wait to get started, and Marie, please continue on with the savvy financial advice & speakers!
Excellent topic w/ women who know what they’re talking about! Thank you for doing this video – would love to see more related videos as well.
The 1 thing that I want to see for women globally? I want women to want more for themselves. To raise their standards and refuse to compromise! To want so much for themselves that they/we take exceptional care of our bodies, and minds. That’s my big vision
Thank you so much, Marie and Amanda — brilliant video! I got so excited thinking about this vision question, and what would I want to see. And Bethanne Wanamaker, you expressed so beautifully a big piece of what I wanted to say! I want to add to that my vision of a world where we want more health and well-being for all of us; a world where the sense of “commonwealth” (which originally meant “common well-being”) is not just revived but actually developed into something we’ve never seen before. Our natural networks-of-support can become something even more vital, beautiful, and powerful.
I love that term commonwealth!! really inspiring…exactly how I feel. There’s no point earning wealth in isolation (what we’ve experienced so far) – our energy could be put to good use, doing the things we love, and then sharing the benefits in a way that supports us all. It’s a holistic vision….love it!
Thanks,
Rose
I have been interested in learning about investing for years, gone to seminars on trading, read a lot of books but I still feel like I don’t know what to do! We have an investment property which was a good learning curve and now I know that there are some better decisions we could have made but I am not sure exactly what we could have done to make it more successful! Looking forward to the emails – have signed up and we already have our ‘curve ball’ account
Thanks for sharing and love the videos Marie!
Hi, loved the video and info it contained. Practical and useful as always. I loo forward to my dailyworth.com emails.
I am surprised to hear that women as supposedly the richer sex when the data I read at an International Womens Day conference still shows less women in senior jobs and those that are being paid less than male counterparts.
I would like to see women and men in all walks of life recognised for their individual worth and what they bring to a job or situation. I also totally applaud and echo Amandas dream that women and children can leave behind unhealthy and abusive relationships without ending up in financial hardship.
We are responsible for our destiny so best we get out there and make it a good one.
My financial ambition is to be able to work at my job as a horse surgeon in a teaching hospital for 10 months of the year then spend a month exploring this gorgeous planet and a month training vets in underpriveleged countries.
I am on the way to this , just need to remind myself of the goal and keep taking steps that way
Thanks for the inspiration.
We were asked at the end what we would like to see change around women and money. I would like to see women’s value as “stay-at-home-moms” and “work-at home-moms” and “working moms” be held up by all women. Through politics, religion and other forces outside of ourselves we are pitted against each other because we chose different things that are right for our families. When we stick together as a gender, we have more power to change policy and to educate. Women are the primary caregivers and bill payers but those things don’t bring in the bacon. Our society doesn’t value the role of caring for family be it children or elderly parents. I would like to see spousal 401K where a working spouse can contribute at the same level for both partners and can split the company match with the spouse. Women traditionally take time out to raise children, earn less and go back into the work force at a lower position because of those choices. She is penalized through lower pay and through not having an income to contribute to a retirement account. (I know there are exceptions with the RothIRA).
I would like to see mom’s support other mom’s who also have ambitious goals/dreams related to business. I see so much cutting down of moms who have ambitious goals, and I really think its possible to be there for our kids and go out and live our dreams too!
My vision is to help women feel more connected to their bodies. Many women spend their money on shopping, massages, eating out, and other garbage to feel good. But these happy feelings are false truths and once these highs are over, they don’t feel happy. They also feel poorer.
In turn they project their insecurities to others. I am creating programs that will give women the tools to never feel overwhelmed in their grocery stores again – regardless of their location, recipes for how to make skin and hair glow without the $$$ prices. My ultimate goal is to help women fall in love with vegetables. I think that adding more vegetables to a diet creates miracles.
One of the reasons I moved to Japan was to learn more about vegetables – this country produces the greatest variety I have ever seen or tasted.
Talk to your vegetables <3
With women as the richer sex I envisage a world lead by people that trust “inner wisdom” over an intellectual society that’s become so clever it seems to be destroying its’ sanity, health and the planet.
