The Soul of Money Institute

What if the feeling that there’s “not enough” isn’t actually true—but something you’ve been taught to believe?

And what might shift if your relationship with money became rooted in sufficiency instead of scarcity?

What if scarcity isn’t a reality—but a story we’ve all been living inside?

In this episode, sits down with Lynne Twist and Sara Vetter for an expansive conversation —about money, purpose, and what it means to create a different future for our planet.

We explore the idea that the dominant paradigm we’ve been operating in—the belief that there’s not enough, that we have to compete, that someone will inevitably be left out—is actually a lie. And how that belief shapes not only our financial lives, but the way we relate to each other and the world.

I share my decades of work in global philanthropy and the profound realization that people living in conditions of hunger are not “less than”—that what’s lacking is not their worth, but their circumstances. And Sara opens up about her own journey from external success and privilege into a deeper, more meaningful relationship with money and purpose.

We talk about sufficiency—not as a number, but as a state of being. We explore what happens when we shift from accumulation to contribution, from fear to trust, and from isolation to connection.

This conversation is ultimately an invitation to look at your own relationship with money—and to consider the possibility that true wealth lives not in what you have, but in how you engage with your life.

“The paradigm of scarcity—that there’s not enough to go around—is a lie.” –Lynne Twist

“Money does not bring you happiness.” –Sara Vetter

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Something I don't talk about enough: there's a version of leading that looks successful from the outside and feels completely disconnected on the inside.

Women tell us that the Soul of Money teachings have given them more freedom around money than anything else they've ever tried. And what we've discovered is that the missing piece — the reason it doesn't always stick — is the body.

That's exactly why Stephanie Redlener and I — alongside the legendary Lynne Twist — created The Embodied Woman.

It's a four-day retreat for women who lead. Not a conference. Not a workshop. A carefully curated circle of visionaries, entrepreneurs, and changemakers ready to stop performing their leadership and start inhabiting it. ❤

We're bringing together the Soul of Money teachings on sufficiency and power with Stephanie's 20+ years of embodiment expertise — somatic practices, nervous system tools, sensuality, sacred ritual — at the breathtaking Akera sanctuary in the Catskills.

👉 14–17, 2026. By application only. Everything included!

If something in you just moved, trust that.

Link here to apply.

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The Embodied Woman: May 14th - 17th, 2026 This retreat is a highly curated retreat for an intimate group of women - leaders, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and changemakers, who we believe have the power to shape the future through the way they live, lead, and love.

Something I don't talk about enough: there's a version of leading that looks successful from the outside and feels completely disconnected on the inside.

Women tell us that the Soul of Money teachings have given them more freedom around money than anything else they've ever tried. And what we've discovered is that the missing piece — the reason it doesn't always stick — is the body.

That's exactly why Sara Vetter, Stephanie Redlener and I — created The Embodied Woman.

It's a four-day retreat for women who lead.

👉Not a conference.
👉Not a workshop.

A carefully curated circle of visionaries, entrepreneurs, and changemakers ready to stop performing their leadership and start inhabiting it. ❤

We're bringing together the Soul of Money teachings on sufficiency and power with Stephanie's 20+ years of embodiment expertise — somatic practices, nervous system tools, sensuality, sacred ritual — at the breathtaking Akera sanctuary in the Catskills.

👉 14–17, 2026. By application only.

Everything included!

If something in you just moved, trust that.

Link in bio or comments to apply.

👇

https://soulofmoney.org/the-embodied-woman

You’ve been leading. But are you living?

Most women in leadership have mastered the art of showing up. 🙌

Prepared. Polished. Holding it all together.

But there’s a difference between performing presence and actually having it.

Real presence — the kind that shifts a room, that makes people trust you before you’ve said a word — doesn’t come from strategy- It comes from sufficiency.

From a woman who knows she is enough. Who leads not from scarcity or proving, but from a body that is grounded, alive, and deeply her own.

The Soul of Money teaches us that scarcity is a lie we’ve been sold. That enough is not a number — it’s a felt sense. And when a woman embodies that truth? Everything changes.

How she leads. How she speaks. How she takes up space.

Sara Vetter and Stephanie Redlener are going live to talk about exactly this — the intersection of embodied leadership, sufficiency, and what it means to show up with your whole self, not just your credentials.
Join us!

📅 April 1st
🕐 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET
Instagram Live — right here

This conversation is a preview of the work we’ll be doing together at The Embodied Woman Retreat — May 14–17, Catskills NY. By application only. Link in bio. 🔗

What's alive in you right now?

The world feels unsteady right now.

For women especially, something has shifted — and not in the direction we hoped. Rights feel uncertain. Voices feel smaller. The ground beneath us less solid.

And yet the response we're handed is still the same:
Better skin. Better hair. Better lighting.

A $500 billion industry still selling women the idea that looking better is the answer to feeling powerless.
It's not.

The most magnetic women in any room aren't the most polished. They're the most present. 🔥

They walk in and something shifts. They take up space without apology. They trust themselves when the world gives them every reason not to.

That's not appearance. That's aliveness.
And it's something that can't be bought — but it can be reclaimed.

When a woman is rooted in her body, connected to her instincts, and in relationship with her own power — she becomes someone the world can't easily dismiss.

