The Price of Everything

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"A quietly powerful, deeply humane book. It changed how I see my career, my spending, and myself."

-Claire M., entrepreneur

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"Every chapter made me pause. Not just to think-but to feel. This book is a mirror we didn't know we needed."

-James T., therapist

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"Finally, a book about money that isn't about getting more, but about getting free."

-Melissa K., writer

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"I saw myself in these pages. The striving, the fear, the hunger for enough. This is essential reading for our generation."

-Devon S., nonprofit director

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"Not a finance book, but the book you need before any financial advice can truly make sense."

-Erika L., financial coach

The Price of Everything: How Money Quietly Redefines Who We AreThe Price of Everything is a reflective and piercing exploration of how money subtly shapes our identity, values, and sense of self-often without our conscious awareness. Rather than framing money as inherently good or bad, the book examines the quiet ways it infiltrates our language, relationships, ambition, and even our morality. Through a series of thought-provoking essays, it reveals how both wealth and scarcity carry emotional weight-shame, fear, pride, guilt-and how these internal responses shape the way we live, connect, and define success.

The book argues that in modern society, money doesn't just purchase things-it assigns meaning. It becomes a measure of worth, a language of identity, and a framework through which we evaluate our lives and others'. But this logic, when left unexamined, leads us to perform, accumulate, and strive in ways that disconnect us from what actually matters: presence, purpose, love, and integrity.

Ultimately, The Price of Everything invites readers to reclaim their inner freedom-not by rejecting money, but by disentangling self-worth from financial performance. It calls for a gentler, more intentional way of living-where ambition is aligned with meaning, and where the truest forms of wealth are found not in numbers, but in how we show up for life.