I will be setting up my two accounts and working from there. I can see how success and wealth have held me back. Last year I put out to the universe that I wanted to increase sales and the orders started rolling in and it overwhelmed me. Exhausted, I sabotaged things a bit and have been feeling annoyed at my partner ever since for not being my Prince!
Thanks for this insight.
Juicy question! I want to see a world where women know their own value so they can assert themselves in finding work/income that they love, for exactly the reason Amanda talked about – so they do not have to stay in an abusive relationship or live a life dependent on others due to finances – which can impact where they live, self-esteem, access to networks etc.
I also know some friends (in their late twenties/early thirties) who work as professionals in law, accounting, teaching etc, who are financially independent, yet who all are hoping a man/husband will come along so they don’t have to work anymore as they hate their jobs. For this reason, I want women to find work they love, have fulfilling careers that they want to do whether single or coupled up.
I envision women being smart with their wealth and re-investing surplus wealth into the economy to other groups and individuals that need financial support and education, maybe others that are in the same field/interest. So I make shoes, and if £1 (i’m in England!) for every pair of shoes sold goes back into an account to fund free local shoe making workshops, or younger designers coming up, then we can all feel part of the same movement. If money is a kind of energy then we may as well make it a positive one, and let go of the negativity surrounding it that was what a lot of us were born in to and witness currently. So we see money as an extension of our nature of nurturing, sharing, giving and receiving once we’ve understood and mastered it for ourselves on a micro level, as I also believe that if we don’t know and feel the positive effect of receiving money and our value for what we offer first then we can’t help ourselves or others enough. Step by step we can get there together…exciting times!
“Curveball” account. great idea. I’ll take care of that today. One change that I would like to see in the world is women embracing their physical strength more. As an 18 year veteran fitness professional, I continue to see much less women at the gym than men, and with less consistency. The motivation behind starting an exercise program is still stuck in what I believe to be a weak reason or “why.” For example: a wedding, vacation, or some occasion where you’re expected to wear clothing that “shows more.” I would love to see more women fill themselves up with exercise as a moving meditation to help ignite their inner power (and intuition) as it reflects itself in the outer. That’s one thing I’d love to see. Love you Marie! Keep it coming!
This was really interesting. Thanks Marie! I was just thinking/blogging about women sometimes act as under dogs when they can totally rock on as top dogs. I’d love to hear other people’s perspectives on this. I wish I cold just replace everyone’s freaked out little voice with super brave loud voice that constantly tells them ‘you can do this’
I have a short term vision of being able to afford MORE child care so that my talents and efforts aren’t wasted on cooking, cleaning, and laundry. Damn!
I just signed up at DailyWorth.com, I already have an IRA, and I am getting ready to pitch that curveball:)
I renamed my own individual checking account the “Curveball” account, and my own savings is the “Goddess Account”, my stash just for me.
I Want to see both women and men stand up and tell the world and universe and their partner what they want, what their ambition and deepest most ardent desire and back it!
I would like to see people waste less so that others can live better in our world.I heard of a person spending $3800.00 on a vet bill and we have people in the world that are not eating. Can we change this? How can we change this? Live simply so others can simply live.
I have fund raiser parties instead of gift giving parties. That my small contribution. What is yours?
I would also like to see more of that. In Russia, I see this crazy difference in finances among people very often: one woman buys her second LV purse and another woman can’t even afford to buy necessities!
Wow thanks Marie,
I almost got tears to my eyes and felt like this was God-sent. For the longest I envisioned and dreamed of being the bread-winner in my family. And in past relationships the guys seemed to have a problem with this concept, although I didn’t make more money than them.
Just last week my boyfriend and I were discussing finances and I asked him would it hurt his pride if i made more money than him. He said, No. I explained to him that was my vision for to be the bread-winner as well as other financial goals and life plans for my future as well as a future together.
The greatest feeling is knowing in my heart that it would not bother him. He is very supportive of my dreams and encourages me to reach my goals.
With him being an entrepreneur as well we are always thinking about saving for our future so I will share the knowledge i learn from Daily Worth with him.
Also, I want mothers (and parents in general) to start talking about finances with their kids from the moment they are able to grasp the concept of money. Get Real with your kids sharing your mistakes and successes, allow them to gain knowledge from both.
