You Are a Badass at Making Money

CHAPTER 7
FAITH AND GRATITUDINAL GOLD
magine that some sort of Grand Pooh-Bah Master of the Universe came
down from the heavens and informed you that all the riches you desired
were in a warehouse down the street, and were totally 100 percent
guaranteed to show up in your life, if you kept diligently working toward
them: the money, the dream house, the thriving new business, the killer
speaking career, your foundation fund to help the homeless, your mortgage
payments, the certified, authentic tube top that Pat Benatar wore on her In
the Heat of the Night tour that you saw on eBay, all of it.
How would you show up in life if this was the case? If you weren’t
distracted by feelings of doubt and worry niggling away in the back of your
mind that maybe it wasn’t going to happen for you after all?
You’d probably be more relaxed, more excited, you’d enjoy your work
more—tweedily twee twee—you’d be more playful, positive, generous,
grateful. You’d say things like, “When I get my boat I’ma let you drive it!”
you’d invest whatever terrifying amounts of money you needed to into your
business, you’d doodle “Me + the Universe = 4ever” on all your notebooks,
you’d leap into new exciting/terrifying opportunities with a grateful
expectation of victory, recover from mistakes more quickly, your words
would be mightier, your swagger would be swaggier. Basically, you’d be
psyched.
The person I just described has the mindset of someone who’s wealthy,
they’ve got all the fixins we’ve been talking about throughout this book so
far. I also just described the mindset of someone who has unshakable faith
in themselves and the Universe.

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Your fortune is in your faith.
Faith is required if you’re going to upgrade from rickety to rolling in it
because faith is the part of us that dares to believe that an unseen, unproven,
and often proven otherwise, brand-new, and awesome reality is within our
grasp. Without faith, aka belief in miracles, what would be the point of
trying to create anything new and grand? We’d take one look around us and
be like, Alrighty, so, I reckon this is as good as it gets. . . . Check, please!
Faith is the rocket that you ride into uncharted territory to get to your
wildest dreams. And it needs to be mighty sturdy because you’re flying
through some crazy stuff, much of which is trying to knock you off course.
The life you’re determined to create depends on your rocket not falling
apart. You’re up against not only your own bonkers beliefs about money,
but you’ll most likely have people hurling their crappy fear, doubt, and
worry at you too like a bunch of wild monkeys. Your faith must be fierce,
fiery, not fuckin’ around. You must believe that everything you desire really
is available to you and that you possess all the tools, power, and permission
to manifest it. Here’s how having faith helps you get rich.
Faith helps you give How the heave-ho. You created the life you’re presently
living by doing what you know how to do, and by being the person you know
how to be. When you make the no-nonsense decision to get rich, you may not
see any solutions or opportunities to make this new kind of money no matter
how hard you look. This is because you’re so busy focusing on what you think
the How should look like that you can’t see the new, unrecognizable How that
the Universe is excitedly wagging in your face. Faith shifts your focus off the
past, your old ways of doing things, and opens you up to new opportunities, new
Hows, that will create a new reality.
For example, when I was a struggling freelance writer, I decided I was going
to get a part-time job that required getting dressed, leaving the house, and
collaborating with other people. I didn’t know what this job looked like or how I
was going to find it, all I knew was that I was serious about making more money,
helping other people, and having a reason to brush my hair.
One day a friend told me about an entrepreneurial think tank that helped
women launch their own businesses. The old me would have instantly passed
up this opportunity for fear of spending the money to join only to sit there, week
after week, looking like a boob with zero ideas for a business. Yet even though it
cost a lot of money for me at the time, and I had no idea how it could lead to me
making any money, something about it just felt right. I was hell-bent on changing
my financial situation, and since this opportunity involved leaving the house and

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hanging out with other people who were investing in getting their shit together, I
forked over the money and joined up.
As I sat there listening to all these women brainstorming their ideas, I still had
no idea for a business of my own, but I realized I’d be awesome at helping them
figure out what to do with theirs. To make a very long story short, I asked the
lady running the group if she needed any help facilitating, she hired me, I began
my first foray into coaching, which led to me starting my own business as a
coach, which led to me making mad money, which led to me sitting here writing
this book.
If, instead of taking a leap of faith, I’d focused on my fear of wasting my
money, of looking like a boob, of not yet seeing how those meetings would lead
to me getting rich, I very possibly would be writing a book on Ten Easy Tips for
Declaring Bankruptcy instead of a book on how to get rich.
You created the financial reality you’re in right now by doing what you’re
doing how you’re doing it—buying into your present excuses and limitations and
working at the same old same old. If you’re serious about creating a new reality,
you must do different things and think different thoughts. Faith allows you to
release the need to know How it’s going to happen, to trust that the way will be
shown, and to take action before having all the answers laid out before you.
Faith raises your frequency. When you trust that your riches are on the way,
instead of biting your nails over the what-ifs and how the hells, you shift your
emotional state from doubt and fear to excited expectation. This shift raises your
frequency, opens you up, and makes you aware of people and opportunities you
weren’t seeing before. This higher frequency also gives you the huzzah to take
action on these new, unknown opportunities when they present themselves,
instead of running screaming in the other direction, no matter how terrifying or
expensive or are you freaking kidding me these new opportunities are (and trust
me, they rarely come in any other form).
Faith helps you shape shift. In order to become the new, richer you, you must
relinquish your attachment to your present/old identity: I’m broke, I hang out with