I got to Santa Barbara three years ago and went, fuck, a million dollars isn't that much.

I'm going to have to make more than I thought I would.

I'm going to have to allow myself to expand into bigger numbers, whether that's a raise, a promotion,

starting a new business, running your business differently.

We have to allow ourselves to be expanded.

Hi, Amanda, if you don't know me, self-made multimillionaire, known as the Money Queen, my job is to empower women around the subject of money.

So let's go.

I accidentally got into a conversation where it was implied that, I should be making my financial decisions.

I should make my financial decisions based on tax rates cost-to-living crime rates and and all this other stuff I make my decisions based on my desire and my desire

alone what I want to create next in life who I want to be how I want to live where I want to live who I want to be, how I want to live, where I want to live, who I want to

become, and the whole trajectory for the path and pace of my life is my desire. So the idea

that if you move to a state where the taxes are less, you'll save money, is fundamentally

flawed if you understand how money works.

If you go to a place where you don't feel good, where you don't thrive, where you're not creative,

we're not inspired, where you're not expanded, you will not make more money.

Because money is not about, the arithmetic of money is not just basic addition and subtraction.

It's not just dollars or cents. It's what we

allow ourselves to receive. It's what we allow ourselves to have. It's the way we allow ourselves to be

expanded. Certain people expand you. Certain places that expand you. Certain courses expand you. Books expand

you. Groups or friends. Ways of thinking., expand you. And many, many times I picked

a neighborhood or an apartment or, you know, renting a house or not owning a house. I picked

the neighborhood and the home and the whatever based on where I was going and who I was becoming

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