Steph Wagner

is we have to also recognize that it's not just this idea of money is always there and circulating and we can always earn it.

We've got to get the tools to be able to use our money to work for us.

And that's part of being in a growth or abundance mindset too.

So that's critical because, and those are things like ask yourself, right?

If you're sitting here right now, wherever you are with your relationship with money,

Do you like to get in the game or are you more comfortable to sit on the sideline and watch other people?

Well, that's the difference between abundance and scarcity, right?

But how do you go and unleash your power if it's trapped inside of you in fear?

And I remember a story, if I can share this, and it's not in the book actually, but I remember as I was building and I had hired my team, who's going to manage what little wealth I had, honestly, out of this divorce.

It wasn't much.

In fact, I think I cashed in a lot of favors to have them take me on as a client.

And I was trying to figure out what am I going to do to earn anything?

I was so afraid.

And this good friend who happened to take me on said, Steph, you got to stop.

Like, you got to stop playing life small.

You got to stop operating out of fear because that's Steph that got into private equity, that, you know, tackled raising kids the way she did early on in her career, all in.

She's never going to come back.

and you're too young, right?

You've got too much opportunity in the world to take advantage of.

And it was a real moment of, you got a choice, you know, and it was an intentional shift.