American Alchemy, Financial Freedom is an Inside Job or How We met Deborah Price of the Money Coaching Institute

I was in dire straits with being an artist, unsure how to make a living. I was in my last year at Calarts, read Deborah Price’s Book “Money Magic,” and wanted to start my own small group using the exercises in her book but felt hesitant due to being keenly conscious about copyright. I contacted Deborah Price and asked whether she would be ok with my using her materials in a private, non-income-generating for me, setting. She was okay with it and asked me if I didn’t want to take her upcoming training in Money Coaching.

I drove up to the Bay Area from LA further up north to Petaluma. We met at a Cafe, and her highly gifted genius younger-than-me assistant was there. Albeit my greatly admiring Deborah Price, something like insecurity was visible in her hunched-over shoulders, which surprised and told me of a vulnerability. She was in her forties, a gorgeous white American woman with the professional style of proper makeup, dress, and handbag customary among American professionals. 

She was dealing with debilitating fibromyalgia and took out a (for my purposes) high loan from friends – whom she knew she could repay – while figuring out how to heal. She’d been a well-known successful woman in the merger/acquisitions industry and knew what she was doing. 

We discussed what I could do, as I wasn’t permitted to work and living off very little, and decided that I would take both her Money Coaching as well as Master Money Coaching Training in exchange for helping her as a personal assistant. She put me up in her home in her cozy attic for the first professional development training, five days, and provided food on the base of a promise on my part that I will take care of her as soon as I can.  I said yes.