Let’s talk about Power, shall we? It’s a crucial conversation if you’re aspiring to affluence. You cannot possibly create and retain wealth without also owning your power.
Despite what ‘they’ say, money does not give you power. Take my marriage to the gambler. I had the money, but he had the power. I gave it to him. He made all the financial decisions because I was too scared.
I’m convinced that women’s difficulties with money have very little to do with money per se and everything to do with our fear of or ambivalence about power.
The problem: We’ve don’t understand power from a feminine perspective. For whatever reason, the sexes view power very differently.
Women exercise power by building relationships. Men by asserting control. Women work best in collaborative models of ‘power with.’ Men favor a hierarchical model of ‘power over.’