My Personal Money Story with Denise Duffield-Thomas
I was talking with Naomi Arnold and Amanda Rootsey on a planning call for our Gentle Business Mastermind earlier this week, and after talking about our joint-venture, we shared what we are working on in our individual businesses too.
I said how I was sharing Denise’s free money training this week, and Amanda said she’d love to hear more about my personal story with Denise, because it’s not something I’ve talked a lot about before.
So today I’m delighted to share how I met Denise, what we talk about when we’re together, how she’s helped me transform my relationship with money and why I am so excited to introduce her to you. Because she really is one of the most inspiring people I know, and I want you to have the opportunity to get to know her too.
I’m thrilled many of you have already enjoyed Denise’s free training and heartened to receive your thank you notes for introducing her work. Plus, I’m excited to see those of you who have already joined her awesome Money Bootcamp! Yay! I’m so excited for you!
How I Met Denise
In 2011 I was newly single, and I needed to find a way to pay my full mortgage without a partner. So I enrolled in an online business course, and it supported me as I learnt about online business.
Denise and I got to know each other through the accompanying business course’s community, and when I said I was learning a new online system (Instant Teleseminar), Denise offered to jump on a call with me to show me how to use it. I was so touched by her thoughtfulness and generosity.
The first time I actually met Denise, was when she opened the door to our private hotel suite with her travel case trundling behind her.
It was a year later, in Sydney, and we met for a conference about Infusionsoft (the system we both use for our email marketing) and Denise had decided she was upgrading her money mindset.
I remember she wanted to show the universe she was, in her words, ready for the next step. So instead of staying in a cheap motel (which is what I would usually do too, on such occasions) she asked if I wanted to share a room at the Sheraton.
We didn’t overextend our finances for the upgrade. Instead, Denise thought outside the box and we shared a room. It was great! It meant we got to enjoy buffet breakfasts, leisurely hors d’oeuvres, and simply take the elevator to the conference for the early morning start, instead of tramping for miles from a cheap motel across town.
When she arrived I’d already chosen my queen size bed on the left, and she had the one on the right. I remember us lying in the darkness, talking about business, and thinking how funny it was that it didn’t feel weird to be sharing a room with a stranger, because we already felt we knew each other so well (from our videos and blogs).
We talked money then too, because it’s what we do when we’re together, and Denise genuinely loves and is so interested in the topic.
We shared the figures from our businesses. Denise had made about $150,000 if I remember correctly (it was our first or second year after enrolling in the online business course), and I’d made around $80,000. I remember feeling inferior because I hadn’t made as much, but she was so encouraging, saying many women would love to make that from their business. (I saw today she’s just hit $7million in turn over since she began her business – that’s some impressive growth in the past five or six years!)
When I’m with her, she helps me feel proud of myself and comfortable with my money story, instead of shame. She’s amazing like that. I’m always drawn to how she doesn’t get caught by the sticky tentacles of shame.
Anyway, since then she has invited me to stay with her when I’ve been driving around the country having adventures, and she brought her family to visit us on the boat when we were in Newcastle earlier this year.
The first time I stayed with her was when my old dog and I were having Jordie’s Last Hurrah, and Jords peed on her floor while I was out of the room. OMG! Denise didn’t freak out, in fact she even wiped it up because I was in the shower or something (I’ll forever be grateful for that, I felt mortified). But again, with her, there was no shame (and this was before she’d had her first baby – so cleaning up urine wasn’t a normal part of daily life).
Funnily enough, how she handled my old dog’s mishap is what makes her such a powerful money mindset coach.
Because if there’s one emotion that often gets thrown around with money, it’s shame. And she deals with stories that could trigger enormous shame for most people from this space of curiosity, instead of judgement. She is naturally and endlessly curious, without any drama or energy attached to what she uncovers. With her curiosity, she also loves to look for alternative approaches or attitudes, to change long held patterns and find new ways of relating to life, business and money.
I love that about her.
So yes, Denise is one of the coolest, nicest, most inspiring people I know, and she has blessed my life so much by being in it. She’s also my writing mentor, Fiona Ferris’s, favourite online mentor. Which heartened me to learn, because Fiona is such a gentle, soft and feminine woman and hearing how Denise has changed her life really inspired me to share more about her with you too.
How Has Denise Helped My Money Mindset?
In my business Denise has helped me, ironically, to experience more creative fulfilment. In fact, she is the person who encouraged me to offer private VIP painting retreats.
She has always encouraged me to offer one-on-one experiences for my clients because, as she says, for some clients, that is exactly what they want (and she is right – my VIP client doesn’t want to share me in a group workshop, she wants to have me all to herself — so she’s happy to pay a premium and we get to play and paint together, just the two of us, each year!)
If it wasn’t for Denise, I doubt I’d have even considered the possibility of painting one on one with my favourite clients on a tropical island, because I wouldn’t have understood the value I was offering and why they would be willing to pay a premium.
Denise is also the woman who has always inspired and encouraged me to self-publish on Amazon. When we met, she had recently written and published her first book and she said she didn’t wait until the book was perfect (there’s no such thing), but she put it out in the world anyway. And now she’s just signed a contract with Hay House to publish THREE of her books. Action leads to opportunities. Have I told you how much she inspires me?
Money + Living a Creative Life
The more time I’ve spent with Denise over the years, the more I see a common theme between creative blocks and money blocks. They are like sisters. When we feel blocked, regardless whether it is in business, money, or our creativity, underneath it all, it is usually due of an unrecognised fear, or lack of knowledge of our materials, systems or processes.