This is one thing my parents did not do with me. Although, I cant blame my parents for my financial mistakes; and thank goodness i learned them early on in life. I can make a difference and begin sharing my financial experience with the youth in my family.
Wow – this is such a big topic for me. I’m not an out-of-control spender, I’m just clueless when it comes to my overall finances. (And am embarrassed to say – even when it comes to my business!) However, I’m determined to change all of that this year.
My $ goals include:
- understanding what we have and where we have it
- basic understanding (then build from there) so I can have an intelligent conversation with my husband (and confidently stand up for self / make decisions)
- make my business financially successful (THANK U RHH B-SCHOOL!!)
I’ve taken a few steps so far including:
- meeting with our financial advisor (both w/ husband & again by myself),
- using Quicken (amazing – why did I wait so long?!)
- taking RHH B-Sch (this was huge – for business only have been purchasing what I have $ for – didn’t have for this but w/o doubt knew I needed / wanted / had to (a big standing up for self personal thing) – and 1/2 way through course, best investment ever.
Oh, and signed up for Daily Worth! Thank you Marie & Amanda!!!
My future vision is when women have more financial power, they won’t have to stay in bad relationships. And, more importantly, that will lead to men TREATING THEM BETTER as a result. Financial well-being equals to respect in a lot of men’s minds and respect is huge in relationships. I see a lot of women stuck with their men just because they are afraid to leave and be on their own financially and that just sucks. Relationships should not be based on that! So, I would really like to see more of that in the future…
Marie,
Just a silly comment about the very first sentence in your intro to the video — about how you lighten your work load in summer and that you like to garden: that is so sweet! Gardening is a beautiful thing, as well as cooking, etc — anything where we get away from our keyboards and computer screens and do something real.
Thanks for sharing that — it just made me smile.
Great stuff, girls!
Can you recommend an analogue of Roth IRA for not Americans? I’m a Russian expat in China.
Love you
I feel so empowered after watching this week’s video. Being the richer sex is something I have been struggling with in my marriage. I have been the primary breadwinner for several years now and have found myself becoming resentful of it. Weird right? I realize now that it’s just an old belief of, like you said, being “saved” by my prince charming.
The world is changing and I am changing with it. The time has come for us ladies to drop those old beliefs that no longer work, or serve us. I am ready to embrace my ambition!
I also am ready to open a Roth IRA and focus more on saving!
Thank you Marie and Amanda.
My wish for women to consider when they “rule the world”…HEALTHCARE.
Real, universal healthcare for all. Accessible to everyone, at reasonable (Japan) or universal (ie: Canada, UK) cost.
Being healthy is a right, not a privilege. It’s not meant to be voted on and our current president is not offering anything good enough, either. As long as men are in charge, they will never understand this. (They also don’t have an entire aisle at the grocery store for themselves to contend with!)
I so always need the information and direction (support) from your shows Marie! It just seems like they are directed right to my life when I need them! Love this one!! and Maston!! AWESOME!!! Hope to meet you in person some day! In all seriousness THANK YOU for what you do. Your information has directly helped me move forward in my business dreams and most of all I don’t feel alone. Sincerely, Gina
Such an awesome idea! My desires for change in the world are similar to what you discussed on a macro level. My husband and I have a dream of building beautiful housing for mothers who need shelter, especially those who are coming out of abusive relationships. Part of the deal would be gardening and teaching women how to cook and prepare healthy foods for themselves and their kids. This is a great union of my work as a nutritionist and detox counselor as well as my husband’s 10 years of construction work.
On the micro level, I would love for my husband not to have to work so much so that we can both work from home for the most part, and so he can spend more time with our amazing nearly 13 week old daughter.
Great subject!
I don’t have a financial/business background and do have the subconscious brain relics that put the brakes on handling (and even thinking about) money efficiently and building your own wealth. I haven’t done great so far but this is all about to change now!
Here are my action steps:
- deconstruct unconscious beliefs/habits/prohibitions inherited from family and cultural background
- subscribe to dailyworth
- get educated about investing money
- open IRA account
Thank you so much Marie and Amanda, this was really empowering and fun! Much love
Great thanks girls loved this, the whole money topic is difficult but add dyslexia in to the mix and its ..what the heck are all these letters standing for ?? I loved how accessable yoou make your information thank you.
