The Economic Machine — Money, Business & Pricing for Conscious Entrepreneurs
You can be the most awake person in the room and still not be able to pay rent. That’s not a personal failing. That’s an economic-machine problem — the part of your business that has to actually generate income from the value you create. This pillar gathers everything we have on the practical mechanics of making money in a way that doesn’t require you to abandon who you are.
What you’ll find on this page
- 4 category deep-dives covering the full territory of the The Economic Machine
- Hand-picked top articles per category, drawn from the full library
- How this pillar connects to the Three Pillars, GPS+I frameworks
- FAQ for the questions readers most often arrive with
The frame
In the Three Pillars framework, the Economic Machine is the part of your work that turns insight into income. It’s the offers you build, the prices you charge, the way you market and sell, and the relationship you have with money itself. Most conscious entrepreneurs are over-developed in the Mind & Heart and Spirit & Flow pillars and under-developed in the Economic Machine. The result is the painful pattern you might recognize: deeply gifted, broke. These articles fix that — without asking you to become a person you’re not.
Money & Wealth Consciousness
You’ve read the books. You’ve done the visualizations. You’ve cleared a few money stories. And the income ceiling is still there. This category is for that exact moment — when the inner work isn’t translating into outer numbers, and you suspect the problem is deeper than another affirmation can reach.
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Featured articles
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Why Smart People Struggle Most With Wealth Identity and Self-Concept
You’ve done the reading. You’ve sat with teachers, listened to the talks, maybe even led others through the very territory you’re navigating yourself. And still — something about… Read →
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Why I Keep Avoiding the Truth About Wealth Identity and Self-Concept
You’ve done the reading. You’ve sat with teachers, listened to the talks, maybe even led others through the very territory you’re navigating yourself. And still — something about… Read →
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Why Wealth Identity and Self-Concept Feels Different From What People Describe
You’ve done the reading. You’ve sat with teachers, listened to the talks, maybe even led others through the very territory you’re navigating yourself. And still — something about… Read →
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Why My Progress With Wealth Identity and Self-Concept Stalls at the Same Point
You’ve done the reading. You’ve sat with teachers, listened to the talks, maybe even led others through the very territory you’re navigating yourself. And still — something about… Read →
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Why Wealth Identity and Self-Concept Triggers Me More Than It Used To
You’ve done the reading. You’ve sat with teachers, listened to the talks, maybe even led others through the very territory you’re navigating yourself. And still — something about… Read →
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Why I Feel Like I’m the Only One Struggling With Wealth Identity and Self-Concept
You’ve done the reading. You’ve sat with teachers, listened to the talks, maybe even led others through the very territory you’re navigating yourself. And still — something about… Read →
Business Strategy for Conscious Entrepreneurs
Most business advice was built for people who don’t care about meaning. Most spiritual advice was built for people who don’t have to pay a mortgage. This category is the third path — strategy that works because it’s aligned, not in spite of.
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Featured articles
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The Evidence-Based Technique for Productising Your Gifts
You’ve done the work. You know the theory. You’ve read about productising your gifts from multiple angles. Read →
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A Week-Long Practice Plan for Productising Your Gifts
You’ve done the work. You know the theory. You’ve read about productising your gifts from multiple angles. Read →
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How to Apply the GPS+I Framework to Niching and Positioning
You’ve done the work. You know the theory. You’ve read about niching and positioning from multiple angles. Read →
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Applying the GPS+I Framework to Multiple Income Streams
You’ve done the work. You know the theory. You’ve read about multiple income streams from multiple angles. Read →
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How to Apply the GPS+I Framework to Scaling Without Selling Out
You’ve done the work. You know the theory. You’ve read about scaling without selling out from multiple angles. Read →
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The Integration Practice After Working With Productising Your Gifts
You’ve done the work. You know the theory. You’ve read about productising your gifts from multiple angles. Read →
Sales & Client Attraction
If “sales” makes you flinch, the problem isn’t sales. The problem is the version of sales you’ve been shown. There’s another version — the one where people who need what you do find you, recognize themselves in your words, and ask to work with you. This category is how that happens.
