We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power

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Rodgers’ mission is to teach women—especially women of color—how to end the cycle of overworking, underearning, and financial stress, once and for all. And so, something changes in me. Something shifts. I have a new determination set in. And I say to myself, this will never, ever happen again. I will never, ever be in a situation where somebody else decides what's happening for my family. Where somebody else has control over my financial situation. And this is just never going to happen again. I am changing things. Never, ever again.

My guess is that you're going to find out that you've been leaving a lot of money on the table, because you think you're not enough. And I'm here to tell you, you are You're enough.I'm working on becoming a genius at money, and have thus far felt most comfortable getting financial information from women, because, hello. I don't know about you, but I grew up with essentially no financial literacy education and have no evidence that men are particularly interested in women getting better at this. Instead, it was loaded with endless case studies of people through the ages, and the constant reminder that women/minorities are oppressed and have been for centuries and that’s why we are behind and how mad we are and how unfair all that is. ALL TRUE, but I didn’t really need that reminder. I signed up to learn practical and productive wealth building skills, NOT read through hours of social-justice-lite, or be told that deciding to hire people so I don’t have to do things myself is a million-dollar-decision. Why most of the financial advice you’ve heard in the past (like “skip your daily latte to save money”) is absolute, patriarchal nonsense. Books by life coaches turned authors do not normally appeal to me, but a few trusted resources mentioned this book, so I gave it a try despite being turned off by everything about it at first glance.

Insert old white guy, the branch manager. And I go stand in the spot, out of the way, right? Because I'm like waiting for him to come talk to me, and I'm all awkward in the bank. Like, people are coming and going, I'm trying to be unnoticed. And I'm just trying to get my story together and feeling really, I don't know, like, almost a little embarrassed and, you know, trying to think of what I'm going to say. The first part of this book is a story about her life, one which I found no interest in. We all have hard lives but this means nothing to how we become wealthy other than the motivational factor that we never want to be in a bind again where money is missing.

Summary:

The Growth Scale framework makes this membership relevant to business owners at all stages by placing you in one of seven levels depending on your starting point…anywhere from just starting out to to already owning a multi-million dollar business. We Should All Be Millionaires details a realistic, achievable, step-by-step path to creating the support, confidence, and plan you need to own your success and become the millionaire the world needs you to be. Rachel is the host of The Hello Seven Podcast and founder of We Should All Be Millionaires: The Club, an online network for professional women. Her forthcoming book, We Should All Be Millionaires from HarperCollins Leadership will be released in Spring 2021. An eye-opening history lesson on how women and people of color have been shut out of the ability to build wealth for centuries - and how we can fix this.

So! There’s a lot to like about this book. Take away the money focus & you have a strong, inspiring self-help about getting rid of shame and respecting yourself. I especially liked her bit about debt - debt represents all the ways you care about others and yourself. And you shouldn’t be embarrassed about caring. You have things to say, you have opinions. And you should say them, stop hiding and stop trying to do things like everybody else, right? Like, if you do it like everybody else, you don't stand out, right? Your clients are going to keep scrolling. Women, especially those from marginalized groups, who want to build wealth through entrepreneurship. Jealousy can be a positive thing. It’s usually a signal of exactly we want for ourselves: What we are jealous of. Even if it’s the ambition to get the thing. A more accurate summary would say “advice on taking better care of yourself, make common sense decisions, not running yourself ragged, listening to other people’s stories, and getting mad/depressed over social justicey sh*t all over again.” All of which are FINE subjects, but those books have been written before en masse, and are severely less compelling than what is advertised. I'm not an idiot, I know that reading one book won't make you a millionaire, but this is just another coachey fluff-fest in a whole sea of them, really.

Reasons to Join:

boys get talked to more about making money and investing while girls are talked to about saving money and being careful with it. Lots of sweeping generalizations like “boys get paid more money than girls for doing the same chores at home.” Does that scare you? I want to challenge you to decide, what is my main thing? What is my one thing that I really want to do and go all in on that? Okay? Because here's what happens. You're doing too much, and therefore you're known for nothing. People don't know what you stand for. They don't know what you do. They don't know who you are. Okay? All this being said, there is also quite a bit of promotion of her own services, and for that I drop a star. It feels close enough to MLM self-promotion and prosperity gospel for me to not feel great about recommending this one. Now that you’ve identified these obstacles, learn to remove them by paying close attention to your thoughts. Notice each time one of these narratives pops into your head. When it does, replace it with something more useful.