The Offer

The Money Course: Master your money, Transform your life is a nine-month program offered by Lynne Twist, Tammy White, and Dave Ellis. This engaging curriculum is designed to powerfully transform your relationship with money and life.


The Money Course promises:

  • To put you powerfully in touch with your sufficiency, prosperity, and wealth
  • To give you a deep understanding and clarity of financial literacy
  • To provide you with tools and practices that empower a healthy and satisfying financial life while improving your relationships, vitality, and ability to contribute
  • To assist you to release upsets, dissolve barriers, and uncover blind spots that keep you from having a powerful relationship with money
  • To empower you to design, create, and produce measurable results that are unpredictable

Special guest workshop speaker

Jack Canfield

As the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, with over 500 million copies in print worldwide, Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success. Learn more here.


Special guest webinar speakers

Deborah Price - 3/19/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

As the Founder and CEO of the Money Coaching Institute and a former financial advisor, Deborah Price will present and provide exercises about "The Nerodynamics of Money." Learn more here.

Morty Lefkoe - 4/16/2015 11:00 am - 12:15 am

As the creator of The Lefkoe Method, Morty Lefkoe has developed a series of revolutionary processes that help people eliminate the meanings they have assigned events. Meanings are often responsible for the undesirable behaviors and emotions in our lives. Morty will explain how negative self-esteem beliefs (such as I’m not good enough and I’m powerless) and beliefs about money (Money is hard to get and I’ll never have enough money) can prevent us from accumulating wealth. He will also have you practice eliminating those meanings. Learn more here.

Marci Shimoff - 5/21/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

As a former participant in The Money Course and as a New York Times best selling author, Marci Shimoff will outline ways to create an outstanding income through making multiple and compelling offers and fulfilling them. She is a leading expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love and the author of Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason. Learn more here.

Karen Leland - 7/9/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am

As the President of Sterling Marketing Group, a branding and marketing strategy and implementation firm, Karen works with entrepreneurs, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies on building stronger personal, business and team brands using The Modern Marketing Pyramid™ method. This integrates branding, business development, internet and content marketing, public relations and social media.
Learn more here.

Rha Goddess - 8/6/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am

As the Entrepreneurial Soul Coach, Founder & CEO of Move The Crowd, Rha Goddess has coached hundreds of breakthrough change makers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs. Her mission is to revolutionize the way we live, work, play and handle our business. From multiple NY Times Bestsellers to multi-million dollar social enterprises, Rha’s unique methodology has empowered a new generation of conscious entrepreneurs to stay true, get paid, and do good. Learn more here.

Phil Town - 9/1/2020 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

As the author of two New York Times #1 best-selling investing books, Rule #1 and Payback Time, and an expert commentator on CNBC’s Closing Bell and a regular guest expert on MSNBC’s Your Business, Phil Town is not your typical Wall Street guy. Learn more here.

Kaye Foster - 9/3/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am

Kaye Foster is currently Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources for Onyx Pharmaceuticals. In her role, Kaye leads all aspects of the human resources function at Onyx for both U.S. and global operations, including talent acquisition and development, Total Rewards strategy and design, performance management, organizational learning and development, organizational structure and design, and employee relations. Learn more here.

Charles Eisenstein - 10/1/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am

As a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity, Charles Eisenstein is uniquely qualified to focus our attention on a new approach to economics from his most recent books Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and stints as a college instructor, a yoga teacher, and a construction worker. He currently writes and speaks full-time. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and four children. Learn more here.


The Money Course will examine your relationship with money from three bodies of distinctions.

Foundation of Financial Integrity

  • You will be empowered with distinctions, tools, and practices that offer you a deep understanding and clarity of financial literacy.
  • You will be provided with simple and manageable life-long practices that produce an experience of peace and freedom in your relationship with money.
  • You will have a profound experience of sufficiency and gratitude in your relationship with money and life.

Designing a Committed Life

  • You will engage in the creation of an authentic, clear, and bold vision for your life.
  • You will examine your world view and step into a larger possibility of who you are so that new levels of mastery in generating and creating financial power are available to you.
  • You will be empowered and supported by a community of committed participants and collaborators.

Discovering the Power of Your Self

  • You will engage in a comprehensive approach to creating and designing every area of your life for the rest of your life and beyond.
  • You will discover new ways of being and access new thinking and acting for yourself and others that will generate results that are unpredictable.
  • You will foster a high level of creativity and design that engenders productivity, confidence, and celebration.
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Benefits that participants report

In addition to the promises we make about this program, past participants have reported the following benefits. Please read their testimonials on the left. You can also click on several of their pictures below for a short video message from many of last year's participants.

