Smart Woman's Guide: The Money Belief Formula

Mindset + Behavior = Financial Success: Transform Your Habits and Win with Wealth

By: Susan M. Diamond

Narrated by: Teena Katz

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

Is your mindset sabotaging your ability to win with wealth?

Transform your life with Smart Woman's Guide: The Money Belief Formula, a critical strategy to achieve financial success by examining money beliefs and behaviors and altering one's attitude about money.

Money is present in every aspect of your life. As a result, focusing on the "money side" of economic literacy/financial capability will not improve your financial situation. For success, self-awareness and financial awareness are both required.

The more you understand the where, why, when, and how of your money thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes, the more likely you are to connect to your money, to recognize the need for better financial habits, and to make better financial choices.

In other words, one's thoughts and beliefs influence one's actions. Money is a result of our actions, not the other way around. Financial success can be yours if you have the proper mindset and technique.

The money belief formula is a proven approach that can help you:

• Develop your financial foundation
• Foster the habits needed to win with wealth
• Substitute positive beliefs for the negative ones
• Change mindset perspective from dollars and cents to habits and actions
• Identify and dispel some of your irrational fears and doubts
• Identify ways to reinforce the new beliefs you've developed. Why that sabotage is causing problems in your life (and what to do about it)
• Better handle difficulties
• Decrease stress levels
• Produce a long-term change that creates successful actions based on confidence rather than worry or uncertainty
• Permeate an environment more conducive to health and wellness

The book outlines a few simple steps involved: Self-talk (money affirmations), a positive outlook, and a plan of action are all part of the AAA Principles of Change (Awareness, Acceptance, and Action), which also include exercises to help you become more conscious of your thought processes. In addition, activities and worksheets are provided in each chapter to help you put what you've learned into practice.

To achieve your definition of success, you must first break the money taboo and empower your money relationship. Until and unless behavior changes, nothing changes.

In Smart Woman's Guide: The Money Belief Formula, author, podcaster, money coach, and founder Herfinance Club Susan M. Diamond, MSW, CFSW, takes traditional money management to a whole new level by engaging the creative side of the brain in financial wellness, which includes looking at how you feel about money and how you relate to it. She outlines a simple, step-by-step process for getting started on creating your financial foundation for winning with wealth.

Susan has spent the last several years blending the latest research and compressed the most recent industry opinions from neuroscience, transformative learning, and psychosocial techniques into concepts and tools to help you improve your results with money.

It makes no difference where you are in your financial development, how much expertise you have, or how much cash you have in the bank. No one ever achieves ultimate financial success without first working on their relationship with money.

Smart Woman's Guide: The Money Belief Formula is the key to understanding how your habits influence your money mindset. Your mindset plays a big role in money, and it's often how we feel about our financial situation that dictates whether you create bad habits or sustain good ones. Our mindset is the foundation to building wealth.

You have the power to alter the way you feel, think, act, and relate to money. As soon as you do so, the money magic begins! Are you ready to get started?

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Susan M. Diamond (P)2022 Susan M. Diamond

Helpful and actionable advice for your finances

Understanding your finances and articulately your emotions around money is a critical part of changing the outcome. I think this audiobook does a great job of covering these topics. While I didn’t enjoy the narrator’s voice so much, she was clear and easy to understand.

Baskerville Book Reviews

This audiobook is a pass for me. While there’s some slightly useful advice included, it feels like it’s the introduction to a book rather than a book indented to help people. An entire chapter is dedicated to “prosperity phrases”. No amount of saying “I am….” is going to solve your issues, you need solid financial advice and this just isn’t it for me. A book I previously reviewed “Everyone is an Entrepreneur” did a much better job of giving advice, and elaborating on it and I still use it in my daily life while decision-making as the advice given was extremely useful.

Overall, the narration is good. I just get weird vibes from the narrator. She speaks like she’s trying to recruit members for a club who gathers around once a month to drink flavor aid to be closer to the one true God or something.

NOTE: This copy was provided to me free of charge as a digital review copy. The opinions stated in this review are mine and mine alone, I was not paid or requested to give this book a certain rating, suggestion, or approval.