I would love for the woman in the west that are making the money to help free their sisters who are being sentenced to lives in the sex trade ,it is happening and it has to stop ,and it will take woman to champion their cause !
Hi Elena,
I totally agree, to help women and children who are kidnapped and forced into the sex trade – it will take empowered woman to help put an end to such a horrific epidemic. It is great that this is part of a discussion in a community of such empowered women! Thanks Elena for your thoughts.
I like this video a lot. I started my own business 10 years ago and also started a Roth IRA – I kept 20K in my ‘curveball’ fund…. Then I got divorced and moved to be with the love of my life and it is all gone – all that ambition and drive and such – which I am trying to get back. I am not sure how this happened, but it has to do with something in women that defers emotionally? If anyone has insights how this happens, I would love to read! I am slowly getting back to it – and this reminds me to contribute to my Roth IRA again, build up my curve ball fund and be ambitious in my business again
Awesome topic, great info. I have never thought about opening my own IRA but it makes me feel more empowered just thinking about it.
If my Mom could have felt this empowered or just a tad empowered with money my family could have been much different. So please keep it going! You Rock!!!! Empower all women. : )
Thank you!!!!
Would just like to put in a recommendation for 2 things that have helped me on my financial path…
For personal finances, I’ve always been very good about managing my money (even though that meant dealing with a ton of student loan debt, etc.), but there was a real shift in being able to see that debt go down (even though slowly) when I switched from using Quicken to using YNAB. It’s not about the product here — it’s about following the philosophy. Google YNAB & check it out.
(Would also be curious to hear what Amanda thinks about how the YNAB buffer concept compares to the curveball account concept.)
For the business owners out there… I set up a 401K for my employees for the first time this year. Because it’s super important to me that any investments go towards socially responsible companies, I set this up through SocialK, with a manager from Green Retirement Plans. They’ve been fantastic, and for anyone considering this, I give them big thumbs up.
I don’t get anything at all for recommending these things — just wanted to share.
I also just signed up for Daily Worth, and I really look forward to seeing how those tips can help me reduce my debt further & faster!!
Subscribed to daily worth and am about to do some cleaning up of accounts/investments and actually put some money in to the curve ball account.
Thanks for reminding me to not give my power away….
Hi Marie,
Loove this video. Thanks for making it. I will be signing up for Daily Worth and funding my IRA this year, it’s gone neglected for cute shoes recently.
p.s. great dress!
Wow! This video represents and highlights what Infinitely Wealthy Women is about and why I do what I do! IWW is European so focus on the same things but from the £ and Euro perspective!
Makes me know I am on the right track with both Butterfly Wealth Creation and Infinitely Wealthy Women! It is time we become financially savvy! And get confident about making our money work hard for us!
Love it! Thanks MF for this vid!
Thanks ladies, GREAT video
)) My vision, that all women feel free to pursue their hearts desire, pretty vague but if those becoming wealthier help support those who are the most challenged (microlending is awesome!), think how we can change the world!!!!!!
I love you both for being so empowering to other women!
I actually believe that with more women in powerful places all over the world, that we would see less war, civil unrest and essentially a more peaceful world. The Middle East and Asia are so far behind in terms of empowering women and it starts with the education of women. Check out ‘Because I am a girl’ – becauseiamagirl.ca. This is their mission!
I have big plans for a small but very profitable business. I am a stay at home mom but plan to start my business when the kids are in school. I get that nagging feeling that I shouldn’t go too big in case it upsets my husband!!! It’s crazy! He’s right behind me and yet I put this on myself…..just like you Marie!
Thanks to you both!
I’m so glad you held this interview Marie because women don’t think about the necessity of their financial security especially when they transition into the role of entrepreneur.
The other thing I find with my clients is that they have absolutely no idea what they need to make in order to leave their job and run their business. They don’t factor in insurances and they don’t think about how you can cut down on some of their expenses too. Having spent years working with a financial planner I queue in on this aspect and really make my clients pay attention the their money in and money out as well as start a nest egg.
Thanks for sharing info about the Daily Worth. Great resource!