The Embodied Woman Retreat | May 14–17 | Upstate New York

With Lynne Twist .vetter &
Small. Intimate. By application only.

This is for the woman who is done waiting for the world to hand her power back.

Link in bio. 🔗

Our role as midwives is upon us.

The choices we make now will impact the future of life for at least a hundred years, and hopefully a thousand.

We have the opportunity to play a historic role that future generations may look back on as pivotal in meeting this crisis and turning it around. This is not a burden; it is an ennobling call to participate in the evolutionary leap that is being asked of us now.

I know that can sound like an enormous challenge. What, practically speaking, does it ask of us?

What came to me in the rainforest was this: we earthlings are being invited to see ourselves in the long view, to acknowledge the dangers and urgency of the present moment while committing ourselves to creating a future grounded in harmony and responsibility toward the natural world and the entire community of life. It begins with becoming aware of the constant attractions and distractions of modernity, the belief that the world can be known, managed, and improved by human reason alone; that tomorrow must always outperform yesterday; that we are entitled to more and more and more.

Instead, we can choose to pay attention to the rhythms and harmony of Nature. We can wake with the birds and the sunrise, perhaps even watch it come over the horizon. We can find moments during our day to slow down, breathe consciously, and notice whatever aspect of Nature is available to us, or even imaginable. Maybe it’s watching clouds passing overhead or feeling a soft breeze on your face. Maybe it’s savoring a child’s laughter or holding a friend’s tears. (Nature includes us humans too, you know.)

You might say quietly to yourself, I am part of this. I am a protector of all of life.

As we attune ourselves more deeply to the natural world, we can ask more of ourselves. And we can ask more of Pachamama, of the Earth, the Universe, and All Time: Who are called to be, and what are we called to do? Then we listen.

And perhaps, through the clamor and contentiousness of these times, we will begin to hear a soft voice, gently leading us further along our path of service.

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We just returned from the sacred headwaters of the Amazon Rainforest and I am still being worked by it.

This wasn’t a trip.
It was a remembering.

Deep in one of the most pristine, untouched, vital forests left on Earth — the headwaters that feed the Amazon River and, quite literally- feed life itself.

Lynne Twist and I had the profound honor of journeying alongside an extraordinary group of humans with the Pachamama Alliance

What happens when you step out of convenience, WiFi, certainty, and control and step into ancient intelligence, living systems, humility, and awe?

🍃You remember who you are.

👉The forest doesn’t care about your résumé.
It doesn’t negotiate with your ego.
It doesn’t rush.
It doesn’t perform.
It initiates. 🫶

I watched people soften, crack open, weep, laugh, listen differently, and come home to themselves — not in some Instagrammable way, but in the deep, cellular way that changes how you live once you return.

The Amazon is not “out there.”
She is in our lungs.
our blood.
our breath.
She lives in our present and in our future.

And here’s the truth I’ll say plainly, because it needs saying:

You cannot truly defend what you have not fallen in love with. 💔

This journey isn’t about saving the rainforest.

It’s about remembering our interdependence with all life — and letting that truth reorder our choices, our money, our leadership, and our courage.

I am endlessly grateful to the Indigenous wisdom keepers who welcomed us, to Pachamama Alliance for protecting what must be protected, and to every traveler who said yes to being changed.

We didn’t come back with answers.

We came back with responsibility.

And honestly?

There is no going back once the forest 🌳 has your heart.♥️

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We are living in a time defined by rising threats to democratic norms, widespread polarization, and a pressing need for everyday people to step forward with courage and care.

In this conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman, we’ll hear her inspiring story—from leading nonviolent movements in Yemen to speaking for human rights globally—and we’ll receive her urgent, compassionate call to protect and preserve the precious blessings of freedom and democracy at home and around the world.

Please register now to receive our Zoom link and join us!

https://soulofmoney.org/awaken

WEBINAR: Awaken & Act with Tawakkol Karman Join Lynne and Sara on November 12 for a powerful conversation with Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman. Drawing on her leadership in Yemen’s nonviolent movement and her global advocacy for human rights, Tawakkol will explore how courage, persistence, and principled organizing can protect democra...

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👉On Wednesday, November 12th at 8 AM Pacific, join Lynne Twist and Sara Vetter in an extraordinary live conversation with Tawakkol Karman — Nobel Peace Laureate, journalist, activist, and “The Mother of the Revolution.”

✨Tawakkol is one of the most courageous women of our time.
She led a peaceful uprising for democracy in Yemen, and now she’s calling on all of us — especially here in America — to wake up, stand up, and act before it’s too late.

This isn’t just another event.
It’s a global call to consciousness — an invitation to remember who we are and what we stand for.

It’s ✨free✨ to attend, and you don’t want to miss it.
Come be inspired, moved, and reconnected to your own power to make a difference.

💻 Wednesday, November 12 | 8 AM PT | Free on Zoom
🔗 Register now — link in bio or below!

https://soulofmoney.org/awaken-and-act

WEBINAR: Awaken & Act with Tawakkol Karman Join Lynne and Sara on November 12 for a powerful conversation with Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman. Drawing on her leadership in Yemen’s nonviolent movement and her global advocacy for human rights, Tawakkol will explore how courage, persistence, and principled organizing can protect democra...