I purchased the audio Peace and Plenty after seeing Sarah on OWN Super Soul Sunday. I was impressed with her and immediately purchased the audiobook, Simple Abundance and loved it (also started my gratitude daily journal).

Peace and Plenty is a continuation of Sarah’s journey and her own personal-- financial crisis. I love her style for the finer things of life and how she appreciates beautiful things and knows how to enjoy them and make a happy and healthy lifestyle (can so relate). Her voice is soothing and relaxing and her details for the everyday normal things women desire, and how to appreciate ----she is an inspiration to all women. I look forward to reading more of her work and will continue to refer to these audios for reference for daily living. I would highly recommend the audio!
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Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Security is by Sarah Ban Breathnach. All you bestselling authors out there (past, present, future)…listen up. Sarah is here to tell us to “Do as I say,” not as she did.
After Sarah got dramatically wealthy in what seemed to her like an instant (after being on Oprah! Hmmmm....David Bach also dropped Oprah’s name in his book #56 on my blog but Sarah doesn't sound smarmy when she does it), she hired financial advisors, but surprise! None of them told her that she should financially protect herself. Now (one might argue), should she have had to be told that?
This book is about how she wrote her first book, “Simple Abundance” which made her fabulously, unexpectedly wealthy, and how she screwed up and lost all of that money. As I read the opening to this book, I couldn’t help but think that Sarah was hoping that history could, nay would, repeat itself; that she could write another (similar) book and get fabulously wealthy again. Well, I guess it’s been well proven over the years that it can happen. I’m wondering if her gamble will pay off. Right there on the book's cover above the title of this new book is the title of her first (did she mention that it was a bestseller??) book, “Simple Abundance“. Some of her assertions, such as “I discovered that women just love to spend money,” really were just kind of offensive. There were other sentences though, like “Cheap is not cheerful, but homespun thrift wraps is in a warm tapestry of fulfillment…” (pp. 38-39) that I thought were just lovely. Here’s another: “…appreciate the precious but fleeting well spent moments of every day’s sacred ordinary…” (p.39). She is the queen of alliteration, but I happen to be a fan of alliteration. so it was all good. “The Thrill of Thrift” and “Creating a Comfort Companion” are two good examples. Sarah loses it all, and then writes her way back from that brink. She turns to history and finds solace in the life stories of other women who have been in similar situations and how they deal with it is woven in throughout this book. One of the best sayings she finds to help get her through the darker times is this: "Keep calm and carry on," p. 86. The chapters are fairly short, so if you wanted to read this book a little at a time, the format lends itself nicely to that. In the end, I liked this book very much, and think that every woman, whether she is struggling financially or not, will related to much of what Sarah says here and find it a worthwhile read. I hope it makes it to the bestseller list and that she can get back on her feet financially. ( )