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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What Conscious Entrepreneurs Know About Wealth Identity and Self-Concept That Others Don’t
You’ve read the books. Sat through the workshops. Done the inner work — maybe more of it than most people will ever do. And still, a.3: wealth identity… Read →
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Why I Keep Avoiding the Truth About Receiving, Worthiness and Deserving
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 Understand Receiving, Worthiness and Deserving But Can’t Embody It
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 Receiving, Worthiness and Deserving 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 Smart People Struggle Most With Receiving, Worthiness and Deserving
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 Receiving, Worthiness and Deserving 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 →
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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An Identity-Level Approach to Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
There’s a version of yourself that comes through in conversation — in the moments when you’re talking with a client who trusts you, a colleague who gets it,… Read →
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The Body-First Technique for Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
There’s a version of showing up that comes entirely from the head — the calculated version, the one where you think your way into what to say, arrange… Read →
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Rewiring Your Nervous System Around Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
You’ve made the decision to show up consistently in your sharing — to post regularly, to create content, to let people know what you do — more times… Read →
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A Somatic Approach to Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
You’ve sat down to write a post, an email, an offer — and something in your body just wouldn’t cooperate. Not in your head. Not in your thinking.… Read →
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Using the 6-Layer Model to Address Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
You’ve done the belief work. You’ve journaled about visibility, done the affirmations, read the books on marketing mindset. And you still find yourself avoiding, procrastinating, or creating content… Read →
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A Step-by-Step Practice for Magnetic Marketing Energy-Based
You’ve done the work. You’ve read about state management in marketing and understand why it matters. You’ve felt the difference between content created from genuine care and content… 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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A Daily Practice for Shifting Your Relationship with Setting Your Prices
You’ve had the insight. You understand that you’re underpricing. You know — genuinely know — that the value you deliver supports a higher number. The understanding is real. Read →
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Using the 6-Layer Model to Address Setting Your Prices
If you’ve done mindset work around pricing and the block keeps coming back, that’s information. Read →
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An Identity-Level Approach to Setting Your Prices
You’ve raised your prices before. Maybe more than once. And each time, something eventually pulled you back — a client who balked, a slow month, a quiet voice… Read →
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Rewiring Your Nervous System Around Setting Your Prices
You know your packages. You know your prices. You’ve done the research, you’ve calculated the value, you’ve even rehearsed the conversation. Read →
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The CLARITI Method Applied to Setting Your Prices
You’ve done the reading. You’ve built the packages. You’ve even said the number out loud to yourself in the mirror. Read →
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A Somatic Approach to Setting Your Prices
You’ve done the journal prompts. You’ve worked with the beliefs. You understand, at a cognitive level, that you have the right to charge what your work is worth. 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.