We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
📝 What is We Should All Be Millionaires about?:
Only 10 percent of the world’s millionaires are women, limiting their economic power and equality. This book addresses obstacles like shaky confidence, knowledge gaps, imposter syndrome, and money mindsets, guiding you to overcome them and achieve financial success. Rachel Rodgers, a Black woman, mother, attorney, business owner, and self-made millionaire, shares her wealth-building lessons and coaching experiences to inspire and empower women.
📚 Genre: personal development
🎧 Format: Audiobook
💞 Feels: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I enjoyed this book. It started out slow. And I wasn’t sure about what each chapter would be about; but by the time I got to chapter 4 I was invested. In chapter 4 the author discusses setting boundaries. Boundaries are a pivotal word in my family right now. We have none. So when Rachel Rodgers was spinning boundaries in a positive light – rather than the negative lens my family sees it through – I quickly recommended the book to the ladies I’m in a finance group with.
I listened to this audiobook in 1 day, and I look forward to listening to it again. I know I’ll need some refreshers. And I want to work on the challenge she prompted at the end of the book. She challenged her readers to earn $10k in 10 days (#10kin10days) and I can’t wait to brainstorm all the ways I can participate, what 10 days I’m going to set aside for the challenge and how I plan to use the money to invest in and jumpstart my business.
I was taking notes as I listened. Anything that can inspire me to start taking notes has definitely got my attention. It was like listening to a podcast, which Rachel has, so will be subscribing to that ASAP! I loooove podcasts. I’ve been on the podcast train since Serial (season 1) and I haven’t jumped off since.
Getting technical
Rachel’s voice is great for audiobooks, most likely from all the podcasting practice. There were some points towards the end of the audiobook where sentences were repeated or takes were left in. When I heard a redone take I quickly decided to see if this was a self-published production. But, nope, someone in the production needs to go back in and fix those little mistakes.
I’ll need to go back in (which of course I’ve already said I will be doing) but I think the first few chapters could have a better explanation of what exactly we’re doing in the book. We’re immediately in world building mode I guess, being told about the authors background and relationship to money. We never get an overview of what will be presented to us in the following chapters – unless I blanked out on that. I find chapters 2 and 3 to be forgettable.
The summaries at the end of each chapter with action items was really helpful, so that’s why I’m questioning whether there should have been an explanation of the book’s aims in the beginning. The aims to use the book as a foundation and workbook towards being a millionaire.
You’ll like this book, if…
You’ll like this book, if you like Get Good with Money by Tiffany Aliche.
✅ Spinoff novella nomination: n/a
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