Jeannie
Thanks for making this video! I am so happy to hear people talk about personal responsibility. I would like to see consumer ed and home economics be brought back to middle schools and high schools. I did not enjoy the classes when I had to take them, but looking back on them they were the best! Some of my favorite recipes to make now are the ones my sister or I got in a home ec class in middle school in the 1980′s.
Hi Amanda! On Etrade, should I sign up for cash only or one of the trading options? Thanks.
11:35-11:40 was hilarious, and the most magical moment of synchronicity that I’ve seen in a long time. Absolutely amazing!
Earning fabulous money is still a new concept for me – it took me a few years to get over my money “stuff” and I’m just learning new things all the time.
For now, I invest money back into my business and I do have a small savings account, but I’m always looking to push myself into new spaces energetically around my money, so this is great! Off to sign up to DailyWorth, I’m really looking forward to it!
xx Denise
This is was so right on. I definitely could be better with money and when you mention “investing” I just get a big question mark over my head. I signed up for DailyWorth and will be opening my two accounts (brilliant idea by the way). I appreciate you talking about money and women it’s such an important topic, however my biggest take away was not being afraid of your ambition. I love that Marie still admits that a voice says “what will Josh say? is that too big?”. I really need to meditate on that. I have a great man by my side that supports everything I do, but I have that voice. I now feel like I have permission to put it in check once and for all! Thank you sistas!! xoxo
Aaaaaaa! I LOVE this video!!! Starting two accounts – $500 Curveball account and at least $100 IRA (whatever the IRA means ….) I signed up to receive Daily Worth while I was watching! I am so excited about this whole video! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!! Met a need – thank you so much!
Hey Marie, I’ve been watching your videos for a little while now and this is the first time I’ve really felt moved to comment. I think this is such an important area, even though I personally struggle to keep focused or even vaguely interested in finance! I’ve signed up to DailyWorth and am looking forward to more advice. The change I’d like to see in the world as a result of women becoming the richer sex is that we’d spend less money on obsessive beauty products (and procedures) and sprawling wardrobes and more investing into causes that eradicate poverty and inadequate education.
I’m the forerunner of the Boomers and did have the ‘curve ball’ and investment accounts, plus I was a big saver, but I limited my ambition.
However, over these decades and even though I suppressed my ambition, I did achieved the goals I set by using a technique that works for me.
I visualize what I want.
When I wanted to run a marathon on the Great Wall of China. I put a photo where I would see it everyday. Every time, and I mean every time, I had a doubt I would snap my mind to that image.
As told in two of my BOBBblog stories, “VW Beetle, aka, The Bug” and “Zero To 60 In 38 Years”, I drove that ’69 VW Bug because I wanted that Corvette. I set up a savings account to pay for the Vette, I had the photo on my wall, I snapped my mind.
But even with this discipline I stopped myself from going after financial independence.
Now, in my ‘retirement years’ I’m launching a new business; I’m still using my image technique, but this time I’m using it to ward-off the voice that slithers into my thoughts saying, “a powerful women is less desirable.”
Oh, yeah, just watch me now, because I Desire to be Powerful . . . and financially independent.
Wow, the universe never ceases to surprise me. I always love it when I’m subconsciously thinking about something (investing) and the delivers the information I want!!
Thanks for opening the door Marie:)
I love all the people you interview great advice! Just signed up for dailyworth.com. I can’t wait to learn weekly tips.
I personally feel the guys in this generation do not have problems with the women making more money I am in my mid/late 20′s but feel my parents generation see it as more of an issue. I already told my mom that I am going to be the breadwinner in the future no matter who I marry and she seems to take more offense to that than guys I have encountered. It is just educating them that we can make money for ourselves and will without the help of the guy “rescuing” us as you stated above.
I am 49. My mom is still alive. I have always been the stronger personality of the 2 of us. What I have observed (in years past) is that when I think I am just making a decision for me, or my children, that is different from her decisions/wishes, that she perceives it as a judgement on her choices. Perhaps your mom thinks that your stated design of being strong and independent is an indictment of her choices and decisions. Parents so want to be more important than they actually are. I guard against this dynamic in my relationship with my own grown children.
I started my business while on maternity leave with baby #2. Rock on Amanda!
I enjoy what you guys tend to be up too. This sort of
clever work and coverage! Keep up the very good works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to my personal blogroll.