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Featured articles
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The CLARITI Method Applied to Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
You’ve read enough about magnetic marketing to understand, at least intellectually, what magnetic marketing requires at the identity level. The message needs to come from your real voice.… Read →
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Everything You Need to Know About Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
If you’ve come across the phrase “magnetic marketing” and wondered what it actually means — practically, not philosophically — this is the guide for it. Read →
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What Is Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based? A Practical Framework
You’ve invested time learning about marketing. You’ve read the books, taken the courses, followed practitioners who seem to do it effortlessly. And there’s a good chance you’ve noticed… Read →
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Understanding Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based: What Nobody Explains Clearly
You’ve done the courses. You’ve built the lead magnets, posted the content, followed the formulas. You’ve studied the people with big audiences and tried to reverse-engineer what they… Read →
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A Technique for Working Through Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
You’ve probably sat down to write a post or record a video knowing something was off before you even started. The content gets made, it goes out, and… Read →
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The Complete Guide to Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
You’ve tried the strategies. The content calendar. The email sequences. The carefully crafted posts that should be attracting clients but somehow aren’t. You know the frameworks exist and… Read →
Pricing & Value
The hardest part of premium pricing isn’t choosing the number. It’s saying it out loud without flinching. That’s not a copywriting problem. It’s a nervous-system problem. This category fixes that — at the layer where it actually lives.
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Featured articles
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Using the Value Equation to Set Prices That Feel Obvious
There’s a specific feeling on both sides of a well-priced offer: the practitioner says the number without hesitation, and the client hears it and thinks “yes, that makes… Read →
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The Nine Values Clients Weigh When Evaluating Your Prices
When a client hears your price and hesitates, the instinct is to assume they think the price is too high. But price — as a number — is… Read →
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Diagnosing Your Money Mindset Layer to Unlock Better Pricing
The reason most money mindset work doesn’t hold is not that the work is wrong. It’s that it’s being applied to the wrong layer. Read →
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Using Belief Inquiry to Clear Pricing Blocks
“People won’t pay that much for what I do.” It doesn’t feel like a belief. It feels like something you know. Read →
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Engineering Perceived Value When Setting Your Prices
There’s a gap between what your service actually delivers and what a prospective client believes it will deliver. That gap — the perception gap — is what determines… Read →
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Building a Compelling Reason Why Behind Your Prices
All prices are, on some level, arbitrary. The universe doesn’t come with price tags. A coaching session isn’t worth a specific number because of any law of nature… Read →
Frequently asked questions
Why do conscious entrepreneurs struggle with the business side?
Because most of the skill-building has been on the inner work, the gifts, the message. The Economic Machine is a separate craft. It’s learnable. It’s not a sign you’re not spiritual enough.
Do I have to learn marketing if I’m a coach or healer?
Some version of it, yes. But it doesn’t have to be the pushy version. The articles in Sales & Client Attraction show you the energy-led version that fits how you actually want to work.
Is it spiritually OK to charge premium prices?
Yes. Underpricing isn’t humility — it’s often unworthiness wearing humility’s clothes. The articles in Pricing & Value unpack this.
How does this fit with the rest of the Abundance GPS work?
The Economic Machine is one of three pillars. The other two are Mind & Heart (your inner programming) and Spirit & Flow (your purpose and alignment). Money problems usually live in all three at once — that’s why we work them together.
Related pillars and frameworks
Inside the Abundance GPS community
Reading is one thing. Working with people who’re on the same path is another. Inside the Abundance GPS community on Skool, conscious entrepreneurs, coaches, and lightworkers do this work together — month by month, using the GPS+I cycle to turn breakthroughs into business outcomes. If anything on this page felt like it was written for you, come see what’s happening on the inside.
About David
David Cameron Gikandi was a creative consultant on The Secret and wrote A Happy Pocket Full of Money — the book millions of people credit with rewiring how they think about wealth, identity, and what life is actually for. Today he runs the Abundance GPS community, where conscious entrepreneurs and lightworkers do the inner work that makes the outer work finally pay.