We can surround ourselves with a supportive community and mentors, and the beautiful thing is, we can learn from those who have walked before us. We can discover the practical steps they took to overcome, side-step or dissolve those same blocks. And as a result we can achieve things we have never experienced or believed was possible for us.
—Can I really make a painting? A garden? A business? A relationship with money that feels supportive?
Yes, you can.
Transform Your Relationship with Money
Being friends with Denise means I get to enjoy personal time with her when we catch up and hang out. But she’s actually very introverted, so the way she loves to share what she knows and help other women to transform their relationship with money, is through online training, where she can help more people than she could one on one.
Which is why I’m so excited to be sharing the free videos and ebooks she is giving away this week, and introduce you to her Money Bootcamp which she is running LIVE beginning on Monday.
And to celebrate the launch of Denise’ Money Bootcamp LIVE, I’m offering three very special bonus courses to help support you in living your best, most wholesome, well-rounded and fulfilling life.
Introducing the Flourish Lifestyle Bonus Package!
When you enroll in Denise’s Money Bootcamp through my link, you will also receive….
Flourish Lifestyle BONUS Package
FREE Membership in my three much-loved online courses
+ Flourish with Painting & Creativity ($497 – yours FREE)
+ The Abundant Veggie Patch System ($297 – yours FREE)
+ Grow Organic Food in Pots ($197 – yours FREE)
FREE eBook+ Grow Abundant Herbs & Greens in Pots
TOTAL BONUS VALUE: $995AUD!
Not only will you have Denise’s support to transform your money life, you’ll have my support to flourish in your creative life too! We’ll have sooo much fun together — painting, growing organic food, dissolving creative blocks and following your heart’s desires to live a creative life.
Denise is an incredibly down-to-earth, yet inspiring role model for empowering women with wealth and abundance.
And guess what? When you enroll in the 2018 LIVE Round of Money Bootcamp right now, you will have Denise right alongside you during the program, walking you through each and every lesson live.
Denise now runs a 7-figure business she created from nothing (I’ve watched her do it) in only a few short years. She’s raising a young family. She’s happily married (her hubby Mark now works in her business). She genuinely cares about the women in her community. She’s a great role model for what it means to be a successful woman in business today.
You can have her as your personal money mentor while you transform your money mindset and learn to attract more abundance into your life than ever before.
Even if you know you don’t want to join Denise’s Money Bootcamp, I highly recommend you give yourself the gift of watching her free videos and webinar replay.
They are inspiring, practical and also gentle. Calling you into living a life that is more than what you are experiencing now. The free training she is offering is truly valuable, heart-centred and useful. You can get video 1 here, video 2 here, and her inspiring webinar replay here.
I’ve learnt more from her free training about my personal money story in the past week than I have all year.
It has brought up useful conversations, stronger boundaries, internal guidance, more action, and reminded me of the value I offer the world.Plus it has brought in an additional $4567AUD this week too, as I took what Denise calls ‘inspired action’ and made offers, honoured my payment policies and reached out to clients. What she teaches works, I can vouch for that.
We all want to feel in control of our lives.
I know I do.
Money pressures can sap the enjoyment out of life faster than a child sucking a milkshake through a straw. Having the mindsets to support you in bouncing back, or stepping up, or taking steps to grow deeper foundations in your relationship with money is an important way to practice self-care.
While it can initially feel scary, getting to know your personal money story is a way of being gentle with yourself. Because when we have the internal guidance and mindsets that make us feel safe with money, we can focus on making and creating things we truly want to create.
I know for me, if I’m stressed about money, it totally saps my creativity.
I need a sense of safety and security to be able to spend time creating. So while they may look separate on the surface, these two topics, money and creativity, are intricately intertwined.
Looking at our money, managing it and inviting more of it into our lives is not greedy, selfish or something to be ashamed of. It is responsible, empowering and allows us to show up more fully with the people we want to serve, whether that is our family or our clients. Plus it helps us find the time, inspiration and sense of safety to nurture our creativity.
So in invite you to give yourself a gift. After the kids are in bed or when hubby is watching the football (that’s what I do!), set yourself up with a cup of tea and watch Denise’s free training tonight. I hope it enriches your life as much as she has enriched mine. But don’t wait too long, the videos are only up until Money Bootcamp LIVE closes at 2pm Saturday (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
And if you like what you see, don’t miss this opportunity to join Denise and a global community of thousands of brilliant women for the next 6 weeks. It’s a fantastic program and combined with my Flourish Lifestyle Package, one year from now your life could look vastly different to today.
Full of fun, painting, organic food, supportive money mindsets and more.
Click here to get all details and to register.
~ Nicola
P.S. Denise is even offering an extended 6-MONTH payment plan and a Money Back Guarantee. Your registration must come through before 2pm Saturday 20 April (AEST), that’s only a few days away!
>> Click here to reserve your spot in Money Bootcamp LIVE 2018
PPS. If you would love to join Denise’s Money Bootcamp, sign up through the link above and email your receipt to info@nicolanewman.com so I can set you up with your bonuses after the refund period for the Bootcamp ends.
You will receive lifetime membership in Flourish with Painting & Creativity, The Abundant Veggie Patch System and Grow Organic Food in Pots, plus my new ebook Grow Abundant Herbs & Greens in Pots.
I can’t wait to flourish with painting AND gardening with you and cheer you on as you transform your relationship with money with Denise’s awesome help. And of course, if you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m here to help you decide if this is right for you.
Affiliate Disclaimer: I have an affiliate partnership with Denise Duffield-Thomas and I may receive a commission if you invest in one of her programs but at no extra cost to you.
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