John Musser, PsyD
Sara Vetter
Pamela Jay
Bonnie Hutchinson
Charles Pfeffer
Jan Cook
Carole Vaporean
Cilla Utne
Nathaniel Vose
Nancy Dorrier
Margaret Marcuson
Leif Utne
  • Increasing financial and personal net worth
  • Increasing earnings while decreasing stress
  • Building collaborative partnerships
  • Designing and making effective offers
  • Managing money with joy and confidence
  • Creating financial alignment with your spouse
  • Aligning spending with personal values
  • Eliminating money fears, worries, and doubts
  • Cutting expenses without sacrifice
  • Standing for your economic value
  • Healing old money wounds
  • Expanding your financial vocabulary
  • Managing money moods
  • Reducing and/or eliminating debt
  • Creating a life purpose and living from it
  • Exploring socially conscious investments
  • Creating work/life balance
  • Visioning clearly and creatively
  • Turning hobbies into profit
  • Creating flexible budgets
  • Clarifying your future
  • Fostering creativity in money and life
  • Giving and receiving feedback effectively
  • Determining what you want in all areas of life
  • Developing and implementing a sound retirement plan
  • Passing financial wisdom to children
  • Managing financial and personal risk
  • Leaving a legacy
  • Managing agreements with integrity
  • Developing sound financial practices
  • Celebrating as a daily practice
  • Improving relationships at home and work
  • Fundraising with joy
  • Listening that creates brilliance and authenticity
  • Becoming a philanthropist
  • Speaking with authenticity
  • Letting go of guilt regarding mistakes
  • Investing wisely and consciously
  • Bringing integrity to money and life
  • Managing the cultural condition of scarcity
  • Generating results through speaking and action
  • Cultivating motivation in yourself and others
  • Creating more time for family and fun
  • Moving from "have to" to "want to"
  • Making powerful requests and commitments
  • Changing lifelong habits
  • Mastering your time, email, and to-do list
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The Structure

Real embodied transformation and lifelong change occurs with learning, collaboration, and recurrent practices. During The Money Course, we will facilitate your learning through the following seven pillars of support:

  • Three 75-minute interactive webinars per month
  • Three times a month a 30- to 60- minute call with your support group
  • Three 2-½ day workshops in San Jose, CA at a hotel next to the airport
  • Three one-on-one coaching sessions a month
  • One-on-one expert consulting in financial practices, planning, and marketing/sales
  • Weekly homework assignments (taking one to two hours)
  • A participant website that facilitates communication and collaboration
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Prices - Levels of Participation

$20,000 - Level I

With this level of participation, we provide:

  • Three 2-½ day workshops
  • Three interactive webinars per month (one with a guest speaker)
  • Three one-to-one coaching session per month (30 minutes)
  • Three support group calls per month (30-60 minutes)
  • Additional consultations
    • Three financial practices consultations (30-60 minutes)
    • Three visioning/action planning consultations (30-60 minutes)
    • Three offer/sales/marketing consultations (30-60 minutes)

Scholarships

The tuition varies depending on your household income and net worth. We do this so that we can reach people of various degrees of wealth. Scholarship recipients will pay tuition from $17,500 down to $5,000. There are no additional consultations with a scholarship. Click here for details.


$40,000 - Level II

With this level of participation, we provide:

  • Three 2-½ day workshops
  • Three interactive webinars per month (one with a guest speaker)
  • Three one-to-one coaching session per month (30 minutes)
    • By Lynne Twist, Tammy White, or Dave Ellis
  • Three support group calls per month (30-60 minutes)
  • Additional consultations
    • Three financial practices consultations (30-60 minutes)
    • Three visioning/action planning consultations (30-60 minutes)
    • Three offer/sales/marketing consultations (30-60 minutes)
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Payment Options

Discounts are available for couples, work groups, and for early payment.

Other Costs

In addition to the tuition, participants will be responsible for their expenses for the three workshops. These include travel, room, and food. Room and food cost at the hotel is approximately $400 per workshop.

Check Us Out

If you are interested but not clear, please join us for the first workshop. You can see if the entire program is a good fit for you. At this first of three workshops, you will learn our best ideas, meet us, meet others committed to mastering their money and transforming their lives and, determine if our nine-month program is right for you.

The fee for this workshop is $1000. Whatever you pay will apply toward your tuition if you sign up. You can register here.

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Dates

Workshops

The three 2-½ day workshops will be presented at the San Jose, CA, Airport Garden Hotel. You can register for the hotel online here or you can call them at 1-321-800-7707. Use code BEG.

The workshops will be on the following dates and times. You can participate in the first workshop without being part of the nine-month program. Register here.

February 27 - March 1, 2020
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Pacific time)

June 19 - 21, 2015
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (Pacific time)

October 23 - 25, 2015
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (Pacific time)

Interactive Webinars

(All times are Pacific)

02/12/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
02/19/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 2/27 – 3/1/15 - workshop
03/12/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am 03/19/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm 03/26/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 04/9/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am 04/16/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm 04/30/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 05/14/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am
05/21/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm 05/28/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 06/11/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am 6/19 - 6/21/15 - workshop
7/2/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 07/9/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am 07/23/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm 7/30/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 08/6/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am 08/20/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
08/27/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 09/3/15 10:00 am - 11:15 am 9/17/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm 9/24/15 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm 10/1/15 10:00 am - 11:15 pm 10/15/15 11:00 am - 12:15 pm 10/23 - 10/25/15 - workshop
10/29/15 12:00 pm- 1:15 pm 11/5/15 10:00 am - 11:15 pm
 

Support group meetings

These meetings will occur three times a month. The times will be set by the small support groups.

