Barbara Stanny Is On A Mission:
To revolutionize women’s relationship to money.
I grew up relying on my father (the “R” of H&R Block), then my husband, to manage my money. But a devastating financial crisis became a personal wake-up call.
I share my journey to financial independence in hopes of inspiring, and even better, motivating YOU to become smart (or smarter) with money.
My life took a miraculous turn when I began, as a former journalist, interviewing financially savvy women. I discovered a surprising series of insights that all these women shared – insights that enabled them (and eventually, me) to get ‘smart’ about money. Those insights became the core of my first book, Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money (Penguin).
Suddenly, I was a financial expert, with a whole new career…traveling the country educating women about money. But I couldn’t make money, at least not very much, no matter how hard I worked. That’s when my mentor, Karen McCall (www.financialrecovery.com ), told me I was an underearner.
“I am not!” I protested. “I’m a writer. Everyone knows writers don’t make money!!!”
I truly believed that….until I decided to focus my research on women’s earnings. Rather than concentrate on the wage gap and gender barriers, I turned my attention to the women who were breaking those barriers.
I interviewed over 150 women who made $100,000 or more. My goal: to find out how they did it, if I could too, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. From this new research came my next book, Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life (HarperCollins).
I not only uncovered the secrets that enabled these women to become financially successful, but for the first time in my life, I became a six-figure woman…before I even finished writing the book.
At the same time, I began giving Overcoming Underearning seminars to teach others what I was learning. A few years ago, I went back and interviewed hundreds of women who had attended my seminars. The result—my latest book, Overcoming Underearning: A Five Step Plan to a Richer Life.
I still offer OU seminars, but I am no longer teaching them, passing the baton to a remarkable teacher I personally trained. I’ve shifted my focus to what I call Sacred Success™ The content is brand new, based on my eye-opening interviews with women who make millions. Believe me, the map for achieving affluence is very different from the secrets to overcoming underearning!
Sacred Success™ is about pursuing your soul’s purpose, for your own bliss and the benefit of others, while being richly rewarded. To learn more, I invite you to read my blogs about Sacred Success™ (beginning with Sweet (?) Surrender) and attend my Sacred Success™Retreats.
My background in business, my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, my extensive research and my poignant experience with money has given me a unique perspective on women’s financial issues.
Donna Otmani
Donna Otmani is an entrepreneur whose passion is assisting women in creating the business/service of their dreams. She has been called the Business Doula because of her never-ending drive to support the whole woman (mind/body/spirit) through the creative birth process of the new business or service. She has the rare gift of being uber creative and extremely practical. This powerful combination creates marketing campaigns that inspire and get results and it allows her clients to think big and find a way to bring those ideas into physical world reality. Her creativity and ability to assist women in connecting with the hearts of their clients has resulted in closed out programs for her clients.
She has been involved with product development and marketing with Regena Thomashauer at Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts, and Jill Rogers of The Seven Sacred Steps. She helped double workshop attendance for Barbara Stanny, Leading Authority on Women and Money, and has empow{her}ed many other women entrepreneurs in the creation of their message and their services. She has been hand selected by Barbara Stanny to facilitate Barbara’s Overcoming Underearning tele-classes.
With a bachelors degree in public relations, a masters degree in Spiritual Psychology, and years of experience with project management, marketing and coaching she brings a deep integrity, an inspired approach to living and working, and a deep commitment to herself and her clients’ success.
