Get Rich, Lucky Bitch (book review)

Lately, I’ve been going through my library’s app and selecting literally any available audiobook to review within my general interest categories. It is not… going well. For some reason, they are just getting back deals out to anybody. It’s how I found this atrocious travel book, this even worse travel book, and now Get Rich Lucky Bitch by Denise Duffield-Thomas.

Is it a good book? No. But it is long!

I honestly don’t understand why we keep taking concepts about vague, unhelpful spiritualisms and framing them as actual money books. Or maybe I’m just a skeptic? I don’t particularly believe in manifestations, but I believe that you will prime your brain to see success or failure based on your mindset. I just think it’s important to encourage people to practice wisdom and personal agency when it comes to their finances. The universe doesn’t care about your bills and your income. Relying on the universe in order to feel like you are embracing a good money mindset, or living a “first-class” lifestyle is foolish to me.

Get Rich, Lucky Bitch review

Title: Get Rich, Lucky Bitch

Author: Denise Duffield-Thomas

Rating (out of 5 stars): 1/5

Main takeaways:

• Denise Duffield-Thomas spent the first 10% of the book being like “I know this sounds unbelievable, but it’s believable, it seems like it’s not, but trust me, because I saw things in my own life, and other people did too, but it doesn’t seem believable, but trust me…” I kept waiting for the pitch to drop for her $500 e-book series (which basically does happen all throughout, the book was like a big old selling pitch for her webinars and communities and whatever)
• Something something manifestation.
• Money isn’t everything. But it is. No it’s not. Wait yes, it is.
• She makes some good points about “money blocks” and about how our self-limiting beliefs can impact our approach to finances. I do agree with what she says about how it doesn’t matter how poor or rich you are, the mindset doesn’t really change. I did not need so many pages and pages of celebrity examples of this to get the point, but this was one small part of the book I vaguely agreed with.
• Far too much time is spent on discussing Hollywood conceptions of women, women and power, women and wealth, I feel like she really loses the plot for a while because I don’t know what she’s talking about anymore. Something about how women sabotage their own financial success because we saw Miranda Priestly be a demanding bitch? Or something? I don’t know but neither does she.
• What are her credentials? Doesn’t matter. She’s rich. But you wouldn’t know it, because she’s humble (according to her), but trust me she’s very rich. Richer than you probably. So trust her. Everyone can be rich. But not as rich as she is.
• She says that the people who are “lucky” are the ones who believe that the universe is conspiring for them, not against them. More manifesting mumbo-jumbo.
• The point is that money isn’t that important, but the other point is to manifest the money, and to allow abundance to enter into your life, the life that doesn’t need the money?
• This book is massively tone-deaf, myopic, and narrow-minded. It’s aimed at middle-class stay-at-home mothers who just want to “yas queen” themselves into a higher tax bracket presumably through some MLM or another.

Favorite quote: None

Would I recommend: No.

Who is this book good for: People who respond to vague, universe-based spiritualisms and manifestation techniques as their financial educational basics.