You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth

Jen Sincero's "You Are a Badass at Making Money" is an absolute gem of a book that combines humor with invaluable financial wisdom. Sincero has a knack for delivering solid advice in the most hilarious way possible, making it not just a guide on money mindset but also an entertaining read. Her witty writing style kept me laughing throughout, which is quite rare for a book on this topic! Beyond the humor, the insights she shares are truly transformative—challenging old beliefs, inspiring action, and making the journey to financial success feel both accessible and exciting. If you're looking for a fun yet profoundly impactful take on money, this is the book to read!

I've mostly been reading books on how to be the best version my myself and making money has never been my primary goal. I've earned a decent living and am not a huge spender, but the book (recommended by a friend) made me realize I need to change my views on money and what it can do or me, my family, and my community. I really needed this book and here's why....None of us grows up unscathed by the crap life throws at us - good and bad. What is super helpful is the book starts off by asking the right questions. These questions are provided at the end of each chapter - especially diving early on into why we have certain relationships with money. For example, the author shares her story about how she didn't want to be rich because she equated her father's love with him needing to give her money to help her out. She was afraid that being rich would impact that dynamic, and essentially take away his love from her. The author, of course, tells this much better than I do here - but it's her personal stories that make this book make me go...hmmm, wonder what's keeping ME from being a bad ass rich *itch. My dad controlled all the money in our house and as a result I tend to hoard everything and am afraid of risking being controlled by money (and men with money) like my mom was.... and you can see the irony here as I am being controlled by this bad relationship with hoarding resources. The information in this book is helping me change all of that, including the language I used to describe my relationship with being a badass at making money - there is a very helpful chapter called "watch your mouth" on this.The author dives into topics such as valuing your time and energy - she provides an example of why you shouldn't be offering life coaching for free. I had just recently consulted on strategic direction for a friend's business and when she offered to pay (multiple times) - I just told her I loved helping her drive her business forward. Long story short, the strategic direction wasn't as valuable to the company because I didn't charge them anything, and it also reduced me being hired again as they felt badly not paying me - even though they loved the direction I provided to them! So the book goes into being a badass at letting go of devalued habits that reduce your ability to make money. I turned this around while reading the book by contacting my friend, sending her a long overdue invoice that she had asked for, and then her company asked me to come back to help them implement the strategic direction I had provided to them. KaaaChing$$$$ I suddenly turned an awkward situation into being a badass at making money.What I loved about this book is that it has given me tangible - "go get it" - advice that I put into play while reading the book. I now have a "you are a bad ass at making money" journal to compliment my gratitude journal and it reminds me there is no need to hoard resources as I really am a badass at making money. I held a garage sale last weekend and was so happy to let go of so many resources while seeing how happy it made neighbors and new friends to find fun stuff that had simply cluttered my home - plus I was a badass at making money that then allowed me to indulge in an amazing spa day!A newly found friend is an insurance adjuster - just as his father was. He told me he used to go out with his dad to review insurance claims when he was 8 years old . His father died when he was a young man and he's an adjuster primarily to make his father proud ... meanwhile, he knows he could be making more money being more than an insurance adjuster (the guy has other talents coming out of his ears!!!). We talked about this book. Just me sharing some of the stuff I had learned has already launched him into reading the book, and I cannot wait to see what he does by letting go of his deceased father's "expectations" of how he should earn a living. His knowledge of home damage and rebuilds, his talent for calming people under the stress of loss, and much more make him a great candidate for better paying opportunities or even starting his own consulting business ... or whatever the heck makes him happy and a badass at making money. He's currently way under payed based on what he has to offer the universe and what the universe has to offer him.My humble opinion is there is nothing but good that can come from reading this book, and although it echoes intentional manifestation of goals (like Tony Robbins and just about every other "not your guru" coach)... it's different in that it dives specifically into addressing deep seeded things that are holding you back from being a badass at making money. I'm a God loving/believing person, and this book does talk about the Universe (this can be defined as your God if you are a believer) having our back - so it can be leveraged in parallel with whatever you believe in.There is a course that can help you put the wonderful examples and direction provided in this book into practice. It's an 8 week on line course available on the Jen Sincero website. My humble opinion is it's helpful to read this book first, then consider joining the course if you need the guided direction to achieve a specific goal (starting a business, ending a bad relationship with something, etc.).Prior to this book I read Jose Silva's book on Mind Control and the exercises from that book plus this book are hugely impactful. Both drive home the need to control our destiny with simple exercises that really do work. I highly recommend both books with the Mind Control book being read before this one - I devoured both books in an uninterrupted "it's all about me" weekend.So hope this review helps you decide if this book is worth it for you... It's already made a big impact on my previously messed up relationship with money (and resources), and my ability to be a badass at making money. It's more than being rich - it's about reaching your full potential by leveraging money to work for you - not vice versa. Here's to you being a badass at making money!

