Suzanne's Audition: Heal the Money - OWN TV - Please Vote!

It’s up! I finally finished my audition tape for Oprah’s new OWN network — I’m proposing a talk show based on my book, Heal the Money. If you would be so kind as to vote for me, I would much appreciate it. I did my best to encapsulate the essence of the book into three [...]

The Gulf Is Us and We Are Done Being Abused

We’re staring at the consequences of believing that if we want money — an “economy” — our only option is to tolerate major abuse. That if we want to survive, we need to shut up, suck it up and do what the abusers tell us to do. That we have no other option. … I don’t know about you but I’m done being [...]

Corporations are not people, they're unruly dogs

This article has been published on Huffington Post here.

The courts got it wrong. Corporations aren’t people. They are unruly dogs.

We’ve let corporations take over the country the way an insecure dog owner lets their crazy dog take over the household.

You know what this looks like: The needs of the humans get tossed out the window [...]

Change? Yes, we meant it.

The corrupting influences invested in the status quo have paralyzed Congress. Lawmakers keep trying to stuff the same bland meals — all filled with pork — down the American throat. Maybe they don’t get it. We’re not buying this meal anymore. [...]

Recession Blues? Five steps to feel like a million when you haven’t got a dime

Often it’s a near Herculean effort at times to cobble together some self-esteem when you’re broke. But the good news is you can wrestle back control of the microphone in your head and start broadcasting correct information. Follow these five steps to start disconnecting your self esteem from your ego, and tune into your real inner [...]

Zombie Banks, Economic Tsunamis and the Gold at the Bottom of the Ocean

Many are losing their homes and livelihoods now due to an economic tsunami. While this disaster is man-made, its magnitude is sweeping a good many honorable people away in the surging undertow. The broader truth here is certainly the same as in a natural disaster: there is far greater value in the lives being lived than in the possessions [...]

Defeating Saber-Toothed Financial Tigers part 2: Three Steps to Calm Confidence

We are in the middle of a time of great change, no one seems to have the answers, and the future is shaping up to be a lot different than we expected. There’s a lot on our plates. How do we respond to these collapses and revelations?

Below, I touch on three critical steps you can take personally to release some of the fear that can eat away at your energy and throw you into panic [...]

Defeating Saber-Toothed Financial Tigers part 1: Ready for Integrity

What we’re starting to see is the rot at the foundation of our system. We’ll be seeing a lot more rot this year. It’s going to be very disturbing — kind of like seeing a wreck on the highway. Do we stop and try to help? Do we just keep going? Do we get mad at the disruption to our plans? Do we get pissed off at the idiots driving 90 miles an hour while texting who caused the pile [...]

The Apocalypse of Ego and Return of the King — AKA the “Financial Doom of Colossal Proportions!” and What To Do About It

Fear around money is a long-conditioned response: “If I lose all my money, what do I have to show for my efforts in life? How will I survive? If all this is taken away, what am I? If all that I’ve done has come to nothing, why go on? All the dreams and hopes, are they to end? Am I really worthless now?” For some, these fears are far more visceral than the fear of death itself. Fear of dying can be very abstract — fear of losing all your money is very [...]

Let Them Eat Bread

Events of the last few days have thrown into high relief the background research I’d been doing. Here’s a breakdown of key points:

Let them eat bread: Rally Sept 25 in Hollywood against bailout

Present moment #1: Financial instruments that were too complicated for anyone to predict (even the mathematicians who developed them) have crashed [...]