Beth Gillian Raps, Ph.D. is gentle and fierce, practical and contemplative. Beth goes to the dreamtime and the drawing-board for budgets and narratives, choices and solutions to problems. She goes to museums, bathhouses, and teahouses for inspiration. She worked in the nonprofit sector as organizer and fundraiser since 1985, founded a grantmaking institution at 26.

Beth Raps was certified in money coaching with individuals and organizations since 2009, writes two other blogs besides Raising Clarity: Raps in French and English  for writing, book-coaching, translation, and editing; rapsraps on Tumblr for “persuasion to justice, healing, self-determination, and other wild ideas.” She not only believes in but works with the unseen and teaches willing clients to do the same.

KIMBERLY: Is there an advice you would give to somebody who is about to start a business, maybe having a little money blockage with the fact that they want to create a business to get paid for the unique ability?

BETH: Yes, ‘Money Magic’ is an amazing book and is self-contained. You wouldn’t need to do any money coaching and could do self-money coaching, that’s what I did initially. There is a test that you can take to see if you have negative money archetypes that are doing the talking for you and running the show. It is really common in our culture that the closer you get to your unique ability, the more precious it is to you and the less you want to sell it. 

And so get real clear about what might get in the way of how you could market your unique ability, look at the inner and see what’s going on. How can you still protect it like your baby but still allow other people to enjoy it? And then also on the outer by removing any blocks by asking for what you want. Be super clear about what you want and why you want it so that you are in alignment with yourself, can be really strong, ask for it and then know what you are going to do with it and then do that with it. So it’s very important to keep your word to the people who support you. Keeping your work is huge to me. To me, your word is your wand, that’s why magic happens because I keep my word.

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