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Imagine losing your entire savings. Now imagine losing your entire savings because of Bernie Madoff, the (late) crook who took over 50 billion dollars’ worth of his clients’ investments in a Ponzi scheme.
That’s what happened to bestselling author and speaker Geneen Roth and her husband in 2009. Her friends suggested that she focus on the positive, but she couldn’t get behind that advice, at least not then. “This was not the time to be spiritual … This is the time to get hysterical,” she told me on my podcast.
Soon, Roth realized that in order to pick up the pieces and renew her financial life, she would have to move away from the self-loathing and focus on what hadn’t been lost — her health, home, marriage and talents. Being grateful for the remaining richness in her life, the things of…