Coaching

These meetings will be set by the coach and the client three times a month. For early registrants, the coaching can begin in January.

Coaching

Begins January 2, 2020 for early registrants

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About Us

Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist

Facilitator and Coach

When you are fully present to your greatness, you can create a context inside of which you can articulate your deep commitments. Lynne is committed to inspiring in people the capacity to be authentic, clear, and bold. She offers a body of distinctions around the powerful revelation of sufficiency that helps people unlock their worldview and invites people to step into a larger possibility of who they are and what is possible for their lives.

Lynne has unbridled love for people’s challenges, beauty, and failings and invites them to own all aspects of themselves and be responsible for them. In this way, they are drawn to challenge themselves and to risk what is known for what is possible. This is the arena where real breakthrough happens. She brings the presence of love and appreciation in which people feel seen, honored, and known. There they discover the power of who they are and their capabilities.

Lynne Twist is a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author. She has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work. Lynne has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership with many global initiatives including: ending world hunger; protecting the world’s rainforests; empowering indigenous peoples; improving health, economic, and political conditions for women and children; advancing the scientific understanding of human consciousness; and creating a sustainable future for all life. The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences are the foundation for her best-selling, award-winning book, The Soul of Money.


Dave Ellis

Dave Ellis

Facilitator and Coach

Dave assists people to realize their fullest potential through his coaching, books, workshops, videos, and interactive webinars. He helps people think what they have never thought and empowers them to take actions that they have never taken. He facilitates others in creating their life by examining every area of life for the rest of their life and beyond. Together they develop realistic action plans to produce results they never imagined possible.

Dave is a leadership coach, author, educator, and philanthropist. He wrote and published, Becoming a Master Student, which is the best-selling college textbook in America and has been for the last two decades. In addition to this book, he has written six others including, Life Coaching, Falling Awake, and Creating Your Future.

Dave is a respected lecturer and workshop leader who has reached audiences worldwide since first sharing his principles in 1979. He has coached national and international nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, an NBA coach, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Through his workshops and books, he has helped over five million people create a more wonderful life.


Tammy White

Tammy White

Facilitator and Coach

Tammy is masterful at helping people uncover the reality of their current financial situation, and assists them to see ways their behaviors around money are part of a cultural habit. She provides distinctions that bring freedom and possibility to the domain of money. Tammy empowers people to have their money be an expression of their deepest values in a horizon of time that spans their whole life and beyond. She is a person who is clean and clear in her relationship to money and helps others locate that experience for themselves.

Tammy demystifies financial terms and processes and assists people to move from a space of being at the effect of their money to a place of power, clarity, and action in their relationship with money. In a culture where shame and insufficiency about money is common, Tammy makes the subject safe and leaves people with a sense of dignity as they discover and invent a new relationship with money for themselves.

Tammy spent over twenty years in the mortgage industry as a business owner and industry leader. She currently serves as a strategic advisor to The Soul of Money Institute with Lynne Twist and is a board member with The Pachamama Alliance. In addition, she is a facilitator for The Alternatives to Violence Project in the California state prison system.


Bill Rentz

Bill Rentz

Coach

Bill Rentz has worked with Dave Ellis for over 29 years. He is vice president of both Breakthrough Enterprises, Inc., and The Brande Foundation. Bill is an executive coach and has been awarded his MCC from the International Coach Federation. He is responsible for developing and operating The Coaching Project. Bill is also responsible for much of the day-to-day operation of our organizations. He lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota and is a dedicated husband for over 24 years.


JoAnne Bangs

JoAnne Bangs

Coach

JoAnne Bangs began a coaching practice 22 years ago while raising two young children and since then she has been coaching individuals, business owners, couples, and leaders of nonprofit organizations. She has spent years working with Anne Goddard, President of Child Fund International; Melanie Macdonald, President of World Neighbors; and Yolanda Richardson, Past President of Center for Development and Population Activities. After a major health challenge in 2000, she transformed all aspects of her life such that her life is now vibrant, accomplished, and joyful. Her goal is to assist her clients to achieve the same through her coaching and our trainings.


Stan Lankowitz

Stan Lankowitz

Coach

Stan Lankowitz, M.Ed., L.P.C., dedicates his career to helping leaders in nonprofit organizations and businesses resolve problems, explore new possibilities, design and implement strategic plans, and achieve success. The coaching he has provided for over 30 years help people improve the quality of their lives in both personal and professional domains.


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The Money Course is a project of Breakthrough Enterprises, Inc., with offices in South Dakota and California.

Breakthrough Enterprises, Inc.
303 Laurel Place
San Rafael, CA 94901

1-415-785-3900


Breakthrough Enterprises, Inc.
Corporate Office
2650 Jackson Blvd
Rapid City, SD 57702

1-605-390-2343