“If my broke ass can get rich, you can too,” exclaims the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jen Sincero. The author is known for her down-to-earth humor and motivating like a cattle prod. That’s exactly what I experienced while reading. She’s a hoot rooted in spiritual badassness! She reframes limited thinking and replaces it with the truth about your badassery.Her purpose is to help people on their self-development journeys to remodel their personal and professional lives.Whether you haven’t figured out how to make money yet, tried and failed, made it but lost it, or need a jumper cable restart, Jen says, “ You can make loads of money, even the I’ma-buyin-everyone-I-love-a-house kind of money if that turns you on.” She believes in living large and in charge.Money can be a shameful, inappropriate, but also a hot, and alluring topic. People think they’re naturally supposed to know everything about money. $he debunks that in her book by flat out teaching you four steps; 1) wake up to what’s holding you back 2) make new powerful choices about what you focus on 3) smarten up about money 4) go for it like you ain’t never gone for it before. Each chapter ends with a few questions making sure your belief system is in check to receive your deserved riches. If you’re not, she provides exercises for that too keeping you on track.Sincero insists, “If you have a troubled or conflicted relationship with money, you have the ability to heal it, transform it, and become such awesome pals with money that you wake up one day to find yourself standing in the middle of life you’ve always wanted to live. Start making this change right now.” Her message is to believe you can because just being you means you’ve already struck gold.

The floodgates of badassery will be wide open by the time you finish the book. It will shift your mind completely. And if you’ve read tons of other money-related books in the past, this is wayyyyy different

I liked reading this, and I really enjoyed the stories that Jen shared throughout the book (both her own and from others), as well as what each chapter focused on. But despite enjoying what she wrote, the book just didn’t get up to 5 stars for me. I would say it's a 4, 4.5 for me. It had been a little hard for me to get into the chapters and understand the message rather than just reading the stories. So that’s probably what dropped the rating for me. I would still reread this, but it’s not a “wow” book for me.

This author is so natural and you feel you are talking to a friend who understands you. I would recommend this and her original “You Are a Badass” book too. My Alexa reads me the book from kindle so I like that a lot too! :)

I couldn’t get past page 50. It’s a book about/directed to people being afraid of making money? I thought it would help people make money and keep that money. Not practical at all, seems like a “you need to manifest your money” thing and the stories she presents don’t make any sense - what does a story about being afraid of eating a calamari thinking it would be a worm has anything to do with helping you make money? It doesn’t make any sense and I couldn’t finish it. I don’t understand the positive reviews.

I purchased this book out of curiosity because it had hit the "New York Times" bestseller list. As an international best-selling author whose books have sold over 1,000,000 copies, I like to figure out why a book does so well. Results don't lie, of course. After reading about two-thirds of the book, I can say "You are a Badass at Making Money" is a great book and I can see why it has done so well.Jen Sincero incorporates her great sense of humor throughout the book. For example, while talking about money and the energy it represents Jen says, " . . . the fifty bucks you make by raking leaves for the lady across the street has a very different energy than the fifty bucks you steal out of some guy’s pocket on the subway."Incidentally, Jen Sincero was broke and in debt, in her words, doing things like buying food at dollar stores, until her 40s. After getting her act together, she now makes seven figures a year.This book has motivated me to get back to my creative projects and earn some real bucks again. You will hear about this later. Just a note that I don't really need to make more money. I just want to show that opportunities abound and that it can be done by a person my age. I want to show people that at the age of 72 I can still create works that will help me earn me over $500,000 in one year. The best I ever did was have a pretax income of $339,000 in 2015 but Jen Sincero has motivated me to hit the half million mark.

This is an amazing book for everyone how struggles or has limiting beliefs around creating money. Just get it it’s worth every penny

This book is great the first time and the seventh time. Always offering something new to discover, realize and work on!