In early 2020 I was totally lost. I was a mid career professional making the best money of my life at a well recognized global brand, living paycheque to paycheque, feeling resentful of rich people and the ‘system’, almost 7 years behind in my taxes, and in a cycle of consumer debt that I would accumulate and then pay off with small wind falls like bonuses or cash gifts. As if that weren’t enough I was officially ‘mid life’ and had no idea how to manage my ‘retirement’ savings, what I would need to get there and what was between me and that point. I felt helpless and fearful. I was ‘at the effect’ of the financial system and in total victim mode when it came to my finances. My MO was: If I didn’t look, I wouldn’t see how bad it was, and that ‘somehow’ it would all work out.

Well that ‘somehow’ was me. I decided to invest in myself and my relationship with money and in 3 short months I was transformed. I was feeling empowered, knowledgeable, CLEAR on where I was going, and I was assisting in the money program I had just completed. In 10 months, the course had paid for itself with as I had diverted the cost of the course into my savings. That was the monetary benefit. The 'priceless' benefits were that I was caught up on my taxes (stress and shame GONE), doubled the amount I was investing to secure my future, tripled my charitable contributions, was living comfortably within my means with money available for my life in the year ahead, and found my calling.