Patricia Aburdene - Conscious Money: Living, Creating, and Investing with Your Values for a Sustainable New Prosperity

Advance Praise for Patricia Aburdenes

Conscious Money

Conscious Money does for individuals what Conscious Capitalism did for corporations: it articulates a simple, brilliant framework for achieving sustainable financial results, while espousing the highest ideals. Read it, get inspired, and prosper.

John Mackey , coCEO and cofounder of Whole Foods Market

Perfect timing. In an era when most of us question economics as usual, Conscious Money charts a personalized strategy for embracing human values as the cornerstone of sustainable finance. This is a rare and winning blend of inspiration, information, and wisdom. Bravo Patricia Aburdene.

Amy Domini , founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments

Anything Patricia Aburdene writes is of immediate interest to me. In Conscious Money , she shows us why we should reject conventional economic wisdom (greed is good) and grow prosperity by recognizing values like trust and integrity as our greatest financial assets. Passionate and persuasive; read it to make a difference, find fulfillment, and grow conscious wealth.

Stephen M. R. Covey , bestselling author of The Speed of Trust and Smart Trust

Conscious Money translates the profitable business model of Conscious Capitalism into a blueprint for personal finance. Read it, change the way you see, and engage with the world of business, and personally prosper by honoring your values.

Kip Tindell , chairman and CEO of The Container Store

This profound and eminently practical book is pure genius when it comes to money and consciousness. It is not only a superb guide to the release of our money sickness but gives us transformative skills that lead us towards clarity and abundance while enlightening our mind and spirit.

Jean Houston, PhD , author of A Passion for the Possible

We can have a new economic era nowwhere sustainable values and the genius of human consciousness outperform fear and greed. Conscious Money imagines it, presents the evidence for it, and creates a blueprint for achieving it. Nothing could be a more significant contribution to our personal and global healing.

Marianne Williamson , author of Return to Love

Fundamentally, our inner relationship with our moneyhow we feel about our prosperity and the paths weve chosen to reach itis one of the truest definitions of fulfillment and security. Patricia Aburdenes insightful, delightful work carefully and accessibly explores these truths and provides pioneering counsel on reaching our goals. Reading her book is a deeply satisfying and enriching experience.

Jack Canfield , author of The Success Principles , The Golden Motorcycle Gang , and co-creator The Chicken Soup for the Soul

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T his book was born when I realized there was a lot more I wanted to say about consciousness and finance. In time the words and ideas began to flow. The new creation announced itself in a conversation with my agent Bill Gladstone of Waterside Productions. The word money belongs in the title, he said definitively. That felt right to me. Well then it must be Conscious Money, I replied. Thank you, Bill, for always getting my work and for your unfailing support.

I have always wanted to speak in a more personal way about the spiritual journey we all share. The more I wrote, the clearer it became that this book was for people who wanted their money life to better reflect the values espoused in their personal and spiritual lives. In Beyond Words, Bill and I found a publisher that heartily endorsed that approach. I believe that great partnerships evolve when people possess complementary, rather than similar, skill sets. The expertise of Beyond Words in the self-help genre artfully balances my own very different strengths. With the help of Kenneth Kales, we learned how to merge the categories of trend-tracking, business, and advice into a new approach to personal finance. Thank you, Cynthia Black, for your vision of what this book could be and your willingness to see it through.

At Beyond Words, Dan Frost, among his many other contributions, often voiced the energetic perspective of a younger generation with whom I feel great kinship. So did Emily Han. Good fortune shined upon Conscious Money and me the day Beyond Words assigned Carolyn Bond to the project. Never have I worked with a more committed, brilliant, and tireless editor. Carolyn, I could never have done this without you.

Early in the project my former assistant Trude Irons morphed into a plucky researcher, charming many a reluctant source into spilling the beans (some of them coffee beans). Even after moving on in her own editorial career, Trude cheerfully tracked down the stray clipping and note. It has been a complete pleasure to renew my association with my Megatrends researcher Joy Molony (formerly Van Elderen) after we both showed up in Boulder, Colorado. Ive never worked with anyone else who better understands exactly what I need and how to find it. Thank you, Joy, from the bottom of my heart.

Anna Noak helped transition the manuscript toward production. It was a little embarrassing when I assured managing editor Lindsay Brown she neednt worry about fact checking since I always do that. Lindsay and Henry Covey did an absolutely amazing job copyediting, even managing to convince me that I am not the worlds most flawless fact checker after all. Thank you all for shepherding Conscious Money from manuscript to book. I am grateful for the Beyond Words sales and publicity teams who took over then, and special thanks go to Georgie Lewis, Whitney Quon, Leah Brown, and Jessica Sturges. Ive had the pleasure of meeting almost everyone at Beyond Words and many of its authors as well. Thank you, Cynthia Black and Richard Cohn, for creating a community.

I am indebted to many people who generously shared their lives, work, and stories for this book. Thank you Cliff Feigenbaum, Nana Naisbitt, Srikumar Rao, Byron Stock, Jason Apollo Voss, Jeff Klein, Amy Foster, Cindy Wigglesworth, Callie Micek, Elizabeth Culter, Lynne Sausele, Gail McMeekin, Lawler Kang, Carolyn Long, Paul Rice, Karen Gross, Bennett Dorrance, Jack Robinson, Matt Patsky, Angel Rich, Janet Zhou, Sharon Shuteran, and Alison Hall.

Numerous others helped my team and I assemble the information that gives this endeavor its factual backbone. They include Claire Montaut, Sandy Yusen, Dean Cyclone, Joshua Onysko, Leyla Steele, Remy Bolea, and Katie Barrow.

My team of conscious investment expertsSteve Schueth, Michael Kramer, Gary Moore, Matt Patsky, and Jason Vossprovided many insights, much clarification, and lots of good advice. Thanks to all of my colleagues in Conscious Capitalism: John Mackey, Jeff Klein, Raj Sisodia, Rand Stagen, Randy Eisenman, Sunny Vanderbeck, and Roy Spense. There have been many Conscious Capitalist gatherings, but the first public event, to which I refer in , provided such an in-depth focus on the basic concepts that I wanted to introduce our movement to a general audience. I am especially grateful to the speakers at that event whose words of wisdom I have enthusiastically shared with my readers.